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1 month ago

COP29 Baku: What is climate finance, and the relevance of Baku summit

While it is centred on negotiation, the first week of COP29 has concluded without any significant progress on climate finance, especially negotiations about a new climate finance goal due to concerns about equitable responsibility for climate action. This means that countries that have been historically responsible for carbon emissions and in turn, climate change, should contribute a lion’s share of …

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1 month ago

Putting women at centre of global climate action

New Indian Express

The COP29 climate summit going on in Baku has scheduled November 21 as ‘gender day’ to focus on women’s participation in global climate action. Only eight of the 78 world leaders participating in COP29 are women; the 2023 COP summit featured 15 women among a total of 133. The UN claims that more than four-fifths of the parties at COP …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Negotiations over climate finance remain deadlocked at UN summit

Hindustan Times

With just days remaining at the COP29 climate talks in Baku, negotiations over climate finance remain deadlocked, with developed and developing nations still far apart on both the scale of funding and its fundamental structure, even as Argentina’s withdrawal from the talks casts a shadow over global climate cooperation. Experts say Harjeet Singh, Climate Activist and Global Engagement Director for …

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1 month, 1 week ago

U.N. climate chief expects bolder climate action from G20 leaders

The Hindu

Terming bolder climate action as “self-preservation for every G20 economy,” U.N. climate chief Simon Stiell on Saturday urged the grouping’s leaders headed to Rio de Janeiro to carry out rapid cuts in emissions to prevent climate-driven economic carnage. He said boosting global climate finance is about ensuring all countries can share in the vast benefits of bolder climate action: stronger …

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1 month, 1 week ago

COP29 talks struggle in a year of climate stress and global bickering

The Hindu

This year’s U.N. climate summit is struggling to focus minds on the health of the planet, with turbulent geopolitics, a confrontational host and the reelection of U.S. climate skeptic Donald Trump stealing the limelight. On Friday, midway through the two-week summit, a group of former leaders, climate experts and scientists published an open letter calling for the COP process to …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Greta Thunberg protests against Azerbaijan hosting global climate summit

The Hindu

Climate activist Greta Thunberg on Monday attended a rally in Georgia to protest against Azerbaijan hosting the annual United Nations climate talks. Ms. Thunberg and scores of other activists who rallied in Tbilisi, the capital of the South Caucasus nation, argued that Azerbaijan doesn't deserve to host the climate talks because of its repressive policies. Ms. Thunberg, 21, has inspired …

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COP29 begins today: What is the point of the UN climate conference?

India Today

Tens of thousands of people from around the globe will gather next week for COP29, the annual U.N. climate summit, in Azerbaijan's capital of Baku. Country representatives meet year round to build support for new climate action proposals ahead of the COP, where they can be agreed by consensus of all countries. While each summit is meant to advance global …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Afghanistan to attend UN climate summit for first time under Taliban rule

India Today

An Afghan delegation will attend the upcoming UN climate change summit in Azerbaijan, the foreign ministry spokesman told AFP on Saturday, marking a first since the Taliban government came to power. Afghanistan is ranked as the country sixth most vulnerable to climate change and Taliban authorities have pushed to participate in COP summits, saying their political isolation shouldn't bar them …

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4 months ago

China not invited to Voice of Global South Summit; leaders discuss climate change concerns

Deccan Chronicle

China was not invited to the Voice of Global South Summit in which 123 countries took part with several leaders raising climate change concerns, challenges of new technologies and talking of the need for reforms in the United Nations.Answering queries during a press conference here after the third Voice of Global South Summit, which was hosted by India and held …

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4 months, 4 weeks ago

World's top 1% gained $42 trillion in a decade, taxes at record lows: Oxfam

Business Standard

In the last decade, the wealth of the richest one per cent globally surged by a staggering $42 trillion, news agency AFP reported, citing global non-profit organisation Oxfam. High hope from G20 summit in Brazil Under Brazil’s leadership, the G20, representing 80 per cent of the global GDP, is prioritising international cooperation to tax the super-rich. Oxfam described the summit …

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1 year ago

Analysis: At COP28, Sultan al-Jaber got what the UAE wanted. Others leave it wanting much more

Associated Press

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — As the United Nations COP28 climate summit ended Wednesday, Sultan al-Jaber walked out with what the United Arab Emirates wanted all along — the prestige of hosting negotiations that got the world to agree to transition away from fossil fuels while still being able to pump ever-more oil. And for all words written, said and …

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1 year ago

View From India | Facing climate risks

The Hindu

As the ongoing UN COP-28 climate summit comes to a close in Dubai on December 12, 2023, a draft of the Global Goal on Adaptation said all countries must have in place a detailed plan by 2025, to adapt to the current and future impacts of climate change in their countries, and must demonstrate progress in implementing such a plan …

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1 year ago

Watch Again: Bill Gates talks about climate and growth during Paris summit

The Independent

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1 year ago

Gore blasts COP28 climate chief and oil companies’ emissions pledges at UN summit

Associated Press

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Don’t trust the oil and gas industry to report their actual carbon pollution, said former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, who added that the man leading the United Nations climate talks runs one of the “dirtiest” oil companies out there. Gore said al-Jaber’s Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. is “one of the largest and one …

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1 year ago

Who’s attending COP28 in Dubai — and who’s giving it a miss?

Al Jazeera

Modi, Sunak, Macron and multiple Middle Eastern leaders are there. On Thursday, King Charles III addressed the conclave, as did Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Europe and USA Britain’s King Charles III United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi Sunak French President Emmanuel Macron First Minister of Scotland Humza Yousaf Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni Netherlands Prime …

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1 year ago

COP28 World Climate Action Summit: PM Modi hails 'historic' operationalisation of 'Loss and Damage' fund

India TV News

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday hailed the 'historic' decision of the UAE presidency to operationalise the $475 million 'Loss and Damage' fund, just moments after the opening of the two-week COP28 climate conference on Thursday. Speaking at a session on Transforming Climate Finance during the COP28 World Climate Action Summit, PM Modi asserted that India has given the utmost …

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1 year ago

COP28 World Climate Action Summit: PM Modi proposes to host COP33 in 2028

India TV News

Speaking at the opening ceremony of the high-level COP28 World Climate Action Summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday proposed to host the COP33 Summit in India in 2028 and pledged to reduce emissions intensity by 45 per cent till 2030. 'India to reduce emissions intensity by 45 per cent by 2030' India is among the only few countries in …

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1 year, 2 months ago

World’s top bankers likely to return to COP28 Climate Summit in Dubai this year

Live Mint

The world's top bankers and investors are most likely to attend the biggest climate summit this year, which is scheduled to take place in Dubai. According to a report by Bloomberg news agency, banks such as Barclays Plc, Citigroup Inc., and Standard Chartered Plc are preparing to send larger delegations this year to Dubai for the COP28 Summit after missing …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Tens of thousands march to kick off climate summit, demanding end to warming-causing fossil fuels

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Yelling that the future and their lives depend on ending fossil fuels, tens of thousands of protesters on Sunday kicked off a week where leaders will try once again to curb climate change primarily caused by coal, oil and natural gas. “If you don’t stop fossil fuels our blood is on your hands.” Nearly one-third of the …

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1 year, 3 months ago

As Africa Climate Summit promotes solar, off-grid power ramps up below the Sahara

The Hindu

A walk through the busy business district of Mombasa Road in Nairobi, or even a rural community in Kisii County, Kenya, highlights something that’s getting attention at the African Climate Summit in Nairobi this week — solar power that is not connected to the grid. “The problem was affordability, but now customers can pay installments over a period of 18 …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Leaders from South American Nations Challenge Developed Countries to Stop Amazon Destruction at Belem Summit

The Hindu

Leaders from South American nations that are home to the Amazon challenged developed countries on August 8 to do more to stop the massive destruction of the world’s largest rainforest, a task they said can’t fall to just a few when the crisis has been caused by so many. The calls from the Presidents of nations including Brazil, Colombia and …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Amazon summit calls on developed nations to fulfil climate funding deals

Al Jazeera

Twelve countries have called on wealthy nations to meet their climate funding obligations on the final day of the Amazon Summit in Belem, Brazil. Wednesday’s pact, called “United for Our Forests”, brought together leaders from the Amazon, the Congo Basin and Southeast Asia, three regions with some of the most extensive rainforests in the world. Speaking on Wednesday, Brazilian President …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Amazon nations launch alliance to protect rainforest at key summit

Al Jazeera

Eight South American countries have agreed to launch an alliance to protect the Amazon, pledging at a summit in Brazil to stop the world’s biggest rainforest from reaching “a point of no return”. The closely-watched summit of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization adopted on Tuesday what host country Brazil called a “new and ambitious shared agenda” to save the rainforest, …

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1 year, 5 months ago

COP28 summit host UAE's climate plans ranked 'insufficient'

The Hindu

The United Arab Emirates, host of this year's COP28 UN climate summit, has set out "insufficient" plans to tackle its own contribution to climate change, an independent research group said on Thursday. But the country's new pledge would still see its CO2 emissions increase through to 2030, at odds with the sharp decrease needed to curb climate change, according to …

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COP29 Baku: What is climate finance, and the relevance of Baku summit

Putting women at centre of global climate action

Negotiations over climate finance remain deadlocked at UN summit

U.N. climate chief expects bolder climate action from G20 leaders

COP29 talks struggle in a year of climate stress and global bickering

Greta Thunberg protests against Azerbaijan hosting global climate summit

COP29 begins today: What is the point of the UN climate conference?

Afghanistan to attend UN climate summit for first time under Taliban rule

China not invited to Voice of Global South Summit; leaders discuss climate change concerns

World's top 1% gained $42 trillion in a decade, taxes at record lows: Oxfam

Analysis: At COP28, Sultan al-Jaber got what the UAE wanted. Others leave it wanting much more

View From India | Facing climate risks

Watch Again: Bill Gates talks about climate and growth during Paris summit

Gore blasts COP28 climate chief and oil companies’ emissions pledges at UN summit

Who’s attending COP28 in Dubai — and who’s giving it a miss?

COP28 World Climate Action Summit: PM Modi hails 'historic' operationalisation of 'Loss and Damage' fund

COP28 World Climate Action Summit: PM Modi proposes to host COP33 in 2028

World’s top bankers likely to return to COP28 Climate Summit in Dubai this year

Tens of thousands march to kick off climate summit, demanding end to warming-causing fossil fuels

As Africa Climate Summit promotes solar, off-grid power ramps up below the Sahara

Leaders from South American Nations Challenge Developed Countries to Stop Amazon Destruction at Belem Summit

Amazon summit calls on developed nations to fulfil climate funding deals

Amazon nations launch alliance to protect rainforest at key summit

COP28 summit host UAE's climate plans ranked 'insufficient'