Biden, on his way out, sets ‘ambitious’ climate goal: Cut US greenhouse gas emissions by over 60%
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Biden, on his way out, sets ‘ambitious’ climate goal: Cut US greenhouse gas emissions by over 60%

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is pledging to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by more than 60% by 2035 as he fights to ensure his legacy on slowing global warming, even as President-elect Donald Trump vows to undo much of Biden’s climate work when he takes office next month. “And I believe that with this new 2035 target as their North Star, leaders across America can show the world that we are still in this fight for a better future.” Trump spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said that in his first term, Trump “produced affordable, reliable energy for consumers along with stable, high-paying jobs for small businesses — all while dropping U.S. carbon emissions to their lowest level in 25 years. Hochul, a Democrat, said governors will use the new U.S. goal to “keep America on track toward a cleaner, safer future.” “By continuing to stamp out climate pollution together, we’re safeguarding public health, protecting the environment, growing the economy and creating good jobs across the U.S,” said New Mexico Gov. “As the world’s largest producer of oil, the largest producer and exporter of fossil gas — and the largest historical climate polluter — the United States has an outsized responsibility to press forward in the climate fight no matter the political headwinds,’' said Manish Bapna, president and CEO of the Natural Resources Defense Council, a leading environmental group.

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Biden set an ambitious new climate goal. Will it still matter under Trump?
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4 days, 14 hours ago

Biden set an ambitious new climate goal. Will it still matter under Trump?

NPR  

Biden set an ambitious new climate goal. Sponsor Message "I'm proud that my Administration is carrying out the boldest climate agenda in American history," Biden said in a White House video accompanying the announcement. The President continued to frame his administration's climate objectives as economic opportunity for the nation, highlighting jobs created by building offshore wind energy projects and by …

Biden ramps up US climate target ahead of Trump takeover
4 days, 14 hours ago

Biden ramps up US climate target ahead of Trump takeover

Politico  

Instead, the target will likely be jettisoned after Trump takes office, reflecting his promises to expand fossil fuel production and dismantle Biden’s climate agenda. “President Biden’s new 2035 climate goal is both a reflection of what we’ve already accomplished … and what we believe the United States can and should achieve in the future,” said John Podesta, senior White House …

Climate myopia: This year’s CoP was a big disappointment but small surprise
2 weeks, 4 days ago

Climate myopia: This year’s CoP was a big disappointment but small surprise

Live Mint  

The 29th Conference of the Parties to Climate Change came to an end on 24 November 2024 with deep disappointment on the outcomes—not just on finance, but on most other aspects of the agenda. With grossly inadequate mitigation of the crisis, the climate finance that developing countries can legitimately asl for will increase exponentially, leading to continued disappointment from a …

With talks teetering, climate negotiators struck a controversial $300 billion deal
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1 month ago

With talks teetering, climate negotiators struck a controversial $300 billion deal

NPR  

With talks teetering, climate negotiators struck a controversial $300 billion deal toggle caption Sean Gallup/Getty Images/Getty Images Europe Negotiators at a global climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, struck a last-minute deal for wealthy countries to help their poorer neighbors deal with global warming, saving the annual meeting as it verged on collapse. Cedric Schuster, Samoa's minister of natural resources and …

COP29: Nations commit to 1.5°C pathway with enhanced climate goals
1 month ago

COP29: Nations commit to 1.5°C pathway with enhanced climate goals

India Today  

In a landmark announcement at the COP29 summit in Baku, a coalition of nations representing 30% of global GDP and 15% of greenhouse gas emissions committed to strengthening their Nationally Determined Contributions to align with the 1.5°C global warming threshold. The United Kingdom, Brazil, and the United Arab Emirates led the charge with ambitious NDC targets for 2035, signaling their …

As deadline looms, divide over climate pact widens
1 month ago

As deadline looms, divide over climate pact widens

Hindustan Times  

Baku: A deep divide over climate finance erupted into the open on Thursday at the UN climate summit COP29, as developed nations and developing nations roundly rejected a new draft proposal that offered two starkly different options for funding climate action, leaving the talks in disarray with barely a day remaining. A controversial proposal to count developing countries’ domestic resources …

Climate finance deal continues facing deadlock as COP29 nears end
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1 month ago

Climate finance deal continues facing deadlock as COP29 nears end

Live Mint  

New Delhi: Talks on a dramatically raised finance deal at the COP29 meeting in Baku remained deadlocked with a draft text failing to mention the amount, even as the clock ticked away on the summit that ends on Friday. The new draft, presented by host Azerbaijan on Thursday, defines climate finance, identifies contributors and establishes two options on the overall …

UN chief urges aligning climate action with limiting global warming to 1.5°C
1 month ago

UN chief urges aligning climate action with limiting global warming to 1.5°C

Live Mint  

New Delhi: Every country’s next round of nationally determined contributions must contain unambiguous, absolute emissions reduction targets for 2030 and 2035, and align fossil fuel production and consumption plan to limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, UN secretary-general António Guterres said on Tuesday at the G20 meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This assumes significance, as negotiations for …

Collective action on climate finance urged
1 month ago

Collective action on climate finance urged

China Daily  

By YANG HAN in Hong Kong | China Daily | Updated: 2024-11-19 09:51 COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev, Executive Secretary of UNFCCC Simon Stiell and Nabeel Munir, Chair of the UNFCCC's Subsidiary Body for Implementation, attend a press conference during the United Nations climate change conference COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, November 18, 2024. Asia needs collective and sustainable action to meet …

Collective action on climate finance urged
1 month ago

Collective action on climate finance urged

China Daily  

COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev, Executive Secretary of UNFCCC Simon Stiell and Nabeel Munir, Chair of the UNFCCC's Subsidiary Body for Implementation, attend a press conference during the United Nations climate change conference COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, November 18, 2024. Asia needs collective and sustainable action to meet its green finance needs, experts have said, as negotiations at the COP29 UN …

Collective action on climate finance urged
1 month ago

Collective action on climate finance urged

China Daily  

COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev, Executive Secretary of UNFCCC Simon Stiell and Nabeel Munir, Chair of the UNFCCC's Subsidiary Body for Implementation, attend a press conference during the United Nations climate change conference COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, November 18, 2024. Asia needs collective and sustainable action to meet its green finance needs, experts have said, as negotiations at the COP29 UN …

Climate finance is central for enabling and implementing climate actions, says India at COP29
1 month ago

Climate finance is central for enabling and implementing climate actions, says India at COP29

Live Mint  

New Delhi: Highlighting four essential aspects of global climate action, Leena Nandan, secretary of the ministry of environment, forest and climate change at COP29 on Monday, said the pre-2030 period is an opportunity to enhance global climate action through climate finance to reduce emissions and meet net zero. It is an opportunity to enhance global climate action,” Nandan said in …

Top polluting nations must work together to come up with solution, warns John Kerry at HTLS
1 month, 1 week ago

Top polluting nations must work together to come up with solution, warns John Kerry at HTLS

Hindustan Times  

NEW DELHI: The world is already exceeding the crucial 1.5°C warming threshold, former US special envoy for climate John Kerry warned, urging countries engaged in the ongoing global climate conference, COP29, to work hard to find a solution, especially the 23 nations and regions most responsible for emissions. Former US secretary of state John Kerry has in recent years traversed …

As planet heads toward 2.7°C rise, tracker warns global climate action has 'flatlined'
1 month, 1 week ago

As planet heads toward 2.7°C rise, tracker warns global climate action has 'flatlined'

Raw Story  

Existing policies and actions taken by world governments put the world on track for a median estimate of 2.7°C of warming by the end of the century, Climate Action Tracker revealed on Thursday at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan. "The combined global effect of government action on climate change has flatlined over the last three years, …

Countries at COP29 urged to invest trillions to cope with climate change
1 month, 1 week ago

Countries at COP29 urged to invest trillions to cope with climate change

Al Jazeera  

Countries need to invest more than $6 trillion per year by 2030 to tackle the effects of climate change or risk having to pay more in the future, according to report by an independent panel of experts at a United Nations climate summit. “Investments in all areas of climate action must increase across all economies,” said the report published on …

Why are countries fighting over climate finance at COP29?
1 month, 1 week ago

Why are countries fighting over climate finance at COP29?

The Hindu  

The main task for nearly 200 countries at the U.N.'s COP29 climate summit is to broker a deal that ensures up to trillions of dollars in financing for climate projects worldwide. Wealthy countries pledged in 2009 to contribute $100 billion a year to help developing nations cope with the costs of a transition to clean energy and adapting to the …

Act on climate at home despite global ennui
1 month, 1 week ago

Act on climate at home despite global ennui

New Indian Express  

The longest shadow cast on the COP29 climate conference going on in Baku is the re-election of Donald Trump. The president-elect has already picked Vivek Ramaswamy, who has criticised big companies for basing business strategy around climate change concerns, to co-head a new department of government efficiency. That is the main agenda at COP29—to push for a new global climate …

US climate envoy says work will continue despite Trump’s return
1 month, 1 week ago

US climate envoy says work will continue despite Trump’s return

The Hindu  

U.S. climate envoy John Podesta urged governments to keep faith in the country’s promise to combat global warming, saying Donald Trump can slow, not stop, the transition from fossil fuels when he returns to office in January. The annual U.N. climate summit began on Monday in Baku, Azerbaijan, with many country delegations concerned Trump’s victory in U.S. presidential elections on …

COP29 Begins With Climate Finance, Absent Leaders, and Trump Looming Large
54 years, 11 months ago

COP29 Begins With Climate Finance, Absent Leaders, and Trump Looming Large

Wired  

$1 trillion a year in climate finance—that’s the goal. At these conferences, held every 12 months, everyone has a microphone—small islands with 10,000 inhabitants sit next to the giant countries of the world as they try to make decisions on how to curb climate change and its impacts. In Baku, the first city in the world to commercially exploit oil, …

COP29: Climate talks off to rocky start, but carbon mkts mechanism approved
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1 month, 1 week ago

COP29: Climate talks off to rocky start, but carbon mkts mechanism approved

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: The COP29 climate negotiations opened in Baku on Monday with proceedings stalled for hours over disagreements on key matters on the agenda, but countries later approved new UN standards for international carbon markets in a key step towards allowing countries to trade credits to meet climate targets. By trying to ram through loose standards for dangerous carbon crediting …

US signals it will push for widening pool of climate finance contributors
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1 month, 1 week ago

US signals it will push for widening pool of climate finance contributors

Hindustan Times  

The United States has signalled it will push for widening the pool of climate finance contributors at COP29, all but confirming what is feared to be turning into a major clash with developing nations over funding responsibilities. White House Senior Advisor for Clean Energy and International Climate Policy, John Podesta, holds a press conference during the United Nations climate change …

COP29 president says New Collective Quantified Goal ‘top priority’
1 month, 1 week ago

COP29 president says New Collective Quantified Goal ‘top priority’

Hindustan Times  

The UN Climate Meeting in Azerbaijan’s Baku opened with the Presidency laying down its expectations before delegates from 196 countries ad stating that its top priority is to agree on a fair and ambitious New Collective Quantified Goal on climate finance. He also referred to a “realistic goal” of mobilising hundreds of billions from the public sector as against trillions …

Agreeing to a new global climate finance goal not enough; global financial system needs reform, says UNFCCC chief
1 month, 1 week ago

Agreeing to a new global climate finance goal not enough; global financial system needs reform, says UNFCCC chief

Live Mint  

New Delhi: Agreeing on a new global climate finance goal at the COP29 climate conference will not be enough to rein in toxic emissions, and countries must work harder to reform the global financial system, a top United Nations official said. “We must agree on a new global climate finance goal. If at least two-thirds of the world’s nations cannot …

COP29 stresses global financial reforms as world faces spectre of a 1.5°C rise
1 month, 1 week ago

COP29 stresses global financial reforms as world faces spectre of a 1.5°C rise

Live Mint  

New Delhi: Agreeing on a new global climate finance goal at the COP29 climate conference will not be enough to rein in toxic emissions, and countries must work harder to reform the global financial system, a top United Nations official said. “We must agree on a new global climate finance goal. If at least two-thirds of the world’s nations cannot …

United Nations climate negotiations through the years to COP29: Timeline
1 month, 1 week ago

United Nations climate negotiations through the years to COP29: Timeline

The Hindu  

COP29, termed the “climate finance COP,” has one major objective: establishing a concrete financial commitment from developed countries to support climate action in developing nations. As the United Nations climate talks begin in Baku, the primary debate centers on who will provide funding and, more crucially, how much is needed. However, discussions are likely to be tense following the re-election …

Climate action will continue despite Trump’s return, US envoy tells COP29
1 month, 1 week ago

Climate action will continue despite Trump’s return, US envoy tells COP29

Al Jazeera  

John Podesta seeks to reassure, countries agree to carbon market rules, and the Taliban is in attendance on first day of climate summit. US climate envoy John Podesta has called on governments to believe in the United States’ clean energy economy, saying President-elect Donald Trump can slow but not stop its climate change pledges. On Monday, during the first day …

U.S. top climate negotiator: ‘We won’t revert back’ as Trump prepares to take over
1 month, 1 week ago

U.S. top climate negotiator: ‘We won’t revert back’ as Trump prepares to take over

LA Times  

John Podesta, U.S. climate envoy, speaks during a news conference at the COP29 U.N. No matter what kind of U-turn President-elect Donald Trump will make on climate change, America’s clean energy economy won’t reverse into the dirty past, a combative but “bitterly disappointed” top American climate negotiator said Monday. “Fortunately, many in our country and around the world are working …

Cause and Effect | Climate commitments continue to miss key targets of the Paris Agreement: NDC synthesis report
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Cause and Effect | Climate commitments continue to miss key targets of the Paris Agreement: NDC synthesis report

Hindustan Times  

The latest Nationally Determined Contributions synthesis report reveals a stark reality. NDCs are national climate action plans updated every five years by countries to align with the Paris Agreement, which seeks to limit global temperature rise to well below 2°C, ideally to 1.5°C. While the broad participation in the NDC process — with 168 latest NDCs representing 195 Parties and …

What the Trump victory could mean for the climate crisis
1 month, 2 weeks ago

What the Trump victory could mean for the climate crisis

Hindustan Times  

With the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP29, fast approaching, the world’s attention is firmly set on the urgent need for unified action against the climate crisis. With Donald Trump reclaiming the White House in 2024, the United States ’ approach to climate policy may face another major shift, one that could impact not only American environmental efforts but global …

The world is “miles short” of its target to limit climate change, UN reports
1 month, 3 weeks ago

The world is “miles short” of its target to limit climate change, UN reports

Salon  

For the world to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, the 200 countries who signed the Paris climate agreement must hit a target of 43% reduction by 2030. Yet according to a recent report by the United Nations agency tasked with tackling global warming, the planet is currently on track to just hit a measly 2.6% reduction in carbon emissions. …

Global warming will be TWICE as bad as predicted: Earth is on track for 'catastrophic' 3.1°C of warming this century, the UN warns
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Global warming will be TWICE as bad as predicted: Earth is on track for 'catastrophic' 3.1°C of warming this century, the UN warns

Daily Mail  

The world is on track for a 'catastrophic' 3.1°C of global warming by the end of this century, the UN has warned. The world is on track for a 'catastrophic' 3.1°C of global warming by the end of this century, the UN has warned The UN warned the world was currently on track for temperature rises of 2.6°C to 3.1°C, …

Climate Crisis: World Paying a Terrifying Price for Inaction, UN Warns
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Climate Crisis: World Paying a Terrifying Price for Inaction, UN Warns

Al Jazeera  

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that current climate policies will result in global warming of more than 3 degrees Celsius (5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of the century. The report also finds that the world faces as much as 3.1C (5.6F) of warming above pre-industrial levels by 2100 if governments do not take greater action on slashing planet-warming …

Top climate negotiators urge tougher targets, but outsiders say they aren’t cutting back themselves
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Top climate negotiators urge tougher targets, but outsiders say they aren’t cutting back themselves

Associated Press  

UNITED NATIONS — A trio of leaders of international climate negotiations on Thursday urged colleagues to step up efforts to fight global warming, but outside groups and endangered nations told those leaders to look in the mirror, take their own advice — and stop pumping out fossil fuels. The world’s current targets are pointing to 2.7 degrees Celsius of warming …

UAE to make new climate pledges ahead of COP29
2 months, 3 weeks ago

UAE to make new climate pledges ahead of COP29

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: The United Arab Emirates, which hosted list year’s climate conference COP28, will release updated commitments to reduce emissions ahead of this year’s UN-led meeting in Azerbaijan in November, a top official said, announcing that the reductions will cover “all greenhouse gases” and “every sector of the economy, including economy”. Al Jaber urged them to submit “transformational NDCs backed …

Why are NDCs important in global climate talks?
2 months, 4 weeks ago

Why are NDCs important in global climate talks?

The Hindu  

In the world’s struggle to halt and reverse climate change, countries periodically report on their plans and progress in bringing down national levels of planet-warming carbon emissions. A country’s NDC describes its national policies or decisions toward reaching net-zero emissions, and was updated every five years until delegates at the 2021 U.N. climate summit, COP26, in Glasgow called for more …

China and US push forward climate actions
3 months, 1 week ago

China and US push forward climate actions

China Daily  

China and the United States will make joint efforts to ensure a successful United Nations climate change conference in November, a key task of which will be to set a new financial target for supporting developing countries in their climate actions. While reaffirming their intention to jointly host a summit on methane and other non-carbon dioxide greenhouse gases at the …

UN draft: Developing nations expect trillions for climate mitigation efforts
3 months, 3 weeks ago

UN draft: Developing nations expect trillions for climate mitigation efforts

Hindustan Times  

A draft document on the new climate finance goal, to be negotiated at the UN Climate Conference COP29 in November, indicates developing countries expect contributions in the trillions from developed nations for climate change mitigation efforts. The United States reiterated its stance that contributing to the new fund should be voluntary, and argued that NCQG is separate from UNFCCC provisions, …

New NT gas projects could raise emissions up to 150 per cent, newly-obtained report reveals
4 months, 1 week ago

New NT gas projects could raise emissions up to 150 per cent, newly-obtained report reveals

ABC  

A government-commissioned report has called into question assurances by both sides of Northern Territory politics that they can expand the NT's gas industry while ensuring targets of net zero emissions by 2050 are met. It said even with no new projects, an increasing amount of greenhouse gas coming from Darwin's two existing gas plants was expected to increase the NT's …

Upcoming COP29 set to prioritize climate finance goal
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Upcoming COP29 set to prioritize climate finance goal

China Daily  

Azerbaijan, the host of the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, more commonly known as COP29, has vowed to make every effort to ensure a fair and ambitious climate finance goal for developed nations. The 2015 Paris Agreement aims to keep the global temperature rise this century well below …

Upcoming COP29 set to prioritize climate finance goal
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Upcoming COP29 set to prioritize climate finance goal

China Daily  

Azerbaijan, the host of the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, more commonly known as COP29, has vowed to make every effort to ensure a fair and ambitious climate finance goal for developed nations. The 2015 Paris Agreement aims to keep the global temperature rise this century well below …

We need a national climate action plan — and an exit strategy from fossil fuels
6 months ago

We need a national climate action plan — and an exit strategy from fossil fuels

Salon  

While April and May are usually the hottest months in many countries in Southeast Asia, hundreds of millions of people are now suffering in South Asia from an exceptionally intense heat wave that has killed hundreds. As Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote in his classic 1943 novella, "Le Petit Prince," “A goal without a plan is just a wish.” In other …

Countries’ carbon removal plans not enough for 1.5C warming limit, study warns
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Countries’ carbon removal plans not enough for 1.5C warming limit, study warns

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Scientists have taken the UN’s approach of assessing the “emissions gap” between national climate protection plans and what is …

Climate change concerns grow, but few think Biden’s climate law will help, an AP-NORC poll finds
8 months ago

Climate change concerns grow, but few think Biden’s climate law will help, an AP-NORC poll finds

Associated Press  

Like many Americans, Ron Theusch is getting more worried about climate change. “It’s like, what’s our grandkids’ world going to be like?” A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that 45% of adults in the United States say they have become more concerned about climate change over the past year, including roughly 6 in …

UN climate chief presses for faster action, says humans have 2 years left ‘to save the world’
8 months, 1 week ago

UN climate chief presses for faster action, says humans have 2 years left ‘to save the world’

Associated Press  

OXFORD, England — Humanity has only two years left “to save the world” by making dramatic changes in the way it spews heat-trapping emissions and it has even less time to act to get the finances behind such a massive shift, the head of the United Nations climate agency said. With governments of the world facing a 2025 deadline for …

Raising the bar
9 months ago

Raising the bar

China Daily  

WANG XIAOYING/CHINA DAILY COP29 is due to be held in late 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan, and countries are setting new climate targets. It released its "Communication on Europe's 2040 climate target and path to climate neutrality by 2050", in which it proposes reducing the net greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent by 2040 relative to 1990 as the EU's mid-term …

Raising the bar
9 months ago

Raising the bar

China Daily  

WANG XIAOYING/CHINA DAILY COP29 is due to be held in late 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan, and countries are setting new climate targets. It released its "Communication on Europe's 2040 climate target and path to climate neutrality by 2050", in which it proposes reducing the net greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent by 2040 relative to 1990 as the EU's mid-term …

US energy industry methane emissions are triple what government thinks, study finds
9 months, 1 week ago

US energy industry methane emissions are triple what government thinks, study finds

Associated Press  

American oil and natural gas wells, pipelines and compressors are spewing three times the amount of the potent heat-trapping gas methane as the government thinks, causing $9.3 billion in yearly climate damage, a new comprehensive study calculates. About 40% of the global methane emissions from oil, gas and coal could have been avoided at no extra cost, which is “a …

Climate, a major separator for Biden and Trump, is a dividing line in many other races, too
9 months, 1 week ago

Climate, a major separator for Biden and Trump, is a dividing line in many other races, too

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — The race for the White House isn’t the only one with big stakes for climate policy. Robinson thinks President Joe Biden’s push to abolish fossil fuels is a failure, he blames Democrats for “crippling utility bills” and he supports nuclear power as clean energy, his campaign said. “Let’s work together to look at every reasonable option without …

Big Oil just gifted us a lump of coal
11 months, 4 weeks ago

Big Oil just gifted us a lump of coal

Raw Story  

Watching Republicans ignore climate change while the planet cooks is like being trapped in the backseat of a car, windows rolled up and locked, with a chain-smoking uncle. The U.S. special envoy for climate change, John Kerry, called the pact “the most important decision since the Paris agreement.” The UN describes the agreement as “the beginning of the end of …

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