The body running the new UN Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) caused by climate change has recommended that it should focus initially on helping governments rather than…
Mark Lutes is senior advisor for global climate policy at WWF. He specialises in UNFCCC climate negotiations, shipping decarbonisation and carbon finance.If all goes well, on April 11, the International Maritime Organization…
This article, published originally by InfoAmazonia, is part of the project Every Last Drop, produced with the support of the Global Commons Alliance, sponsored by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.The Amazon now…
Daniel Duma is a research fellow and Miquel Muñoz Cabré is a senior scientist at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI). Large-scale renewable energy is an unlikely success story in sub-Saharan Africa.…
Government statisticians have endorsed a new measure of the size of national economies, tackling statistical quirks that led to the contribution of fossil fuels being overstated and that of renewables…
Climate-vulnerable island states say they are being trapped “between a rock and a hard place” by the European Union – led by the Netherlands and Denmark – after the bloc…
Speaking at COP29 in Azerbaijan about the impact of climate change on Africa, the executives of Afreximbank promised to double-down on their commitment to a just energy transition on the…
Flowing through the waters of the once-mighty Kafue River – a source of drinking water and livelihood for millions of Zambians – is poison. Since the start of the year,…
Mukhtar Babayev is the COP29 President and Special Representative of the President of Azerbaijan for Climate Issues. Last year, the multilateralist’s task was challenging but clear. At the annual UN…
