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Briefs: COP29 begins with ‘breakthrough’ on carbon market rules
In other news, Temasek-backed Pentagreen announced that it will manage Fast-P’s Green Investments partnership; the CPFIS ...
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Pacific finance needs top $2b as storms hit, seas rise
The IMF and World Bank rate the risk of debt distress for Kiribati, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu as high ...
Geopolitics Overshadow COP29 Talks on Climate Cash, as Argentina Walks Away
BAKU (Reuters) -Countries at the COP29 summit tried to make progress on how to raise up to $1 trillion in climate finance for the world's most vulnerable, as political tensions overshadowed the talks ...
Developing nations are least responsible for climate change but cop it worst. Will the COP29 climate talks tackle this injustice?
This week, nations are hashing out new goals for climate finance at the COP29 talks. Loss and damage is finally on the agenda ...
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Fossil fuel lobbyists eclipse delegations from most climate-vulnerable nations at COP29 climate talks
As with last year’s COP28 climate talks in Dubai, significantly more fossil lobbyists have been granted access to COP29 than ...
Daily on Energy: France exits COP29, EU delays deforestation ban, and Hickenlooper optimistic
Good afternoon and Happy Thursday, readers! In today’s edition of Daily on Energy, Callie and Maydeen continue to cover new ...
COP29 hosts accused of detaining climate defenders
Natalia Nozadze from Amnesty International told BBC News that since Azerbaijan was announced as the host country for COP29 in ...
UN climate talks 'no longer fit for purpose' say key experts
The United Nations' COP climate talks are "no longer fit for purpose" and need an urgent overhaul, key experts including a ...
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Carbon Markets: Silver Bullet or Mixed Blessing?
Carbon credits enjoyed significant popularity a few years back, but a media investigation revealed that most fail to deliver ...
COP29: Canada needs to start a real conversation about international carbon markets
In a world coping with climate setbacks and Donald Trump’s re-election in the United States, the growing prominence of ...
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I’m boycotting COP29 because local Indigenous action matters more (commentary)
The first United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that I worked on was in 2009. I didn’t actually go ...
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COP29 Debrief: What’s next for the private sector?
The Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an annual international summit where world leaders and key stakeholders convene to address ...