The latest Global Environment Outlook report emphasised the need to invest against the trillion-dollar losses from climate change, biodiversity loss and land degradation. This includes overhauling fossil fuel subsidies and pricing in pollution.
Cutting emissions in line with the 1.5°C warming limit, rather than following current climate policies, could curb long-term sea level rise by 64 centimetres, a new study says.
Redirecting the energy funding Indonesia receives from China entirely into renewables could mobilise up to US$9 billion over the next decade. But enabling Chinese investment will require stronger industrial policies, a study finds.