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How Azerbaijan locked up climate and social justice advocate ahead of COP29. 4 November 2024. Azeri economist Farid Mehralizada has argued that his country’s reliance on fossil fuels is unsustainable and dangerous – he is now in prison ahead of the climate summit in Baku. What Trump got wrong on China, coal and climate.
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Megan Rowling is the editor of Climate Home News, taking over in February 2024 after nearly two decades as a journalist with the Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF), developing its award-winning coverage of climate change. She has written extensively on international climate politics and finance, with a focus on the developing world, for which she won a UN Correspondents’ Association award in 2016.
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Road row in protected forest exposes Kenya’s climate conundrum. 8 May 2024. The government wants to expand a road through the Aberdare National Park but conservationists argue it will harm the forest, wildlife and water supplies. More.
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‘Betrayal’: US approves just $1bn climate finance for developing ...
Nov 3, 2022 · The US Congress has approved a mere $1 billion in international climate finance for 2022 – falling far short of Joe Biden’s pledge to provide $11.4bn a year by 2024.. The budget is only $387 million more than Trump-era spending, according to calculations by Joe Thwaites, researcher on global climate finance at the World Resources Institute.. If the US continued to scale up at that rate, it ...
COP30 Amazon host strikes "largest carbon credit sale in history"
Sep 27, 2024 · A coalition of developed countries and corporations has agreed to a massive purchase of carbon credits from the Amazon rainforest worth $180 million, which has been described as the largest in history. The LEAF coalition, an initiative launched in 2021 seeking to mobilise finance for forest protection, announced the agreement this week with the ...
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Chloé Farand. Chloé Farand is Climate Home News’ senior reporter. Her work has appeared in national publications including the Guardian, the Independent, the i paper and the BBC. Before joining Climate Home News, she worked for the investigative environmental outlet DeSmog UK and contributed to Business Green.
Five takeaways from the IPCC's 2021 climate science report
Sep 8, 2021 · Here we round up five key messages from this landmark report. 1. We are set to pass 1.5C warming by 2040. The warming of recent decades has not been seen for millennia, is happening rapidly and almost everywhere on earth and has reversed a long-term global cooling trend. We need to go back around 125,000 years to find evidence of warmer global ...
IPCC's input into key UN climate review at risk as countries clash
Aug 5, 2024 · The UN climate body has officially requested that its scientific counterpart align its activities with the timeline of the next global stocktake. The IPCC’s input will be “invaluable” for the international review of climate action, Simon Stiell, chief of the UN climate body, told the IPCC meeting in January.
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