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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 ...

Adaptation

IEA Recommends EU Pursue a “You Collect We Buy” Approach for African Methane Gas to Meet Immediate Demand

The IEA recently released a report highlighting that the EU’s potential gas supply-demand gap could reach 27 billion cubic metres ...

NetZero and the Just Transition

World Bank Looks to Revise its Climate Lending

Earlier this month the World Bank released an “evolution roadmap” to change its mission, operating model and financial capacity with ...

Climate Finance

Biden Administration Confirms Intent to Invest US55 billion in Africa in the Next Three years, Including in Climate Change

During December’s second US-Africa Leaders Summit, the Biden administration confirmed its intention to invest $55 billion in Africa over the ...

Climate Finance

Steel Tariffs, Deforestation Rules and the CBAM see Climate Change Increasingly Used to Justify Trade Measures.

It has been reported that the EU and US are considering new steel tariffs on climate grounds, the revised design ...

NetZero and the Just Transition

EU Reiterates Promised Investment in African Energy through the Global Gateway

At a follow up meeting between the European Commission and the African Union, the EU reiterated its to increase investment ...

Climate Finance

Post COP27 Developed Countries Keep Pursuing Fossil Fuel Projects

There has been much finger-pointing on which countries or regions were responsible for the failure to reach agreement on text ...

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 ...

Adaptation

Vanuatu publishes a Draft Resolution requesting an ICJ Opinion on Climate Legal Liability

Vanuatu, as part of a coalition of 18 states, has recently made available and intends to commence negotiations on a ...

Loss And Damage

COP27, Looking Back

In this long read, we unpack some of the key developments at COP27. We celebrate the establishment of the loss ...

COP27

COP27: A Primer for African participants

Untangling and keeping track of the various negotiation threads at a COP is something of an art form. In this ...

COP27

Inter-Parliamentary Union supports a Loss and Damage Fund, but US states it won’t get it past Congress

The Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) recently voted in favour of the emergency resolution put forward by Pakistan on ...

Loss And Damage

Four African countries part of a new group of 15 states seeking an ICJ opinion on legal liability for climate change

Mozambique, Morocco, Sierra Leone and Uganda have joined Vanuatu as part of a group of 15 nations called the "Core ...

COP27

EU States start exiting the Energy Charter Treaty whilst African signatories increase

The Netherlands became the latest EU country to recently announce it would withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT). ...

NetZero and the Just Transition

EU Unclear on its Position for a Dedicated Loss and Damage Finance Facility

The EU’s position on a dedicated loss and damage finance facility remains unclear after a recent EU Council resolution on ...

COP27

Developed and Developing World Both Call for World Bank Climate Reforms

Recent comments by World Bank President, David Malpass, ignited furore, when he refused to acknowledge that the burning of fossil ...

Climate Finance

IMF Floats the Possibility of Debt for Climate Swaps

The IMF has explored the option of debt for climate swaps in a recent working paper,
concluding that they may be ...

Climate Finance

US Climate Targets Might Open the Door for a Global Climate Club

The United States may be able to avoid the European Union’s planned border carbon tariff, because of its similar climate ...

NetZero and the Just Transition