Links to news and analysis on climate change, biodiversity loss and water scarcity, from the perspective of environmental justice, seeking equity between richer and poorer countries in a growing world population.
UN climate summit to focus on finance
6/11/2024: The UN Climate Change Conference to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan, is being billed as the “finance COP,” aiming to set a new target for climate-related financial transfers to developing countries. Any agreement at COP29 would replace a target set in 2009, when developed countries pledged to provide US$100 billion annually by 2020.
Source: UN Environment Programme
COP16 advances biodiversity protection but no finance deal
4/11/2024: The UN Biodiversity Conference in Cali, Colombia was suspended before a crucial agreement on funding for a new global fund for nature. However, delegates made strides on corporate payments for genetic data and formal representation for Indigenous people.
Source: Devex
Emissions Gap Report 2024
24/10/2024: The 2024 UN Emissions Gap Report tells us that nations must show a massive increase in ambition in new Nationally Determined Contributions, the promises updated every five years. As things stand, current NDCs put the world on track for a global temperature rise of 2.6-2.8°C this century. Even worse, policies currently in place are insufficient to meet even these NDCs.
Source: UN Environment Programme
Climate finance: preparations for UN climate talks kick off
3/6/2024: Signatories of the Paris Agreement pledged to come up with a new finance goal before 2025. And the pressure to up the target is growing. Negotiators are laying the groundwork for a new climate finance goal ahead of the COP 29 summit later this year.
Source: DW