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WEBNews Slow progress in Baku risks derailing talks on new climate finance goal at COP29 13 September 2024. News Azerbaijan’s COP29 president calls for determination and leadership from all countries to bridge the gaps on finance
Six takeaways from 2023’s climate change news - Climate Home …
WEBDec 28, 2023 · Six takeaways from 2023’s climate change news. Published on 28/12/2023, 4:03pm. Fossil fuel fights, finance struggles, a resurgent relationship, and much more. We recap the most impactful international climate developments in 2023. A protester with a banner saying "Future is more important than fossil fuels". Photo: Ivan Radic / Wikimedia.
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WEBMegan Rowling is the editor of Climate Home News, taking over in February 2024 after nearly two decades as a journalist with the Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF), developing its award-winning coverage of climate change. She has written extensively on international climate politics and finance, with a focus on the developing world, for which she won a UN Correspondents’ Association award in 2016.
High-risk geoengineering technologies won’t reverse climate …
WEBMar 1, 2022 · Some in the scientific community are grasping for technological fixes in the field of climate geoengineering – unproven, high-risk technologies: carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and solar radiation management (SRM). Interest in such high-risk technologies has grown in some government circles and, even more notably, in polluting industries such as ...
New IEA net zero report leaves big polluters less room to hide
WEBSep 27, 2023 · The IEA’s roadmap to net zero in 2050. While calling on all governments to raise their net zero targets, the report offers a template for differentiated responsibilities around the world. Advanced economies take the lead and reach net zero emissions by around 2045 in the IEA scenario. Germany is the only G20 country to …
Dubai deal: Ministers and observers react to the UAE consensus
WEBDec 13, 2023 · Negotiators arrived in a good mood on Wednesday morning to the final Cop28 plenary in Dubai. At around 11 am, they adopted the final text of the global stocktake, in what delegates regarded as a historic moment.. The final text for the first time mentions all fossil fuels, “calling on” parties to “transition away from fossil fuels in energy systems, in a just, orderly and equitable ...
African nations eye debt-for-climate swaps as IMF takes an interest
WEBSep 2, 2022 · Climate vulnerable nations in Africa are showing growing interest in debt-for-climate swaps to address ballooning debt and spur climate investments. Increasingly, they have the ear of financial institutions. Today, 58% of the world’s poorest countries are in debt distress or at high risk of it. In sub-Saharan Africa, Covid-19 has squeezed ...
Amazon donor-funded office will tackle rainforest crime
WEBJan 23, 2024 · By Reuters and Joe Lo. Brazil is moving ahead with the creation of a donor-funded new international security center in Manaus that will bring together Amazon nations in policing the rainforest, sharing intelligence and chasing criminals, a senior Brazilian police officer said. A building has been rented and equipment is being purchased for the ...
Scientists warn seawalls can make rising waters worse in the long run
WEBMar 3, 2022 · Using seawalls to protect against sea level rise and storm surges can be counterproductive, scientists warned in a major UN report this week. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest report has a new emphasis on “maladaptation”, when measures taken to adapt to the effects of climate change cause …
Swiss propose expanding climate finance donors, academics urge …
WEBAug 16, 2024 · Switzerland and Canada propose ways to expand climate finance donors. Published on 16/08/2024, 2:37pm. Detailed criteria would include China and Gulf States in the donor base. But experts recommend incentives not coercion. An activists holds a placard during a climate strike in September 2023, in Edmonton, Canada. Photo: Artur Widak/NurPhoto.
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