What was decided at the COP29 climate summit in Baku?
Nov 27, 2024 · A watered-down draft text proposed to “reaffirm” last year’s pledge without calling out fossil fuels by name, and also emphasised the role of “transitional fuels” – which could be interpreted to mean fossil gas.. Latin American countries, developed countries and small islands opposed this text, meaning that the talks on the dialogue had …
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 ...
COP29 Bulletin Day 12: Carbon market rules adopted after walkout …
Nov 23, 2024 · This paragraph 53, part of a decision accompanying the Paris Agreement, says countries intend to continue their existing $100bn a year collective goal through 2025 and shall set an NCQG from that floor “in accordance with” Article 9.3 of the agreement.. Article 9.3 notes that “as part of a global effort”, developed countries …
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 ...
Why we should pull down the UN's artificial divide between …
Oct 21, 2024 · An Lambrechts is a s enior campaign strategist at Greenpeace International; Cyril Kormos is f ounder and executive director of Wild Heritage; and Virginia Young is director of the International Forests and Climate Programme at the Australian Rainforest Conservation Society.. Biodiversity and the climate are inextricably linked. As we lose or degrade ecosystems and their plants and animals, we ...
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Ambition and honesty – What Climate Home readers want in 2025 31 December 2024. Analysis Climate Home News readers want governments and corporations to do more to cut emissions, prepare for climate change and protect nature
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.
COP30 Amazon host strikes "largest carbon credit sale in history"
Sep 27, 2024 · A coalition of developed countries and corporations has agreed to a massive purchase of carbon credits from the Amazon rainforest worth $180 million, which has been described as the largest in history.
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 ...
Fossil fuel transition talks rescued from brink of collapse at COP29
Nov 18, 2024 · COP29 talks on measures to cut emissions and progress a landmark agreement on “transitioning away from fossil fuels” had to be rescued from the brink of collapse by the COP presidency after opposition from oil-rich Saudi Arabia and some other developing countries.