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Financing has long been recognized as a barrier to accelerating decarbonization in Southeast Asia. A successful transition to a low-carbon economy – especially in the region’s low- and middle-income countries – will rely heavily on two things. The first is international concessional finance and the second, stronger climate targets to accelerate investor interest. Both are […]
Não falta preocupação com o futuro das instituições e dos direitos humanos nos Estados Unidos caso o republicano Donald Trump derrote a democrata Kamala Harris no pleito desta semana. Há bem mais em jogo, contudo: um planeta inteiro. Os norte-americanos vão às urnas uma semana depois de Valencia, na Espanha, sucumbir a inundação turbinada pelo […]
Move on. Nothing to see here. Just another ordinary, everyday apocalypse. If past experience is any guide, the world’s reaction to the floods in Spain last week will be similar to that of motorway drivers at a crash scene: slow down, take in the horror, outwardly express sympathy, inwardly give thanks that fate picked someone […]
This week Moneyweb@Midday also looked at what the country needs to do to exit the grey list, and how consumers could benefit from possible decreases in grid power costs. Source link
‘That number is looking at a global number that we believe the developed economy countries should be contributing to the developing economy countries,’ says the Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment. Source link
The big-ticket item at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) being held in Baku, Azerbaijan, in November this year will be the development of a new climate finance goal for funding to developing countries — the New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance (NCQG). However, weeks out from COP29, NCQG negotiations are in a […]
It’s a good start for them. Sustainability campaigner and author, Jonathon Porritt, predicts COP 29 will be: ‘Baku will be worse than Dubai – as the capital of an even more corrupt, even more misogynistic, and more autocratic petrostate than the UEA.’ The polluting industries will be there in force to counter any real action — as they did […]
Environment, Forest and Climate Change Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan on Sunday said climate finance, adaptation, and mitigation strategies must be fair and priority should be given to the badly-affected climate vulnerable communities. She said the commitment for providing $100 billion to address the international climate funding crisis should be increased. “While contributions from developed nations […]