Loss and damage funding officially included in COP27 agenda
Loss and damage financing has been a long-standing demand of developing and vulnerable countries including India
CCS: Fictitious mitigation stumbles
Over the last few days of intense negotiations, Carbon capture and storage (CCS) has emerged as one of the most controversial issues being …
High road to Dubai COP28: Developing countries demand ambition on financial support in Bonn
There can be no discussion on enhancing mitigation ambition in developing country Parties without an accompanied discussion on enhancing …
Poorer countries must be compensated for climate damage. But how exactly do we crunch the numbers?
Most nations signed up to an agreement to establish a so-called loss and damage fund last year
COVID-19: UNCTAD predicts $3.4 tln debt for developing countries
Income losses to exceed $220 bln in developing countries, says report
COP15 Montreal: ‘30x30 will create more militarised Protected Areas’
Fiore Longo, director of the French chapter of Survival International, details the disadvantages of 30x30 of the Global Diversity Framework
Conditions to aid and trade
World Resources Institute, a Washington-based non-government organisation, objects to criticism that Northern groups are arm-twisting developing …
UN projects food inflation to go up in 2024 due to El Nino, rising geopolitical tensions
May impact food insecurity, poverty; scaling up climate financing critical to help developing countries cope with climate impact
Tax the wealthy: 2 billion people can be lifted from poverty by levying the super-rich, says Oxfam
Gap between the rich and the poor broadened over the past two years
Pre-COVID-19 debt crisis has aggravated in poorest countries after pandemic: World Bank
G20 members not keen to extend COVID-19 debt relief for poorest countries
Paris finance meet: Key takeaways from a summit that showed the scale of the challenge ahead
The summit did not precipitate any transformational solutions, but it started a conversation on the climate and development financing crisis, and …
COVID-19: Worst economic performance by very poor countries in 30 years
43 least developed countries are experiencing a fall in their average income levels, says UNCTAD report
Adaptation Gap Report 2023: Funding to developing nations declines 15% despite international pledges, rising costs
Neither domestic nor private funding sources could help bridge the adaptation finance gaps, report notes
High road to Dubai COP28: 6th Technical Expert Dialogue on New Collective Quantified Goal held at Bonn
Quantum of new climate finance goal should be based on needs of developing countries, backed by science & tied to specific outcomes, …
Avoiding climate breakdown depends on protecting Earth’s biodiversity — can the COP15 summit deliver?
COP15 brings together parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) with a goal of negotiating this decade’s biodiversity …
Mixed reactions: COP28 focuses on fossil fuel role in climate change but disregards equity, says CSE
Inclusion of fossil fuels in Global Stocktake important starting point, rest a mixed bag
COP27 must be remembered as ‘Implementation COP’, says Sameh Shoukry
The developing world’s first COP since Marrakesh in 2016 must implement the ‘Paris Rulebook’
Declining food imports by most vulnerable countries a cause for concern: FAO
World food import bill to touch record high, but cost-of-living pressures may persist in 2023
Debt of emerging markets & developing economies rose by 178% from 2008-2022: Report
The Global South is staring at a debt crisis, but the “Common Framework” created to provide debt relief has serious shortcomings
COP27 diary (November 7): ‘World on a highway to climate hell, with our foot on the accelerator’
A round-up of what went on at the Sharm El-Sheikh summit
50 years of international aid: World’s richest countries owe $5.7 trillion debt to poor, says OXFAM
Substantial debt owed to world’s poorest people 9 times more than sub-Saharan Africa’s stock of external debt at 2019-end
High road to Dubai COP28: Here is how Global Stocktake talks fared in week 1 at Bonn
Adaptation, finance and pre-2020 implementation gap highlighted at Bonn Climate Conference
Time to reform UN Security Council, Bretton Woods system outdated: Guterres
Can’t ignore vast majority of countries suffering a deep financial crisis, UN Secretary-General says at G7 meet
How ‘vaccine nationalism’ could block vulnerable populations’ access to COVID-19 vaccines
Vaccine nationalism also runs against the fundamental principles of vaccine development and global public health
Double standards on fossil fuel, backtracking on pledges: BASIC fires shots at wealthy countries at COP27
India, China and Pakistan to work together in climate forum over common interests of developing countries