Category: Adaptation

Petersberg Climate Dialogues: Building a COP28 Roadmap for Adaptation

COP28 preparations discuss a possible Roadmap that would address adaptation planning, risk management, and policy frameworks, but no reference yet to next steps for the Global Goal on Adaptation
  • Adaptation, COP28

What Does the New High Seas Treaty Mean for Climate Change?

The recently concluded High Seas Treaty will bolster the world’s ability to protect climate vulnerable areas on the high seas. It also requires countries to undertake EIAs and which must take climate change into account, one of the first global treaties to ever require this.
  • Adaptation

Biodiversity Gets its Paris Moment: Climate Takeaways from COP15

In the early hours of the morning on 19 December 2022, the gavel came down on the 15th COP of the Convention on Biodiversity, hosted in Montreal under the Presidency of China. The outcome of the COP is the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), the product of more than four years of global negotiations. Some of the debates at the negotiations will be familiar to veterans of the climate negotiations, including on the ambition of 2030 and 2050 targets and their specificity, a lack of finance for developing countries to meet the targets, the ability of states to determine how to meet the global targets through national planning frameworks, the ratcheting of ambition, the protection of indigenous community rights and special dispensations and considerations for small island states and least developed countries. In our analysis we highlight some of the key aspects of the GBF, particularly as they relate to climate, focusing on the main targets agreed to. We also discuss the debates around finance, explaining why the DRC understandably objected to the final package that was presented. Lastly, we unpack the interlinkages between two regimes and how they can learn from each other going forward.
  • Adaptation, Climate Finance, NetZero and the Just Transition

COP15 mulls over a Global Biodiversity Framework

At this year's Convention on Biodiversity COP15 in Montreal between 7 and 19 December, Parties are deliberating over a Global Biodiversity Framework, which many are hoping will be a "Paris Moment for Nature". The draft framework is likely to be comprised of 21 targets and 10 ‘milestones’ to be achieved by the end of the decade. In our brief we consider linkages and similarities between these negotiations and the climate regime, in particular on finance and the global goal on adaptation.
  • Adaptation, Climate Finance

New Report Charts a Path for a Global Goal on Adaptation

A new synthesis paper has been released by the Secretariat, that seeks to compile information and explore ideas and examples of indicators, approaches, targets and metrics relevant to the Global Goal on Adaptation, with a view to putting options on the table of what a Global Goal might look like
  • Adaptation

Lack of Developed Country Leaders at Rotterdam Africa Adaptation Summit

  • Adaptation

Angola approves National Strategy on Climate Change

  • Adaptation, NetZero and the Just Transition

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