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African Climate Leadership at COP29 and Beyond

BY: Inger Andersen Let me begin by thanking the Government of Cote d’Ivoire for hosting a successful AMCEN Special Session in September. This session powerfully highlighted the links between drought, land degradation and desertification, biodiversity conservation and climate change. And…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Investing in Human Capital for Climate-Resilient Agriculture

By World Bank Blog Agriculture, the backbone of many developing economies, is particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Farmers worldwide are adapting their practices to cope with fluctuating temperatures, erratic rainfall patterns, and the increasing frequency of extreme…

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Green Climate Fund to fund Three major greening projects in Egypt and globally

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved funding for three major greening projects that would benefit Egypt and more than a dozen other countries in the Global South at a total cost of $2.687 billion. The projects that will receive…