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Parametric triggers: How small islands can escape the climate-poverty trap - Climate Change News - Finance (Oct 22, 2024) |
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Oct 22, 2024 · The loss and damage fund should use parametric triggers to pay out when climate disaster strikes small island developing states
Gary, a resident of the Caribbean Terrace neighborhood, poses for a photo as Hurricane Beryl approaches, in Kingston, Jamaica, July 3, 2024. REUTERS/Marco Bello
Emily Wilkinson is Principal Research Fellow at ODI and Director of the Resilient and Sustainable Islands Initiative (RESI)
With winds of up to 240 km/h, Hurricane Beryl ripped through the Caribbean in July earlier this year, causing catastrophic damage to Grenada’s northern islands of Carriacou and Petite Martinique, as well as on several islands in Saint Vincent and the ... | By Emily Wilkinson Read more ...
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It’s time to end the UN’s artificial divide between biodiversity and climate - Climate Change News - Science (Oct 21, 2024) |
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Oct 21, 2024 · Comment: The biodiversity and climate crises are interlinked – and failing to coordinate our response leaves critical ecosystems like forests and peatlands at risk
A few days before the start of the World Nature Conference, CBD COP16 in Cali, Colombia, Greenpeace activists demonstrate on the United Nations square in front of the UN campus in Bonn, Germany, using a display of five dominoes showing plants and animals. (Photo: IMAGO/Bonn.digital via Reuters Connect)
An Lambrechts is a senior campaign strategist at Greenpeace International; Cyril Kormos is founder and executive director of Wild Heritage; and Virginia Young is director of the International Forests and ... | By An Lambrechts, Cyril Kormos and Virginia Young Read more ...
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Modi, Macron, Xi and Biden among many leaders yet to request COP29 speech - Climate Change News - Politics (Oct 21, 2024) |
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Oct 21, 2024 · Just over 100 world leaders have said they will speak at the upcoming UN climate summit, about a fifth down on last year’s figure
The Baku Olympic Stadium will be the COP29 venue (Photo: Matteo Civillini)
The leaders of the US, China, India and France are among the many heads of state and government who have yet to confirm they will attend the opening of the COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan in three weeks’ time.
In a document posted online, the United Nations lists 106 leaders registered to speak at the Baku conference on November 12-13, including those of Brazil, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and Russia.
While the speakers’ list is ... | By Joe Lo Read more ...
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Why we need new laws to end coal, oil and gas – now - Climate Change News - Politics (Oct 18, 2024) |
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Oct 18, 2024 · Comment: Introducing strong policies to accelerate the rollout of renewables, coupled with a rapid, legally implemented phase-out of fossil fuels, may be our best hope for curbing global warming
An oil and gas industry worker walks at a facility of OzenMunayGaz company in Zhanaozen in the Mangystau region of Kazakhstan, November 14, 2023. (Photo: REUTERS/Turar Kazangapov)
Katherine Quinn is policy lead at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.
BP has ditched its pledge to curb oil production by 2030 – a plan that was once the most ambitious in the industry – switching instead to developing more fossil fuels in the Middle East.
The new approach ... | By Katherine Quinn Read more ...
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The Global South is surging ahead in the renewables revolution - Climate Change News - Politics (Oct 16, 2024) |
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Oct 16, 2024 · Comment: Many developing countries are rich in renewable resources and growing them fast – with more investment, they can tip the balance towards green industrialisation
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 October 26, 2023. (Photo: Mushfiqul Alam/NurPhoto via Reuters Connect)
Vikram Singh is senior principal for the Global South with energy think-tank RMI.
If you’d asked me a month ago who was deploying renewables faster – the Global South or the Global North ... | By Vikram Singh Read more ...
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Australian renewables pioneer Adelaide bids to host COP31 climate summit - Climate Change News - Politics (Oct 15, 2024) |
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Oct 15, 2024 · South Australia has one of the world’s cleanest electricity grids, which it wants to showcase at the COP31 conference in 2026
The Adelaide Convention Centre and the Torrens River (Photos: Denisbin/Flickr)
The state government of South Australia has launched a bid for the city of Adelaide to host the COP31 climate summit in late 2026, showcasing the region’s prowess in clean energy.
The government set out its case on Monday, saying the state is a pioneer in renewables, hydrogen and battery storage, and also has sufficient accommodation for more than 30,000 visitors. Welcoming delegates to the Adelaide Convention Centre would deliver local economic ... | By Joe Lo Read more ...
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To capture renewable energy gains, Africa must invest in battery storage - Climate Change News - Finance (Oct 15, 2024) |
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Oct 15, 2024 · Comment: With rich raw materials and rising interest in manufacturing capacity, the continent can become a global leader in the battery storage value chain – but it needs international capital
The Golomoti Solar PV Park in Dedza, Malawi. (Photo: PIDG/ InfraCo)
Olivia Carballo is managing director in the emerging market alternative credit team at Ninety One.
In rural locations across Africa, renewable energy infrastructure such as hydroelectric dams, wind turbines and solar panels have been developed at impressive speed over the last ten years.
However, despite an increase in renewables production, the energy is unable to benefit communities and ... | By Olivia Carballo Read more ...
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Despite solar surge, world off track for COP28 renewable energy target - Climate Change News - Energy (Oct 11, 2024) |
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Oct 11, 2024 · Current plans will only deliver half of the growth needed to hit a global target of tripling renewables by 2030, IRENA warns
Construction of a wind turbine in Germany. Photo: IMAGO/Jochen Tack
The world is not yet doing enough to meet a goal to triple renewable energy capacity by 2030 despite “record” growth last year, the first official review of the global commitment made at the COP28 climate summit has warned.
Current national plans and targets would deliver only half of the required growth in renewable power by the end of the decade, according to an assessment by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) released on Friday.
Except for solar power, ... | By Matteo Civillini Read more ...
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How the world can set itself up for success at COP29 - Climate Change News - Politics (Oct 10, 2024) |
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Oct 10, 2024 · Comment: A new climate finance goal is the top priority for the Baku summit – and there are signs of convergence on critical issues
In this photo illustration, a smartphone shows the logo of the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2024 COP29 in front of its website. (Photo: Timon Schneider / SOPA Images via Reuters Connect)
Mukhtar Babayev is the COP29 President-Designate and Azerbaijan’s Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources.
This week, the COP29 Presidency of Azerbaijan is hosting a series of crunch climate negotiations in Baku across both technical and political tracks of the UN talks. These discussions represent a pivotal moment in the lead-up to ... | By Mukhtar Babayev Read more ...
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UN approves carbon market safeguards to protect environment and human rights - Climate Change News - Finance (Oct 10, 2024) |
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Oct 10, 2024 · Developers of carbon credit projects will have to carry out a risk assessment and minimise any social or environmental impacts
A carbon offsetting project aiming to preserve forests in Peru. Photo: Yoly Gutierrez/CIFOR
The UN’s new carbon market will have a compulsory mechanism that aims to prevent developers of carbon credit projects from breaching human rights or causing environmental damage with their activities – a first for the UN climate process.
Developers of projects under the UN’s new Article 6.4 carbon crediting system will be required to identify and address potential negative environmental and social impacts as part of a detailed risk ... | By Matteo Civillini Read more ...
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Progress on structure for new global climate finance goal but trickier divides persist - Climate Change News - Politics (Oct 09, 2024) |
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Oct 09, 2024 · Negotiators cite “convergence” on the shape of the post-2025 finance goal but gaps remain on contributors and amounts
A man stands in a home where the roof was ripped apart, in the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl, in St. Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica, July 5, 2024. REUTERS/Maria Alejandra Cardona
Governments have made progress on how a new global climate finance goal should be structured – but big gaps remain on who should pay out and how large the goal should be, negotiators chairing United Nations talks said on Wednesday.
Ministers gathered in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku to discuss a new post-2025 goal for finance to help developing countries ... | By Joe Lo Read more ...
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Why we need to keep climate COPs inclusive - Climate Change News - Politics (Oct 09, 2024) |
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Oct 09, 2024 · Comment: Frustration at slow progress towards the Paris Agreement goals is prompting calls to streamline the COP process – but restricting participation is the wrong response
Delegates negotiate in a huddle during informal consultations on the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, UAE, on December 10, 2023. (Photo by IISD/ENB | Mike Muzurakis) Delegates negotiating in a huddle during informal consultations on the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage
Manuel Pulgar-Vidal is WWF’s Global Climate and Energy Lead, former Minister of Environment for Peru and COP20 President.
As we approach the latest ... | By Manuel Pulgar-Vidal Read more ...
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Mexico’s new president must reform national oil company Pemex - Climate Change News - Energy (Oct 08, 2024) |
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Oct 08, 2024 · Investing even more in oil and gas would be a huge financial risk so Claudia Sheinbaum should order Pemex to diversify
Mexico's then President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum and Victor Rodriguez, appointed as Chief Executive of state-run oil producer Petroleos Mexicanos PEMEX, leave after a press conference in Mexico City, Mexico August 26, 2024. REUTERS/Raquel Cunha
Fernanda Ballesteros leads the Natural Resource Governance Institute’s work in Mexico and is part of the organization’s energy transition coordination group.
Last week, Claudia Sheinbaum started her six-year term as Mexico’s president. Among great expectations for change, many are puzzling over how she might ... | By Fernanda Ballesteros Read more ...
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New study blows hole in gas backers’ “transition fuel” claim - Climate Change News - Energy (Oct 08, 2024) |
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Oct 08, 2024 · The study found that, for Europe and China, importing US-produced LNG is worse for the climate than using local coal
Liquified natural gas (LNG) facilities in Texas. Photo: Tim Aubry / Greenpeace
For Europe and China, importing fossil gas from the United States to burn for power is worse for the climate than using local coal, because it produces about a third more emissions, a new study in Energy Science and Engineering has found.
While previous studies have relied on gas companies’ claims about how polluting their facilities are, the study by Cornell University’s Robert Howarth used independent measurements. His research concluded that planet-heating ... | By Joe Lo Read more ...
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Japan backs fossil fuels in Southeast Asian “zero emission” initiative - Climate Change News - Politics (Oct 07, 2024) |
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Oct 07, 2024 · Japan’s Asia Zero Emission Community (AZEC) supported 56 projects using fossil fuel technologies in Southeast Asia - including LNG and carbon capture
Participants of the inaugural summit of the Asia Zero Emission Community after their photo session ahead of the meeting at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Dec. 18, 2023. (Photo: Reuters)
During his three-year tenure as Japan’s prime minister, Fumio Kishida created the Asia Zero Emission Community (AZEC) to, in his words, “help Asia decarbonise together”.
But a year and a half after AZEC was formally launched, a new report by the international research organization Zero Carbon Analytics shows that ... | By Walter James Read more ...
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Delay to EU deforestation law must not lead to dilution - Climate Change News - Politics (Oct 04, 2024) |
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Oct 04, 2024 · Comment: The EU needs to stand firm against the countries and companies hellbent on weakening its pioneering regulation to stop commodities harming forests
A farmer walks on his cocoa farm in Gabeadji near San Pedro, Ivory Coast, January 31, 2023. (Photo: Reuters/Ange Aboa)
Nicole Polsterer is sustainable production and consumption campaigner at forests and rights NGO Fern.
The rumours were swirling for months, but when the news broke on October 2, it came abruptly and without warning.
Just a week earlier, the European Commission insisted that it had no plans to delay implementing the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), the so-called 'jewel’ in its flagship ... | By Nicole Polsterer Read more ...
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Civil servants warn fossil fuel exploration could harm New Zealand’s climate reputation - Climate Change News - Politics (Oct 03, 2024) |
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Oct 03, 2024 · Advice to politicians says revoking a ban on oil and gas drilling could damage relations with Pacific neighbours and risk lawsuits
New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon visits a school in Tonga, August 30, 2024. (AAP Image/Ben McKay)
Civil servants from New Zealand’s foreign and trade ministry have advised politicians that reversing a ban on offshore oil and gas exploration could harm the country’s international reputation and relationships, anger Pacific nations and risk lawsuits over climate change.
In 2018, the country’s then centre-left prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, effectively banned fresh efforts to look for fossil fuels offshore. ... | By Joe Lo Read more ...
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Guyana’s carbon-credit deal to protect forests undermines its forest protectors - Climate Change News - Science (Oct 03, 2024) |
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Oct 03, 2024 · Comment: Guyana’s Indigenous communities are under siege from all sides – including an opaque carbon-offsetting scheme agreed by the government on our lands
The world's highest single drop-off of water, the Kaieteur Falls, are seen from a natural overlook above the Potaro River in southwest Guyana, on August 9, 2000. (Photo: Reuters file/Stringer)
Mario Hastings is a community leader and former Toshao of Kako Village in Upper Mazaruni, Guyana.
The Essequibo region of Guyana where I live lies at the heart of Guyana’s economic expansion – it’s one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. Essequibo is also the home of many of Guyana’s Indigenous ... | By Mario Hastings Read more ...
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Colombia adds nature to the mix with its $40-billion energy transition plan - Climate Change News - Finance (Oct 01, 2024) |
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Oct 01, 2024 · The investment plan mirrors the model of Just Energy Transition Partnerships (JETPs) – and includes $8.5 billion to conserve and restore nature
Aerial view of a rainforest in the Colombian Pacific region, nestled within the heart of the Chocó Biogeographic Region, one of the world's most enigmatic biodiversity hotspots. (Photo: Mateo Giraldo Amaya/Cover Images)
Colombia has launched a new $40-million investment plan for its energy transition, aiming to move away from oil and gas production, partly through pursuing green economic opportunities in sustainable tourism and nature restoration.
The South American country’s environment minister, Susana ... | By Sebastian Rodriguez Read more ...
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Amazon state that will host COP30 strikes “largest carbon credit sale in history” - Climate Change News - Finance (Sep 27, 2024) |
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Sep 27, 2024 · A coalition of governments and multinational corporations promises to pay Pará state $180m to save its rainforest
Robson Paes sits in the Amazon rainforest during an expedition of Munduruku people as they mark the frontier of the Sawre Muybu Indigenous Territory, in Itaituba municipality, Para state, Brazil, July 20, 2024. (Photo: EUTERS/Adriano Machado)
A coalition of developed countries and corporations has agreed to a massive purchase of carbon credits from the Amazon rainforest worth $180 million, which has been described as the largest in history.
The LEAF coalition, an initiative launched in 2021 seeking to mobilise finance for forest protection, announced ... | By Sebastian Rodriguez Read more ...
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As COP Troika dithers on 1.5C-aligned climate plans, experts set the bar high - Climate Change News - Politics (Sep 27, 2024) |
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Sep 27, 2024 · UAE, Azerbaijan and Brazil have promised NDCs compatible with the safest warming limit in the Paris Agreement – but it’s not clear what they mean
A demonstration outside the COP27 venue in Sharm el Sheik, Egypt. Photo: ENB/IISD
The three countries hosting the annual COP climate summits from 2023-2025 – known as “the Troika” – have again called on governments to submit stronger climate action plans that can keep the warming goals of the Paris Agreement “within reach”.
The United Arab Emirates, Azerbaijan and Brazil this week in New York reiterated their promise to lead by example and produce by the end of this year ... | By Matteo Civillini and Megan Rowling Read more ...
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New global climate commitments critical – but strong national laws must follow - Climate Change News - Politics (Sep 26, 2024) |
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Sep 26, 2024 · Comment: International emissions-cutting targets need to be translated into national laws to guarantee delivery and protect the rights of future generations
Two climate activists from the “Last Generation” group threw orange paint on the glass facade of the Zlote Tarasy shopping mall in central Warsaw, Poland, on August 28, 2024. The demonstration, timed to coincide with the beginning of the new school year, was intended to draw attention to the urgent climate crisis and its future impact on children. (Photo: Marek Antoni Iwanczuk / SOPA Images via Reuters)
Pierre Cannet is global head of public affairs and policy at ClientEarth.
The UN Summit of the Future that ... | By Pierre Cannet Read more ...
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UN climate chief warns of “two-speed” global energy transition - Climate Change News - Politics (Sep 24, 2024) |
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Sep 24, 2024 · Simon Stiell tells investors in NYC that rich countries are benefiting most from clean energy growth while poorer nations are deprived of finance for cheaper renewables
A solar microgrid run by Husk Power Systems serves Kiguna village in Nasarawa state, Nigeria, September 26, 2022 (Photo: Megan Rowling)
Some economies are starting to see dividends from the hundreds of billions of dollars flowing each year into clean energy around the world – but progress is uneven, with richer countries reaping most of the benefits and poorer ones held back, the United Nations’ climate chief said on Tuesday.
Simon Stiell told investors at an event in New York that the ... | By Megan Rowling Read more ...
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Global push to triple renewables requires responsible mining of minerals - Climate Change News - Politics (Sep 23, 2024) |
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Sep 23, 2024 · Comment: As leaders at the UN debate how to meet renewable energy goals, they must also ensure supply chains are sustainable
Wind turbines are seen near Foggia, Puglia, Italy, on September 1, 2023. (Photo: Lorenzo Di Cola/NurPhoto)
Mads Christensen is the international executive director of Greenpeace.
In the two decades since Greenpeace launched its groundbreaking Energy Revolution scenarios in 2005, renewable energy uptake has accelerated at speeds most analysts could not have anticipated, but leaders at the UN General Assembly must act even more boldly.
Greenpeace’s pioneering vision for the clean energy transition was once considered unrealistic, perhaps ... | By Mads Flarup Christensen Read more ...
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Senegalese banker Ibrahima Cheikh Diong picked to lead new loss and damage fund - Climate Change News - Finance (Sep 23, 2024) |
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Sep 23, 2024 · Diong has experience in development banking, government and insurance against climate disasters in Africa
Ibrahima Cheikh Diong speaks at the Global Food Security Summit in London on 20 November 2023 (Photos: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
Governments have chosen veteran Senegalese banker Ibrahima Cheikh Diong to lead the new United Nations’ fund for responding to the loss and damage caused by climate change.
The government officials who make up the fund’s board selected Diong – who has worked in insurance, private and public banks and government – during a meeting in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku last week. His appointment ... | By Joe Lo Read more ...
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COP29 aims to boost battery storage and grids for renewables - Climate Change News (Sep 19, 2024) |
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Sep 19, 2024 · 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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COP29 aims to boost battery storage and grids for renewables, as pledges proliferate - Climate Change News - Politics (Sep 19, 2024) |
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Sep 19, 2024 · 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, 2024) |
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Sep 17, 2024 · 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, 2024) |
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Sep 17, 2024 · 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, 2024) |
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Sep 16, 2024 · 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, 2024) |
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Sep 13, 2024 · 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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The demise of coal, as it turns out, is a lot of gas - Climate Change News - Energy (Sep 13, 2024) |
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Sep 13, 2024 · Comment: The global pipeline of coal projects shrank dramatically in recent years – but now coal is making a comeback in Asia, threatening climate goals
Large machinery piles and stores electrical coal just unloaded from a cargo ship at the coal terminal in Lianyungang Port, China, on May 24, 2024. (Photo: Costfoto/NurPhoto via Reuters)
Lidy Nacpil is coordinator of the Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD).
A few years ago, the world was on a path to ending coal, the most carbon-intensive fossil fuel and the single biggest contributor to carbon dioxide emissions. Active and sustained campaigning brought coal closer to the point of death and ... | By Lidy Nacpil Read more ...
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British Airways plans to offset rising emissions by sprinkling crushed rocks - Climate Change News - Politics (Sep 12, 2024) |
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Sep 12, 2024 · 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, 2024) |
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Sep 12, 2024 · 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, 2024) |
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Sep 10, 2024 · 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 09, 2024) |
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Sep 09, 2024 · 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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Relegating Africa to the world’s green mine is costing us - Climate Change News - Comment (Sep 05, 2024) |
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Sep 05, 2024 · Comment: We have the resources, talent and need to develop supply chains for the energy transition that bring sustainable economic benefits for Africans
Congo mines minister Antoinette N'Samba Kalambayi speaks during the Investing in African Mining Indaba 2023 conference in Cape Town, South Africa, February 8, 2023. (Photo: REUTERS/Shelley Christians)
Adam Anthony is executive director of HakiRasilimali, a platform of civil society organizations working on strategic advocacy issues around minerals, oil and gas extraction in Tanzania, and chair of Publish What You Pay’s Africa Steering Committee.
There is a fierce scramble underway for the minerals to enable a ... | By Adam Anthony Read more ...
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UN climate chief calls for “exponential changes” to boost investment in Africa - Climate Change News - Finance (Sep 05, 2024) |
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Sep 05, 2024 · Action on clean energy and adaptation can be the single greatest opportunity to lift up African people and economies, Simon Stiell says
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Simon Stiell speaking at climate talks in Bonn, Germany, in June 2024. Photo: UNFCCC/Lucia Vasquez
UN climate chief Simon Stiell has urged world leaders “to flip the script” on climate action in Africa and move from “an epidemic of under-investment” to a “goldmine of human and economic benefits”.
Speaking at a conference of African environment ministers on Thursday in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, Stiell said investments in renewable energy and climate resilience ... | By Matteo Civillini Read more ...
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Delaying the EU’s anti-deforestation law is not an option - Climate Change News - Science (Sep 03, 2024) |
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Sep 03, 2024 · Comment: The EU’s new deforestation law was seen as a breakthrough in the global battle against forest loss, but it’s provoking fractious debate among governments and producers
People dry cocoa beans in the Ivorian cocoa farming village of Djigbadji, commonly known as Bandikro or Bandit Town, located inside the Rapides Grah protected forest and destroyed by forest authorities in January 2020, in Soubre, Ivory Coast on January 7, 2021. (Photo: REUTERS/Luc Gnago)
Nicole Polsterer is the sustainable production and consumption campaigner at forests and rights NGO, Fern.
Initially the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) was hailed as a game-changer in the fight ... | By Nicole Polsterer Read more ...
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As Pacific Islanders, we need climate action – not greenwashing – from Azerbaijan - Climate Change News - Politics (Sep 02, 2024) |
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Sep 02, 2024 · 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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