UN Climate Change Conference

Being forced to scale up their financial contributions for climate action, as mandated under the 2015 Paris Agreement, rich and developed countries have proposed that other high-income nations must also be asked to share the burden. Ahead…
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Some 6,000 people attended the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany. The key focus of the 10-day meeting was climate finance, as nations prepare for COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan. As some of the poorest…
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The Paris Agreement will continue to underpin the work of COP, COP29 President-Designate H.E. Mukhtar Babayev has confirmed. “Failure to meet the 1.5 degree goal means that people would be left behind,” he says. “We all have a moral duty…
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It’s been about a month since the gavel came down on COP28 in Dubai, but it’s already time to start looking ahead to COP29. The 28th United Nations climate conference took place in a Middle Eastern petrostate last year; this year’s summit…
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A critical step in addressing the climate crisis comes in the form of climate finance that enables climate action in the form of adaptation and mitigation efforts. At the recently concluded UN Climate Change Conference (COP28), it was…
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In further sign of growing consensus on the issue, over 110 countries on Saturday signed on to a pledge agreeing to triple the installed capacity of global renewable energy by 2030, a goal that is being seen as crucial to keeping the rise…
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Controversial credits bought by corporations to offset their carbon emissions will be in the spotlight at UN climate talks next month. These credits allow them to label everything from shampoo to air travel as "carbon neutral". Carbon…
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India is unlikely to sign onto a global pledge to reduce cooling-related emissions at the COP 28 climate meeting, citing the need for the world's most populous country to have affordable cooling, two government officials told Reuters. The…
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The fourth meeting of the Transitional Committee on Loss and Damage Fund ended without a clear consensus on operationalising the fund last week, exposing a deep trust deficit among rich and emerging economies over historic responsibility,…
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A crucial meeting on climate "loss and damages" ahead of COP28 ended in failure on Saturday, with countries from the global north and south unable to reach an agreement, according to sources involved in the talks. The agreement to set up a…
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