UNDP Launches new direct Funding Opportunity for Young Climate Leaders
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in partnership with the Government of Italy, has announced the launch of the 2025 Youth4Climate Call for Solutions. This global initiative invites young climate leaders and youth-led organizations to submit innovative and impactful solutions…
What is the Latest Science on Climate Change?
By Reuters BAKU, Nov 12 (Reuters) – This year’s U.N. climate summit – COP29 – is being held during yet another record-breaking year of higher global temperatures, adding pressure to negotiations aimed at curbing climate change. The last global scientific…
Canada adopts balanced approach to 2035 climate target
TORONTO — Anna Kanduth, Director of the Canadian Climate Institute’s 440 Megatonnes project, made the following statement in response to the announcement of Canada’s 2035 emissions reduction target: “Canada’s new 2035 climate target range is achievable and balances the need…
European Commission and South Africa launch the Scaling up Renewables in Africa campaign
Today in Rio de Janeiro, on the eve of the G20 Summit, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa launched the global campaign ‘Scaling up Renewables in Africa’ during Global Citizen NOW. COP28 had…
COP29: African Countries Must Wake Up from ‘Distributed Carbon Emission Guilt’ to People-Centered Climate Action
Global warming is no longer just an issue for the environment but a crisis of life itself. Yet, African governments’ climate action strategies, specifically those submitted under the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), remain disproportionately focused on emission reductions—an approach that…
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…
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…
IUCN and partners launch GEF-funded Project to Protect Tropical Primary Forests at COP16
Cali, Colombia, 25 October 2024 (IUCN) – At the sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP16), The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and partners convened to formally launch…
Which Climate Strategies Can Drive Down Heat Most Effectively in the Next Decade?
The Global Heat Reduction Initiative (GHR) is bringing advanced climate accounting metrics to the table to help companies and other decision makers identify mitigation strategies that can most rapidly and responsibly reduce excess trapped heat in the atmosphere. This was…
Green Transition: New centre launched at LSE to support central banks and Ministries of Finance
As the world faces the unprecedented challenge of transitioning to sustainable, inclusive and resilient economies and financial systems that foster prosperity and wellbeing for all citizens, the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has established a new Centre…