Osun State Hosts Sideline Events at COP 29
Osun State, one of the 36 states in Nigeria hosted sideline event at the ongoing COP29 in Baku , Azerbaijan focusing on a successful project on waste management among other climate policy and programme innovations already embarked upon by the…
LDCs Trapped in Climate Debt Spiral- Climate Debt Risk Index
CDRI 2024 calls for radical finance reforms CDRI uncovers alarming trends that threaten equity, justice, and sustainable development in climate finance The Climate Debt Risk Index 2024 (CDRI), introduced by Change Initiative (CI), calls for a complete overhaul of the…
New Report Details Growing Role of Regional Climate Solutions
Cities, Indigenous groups, businesses, and organizations across regions are advancing inclusive, nature-positive climate solutions to help make a net-zero future achievable by 2050, according to a new report by the Marrakech Partnership, UN Climate Change and the UN Climate Change…
World Resources Institute: Climate Action Faces a Setback with Trump’s Second Term
WASHINGTON (November 6, 2024) — The Associated Press has declared Donald J. Trump and JD Vance the winners of the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Republicans won the majority in the U.S. Senate while control of the U.S. House of Representatives…
COP29: Tanzania Lists Crucial Climate Projects
TANZANIA expects to present proposals for major strategic projects at the 29th conference of the parties to the Climate Change Convention (COP29) to be held in the Azerbaijan capital of Baku starting next week. Cyprian Luhemeja, permanent secretary in the…
A bigger Picture for Climate Finance by Jennifer Sara
COP29 will kick off in Baku in less than a month. Among the topics for these negotiations of the Parties is to set a new climate finance goal to replace the previous target originally set in 2009. The landscape around…
Making Next Round of National Climate Pledges Succeed
By Jennifer BaumwollUNDP Head of Climate Strategies and Policy For those of us following the climate crisis unfold every day, the urgency with which we need to act has never been clearer. The past few years have brought into sharp…