India fires warning shot with rejection of finance deal at COP29
Nov 25, 2024 · But on Sunday, within hours of COP29 finally reaching a deal, Jennifer Morgan, Germany’s special envoy for climate, posted a statement on X saying: “We stand to give more, if those who have grown significantly since 1992 – in wealth and emissions – are ready to step up as well. The target we have put forward demonstrates our seriousness.”
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Mar 11, 2024 · Bittersweet reactions. Observers of the talks said the lack of agreement on future funding for nature conservation around the world could hold back government efforts to present updated national biodiversity plans – which are a critical tool for meeting a global goal to protect at least 30% of the world’s land and water ecosystems …
With climate finance, Africa can lead the green industrial revolution
Dec 11, 2024 · Climate finance can bridge the gap between lowest-cost and green options, as well as provide support for technical studies and help mobilise capital investment through long-term emissions reductions purchase agreements.
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With drought-hardy cows, Botswana prioritises adaptation in new climate plan 8 January 2025. News The dry, sparsely-populated southern African nation is focusing its funding on ways to combat extreme weather rather than cutting already-low emissions
In numbers: reports dive into the state of the climate in 2024
Nov 11, 2024 · The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) titled this year’s Adaptation Gap Report “Come hell and high water”, underscoring the need to step up efforts to make economies and societies more resilient to climate change impacts. It also highlights the devastating consequences the world could face at the 2.6-3.1 degrees Celsius of warming projected this century without larger cuts to greenhouse ...
Trump could quit Paris agreement - but leaving UNFCCC is harder
Apr 11, 2024 · As the US heads to the polls, Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump are neck and neck in the race for the White House. While climate change has not been high on the campaign agenda, the outcome of the presidential election will have huge implications for the world’s battle to limit the damage caused by global warming, like the hurricanes Milton and Helene that hit the south-east ...
Gender equality cannot be last on the agenda at COP29
Nov 18, 2024 · Nicoline de Haan is director of the CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform. The centrality of gender to climate action has been recognised by the Azerbaijan presidency of COP29, which assigned November 21, the second-from-last day of the UN climate negotiations, as Gender Day.. However, gender equality should really feature as an urgent and cross-cutting issue from day one because climate change is ...
COP29 Bulletin Day 9: Developing nations deride “$200bn” finance …
Nov 20, 2024 · Adaptation talks gridlocked over finance. Negotiations on the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) were also stuck over developed countries’ unwillingness to provide finance as well as a lack of clarity on indicators for measuring progress, ministers and observers said on …
Why a global pact on plastic pollution needs production curbs?
Nov 26, 2024 · Delegates from more than 175 countries are in Busan, South Korea, this week to hammer out an environmental deal described as the most significant since the Paris Agreement.. This is the final scheduled round of negotiations for a legally binding Global Plastics Treaty, promised by world leaders two years ago in a historic commitment to ending the crisis of plastic pollution across its ...
COP29 Bulletin Day 8: G20 backs new climate finance goal but …
Nov 19, 2024 · EU reportedly mulling $200-300bn for NCQG. The European Union has refused to be publicly drawn on how much it thinks the post-2025 climate finance goal (known as the NCQG) should be — more than one week into COP29, its officials …