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COP29 aims to boost battery storage and grids for renewables, as pledges proliferate - Climate Change News - Politics (Sep 19) |
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Sep 19 · Governments are being asked to sign up to a goal to boost energy storage six-fold and renew or add 80 million km of electric grids, among other initiatives
Electricity cables at the Lethaba power station in 2007 (Photos: World Bank)
Azerbaijan, which is hosting this year’s COP29 UN summit, this week announced 14 climate initiatives it hopes countries will sign up to, including one to promote energy storage and electric grids.
Governments are being asked by the COP29 presidency to back a pledge to increase global energy storage capacity six times above 2022 levels, reaching 1,500 gigawatts (GW) by 2030, and to add or refurbish more than 80 million kilometres ... | By Joe Lo Read more ...
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Developing countries denounce rich nations’ disregard for just transition talks - Climate Change News - Politics (Sep 17) |
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Sep 17 · One negotiator said it was “very unfortunate” that no developed-country officials travelled to Ghana for UN climate talks on “response measures”
Women illegally gather coal to sell from Jharia mine in Jharkand state, India, in 2008 (Pic: Peter Caton/Greenpeace)
United Nations talks on how to make the global green transition fair provoked frustration last week among developing countries as rich nations did not attend in person and refused to discuss thorny issues.
About 30 developing countries sent civil servants to a five-star hotel in Ghana for official UN discussions on “response measures” that are meant to tackle how to ... | By Joe Lo Read more ...
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UK calls for “ambition” on COP29 climate finance goal but won’t talk numbers - Climate Change News - Politics (Sep 17) |
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Sep 17 · The UK’s new foreign minister, David Lammy, says Global North rhetoric on climate action must be matched by funding but stays silent on the size of a new global finance goal
David Lammy makes his speech at Kew Gardens on September 17, 2024 (Photos: Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office/Ben Dance)
Britain’s new foreign minister has called on governments to set an “ambitious” new goal for climate finance to help developing countries at the COP29 UN climate summit, but declined to discuss how much it should be.
In his first major speech in government, after the Labour Party won power in July, Foreign Secretary David Lammy told ... | By Joe Lo Read more ...
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Is Brazil’s Lula a climate leader? - Climate Change News - Politics (Sep 16) |
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Sep 16 · Comment: The Brazilian president has run up against similar challenges to his US counterpart Joe Biden – and it’s bad news for the planet
U.S. President Joe Biden and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attend an event with labor leaders from the United States and Brazil, on the sidelines of the 78th U.N. General Assembly in New York City, U.S., September 20, 2023. (Photo: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)
Marcio Astrini is the executive secretary of Observatório do Clima, a network of 120 Brazilian civil society organizations.
In a big country in the Americas, an elderly leader defeats his far-right rival by a narrow margin. After facing a coup ... | By Marcio Astrini Read more ...
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Slow progress in Baku risks derailing talks on new climate finance goal at COP29 - Climate Change News - Politics (Sep 13) |
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Sep 13 · Azerbaijan’s COP29 president calls for determination and leadership from all countries to bridge the gaps on finance
A delegate's laptop bears a slogan calling for loss and damage finance at the mid-year UN climate talks in Bonn on June 7, 2024. (Photo: IISD/ENB - Kiara Worth)
At the latest climate talks in Baku, which ended on Thursday, countries made little progress towards agreeing a new climate finance goal to replace the current $100-billion-a-year target, dimming prospects for the main expected outcome from November’s COP29 summit.
Negotiators gathered in Azerbaijan this week for the last round of technical talks before COP29, after mid-year ... | By Sebastian Rodriguez Read more ...
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British Airways plans to offset rising emissions by sprinkling crushed rocks - Climate Change News - Politics (Sep 12) |
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Sep 12 · The airline will pay a UK company to carry out enhanced rock weathering, which speeds up natural carbon-absorbing processes
A British Airways flight takes off in Sao Paulo in 2017 (Photos: Rafael Conossa)
British Airways has completed a deal to cancel out some of its rising emissions by financing a process that sprinkles crushed-up rocks on the ground to capture and store more planet-warming carbon dioxide.
The company has agreed to pay British project developer UNDO to take around 4,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the atmosphere – about 0.02% of the airline’s current annual emissions – through a form of carbon removal known as ... | By Joe Lo Read more ...
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Human rights must be “at the core” of mining for transition minerals, UN panel says - Climate Change News - Politics (Sep 12) |
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Sep 12 · The UN Panel on Critical Energy Transition Minerals launches principles to guide responsible, fair extraction of minerals for green value chains
People hold placards as they protest against environmental degradation which they blame on mining activity and climate change, near the Chamber of Mines of the Philippines Convention in Pasay city, metro Manila, September 16, 2014. (Photo: REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco)
A panel of experts convened by the UN Secretary-General has called on governments and industry to prevent human rights abuses in mining for minerals that will play a key role in the world’s transition to clean energy.
After five months of discussion, the UN ... | By Sebastian Rodriguez Read more ...
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How to convince Beijing of the case for stronger climate targets - Climate Change News - Politics (Sep 10) |
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Sep 10 · Comment: An ambitious NDC would boost China’s economy, win it recognition as a responsible global power – and keep its people safer from climate disasters
White House Senior Advisor for Clean Energy John Podesta and China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi speak during a bilateral meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, September 6, 2024. (Photo: Andy Wong/Pool via REUTERS)
Yao Zhe is global policy advisor for Greenpeace East Asia.
John Podesta visited Beijing last week on his first trip to China as US climate envoy. Both countries’ new climate action plans, known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), were high on his agenda, along ... | By Yao Zhe Read more ...
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Green Climate Fund restructures, aiming to become donors’ “partner of choice” - Climate Change News - Politics (Sep 9) |
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Sep 9 · GCF chief Mafalda Duarte tells Climate Home how she plans to boost the fund’s impact and position it to secure more resources
GCF Executive Director Mafalda Duarte speaks at the High-level Pledging Conference for the fund's second replenishment in October 2023. (Photo: Green Climate Fund / Ute Grabowsky)
Since the Green Climate Fund (GCF) approved its first eight projects just before the Paris Agreement was sealed in 2015, its investments to curb emissions and adapt to climate change in developing countries have grown to $15 billion across 270 projects.
Mafalda Duarte, the Portuguese climate finance specialist who heads the fund’s South Korea-based ... | By Megan Rowling Read more ...
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As Pacific Islanders, we need climate action – not greenwashing – from Azerbaijan - Climate Change News - Politics (Sep 2) |
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Sep 2 · Comment: As host of the COP29 summit, Baku must stop fossil fuel expansion, cut its emissions further, and work to deliver an ambitious climate finance goal
A performer wears the flag of Tuvalu as she waits at a signing ceremony for the Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union to come into force at the 53rd Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting in Nuku'alofa, Tonga on August 28, 2024. (Photo: AAP Image/Lukas Coch via Reuters)
Joseph Zane Sikulu is a member of the Pacific Climate Warriors and Pacific Director for climate campaign group 350.org. Here is his open letter to Mukhtar Babayev, president-designate of the COP29 UN climate summit, which will take place in November in Baku, ... | By Joseph Zane Sikulu Read more ...
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Fossil fuel transition back in draft pact for UN Summit of the Future after outcry - Climate Change News - Politics (Aug 30) |
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Aug 30 · The new text of a UN pact for the high-level event brings back a mention of the headline COP28 agreement
Activists calling for an end to fossil fuels at COP28 in Dubai. Photo by IISD/ENB | Mike Muzurakis
Governments have reinstated a commitment to transition away from fossil fuels in the draft of a new United Nations pact due to be adopted next month, following widespread condemnation over its previous removal.
The U-turn comes after nearly 80 Nobel prizewinners and world leaders hit out at the deletion of any references to fossil fuels in a previous version of the negotiating text for the Summit of the Future taking place in New York during this year’s UN General ... | By Matteo Civillini Read more ...
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As Swiss propose ways to expand climate finance donors, academics urge new thinking - Climate Change News - Politics (Aug 16) |
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Aug 16 · Switzerland pitches criteria to 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
As diplomats get ready to restart talks next month over the new UN climate finance target, the question of who should be putting money into the pot looms large over the negotiations.
Most developing countries offer a straightforward answer: keep the status quo, meaning only the countries classified as industrialised when the UN climate treaty was adopted in 1992.
But this club of developed nations, vocally led by ... | By Matteo Civillini Read more ...
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Climate Home News is hiring! Apply to be our new energy transition reporter (Africa-based) - Climate Change News - Politics (Aug 13) |
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Aug 13 · Climate Home News is looking for a journalist to cover climate and energy policy developments across Africa, with a global view
Workers install solar panels in Senegal (Photo credit: European Investment Bank)
Climate Home News is seeking a full-time energy transition reporter based in Africa with remote working, who will contribute to expanding our coverage of international climate diplomacy.
Founded over a decade ago, Climate Home News is a leading independent digital media outlet?covering climate change.?We aim to be the go-to newsroom for a global community seeking to understand the political, social and economic drivers of the climate crisis and responses to ... | By CHN Staff Read more ...
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It’s time for Azerbaijan to shift gears on diplomacy ahead of COP29 - Climate Change News - Politics (Jul 26) |
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Jul 26 · Comment: Amid record-breaking climate impacts, the COP29 host nation needs to ramp up action for an ambitious outcome in Baku
Mukhtar Babayev, Azerbaijan's COP29 President-Designate, at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue 2024 in Berlin, Germany, on April 25, 2024. (Photo by Christian Marquardt/NurPhoto)
Manuel Pulgar–Vidal is WWF’s Global Lead for Climate and Energy and, previously, he was the COP20 President.
July will be a month of records. Athletes and spectators gather for the Paris Olympics to celebrate feats of human endurance and record-breaking achievement. But July is also seeing records of another kind breaking.
This month we experienced the ... | By Manuel Pulgar-Vidal Read more ...
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UAE’s ALTÉRRA invests in fund backing fossil gas despite “climate solutions” pledge - Climate Change News - Politics (Jul 24) |
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Jul 24 · Four months after partnering with the new “landmark” climate vehicle at COP28, a BlackRock fund put money into a US gas pipeline
COP28 President Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber and ALTÉRRA CEO Majid Al Suwaidi attend a plenary meeting at COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. REUTERS/Amr Alfiky
As world leaders gathered in Dubai at the start of COP28 last December, the United Arab Emirates dropped a surprise headline-grabbing announcement. The host nation of the UN talks promised to put $30 billion into a new climate fund aimed at speeding up the energy transition and building climate resilience, especially in the Global South.
ALTÉRRA was billed as the world’s ... | By Matteo Civillini Read more ...
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The world needs a new global deal on climate and development finance - Climate Change News - Politics (Jul 18) |
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Jul 18 · Comment: A more effective framework led by the UN could involve a binding financial target, a role for emerging economies and consolidation of funds
Members of the Nasinya Omom women's group from the Maasai pastoralism community handle honeycombs harvested from their beehive after they embraced economic beekeeping, dropping their traditional pastoralism as a response to climate change, at the Nasaru-Olosho conservancy near the Amboseli ecosystem in Kajiado County, Kenya, May 29, 2024. (Photo: REUTERS/Monicah Mwangi)
Moazzam Malik is managing director at the World Resources Institute and honorary professor at the UCL Policy Lab.
At COP29 in Baku in November, the ... | By Moazzam Malik Read more ...
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Hurricane Beryl shows why the new UK government must ramp up climate finance - Climate Change News - Politics (Jul 15) |
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Jul 15 · Comment: In the wake of yet another Caribbean climate disaster, Labour should raise its ambition in offering international support
A woman looks at an alley filled with debris after the passage of Hurricane Beryl, in St. George's, Grenada, July 1, 2024. (Photo: REUTERS/Arthur Daniel)
Hannah Bond is co-CEO at ActionAid UK.
This month has been unprecedented, even in a news cycle that has grown increasingly immune to ever-worsening climate catastrophes. After Beryl, a powerful category five hurricane, smashed its way across the Caribbean, an alarming report by the Copernicus Climate Change Service found that the planet has breached 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming for ... | By Hannah Bond Read more ...
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Global goal of tripling renewables by 2030 still out of reach, says IRENA - Climate Change News - Politics (Jul 11) |
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Jul 11 · The renewable energy agency calls for more concrete policy action and finance, with Africa especially lagging on clean energy
A wind turbine is seen on a wind farm on a field between agricultural produce in a countryside in a village near Radom, Poland, on July 9, 2024 (Photo: Dominika Zarzycka/NurPhoto via Reuters)
Despite growing at an unprecedented rate last year, renewable energy sources are still not being deployed quickly enough to put the world on track to meet an international goal of tripling renewables by 2030, new data shows.
At the COP28 climate summit in Dubai in 2023, nearly 200 countries committed to tripling global renewable energy capacity – ... | By Daisy Clague Read more ...
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EU “green” funds invest millions in expanding coal giants in China, India - Climate Change News - Politics (Jul 1) |
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Jul 1 · Climate Home found leading asset managers hold shares in coal firms within funds touting sustainable credentials
An open-cast coal mine in India's Jharkhand state operated by Coal India, one of the firms included in 'green' funds. Photo: TripodStories- AB
EU-regulated “green” funds are investing in some of the world’s biggest coal companies that are expanding their operations in contrast to a 2021 UN agreement for countries to reduce their use of the dirty fossil fuel.
European investors hold shares worth at least $65 million in major coal firms across China, India, the United States, Indonesia and South Africa within funds designated as “promoting environmental ... | By Matteo Civillini Read more ...
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UN action on gender and climate faces uphill climb as warming hurts women - Climate Change News - Politics (Jun 28) |
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Jun 28 · At June’s Bonn talks, governments made little progress on gender equality while evidence shows women bear a heavy climate burden
In poor households without taps, the responsibility for collecting water typically falls on women and girls. As climate change makes water scarcer and they have to travel further and spend more time fetching it, their welfare suffers.
In a new study quantifying how gender shapes people’s experiences of climate change, scientists at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) found that, by 2050, higher temperatures and changing rainfall patterns could mean women globally spend up to 30% more time collecting water.
PIK ... | By Daisy Clague Read more ...
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UK’s Labour promises “solidarity” with poorer nations on climate – but no new cash - Climate Change News - Politics (Jun 27) |
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Jun 27 · Labour’s shadow foreign minister says cost-of-living crisis means some climate finance must come from outside rich governments’ budgets
The Labour Party's shadow prime minister Keir Starmer (left), foreign secretary David Lammy (centre) and finance minister Rachel Reeves (right)
A Labour Party government in the UK would show “full solidarity and partnership” with developing countries wanting to take climate action, shadow foreign secretary David Lammy said this week ahead of a July 4 general election.
Opinion polls predict that voters are set to back the left-wing Labour Party over the incumbent Conservative government by a significant ... | By Daisy Clague and Joe Lo Read more ...
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New European Parliament must act on climate change as a systemic threat - Climate Change News - Politics (Jun 26) |
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Jun 26 · Comment: The recent European election sets a trajectory for policymakers to shy away from the climate agenda rather than giving it the urgent boost needed
A thousand climate activists gathered in front of Deutz station to protest and march for better climate policy ahead of the Europa election 2024 in Cologne, Germany, on May 31, 2024. (Photo: Ying Tang/NurPhoto/via Reuters)
Mikael Allan Mikaelsson is a policy fellow at Stockholm Environment Institute. Johan Munck af Rosenschöld, is group manager and senior research scientist at Syke (Finnish Environment Institute).
Europe’s first comprehensive climate risk assessment, published in May, sent a clear and unequivocal ... | By Mikael Allan Mikaelsson and Johan Munck af Rosenschöld Read more ...
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IEA calls for next national climate plans to target coal phase-down - Climate Change News - Politics (Jun 25) |
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Jun 25 · Countries have agreed to reduce power generated from coal, but shutting down plants is an economic and social challenge, especially in emerging economies
IEA head Fatih Birol speaks at the Battersea power station shopping centre
Governments should promise in their next round of climate plans, due by early next year, not to build any new coal-fired power stations and to shut down existing ones early, the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) has said.
Speaking on Monday at an old London coal power plant-turned-shopping centre, IEA head Fatih Birol said he would be “very happy” to see new NDCs (Nationally Determined Contributions) that ... | By Joe Lo Read more ...
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Lessons from trade tensions targeting “overcapacity” in China’s cleantech industry - Climate Change News - Politics (Jun 18) |
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Jun 18 · Comment: Clean technology is turning into the next global climate spat. The debate over China’s dominance is highly politicized, but there are ways forward
New energy vehicles (electric or hybrid) are seen at Changan Automobile's vehicle distribution center in Chongqing, China, on June 16, 2024. (Photo: Costfoto/NurPhoto via Reuters)
Yao Zhe is global policy advisor for Greenpeace East Asia.
“Overcapacity”, a geeky economic term, has recently become the new buzzword for international discussion around China’s solar and electric vehicle industries. It is also becoming one of the thorniest issues in China’s relations with other major economies.
Notably, ... | By Yao Zhe Read more ...
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New finance goal needed to protect climate momentum from a Trump win - Climate Change News - Politics (Jun 17) |
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Jun 17 · Comment: The victims of the climate crisis will need support, and the energy transition will need to be funded, whoever is elected as the next US president
Mohamed Adow is the founder and director of Power Shift Africa
There’s no getting around it. The recently concluded climate talks in Bonn have left the goal of limiting global heating to under 1.5C in peril. The reason: rich countries are backtracking on their financial pledges.
The crucial deadline for next year’s new national climate plans, known as NDCs – which are the bedrock for the collective global effort to tackle climate change – are now in danger. This is because developing countries have ... | By Mohamed Adow Read more ...
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UN climate chief warns of “steep mountain to climb” for COP29 after Bonn blame-game - Climate Change News - Politics (Jun 14) |
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Jun 14 · Countries expressed disappointment as key negotiations on climate finance and emissions-cutting measures made scant progress at mid-year talks
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Simon Stiell speaking at the closing plenary. Photo: IISD/ENB - Kiara Worth
UN climate talks in Bonn ended in finger-pointing over their failure to move forward on a key programme to reduce planet-heating emissions, with the UN climate chief warning of “a very steep mountain to climb to achieve ambitious outcomes” at COP29 in Baku.
In the closing session of the two-week talks on Thursday evening, many countries expressed their disappointment and frustration at the lack of any outcome on ... | By Megan Rowling and Matteo Civillini Read more ...
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Visa chaos for developing-country delegates mars Bonn climate talks - Climate Change News - Politics (Jun 14) |
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Jun 14 · Campaigners have accused the German foreign office of discrimination, after some African delegates were denied visas for Bonn climate talks
Climate campaigners have accused the German foreign ministry of “discriminatory treatment”, after dozens of delegates from Africa and Asia experienced trouble getting visas to attend the annual UN climate talks in the German city of Bonn.
In a letter to German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock, seen by Climate Home but not made public, several coalitions of climate activists say that visa barriers exclude many participants from the Global South from the “climate negotiations that will determine the future of their ... | By Joe Lo Read more ...
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G7 countries must deliver on COP28 promise to cut fossil fuels - Climate Change News - Politics (Jun 13) |
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Jun 13 · Comment: For Pacific Island nations like mine, the transition to clean and renewable energy is not just a goal but a necessity for survival
Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, U.S. President Joe Biden, France's President Emmanuel Macron, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and President of the European Council Charles Michel pose on the first day of the G7 summit at the Borgo Egnazia resort, in Savelletri, Italy, June 13, 2024. (Photo: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)
Ralph Regenvanu is Vanuatu’s Minister for ... | By Ralph Regenvanu Read more ...
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Bonn bulletin: Climate finance chasm remains unbridged - Climate Change News - Politics (Jun 12) |
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Jun 12 · Governments split on when and how to set a dollar amount for new finance goal, and human rights activists seek stronger protection in COP host nations
Banners show where the UN Climate Change Conference is taking place in Bonn, Germany, June 11, 2024. (Photo: UNFCCC/Amira Grotendiek)
At the start of the two weeks of talks in Bonn, UN Climate Change supremo Simon Stiell called on negotiators to “make every hour count” and to “move from zero-draft to real options” on a post-2025 finance goal. “We cannot afford to reach Baku with too much work still to do,” he warned.
But, at the last of Bonn’s sessions on that new climate finance goal on Tuesday ... | By Megan Rowling, Joe Lo and Matteo Civillini Read more ...
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Bonn bulletin: Fossil fuel transition left homeless - Climate Change News - Politics (Jun 11) |
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Jun 11 · Countries clash over where to negotiate the shift away from dirty energy agreed at COP28, while talks on a new climate finance goal make little progress
It’s been less than six months since countries struck a historic deal to “transition away from fossil fuels” after bitter fights and sleepless nights at COP28. But, in Bonn right now, discussions on what to do next about the biggest culprit of climate change seem to have largely disappeared from the agenda.
“It’s really jarring to see how quiet the conversation on fossil fuels has gone,” said Tom Evans, a senior policy advisor at E3G, adding that the trouble is this issue “doesn’t have a clear home at the UNFCCC right now”. | By Megan Rowling, Joe Lo and Matteo Civillini Read more ...
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Bonn talks on climate finance goal end in stalemate on numbers - Climate Change News - Politics (Jun 11) |
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Jun 11 · Negotiations failed to progress as rich countries refused to discuss a dollar amount for the new goal due to be agreed at COP29
Negotiators in Bonn (Photo: IISD/ENB Kiara Worth)
Countries failed to make progress on a post-2025 climate finance goal in Bonn, with negotiators from developing and developed countries blaming each other in fiery exchanges at mid-year UN talks.
As discussions wrapped up on Tuesday, representatives of countries on both sides expressed disappointment with the process that is intended to result in an agreement on a new collective quantified goal (NCQG) at COP29 in Baku in November.
They will leave the German city with a 35-page ... | By Matteo Civillini and Joe Lo Read more ...
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Bonn bulletin: Crunch time for climate finance - Climate Change News - Politics (Jun 10) |
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Jun 10 · Negotiators take on tricky topics in a slimmed-down finance text as UN climate chief calls for country transparency reports to shed light on NDC progress
Climate activists participate in a demonstration calling for loss and damage finance at the Bonn climate talks, on June 8, 2024 (Photo: IISD/ENB - Kiara Worth)
It’s the start of the second and final week of the annual mid-year UN climate talks, half-way between COPs, which take place every year in Bonn – the old capital of West Germany and the birthplace of Beethoven.
As the 8,000 or so delegates make their way to the World Conference Centre, next to the River Rhine and UN Climate Change’s tower block ... | By Megan Rowling, Joe Lo and Matteo Civillini Read more ...
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No shortage of public money to pay for a just energy transition - Climate Change News - Politics (Jun 10) |
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Jun 10 · Comment: With negotiations underway to establish a new global climate finance goal, wealthy countries are once again trying to shirk their responsibilities
An aerial view shows the largest solar plant in Bangladesh, built on a 350-acre site. The plant began to supply electricity from 25 December 2021. The photo was taken from Borodurgapur village of Mongla upazila in Bagerhat on October 26, 2023. (Photo: Mushfiqul Alam/NurPhoto)
Tasneem Essop is executive director of Climate Action Network International and Elizabeth Bast is executive director of Oil Change International.
Rich countries have a bill to pay. A study in the journal Nature says they will owe low- and ... | By Tasneem Essop and Elizabeth Bast Read more ...
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UK general election: Watch out for climate obstructionism - Climate Change News - Politics (Jun 7) |
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Jun 7 · Comment: Climate sceptic groups and their right-wing media allies have shifted from disputing science to exaggerating the economic costs of climate action and downplaying the benefits
A polling station direction sign is attached to a street sign near to Westminster Abbey, ahead of local elections, in London, Britain, May 1, 2024. (Photo: REUTERS/Toby Melville)
Freddie Daley and Peter Newell are researchers with the University of Sussex SUS-POL Research Programme on policies to phase out fossil fuel production.
Citizens up and down the UK are heading to the polls on July 4 – and though it has yet to feature as a campaign priority for the major parties, climate ... | By Freddie Daley and Peter Newell Read more ...
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Developing countries suggest rich nations tax arms, fashion and tech firms for climate - Climate Change News - Politics (Jun 6) |
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Jun 6 · At Bonn talks, G77 group floats a 5% sales tax on tech, fashion and defence firms to fund green spending in the Global South
A visitor holds a weapon at the Egypt Defence Expo in Cairo, Egypt, December 6, 2023. (REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany)
Developing countries want rich nations to give them hundreds of billions of dollars for climate action, suggesting this could be raised by taxing defence, technology and fashion companies, as well as financial transactions.
At UN talks on a new post-2025 climate finance goal in the German city of Bonn, the umbrella group for 134 developing countries said wealthy governments could raise $1.1 trillion a year, needed by poorer ... | By Joe Lo Read more ...
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North Africa’s disappearing nomads: Why my community needs climate finance - Climate Change News - Politics (Jun 6) |
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Jun 6 · Comment: My people are experiencing loss and damage, and deserve international support under a new climate finance goal – negotiators in Bonn and beyond must take heed
Said Skounti is a researcher at the IMAL Initiative for Climate and Development based in Morocco.
Frontline communities around the world are shouldering the deleterious injustices of climate change, especially in Africa despite it emitting only around 4% of total global carbon emissions.
A case in point is the nomadic Amazigh tribes in the southeastern reaches of Morocco. The Amazighs are the oldest known inhabitants of Northern Africa. Their ancestral lifestyle is threatened by climate change, ... | By Said Skounti Read more ...
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Right-wing pushback on EU’s green laws misjudges rural views - Climate Change News - Politics (Jun 5) |
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Jun 5 · Populist and far-right parties are wooing rural voters in the EU elections by exploiting a backlash against green policies – but new research suggests it may not work
An artist paints a scene as hundreds of farmers from Spain and France blocked the highways at the main border crossings between the two countries to protest against EU regulations on the industry, increasing taxation and imports of foreign products on June 3, 2024. (Photo: Davide Bonaldo / SOPA Images via Reuters)
Hannah Mowat is Campaigns Coordinator at Fern, an international NGO created in 1995 to keep track of the EU’s involvement in forests.
As this European Parliament term began, Fridays ... | By Hannah Mowat Read more ...
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Quality – not just quantity – matters in the new climate finance goal - Climate Change News - Politics (Jun 4) |
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Jun 4 · Comment: Negotiators in Bonn should work to ensure funding provided under a new goal set to be agreed later this year at COP29 is affordable and accessible
Flags of the UNFCCC United Nations Climate Change Conference at the headquarters of the UN Campus in Bonn, Germany, on June 3, 2024 (Photo: IMAGO/Bonn.digital via Reuters)
Angela Churie Kallhauge is the Executive Vice President for Impact at Environmental Defense Fund, and the former head of the World Bank’s Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition Secretariat.
With climate negotiators gathered at mid-year UN talks in Bonn, Germany, to prepare for COP29, a critical question hangs in the air: how can we ensure that ... | By Angela Churie Kallhauge Read more ...
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“Great enabler of climate action” – UN urges Bonn progress on new finance goal - Climate Change News - Politics (Jun 3) |
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Jun 3 · UN Climate head Simon Stiell called on countries to start narrowing down options to strike a deal on post-2025 climate finance by COP29 in November
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell (left) in front of delegates in Bonn (Photos: Amira Grotendiek/UNFCCC/Flickr)
The head of the United Nations climate arm has called for governments at mid-year talks in Germany to make “serious progress” towards setting a new climate finance goal for after 2025.
Calling climate finance the “great enabler of climate action”, Simon Stiell told negotiators at the start of the annual June session in the city of ... | By Joe Lo Read more ...
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The great COP food systems illusion: UN climate talks deliver no real-world action - Climate Change News - Politics (Jun 3) |
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Jun 3 · Comment: Negotiations on food and agriculture have moved too slowly, while special initiatives fail to hold countries accountable on their commitments
A farmer walks in a corn field in Krishna district in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, India, April 1, 2024. (Photo: REUTERS/Almaas Masood)
Dhanush Dinesh is the founder of Clim-Eat, a think-and-do-tank for food and climate.
When the Stade de France in Paris is filled to capacity, it holds 81,400 people. You would then need another 2,484 to reach the number of badge-wearing participants at last year’s UN COP28 climate change conference in Dubai. This illustrates the sheer size of what was the world’s most ... | By Dhanush Dinesh Read more ...
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