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Carbon & Climate
Climate scientists sound alarm over Asia’s rising seas
Scientists are urgently calling for global action, including reducing fossil fuel use, as the Pacific Ocean's sea levels rise faster than the global average and the warming Indian Ocean drives storms, erratic rainfall, and droughts.
Mukhtar Babayev, COP29 president and an oil industry veteran, detailed how he would prioritise a voluntary fund that should see fossil fuel producers contributing to it. Azerbaijan has not taken a hard stance on carbon-emitting dirty fuels so far, focusing instead on energy storage initiatives.
Policy & Finance
Is ‘loss and damage’ fund at risk as COP29 approaches?
Securing finance for the "loss and damage" fund to help climate-vulnerable nations is now in question after rich countries refused to put it within the scope of a new climate finance goal at a technical briefing ahead of the climate talks.
Carbon & Climate
What is a forest? Environmentalists question India’s definition
A tribunal in India is looking at conflicting data over the size of the country’s tree cover in a dispute over what counts as a forest.
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Carbon & Climate
Explainer: Why the Philippines does not have a net zero target
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Carbon & Climate
Will China’s new climate action plan match its great potential?
19 August 2024
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Policy & Finance
COP29 action plan thrusts climate finance to the fore
24 July 2024
Food & Agriculture
Climate and finance crises could leave 600 million hungry by 2030
18 July 2024
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Carbon & Climate
Brazil races to launch carbon market ahead of COP30
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Policy & Finance
Philippines to host 'loss and damage' fund board
11 July 2024
Policy & Finance
Green agenda missing from China and Russia’s ‘no limits’ partnership
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