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 …
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.
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 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 …
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 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 ...
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 ...
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UN plastic pollution treaty talks kick off in Busan
Nov 25, 2024 · Little more than a day after the gavel came down on the climate summit in Baku, the global diplomacy tour has stopped off in Busan. Delegates from 175 countries have descended on South Korea’s second-largest city for what’s supposed to be the final round of talks aimed at clinching an international treaty on plastic.
Migrant workers report abuse at UAE renewable projects
Nov 26, 2024 · Double climate impacts . Migrant workers account for a vast proportion of private-sector employment in Gulf countries.. Mass public events such as the 2022 Qatar World Cup and the 2020 Dubai Expo have exposed some of the risks and abuses faced by migrant workers in the region. The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC), which co-authored the report, has recorded 490 allegations of ...