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WEBGreen Climate Fund restructures, aiming to become donors’ “partner of choice”. 9 September 2024. Interview GCF chief Mafalda Duarte tells Climate Home how she plans to boost the fund’s impact and position it to secure more resources. Latest news. Become a …
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WEBBelém’s electric bus controversy: a cautionary tale for COP30 4 September 2024. A plan for new buses in the Brazilian city hosting the 2025 UN climate summit was held up by a political row that suggests the road to COP30 could get rocky
Mia Mottley: the 'fearless' leader pushing a global settlement for …
WEBNov 18, 2021 · Barbados’ prime minister Mia Amor Mottley made her mark on the Cop26 climate talks in Glasgow with a rip-roaring speech telling the leaders of the world’s largest economies to “try harder” to avert catastrophic climate change. A 2C overheated world “is a death sentence,” she said. The first female leader of her country, Mottley is ...
Chileans look to new constitution to return water to communities
WEBJul 16, 2021 · A new constitution. Communities are hopeful that a new constitution will dismantle water privatisation in Chile and ensure fair distribution. 4 July 2021 will be remembered as a historic day in Chile. An indigenous woman, Elisa Loncon, assumed the presidency of a convention to write Chile’s new constitution. 155 citizens were elected by ...
Japan blocks green reform of major energy investment treaty
WEBSep 8, 2020 · The Japanese government is blocking reform of a treaty that allows energy companies to sue nation states when climate policies affect their profits. While the European Union is pushing for updates of the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) to make it more climate-friendly, Japan has resisted any changes. …
Canadian ex-minister Catherine McKenna named to head UN …
WEBMar 31, 2022 · Canadian government ducks fight with oil and gas industry. The group will be chaired by Catherine McKenna. She was Canada’s environment minister and infrastructure and communities minister under Justin Trudeau’s government before leaving politics last year to focus on “ [her] kids and the climate”. Commenting on …
Modi's 'gamechanger' palm oil push raises concerns for Indian …
WEBOct 22, 2021 · Prime minister Narendra Modi has big plans to expand palm oil production in the region, saying it can be a “gamechanger” for the economy and boost the nation’s self-reliance. But in areas that have pioneered palm oil production, it has brought little wealth at a heavy cost for the environment and workers. Experts warn that the policy is ...
Meet the woman who first identified the greenhouse effect
WEBFeb 9, 2016 · Eunice Foote demonstrated the heat-trapping properties of carbon dioxide at a scientific conference in 1856, newly digitised records show. Irish physicist John Tyndall is commonly credited with discovering the greenhouse effect, which underpins the science of climate change. Starting in 1859, he published a series of studies on the way ...
Five ways climate change harms indigenous people
WEBJul 28, 2014 · Many indigenous people are being forced to relocate as their traditional lands become uninhabitable due to climate change. In Newtok, a village in Alaska, melting ice means the whole settlement is sinking, with its highest point – a school standing a20ft – could be underwater by 2017.Plans are currently afoot to move everyone to a new site called Mertarvik, but political conflicts and ...
IMF’s resilience fund ‘out of reach’ for some nations in need
WEBApr 27, 2022 · The RST is a vehicle for wealthy nations to redistribute their IMF pandemic relief, known as special drawing rights (SDRs), to poorer countries in the form of long-term, low-interest loans. The IMF issued SDRs to its member countries to help them deal with the pandemic. The relief was allocated according to the size of their economies, meaning ...