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Paris Agreement Implementation and Compliance Committee Moves Into New Phase
The Paris Agreement Implementation and Compliance Committee convened its 13th meeting in Bonn last month, at a critical time ...
African islands under threat: What to do about Trump's withdrawal from climate change agreement
President Donald Trump's executive order withdrawing the US from the Paris Agreement raises the question of the implications ...
UN climate body adopts new guidelines to strengthen emission-reduction assessment of projects, the mechanism to help countries cut emissions
The UN climate change body has adopted new standards for measuring the impact of emission-reducing projects under the Paris ...
Key Paris climate pact target at 1.5 degrees ‘too high for polar ice sheets’ warn scientists
Efforts to limit the global temperature increase to 1.5 degrees under the Paris climate agreement may not go far enough to ...
Paris Agreement target won’t protect polar ice sheets, scientists warn
The research by an international team of sea level and polar ice experts suggests that limiting warming to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius) above the pre-industrial temperature—the Paris ...
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Climate Justice Organizers Hold Mock Funeral for 1.5ºC Paris Agreement Target
2024 was the hottest year in human history, and countries show no signs of reining in planet-wrecking fossil fuels.
UN climate chief calls on countries to submit their NDC targets
Most major economies are yet to submit their new NDCs for the 2035 period including EU and China. Indian officials in ...
1.5°C Paris Climate Agreement target may be too high for polar ice sheets and sea level rise
Efforts to limit the global temperature increase to 1.5°C under the Paris Climate Agreement may not go far enough to save the ...
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Global banking group makes controversial move to scrap crucial rule for members: 'Holds significant repercussions'
Following a year-long review and a member vote, the UN's Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) recently published new guidance for ...
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'Historic step': UN body adopts key rules underpinning Paris Agreement carbon market
Standards governing how to measure a carbon credit project's actual emissions reduction impact among those adopted at key UNFCCC meeting last week A UN-body ... under the Paris Agreement has ...
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UN Loss and Damage Fund Executive Director Calls on PM Oli
Visiting Executive Director of the United Nations Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage, Ibrahima Cheikh Diong, paid a ...
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African islands under threat: what to do about Trump’s withdrawal from climate change agreement
The earliest date the US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement could take effect is January 2026, based on Article 28. The US contributes 21% of the UN’s climate secretariat budget, and its exit ...