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G20 Fails to Adopt a Joint Communique at Climate Talks, Raising Concerns of Backsliding

This year’s G20 meeting was heavily influenced by global tensions arising from the war in Ukraine and the global energy ...

COP27

EU Demand for Oil and Gas is High but Support for African Projects is Uneven

The European Investment Bank has reiterated its position that it will not fund any gas projects. The decision comes on ...

NetZero and the Just Transition

South African Just Energy Transition Partnerships: New and Transformative Finance Lacking

Details around the finance provided under South Africa’s $8.5 billion Just Energy Transition Partnership have been vague and unclear, with ...

Climate Finance

Developing Country Blocs Reiterate Support for a Loss and Damage Finance Facility as Canada Pushes Back on Windfall Taxes

UN Secretary-General António Guterres, the LDC Group and the G77+China have reiterated their support for dedicated loss and damage finance. ...

Loss And Damage

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 ...

Adaptation

UNHRC weighs in on Loss and Damage and Tabling of Climate Resolution at UN General Assembly

In a recent resolution the UNHCR has expressly acknowledged Loss and Damage and the importance of meaningful engagement at the ...

COP27

Implications of the United States’ new Climate Law and Africa Strategy for Africa

The US’s Inflation Reduction Act contains some of the most robust climate change provisions in American history. It will ...

Climate Finance

Kenya’s new president-elect, William Samoei Ruto, on climate change and COP27

Dr William Samoei Ruto, looks likely to become the new president-elect of Kenya. His party has a detailed manifesto on ...

COP27

Developing countries adopt proactive stance on future carbon markets

Article 6 of the Paris Agreement places greater responsibility for and control over domestic mitigation efforts in the hands of ...

Article 6

AU releases its climate change and resilient development strategy for the next decade

After a long gestation period, the African Union released its Climate Change and Resilient Development Strategy and Action Plan in ...

COP27

First Meeting of the Article 6.4 Supervisory Body under the Paris Agreement

The initial administrative steps required to kick-start processes under Article 6.4 of the Paris Agreement have commenced with the first ...

Article 6