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COP30 Amazon host strikes "largest carbon credit sale in history"
Sep 27, 2024 · A coalition of developed countries and corporations has agreed to a massive purchase of carbon credits from the Amazon rainforest worth $180 million, which has been described as the largest in history.
UN climate fund axes Nicaragua project for human rights concerns
Jul 3, 2024 · Independent legal observers have documented repeated attacks against Indigenous people in the area with dozens murdered, kidnapped or raped over the last few years.. An investigation by the GCF’s independent complaint mechanism deemed their concerns justified. It found a series of failures with the project that could “cause or exacerbate” violent conflict.
Strong laws should follow the new global climate commitments
Sep 26, 2024 · Pierre Cannet is global head of public affairs and policy at ClientEarth. The UN Summit of the Future that took place in New York over the weekend pitched strengthened diplomatic cooperation as the key to protecting the rights of present and future generations from environmental breakdown, amongst other issues.
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Megan Rowling is the editor of Climate Home News, taking over in February 2024 after nearly two decades as a journalist with the Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF), developing its award-winning coverage of climate change. She has written extensively on international climate politics and finance, with a focus on the developing world, for which she won a UN Correspondents’ Association award in 2016.
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Fractious COP29 lands $300bn climate finance goal, dashing hopes of the poorest 23 November 2024. After fiery talks, a new post-2025 goal was adopted but some developing nations dismissed it as too small to meet their needs amid growing climate stress
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Can climate funders overcome fear to tread in conflict zones? 19 November 2024. At COP29, fragile climate-vulnerable countries launched a network aimed at securing the climate finance they say has been slow to come as their needs surge
Fossil fuel transition back in draft pact for UN Summit of the Future
Aug 30, 2024 · The COP28 agreement adopted by nearly 200 countries was widely hailed as a historic achievement signposting an end to the fossil fuel era. But climate campaigners have since grown worried that countries are backsliding on their promises and attempting to weaken their commitment to wean the world off dirty energy.
UN approves carbon market safeguards to protect environment …
Oct 10, 2024 · The UN’s new carbon market will have a compulsory mechanism that aims to prevent developers of carbon credit projects from breaching human rights or causing environmental damage with their activities – a first for the UN climate process.