The world promised progress at the Glasgow climate conference. Now it has to turn those promises into reality. A former senior UN official describes what to watch for in the coming year.
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Loss and damage – the three words which define the Glasgow summit’s disappointing outcome.
Pitched at an initial US$8.5 billion, the partnership has the potential to be one of the largest individual climate finance transactions to date. But can a just transition be achieved?
The press releases sound promising, but the negotiations have a long way to go. Here’s what’s ahead at the midpoint of the COP26 climate talks.
Banks are making inroads with investments, but that’s only one third of their activity.
Early investments generate rapid cost reductions, while further delay simply slows innovation and compounds the climate crisis.
Clean energy innovation, giving up coal, cutting methane and getting China and India on board for net-zero can deliver progress at COP26.
New Zealand has announced a more ambitious pledge to cut emissions, but the commitment relies on buying credits from offshore. There is no system for doing this yet, or for ensuring genuine cuts.
Helping developing nations pay for the expensive work of emissions reduction and adaptation benefits everyone on the planet.
Five aspects need attention if African governments are to be able to mitigate, adapt to and manage climate change in the coming critical decade.
The world isn’t on track to avoid dangerous climate change, and this year’s climate conference, COP26, is crucial, a former senior UN official writes.
Rich nations need to provide far greater climate adaptation financing to low income countries and plug the holes that siphon their limited fiscal resources to tax havens.
Without financial support that helps communities adapt to climate impacts, climate change is projected to push tens of millions more Africans into extreme poverty by 2030.
Rich countries have promised to compensate poor ones for the impacts of climate change.
This is a transcript of part 1 of Climate Fight: the world’s biggest negotiation, a series from The Anthill podcast.
Countries are expected to commit to more ambitious targets for 2030, but how they will achieve them is still up for debate.
Listen to the first episode of a new series from The Anthill Podcast ahead of the COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow.
The fact that nearly half the world’s population is still struggling to escape poverty while global temperatures hurtle upward is not a coincidence.
We need to know who gets what, and how money is used once it is allocated.
New Zealand recently became the first country to make climate-related financial disclosures mandatory, but it has some way to go to scale up investment in climate resilience.
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Professor of Practice in Climate Policy, University of Oxford
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Professor of Political Science, UCL
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Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Earth System Science, UCL
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PhD Candidate in Climate Justice Policy, University of Warwick
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Research Fellow, Oxford Net Zero, Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS), University of Oxford
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Environment + Energy Editor and Host of the Climate Fight podcast series, The Conversation
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Justice, University of Bristol
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Research Associate, Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW
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Director, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, Columbia University
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Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences and Public Policy, Auckland University of Technology
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Research fellow, Australian National University
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Lecturer in International Development, UCL
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Professor of Infrastructure Engineering and International Development, UCL