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How Azerbaijan locked up climate and social justice advocate ahead of COP29. 4 November 2024. Azeri economist Farid Mehralizada has argued that his country’s reliance on fossil fuels is unsustainable and dangerous – he is now in prison ahead of the climate summit in Baku. What Trump got wrong on China, coal and climate.
IPCC report prompts calls to tackle methane emissions at Cop26
2021年11月8日 · Cop26 president Alok Sharma has methane on his list of issues to address at the summit. But more recently UK prime minister Boris Johnson boiled down the priorities to “coal, cars, cash and trees,” suggesting it may not be top of the agenda. Five takeaways from the IPCC’s 2021 climate science report. A lack of effective policy to tackle ...
Cop25: What was achieved and where to next? - Climate Home …
2019年12月16日 · The draft text proposes that Kyoto-era credits could be accounted against climate pledges until 2025, a view that many countries find unacceptable. Much of the rest of the text remains vague. “The current text preserves the possibility of carry over, which should certainly be avoided next year,” said Li.
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Megan Rowling is the editor of Climate Home News, taking over in February 2024 after nearly two decades as a journalist with the Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF), developing its award-winning coverage of climate change. She has written extensively on international climate politics and finance, with a focus on the developing world, for which she won a UN Correspondents’ Association award in 2016.
After five years, here are five things the Paris Agreement achieved ...
2020年9月12日 · Here are five things the Paris Agreement has achieved — and five things still to work for. 1) Political resilience. There is no doubt that president Donald Trump withdrawing the US from the Paris Agreement was a body blow. For his four-year term, the world’s second highest emitter would not pull its weight in carbon cuts, giving cover to ...
COP30 Amazon host strikes "largest carbon credit sale in history"
2024年9月27日 · 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 the agreement this week with the ...
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Chloé Farand. Chloé Farand is Climate Home News’ senior reporter. Her work has appeared in national publications including the Guardian, the Independent, the i paper and the BBC. Before joining Climate Home News, she worked for the investigative environmental outlet DeSmog UK and contributed to Business Green.
Mapping vulnerability: why the IPCC's geography of climate risk is ...
2022年10月3日 · The IPCC defines vulnerability in its report as “the propensity or predisposition to be adversely affected” and “lack of capacity to cope and adapt”. The 3.3-3.6 billion figure corresponds to the estimated number of people that live in countries ranked in the two most vulnerable tiers of a five-tier classification system.
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Plans to turn Europe’s biggest coal mine into a leisure lake prove divisive. 1 November 2024. Transition experts say repurposing Poland’s Bełchatów mine and power plant for renewables not recreation could bring more jobs, revenue and electricity.
Why we need to keep climate COPs inclusive
2024年10月9日 · We recognize the need for balanced and equitable participation – especially from the Global South – and the need to limit the influence of fossil fuel and other corporate lobbies aimed at inhibiting rapid progress towards climate goals. But neither of these necessarily means less people overall participating in COPs – although there can ...