The Global Stocktake is a key element of the Paris Agreement, designed to evaluate the world’s progress towards long-term climate goals. The IPCC’s seventh Assessment Report can and must be ready in time for the second Global Stocktake (GST). As an IPCC author from the Global South, I believe that ensuringthe alignment of IPCC and GST cycles is crucial for the integrity of international climate cooperation. Read the full comment piece by former IPCC vice-chair Youba Sokona.
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At Climate Home News, we believe quality climate journalism can change the world for the better. Here’s how we play our part. We deliver original journalism that informs and inspires action to tackle the global climate crisis. We do this by: Reporting and analysing major developments in international climate action Exploring tensions between competing interests and values Exposing wrongdoing or obstruction and holding power to account Amplifying the voices of those hardest hit by the climate crisis Highlighting transformative action from across society and the economy
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On the outskirts of New Delhi, the four-month brick-making season is ending, and migrant worker Munna Majnu is preparing for the arduous 1,560-km journey home to Cooch Behar, in far northeastern West Bengal. Brick kilns account for 6-7% of Delhi’s emissions of particulate matter, which contains black carbon (soot), according to government officials and researchers with India’s Centre for Science and Environment. Since 2016, measures have been imposed on the kilns in stages, to cut pollution and help combat the capital’s toxic air. They include shifting the location of some kilns, mandating new, more energy-efficient technology, and last year banning the use of coal to fire the kilns. A story made in partnership with The Migration Story.
Pollution clampdown on Delhi kilns threatens brick workers' future
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People everywhere are struggling with the fatal impacts of worsening extreme heat, which is also damaging economies, widening inequalities and undermining green development, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said on Thursday. Calling for global action to limit the devastating consequences, the head of the United Nations said “billions of people are facing an extreme heat epidemic – wilting under increasingly deadly heatwaves”. Guterres’ appeal comes as the record for the world’s hottest day was broken twice on consecutive days this week, according to Europe’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.
UN chief appeals for global action to tackle deadly extreme heat
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As world leaders gathered in Dubai at the start of COP28 last December, the United Arab Emirates dropped a surprise headline-grabbing announcement: a new climate fund aimed at speeding up the energy transition and building climate resilience, especially in the Global South. ALTÉRRA was billed as the world’s largest private investment vehicle to “focus entirely on climate solutions”. COP28 President Sultan Al-Jaber hailed its launch as “a defining moment” for creating a new era of international climate finance. Yet four months later, one of the initial funds ALTÉRRA backed with a $300-million commitment agreed to buy a major fossil gas pipeline in North America, Climate Home has discovered.
UAE's ALTÉRRA invests in fund backing gas despite climate pledge
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When G20 finance ministers gather in Rio de Janeiro this week, Brazil and France have a chance to put these powerful countries on track to deliver a global wealth tax that could raise over $680 billion per year in the fight to tackle poverty and the climate crisis. Both countries have been vocal supporters of taxing the super-rich to fund international development and climate action. This isn’t surprising. Ensuring that billionaires are properly taxed could deliver significant, tangible benefits in people’s lives and go some way to addressing the systemic injustices and inequality reflected by the climate crisis and poverty. Read the comment piece by 350.org Fanny Petitbon & Ilan Zugman.
A global wealth tax is needed to fund a just low-carbon transition
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A proposed development called the Energy Transition Zone (ETZ) is intended to bring in more renewable energy investments to the Scottish city of Aberdeen, but has received significant pushback from community groups in the part of Aberdeen it is destined for. That’s because the proposed development, as currently designed, would pave over about a third of St. Fittick’s Park in Torry, the only public green space in one of Scotland’s most neglected urban areas.
Scottish oil-town plan for green jobs sparks climate campers' anger
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Tackling climate change and its consequences – and supporting wider human development – needs urgent investment. But the international financial system is struggling to respond. Is it time now to agree a new framework for international climate and development finance? Can the G20 under Brazil’s leadership, and international leaders meeting at the United Nations in New York in September, prepare the ground for COP29? Read the full comment piece by Moazzam Malik, managing director at the World Resources Institute.
We need a new global deal on climate and development finance
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France’s Green Party (EELV), Socialist Party (PS) and Communist Party (PCF) have proposed Laurence Tubiana – a key figure in securing the Paris Agreement on climate change – for the leadership role, representing the New Popular Front (NFP) coalition of left-wing parties. She has no formal political affiliation. But the biggest member of the NFP alliance, France Unbowed (La France insoumise, LFI), is opposed to Tubiana getting the job, as they fear she is too close to the current President Emmanuel Macron and his centrist Renaissance party.
Climate diplomat Laurence Tubiana backed by some left parties as next French PM
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On June 20, the UK's highest court ruled that, in deciding whether to approve a new oil well in Horse Hill in southern England, the authorities must consider the greenhouse gas emissions from burning the oil, not just the much smaller volume of emissions from getting the oil out of the ground. Announcing what has been called the “Finch ruling”, Judge George Leggatt said: “The emissions that will occur on combustion of the oil produced are ‘effects of the project’ because it is known with certainty that, if the project goes ahead, all the oil extracted from the ground will inevitably be burnt, thereby releasing greenhouse gases into the Earth’s atmosphere in a quantity which can readily be estimated.”
UK court ruling provides ammo for anti-fossil fuel lawyers worldwide
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Today marks EU Day for the Victims of the Global Climate Crisis. we're taking this opportunity to honour the lives already lost to the climate crisis and reflect on the drastic impact the climate crisis has and will increasingly have on daily life. 🗝 It's key to remember that while we will all be affected by extreme weather events, rising global temperatures and rising sea levels, to name just a few of the crisis's devastating effects, people living in climate vulnerable countries disproportionately bear the brunt of this damage, and despite being the least responsible for this crisis. 💵 For this reason today should also be a call to action to continue creating new sources of finances that ensure those responsible for the crisis pay their fair share and help those enduring its impacts with adaptation and mitigation, and to pay for loss and damage. 🛩 For more on this, read our submission to the United Nations Human Rights on the link between human rights and the climate crisis, and watch our Project Assistant Sabrina Khan-Dighe's video on how an aviation tax can help fill loss and damage funds: 👉 https://lnkd.in/e7eHjnwy 👈 🛳 And see our Senior Shipping Policy Manager Ana Laranjeira's op-ed in Climate Home News on the importance of an international shipping levy for a just and equitable transition: 👉 https://lnkd.in/eeEJty6q 👈 #ClimateJustice #ClimateFinance #LossAndDamage #JustTransition
Submission to the UN High Commissioner on human rights and climate change — Opportunity Green
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