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World Bank Touts Achievements of Clean Investment Funds
Those least responsible for the greenhouse gas emissions that continue to accumulate in the atmosphere are and will continue to be hit hardest by a warming global climate. They’re also the least...
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Latest Round of Climate Talk in Bonn Conclude with (Some) Progress on Loss...
Climate talks concluded in Bonn, Germany last Friday “on track to produce the first comprehensive draft of the new, universal climate change agreement that governments are committed to reach in Paris,...
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UNDP, UNEP Expand National Climate Adaptation Program
The United Nations (UN) is marshaling and expanding the wide range of resources at its disposal to assist the world’s least-developed and developing countries craft and implement strategic and project...
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The World We Want: A Conversation with Amina J. Mohammed on the Sustainable...
This post first appeared in TriplePundit This weekend world leaders met at the United Nations in New York City to define a sustainable development agenda through 2030, a process built on the successes,...
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New IPCC Leaders Could Improve Effectiveness of Climate Change Policy Making
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the branch of the United Nations (UN) responsible for collecting, assessing and synthesizing all the research that goes into producing the UN...
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The Road to Paris: UN Climate Treaty Draft Text Gets a Trim
In less than two months nations from around the world convene in Paris for the COP21 climate conference. With one more official round of negotiations before Paris, co-chairs for the United Nations ADP...
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Bonn Climate Talks End: Next Stop Paris and COP21
The final round of climate talks before the COP21 summit in Paris finished up in Bonn last week. As crunch time descends upon negotiators, the issue of finance remains a core unresolved issue....
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Researchers Flock to the Arctic as CO2 Surpasses 400PPM
Ocean and climate scientists have been flocking to the Arctic to document changing ecosystems and species populations before the region as it has existed throughout human history ceases to exist....
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Climate and Prosperity: Two Roads Converge in Paris
Next week delegates. ministers, heads-of-state and civil socity meet in Paris at COP21 in hopes of striking an international commitment limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius from pre-industrial...
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COP21 Will Change the Course of History
On November 30th, the world will come together in Paris for the start of the most important climate talks ever. After more than two decades of negotiations, the expectations are high and global...
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Press Release: 11 Donar Countries Pledge Additional $250 Million for Adaptation
We’re on the ground in Paris for the duration of the COP21 climate conference. Negotiations actually started last night, but today is the opening with nearly 150 head-of-state arriving for the opening...
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Reaction to Obama Speech at Opening of COP21
In a moving address at the opening session to the 21st Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21), president Obama called on world leaders and delegates assembled in the plenary hall at Le...
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COP Out: What If There’s No Deal in Paris?
The start of the COP21 climate talks on Monday mark the end of the beginning for global climate action: a decisive step forward. Or, to put a more pessimistic slant on it, the beginning of the end of...
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COP 21 Update: New Draft Text Released
A draft text for a global climate agreement was announced on Thursday morning at COP21, now slimmed down another four pages from the document sent to Paris in late October. At a press conference on...
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Can the Ghosts of Copenhagen be Exorcised at COP21?
After a week of negotiators working in “spin-off” groups, the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform (ADP) completed their work on Saturday with the final compilation of the Paris Outcome draft...
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A Deal in Paris is All But Assured, But How Strong Will It Be?
Delegates, ministers and observers worked late into the night last night deliberating over the latest “clean” text released by the COP presidency on Wednesday afternoon. Slimmed down to from 43 pages...
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The COP21 Agreement is a Momentous Leap Forward
Every nation on earth has agreed to abide by a historic 31-page climate deal. The signing of the climate agreement in Paris signals the start of globally coordinated efforts to reign-in climate...
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COP21, the Paris Agreement and the Art of the Possible
“Recognizing that climate change represents an urgent and potentially irreversible threat to human societies and the planet and thus requires the widest possible cooperation by all countries, and...
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Eco Highlights Green Climate Fund Challenges Ahead of Board Meeting
Where all the money is going to come from in order for developing countries to carry out climate change mitigation and adaptation projects that contribute to keeping global mean annual temperature rise...
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FAO Completes World’s First Global Assessment of Drylands Forests
The UN World Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is drawing attention to the potential of forestation initiatives to substantially improve drylands ecosystems and the lives of some 2 billion people...
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