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 ...
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 ...
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.
Despite solar surge, world off track for COP28 renewable energy …
Nov 10, 2024 · The world is not yet doing enough to meet a goal to triple renewable energy capacity by 2030 despite “record” growth last year, the first official review of the global commitment made at the COP28 climate summit has warned.
What happened on COP29 Day 1? Carbon market rules adopted
Nov 11, 2024 · Opening speeches. COP29 got underway in Baku on Monday morning with opening speeches from the UAE’s COP28 President Sultan Al-Jaber, the (now official) COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev of Azerbaijan, and the head of the UN’s climate arm Simon Stiell.
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Nine of our best climate change stories from 2024 23 December 2024. Analysis This year we investigated governments, corporations and NGOs in the climate space, and brought you on-the-ground reporting from Africa, Asia and the Middle East
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 …
Frontline countries must not be stuck with the climate bill at COP29
Nov 10, 2024 · Teresa Anderson is the global lead on climate justice at ActionAid International. Imagine your wealthy neighbour has just driven their giant truck into your living room, destroying half your home.
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 9: Developing nations deride “$200bn” finance …
Nov 20, 2024 · Large developing countries reject “$200 billion” climate finance figure An amount of around $200-300 billion being discussed privately as the international government finance provision towards the new climate finance goal (NCQG) – the main outcome expected at COP29 – has been strongly ...