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Advocacy and Campaigns

Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice

Pan African Climate Justice Alliance

News and Analysis

UN Negotiations

Preamble and Text of Paris Agreement

LDC Group at UN climate negotiations

Paris Climate Justice Briefs from Third World Network

Climate Justice

Fair Shares: A civil society equity review of INDCs

Incorporating Human Rights into Climate Action from Mary Robinson Foundation

Climate Action Tracker individual country pledges for greenhouse gas emission reductions

Mapping the Impacts of Climate Change country rankings for climate impact from Center for Global Development

Climate Finance

Unfinished Business: How to close the post-Paris adaptation finance gap Oxfam Briefing Note

Adequate finance to deliver INDCs in LDCs from International Institute for Environment and Development

What Counts: Tools to Help Define and Understand Progress Towards the $100 Billion Climate Finance Commitment from CPI, ODI and WRI.

Adaptation Gap 2016 – from UN Environment Programme

Fact file: Climate change adaptation finance – from IRIN News

Clean Development Mechanism

Carbon Market Watch

Loss and Damage

Defining loss and damage: The science and politics around one of the most contested issues within the UNFCCC – from Stockholm Environment Institute

Explainer: Dealing with the ‘loss and damage’ caused by climate change – from Carbon Brief

(Un)Natural Disasters: Communicating Linkages Between Extreme Events and Climate Change – from World Meteorological Organization

Climate Change and Migration

Uprooted by Climate Change: Responding to the growing risk of displacement – Oxfam Briefing Paper

UK Climate Change and Migration Coalition

Platform on Disaster Displacement

Climate Litigation

Petition To the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines Requesting for Investigation of the Responsibility of the Carbon Majors for Human Rights Violations or Threats of Violations Resulting from the Impacts of Climate Change

Scientists Can Now Blame Individual Natural Disasters on Climate Change – from Scientific American

Step up climate change adaptation – UN report

14/1/2021: The UNEP Adaptation Gap Report 2020 finds that huge gaps remain in finance for developing countries. UNEP calls for a global commitment to put half of all global climate finance towards adaptation in the next year.

Source: UN Environment Programme

Poor and island states highlight toll of climate disasters

13/1/2021: Poor and island states have called on rich nations to provide more funding to help them recover from disasters such as storms, flooding and drought, in updated climate plans submitted to the UN.

Source: Climate Home News

2020 was a mixed year for climate litigation

4/1/2021: For campaigners around the world taking legal measures to force urgent action on the climate emergency, 2020 has seen a mixed bag of judgements.

Source: China Dialogue

Kenya faces $62bn bill to mitigate climate-linked hunger, drought and conflict

8/1/2021: Kenya needs $62bn to mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis in the next 10 years, equating to almost 67% of GDP. Kenya accounts for less than 0.1% of global greenhouse gas emissions and has a per capita emission of less than half the global average.

Source: The Guardian

After five years, here are five things the Paris Agreement achieved — and didn’t

9/12/2020: The Paris Agreement has survived the US withdrawal and normalised net zero, but emissions are still rising and vulnerable people are suffering from climate disasters. Yet there is a sense of renewed hope that multilateralism can close the gaps between ambition and action.

Source: Climate Home News

21 typhoons have hit the Philippines this year with increased intensity

14/11/2020: In the wake of the world’s most powerful storm this year, and another destructive typhoon on its heels, climate experts say the Philippines is more vulnerable than ever to the devastating effects of climate change.

Source: CNA

Oxfam: Rich countries are not delivering on $100bn climate finance promise

20/10/2020: Wealthy nations are giving less money to poorer ones for climate projects than their official statistics make out, according to analysis by Oxfam. Nearly 80% of climate finance is in the form of loans that must be repaid, adding to the debt burden of the poorest countries.

Source: Climate Home News

Glacial lakes become more deadly as Himalayan ice melts

13/10/2020: New research has identified 47 Himalayan lakes that are critically dangerous and could burst, flooding downstream areas in China, Nepal and India. Expanding lakes increase the risks of outburst floods – sudden surges of water that can wreak havoc on mountain communities.

Source: China Dialogue

Nigeria, Jamaica bring closure to the Kyoto Protocol era, in last-minute dash

2/10/2020: The Doha Amendment will come into force this year after Nigeria became the 144th country to ratify the climate treaty on Friday, in a last-minute scramble to tie the loose ends of the Kyoto Protocol era.

Source: Climate Home News

Six Portuguese youth file ‘unprecedented’ climate lawsuit against 33 countries

3/9/2020: In the first climate case to be filed with the European Court of Human Rights, six Portuguese youth argue inadequate emissions cuts violate their human rights. If admissible, it could set an important precedent.

Source: Climate Home News

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