Climate Change

UNFCCC COP 29 President Designate Mukhtar Babayev, Azerbaijan’s Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources, has published a letter presenting the incoming Presidency’s vision “to enhance ambition and enable action” and outlining pathways to…
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The COP Presidencies Troika (UAE, Azerbaijan and Brazil) have invited early movers to submit improved, ambitious nationally determined contributions (NDCs) that are in keeping with the Paris Agreement’s 1.5 degree C goal to announce their…
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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed into law a broad climate change act that will set caps for large emitters and require every town and city to publish an adaptation plan. The Climate Change Bill aims to enable South Africa…
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European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service claimed that Sunday, July 21, was the hottest day ever recorded with global average surface air temperature reaching 17.09 degrees Celsius, according to their preliminary data. The…
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The current global approach to dealing with climate change is flawed because it doesn’t recognise trade-offs to climate action, the Economic Survey for 2023-24 released July 22 said, underlining that developed countries should take the lead…
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Climate change is wreaking havoc on agriculture worldwide, posing a significant threat to the global food supply. Key crops such as cocoa, olive oil, rice, and soybeans are particularly vulnerable, and their declining yields due to…
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Azerbaijan, the host of this year's UN climate talks, has shelved a planned levy on fossil fuel production and instead launched a fund to "invest" in climate action in developing countries. Reports suggest that Azerbaijan, which relies…
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Climate related stressors like heat, wildfires, floods, droughts, diseases and rising sea levels affect education outcomes and threaten to undo educational gains of recent decade, according to the Global Education Monitoring Report (GEM).…
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As the climate crisis continues to accelerate, new research reveals that the melting of the polar ice caps is causing the Earth to spin more slowly, extending the length of days at an ‘unprecedented’ rate. The study, published in the…
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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Government of Azerbaijan organized a discussion on the priorities of the upcoming COP29 and the need to scale up action to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. The UN Climate…
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