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WEBNews Slow progress in Baku risks derailing talks on new climate finance goal at COP29 13 September 2024. News Azerbaijan’s COP29 president calls for determination and leadership from all countries to bridge the gaps on finance
Nigeria to end gas flaring by 2030, under national climate plan
WEBAug 13, 2021 · The Nigerian government has pledged to end the burning of gas as a by-product of oil production by 2030, under its latest climate plan submitted to the UN. Fossil fuel companies’ gas flaring account for a huge part of Nigeria’s emissions. At 75 million tonnes of Co2 equivalent a year, they outstrip the emissions from all 200 million ...
Mia Mottley: the 'fearless' leader pushing a global settlement for …
WEBNov 18, 2021 · Barbados’ prime minister Mia Amor Mottley made her mark on the Cop26 climate talks in Glasgow with a rip-roaring speech telling the leaders of the world’s largest economies to “try harder” to avert catastrophic climate change. A 2C overheated world “is a death sentence,” she said. The first female leader of her country, Mottley is ...
Donor nations commit $1.7bn to help indigenous people protect …
WEBNov 2, 2021 · By Chloé Farand. An alliance of governments and private funders has committed to provide $1.7 billion to support indigenous people advance their land rights by 2025, in recognition of their critical role in conserving forests. It is one of a handful of funding initiatives for forest protection announced at Cop26 climate talks in Glasgow.
UN summit highlights $700bn funding gap to restore nature
WEBSep 28, 2020 · Countries need to find $700 billion to reverse human destruction of the natural world. That was the message of UN agencies during a pledging conference for governments, businesses and philanthropic organisations to bolster financial commitments for the protection and restoration of nature on Monday. In …
Ireland's world-leading citizens' climate assembly. What worked?
WEBJun 27, 2019 · The UK House of Commons last week announced a plan to hold a citizens’ assembly on climate change. Citizens’ assemblies are gaining increasing attention worldwide as a means of tackling contentious policy issues. Ireland’s Citizen’s Assembly process has been praised internationally, including by Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon and the Extinction Rebellion movement, but ...
Climate-displaced people in Bangladesh raise their voices for …
WEBMay 17, 2021 · In the next few decades Bangladesh is likely to lose more than 10 percent of its land to the sea, and 18 million people could lose their livelihoods and homes.. As a result, many families must relocate from coastal areas. While some people have means to resettle elsewhere, the most vulnerable have nowhere to go and must live where they can, often on public land along the roads atop Bangladesh ...
More than carbon: securing clean water by protecting forests
WEBDec 1, 2020 · The most recent estimates suggest that securing clean water throughout the basin will require permanent protection of a minimum of 350,000 additional acres of forest, primarily in headwaters and riparian corridors, at a cost of about $1.75 billion. That expense, however, is very likely to be recouped by savings in water treatment costs, as well ...
High-risk geoengineering technologies won’t reverse climate …
WEBMar 1, 2022 · Some in the scientific community are grasping for technological fixes in the field of climate geoengineering – unproven, high-risk technologies: carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and solar radiation management (SRM). Interest in such high-risk technologies has grown in some government circles and, even more notably, in polluting industries such as ...
Global hub launched to help countries slash methane emissions
WEBMay 4, 2022 · A global hub to slash methane emissions was launched this week as leading scientists advised that reducing the short-lived gas is essential to limit dangerous levels of warming.. Set up with $340 million of philanthropic funding, the Global Methane Hub will offer grants and technical support to implement the Global Methane Pledge.. Launched by the US and EU at Cop26 climate talks in November ...