…Monterrey Consensus, and failing to provide climate finance that was promised under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and then under the Paris Agreement,” she commented. “It is extremely unfortunate that due to the pandemic, scheduled negotiations have not commenced this year on a new collective finance goal for 2025 – we need urgent action. We commend the…
More details.…new or updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) — which were submitted by 75 countries by the end of 2020. These come from around 40% of Parties to the Paris Agreement. The UNFCCC calculated that if countries implement the targets in the new or updated NDCs, their projected emissions will be, by 2030, only 0.5 per cent lower than in 2010….
More details.…from #COP28UAE. Download the Information Brief here and learn more about CASA’s Opportunity Fund Related links and resources: Championing continuity for graduating LDCs: ensuring a smooth transition for climate adaptation | IIED Publications Library Goals, targets and indicators for climate change adaptation and climate-related disaster risk reduction: A comparison across international agreements (ODI) Loss and damage explainer (Briefing paper 1/2023) (LRI)…
More details.…last few weeks I have resorted to Skype calls and Zoom meetings to catch up with colleagues in Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS) on a range of climate change activities; funding proposals, getting new projects started and requests for support from the IMPACT project, which I currently manage in the region. This is not solely the result of our new COVID-19 world,…
More details.This agenda was developed by WEDO with the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development, the African Women’s Development and Communications Network, and Fòs Feminista. It sets out demands for UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW66) that takes the opportunity to fulfil some of the broken promises of last year’s UN climate change conference COP26….
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