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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 …
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 ...
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 3: Finance text balloons and Brazil presents …
Nov 13, 2024 · Campaigners have also raised concerns over where the MDB’s climate cash actually ends up and on what terms it is provided. In a report published this week, NGO Recourse said that the lenders’ definition of climate finance is “far from as extensive and stringent as required”, allowing for “troubling and high emitting projects”, like fossil gas, waste-to-energy incineration and ...
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 …
Namibia uses COP29 climate summit to push for oil and gas …
Nov 22, 2024 · In the foreword, the country’s minister of industrialisation and trade, Lucia Lipumbu, described the catalogue as being “reflective” of the southern African country’s “vision for the future”, adding that its economic potential has never been more promising, in light of major developments – “particularly in the oil and gas and renewable energy spaces”
At COP16, countries clash over future of global fund for nature …
Oct 24, 2024 · Two years ago, at the COP15 UN biodiversity summit in Montreal, 196 countries agreed to set up a fund for projects to conserve and restore nature – but it has struggled to attract large contributions. Now, at COP16 in Cali, government negotiators are clashing over what to …
Adelaide, Australia's renewables pioneer bids to host COP31
Oct 15, 2024 · The Guardian reported that South Australia’s interest was welcomed by the Australian government, which also said it was working with Turkiye “to find a mutually beneficial resolution” on hosting the COP.. If the Australia and Pacific bid is successful, the co-hosts will then decide where to hold the annual UN climate talks.
Verra's plan to review carbon credits faster raises integrity concerns
Oct 31, 2024 · Verra, the world’s biggest certifier of carbon credits, plans to review projects faster than it has in the past despite letting a quarter of its workforce go after losing $9 million last year.. Introduced this week, Verra’s new “risk-based approach” uses algorithms and staff judgement to categorise carbon credit projects by how risky they are based on factors like size and complexity.