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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
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 ...
IPCC report prompts calls to tackle methane emissions at Cop26
WEBNov 8, 2021 · 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 ...
The Caribbean can make waves with a blue ocean economy
WEBJun 3, 2020 · Aligning with SDG 14 (Life Below Water), which aims to “conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development”, is what the Caribbean must now do in a Blue Economy model. It is time for a paradigm shift; from thinking of the region as small land-based economies to …
25 years later: When the world united against climate change
WEBJul 3, 2016 · 25 years later: When the world united against climate change. The Paris climate deal was the latest chapter of a story that started a quarter of a century ago, and owes much to US Republicans and UK Conservatives. By Ed King. It was an era when the weight of a laptop could break your knees, phones were the size of …
Meet the woman who first identified the greenhouse effect
WEBFeb 9, 2016 · Eunice Foote demonstrated the heat-trapping properties of carbon dioxide at a scientific conference in 1856, newly digitised records show. Irish physicist John Tyndall is commonly credited with discovering the greenhouse effect, which underpins the science of climate change. Starting in 1859, he published a series of studies on the way ...
Indigenous storytellers are overcoming hurdles to advance climate ...
WEBJul 3, 2022 · Indigenous storytellers are overcoming hurdles to advance climate justice globally. “Indigenous storytellers have the lived experiences, they have the stories, and they also have their own way of telling these stories and offering solutions,” said Vanessa Cuervo Forero. Cuervo Forero is the director of Latin American programs for Doc ...
Swiss propose expanding climate finance donors, academics urge …
WEBAug 16, 2024 · Switzerland and Canada propose ways to expand climate finance donors. Published on 16/08/2024, 2:37pm. Detailed criteria would 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.
Erosion crisis swallows homes and livelihoods in Nigeria
WEBJan 20, 2020 · Erosion crisis swallows homes and livelihoods in Nigeria. Climate change is aggravating an erosion crisis in Nigeria that is wrecking buildings, roads and farmland. Damage may cost up to $100 million a year. Patience Nwankwo sighs as she stares into the yawning hole in the ground near her home in southeastern Nigeria, the …
Cop29 success hinges on financial commitments from rich nations
WEBJan 30, 2024 · This is why the next summit, Cop29, will become so important. In Baku, governments will set a new post-2025 finance goal and this will have implications for all previous agreements about scaled up ambition on cutting emissions, adapting to climate change, loss and damage and technology transfer. The climate finance gap …