International Court of Justice hears impact of climate inaction
11/12/2024: The climate hearings of the International Court have continued with submissions from the perspective of climate justice, the precautionary principle and conflict, from Seychelles, Senegal and Sudan, respectively. The Court will advise on the international legal obligations of states in relation to climate change.
Source: Inter Press Service
Call for climate reparations at the International Court of Justice
28/11/2024: The historic hearings on climate change at the International Court of Justice may help advance the case for climate reparations. The Court has a unique opportunity to affirm that accountability for climate damage is a matter of obligation and justice — not charity.
Source: Climate Home News
What was decided at the COP29 climate summit in Baku?
27/11/2024: The UN summit’s outcomes were contested and widely seen as inadequate to tackle the urgency of the climate crisis. From a controversial climate finance deal to a new global carbon market, here are the main outcomes.
Source: Climate Home News
COP29 failed Bangladesh and the global south
27/11/2024: A policy analyst from Christian Aid in Bangladesh explains why the COP29 outcome fails to remedy the climate injustice suffered in her country and others. The promise that rich countries will provide $300 billion per annum of climate finance is insufficient to deliver the transition to a low carbon future.
Source: Devex
Verdicts from Africa on the “shameful” COP29 climate talks
25/11/2024: A panel of African experts, negotiators, and activists offer their reaction to the "finance" COP which was supposed to reset the target for financial support from the richest countries.
Source: African Arguments
Global South slams proposal for $250bn climate finance goal
22/11/2024: The draft text for the post-2025 climate finance goal offers a core $250 billion a year by 2035, far below what developing country groups have been asking for in the three years of talks. This new public finance target would contribute to a wider goal of at least $1.3 trillion a year by 2035 “from all public and private sources”.
Source: Climate Home News
Taxing Big Oil would boost UN climate loss and damage fund
18/11/2024: A small tax on just seven of the world’s biggest oil and gas companies could grow the UN Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage by more than 2000% and help address the costs of extreme weather events, according to new analysis published by Greenpeace International and Stamp Out Poverty. The organisations are calling for a long term tax on fossil fuel extraction.
Source: Greenpeace International
Africa should prioritise adaptation over emission cuts
15/11/2024: African governments’ climate action strategies, specifically those submitted under the nationally determined contributions, remain disproportionately focused on emission reductions — an approach that fails to address the most pressing health needs of African communities.
Source: Devex
‘Show me the money’—Grenada PM calls for climate justice
14/11/2024: Grenada is a tiny island nation in the Caribbean Sea facing heightened vulnerability to climate change. Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell says there is no justification for carbon subsidies in the richest countries.
Source: Inter Press Service
“Extremely urgent”: interview with the head of the Adaptation Fund
12/11/2024: With the Global South hoping that COP29 can bring progress on the $215-387 billion per year needed for climate adaptation, the head of the UN Adaptation Fund, Mikko Ollikainen, discusses prospects for the Baku negotiations.
Source: African Arguments