Topic: Environment
What climate debt does the North owe the South?
Article / 2nd December 2022Richer countries haven't met their $100 billion promise to help poorer countries move beyond fossil fuels. Where's the money going to come from?
Rich polluting nations are hijacking 1.5C goal for their own aims
Blog / 1st December 2022At COP27, wealthy governments are pushing for stronger efforts to limit global warming—while failing to deliver the finance and technology promised for climate action in poorer countries.
COP27: Almost nothing–but something real–Changed
Article / 1st December 2022COP27 marked the point where equity finally took center stage. National fair shares are now on the agenda, if only as the background to an inevitable debate about pragmatic ways forward, writes Tom Athanasiou for Foreign Policy in Focus.
COP27 closes with deal on loss and damage: ‘A step towards justice’, says UN chief
News / 22nd November 2022After days of intense negotiations in Sharm el-Sheikh, countries at the latest UN Climate Change Conference, COP27, reached agreement on an outcome that established a funding mechanism to compensate vulnerable nations for ‘loss and damage’ from climate-induced disasters.
People's power wins at COP27 as loss and damage fund established but talks fail to deliver on other key demands
News / 22nd November 2022As the 27th United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP27) closes, the collective power of civil society groups and grassroots climate activists saw a historic outcome with the establishment of a loss and damage fund.
The imperative of cooperation: Steps towards an equitable response to the climate crisis
Report / 16th November 2022A new report provides a global equity analysis of how climate pledges stack up against the Paris Agreement goal of limiting warming to 1.5°C.
Climate crisis needs cooperation between all nations – time is running out to save Earth
News / 15th November 2022Media organisations worldwide have published a common view about the need for nations to cooperate, accept their moral responsibilities and fairly share the burden of tackling climate change.
Climate Clock erected at COP27 says richest nations owe $31.8 trillion… and counting
News / 14th November 2022As world leaders gather at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, the Climate Clock team is displaying reminders of a looming deadline and just how much high-polluting nations owe the Global South.
Rich countries falling billions short on ‘fair share’ of climate-finance goal
Report / 8th November 2022The US should be paying nearly $40bn towards the $100bn climate-finance target, new Carbon Brief analysis shows. This is $32bn more than the estimated $8bn it actually gave in 2020.
Extreme hunger has more than doubled in the world’s worst climate hotspots, says Oxfam
Report / 22nd September 2022In a new report on the impact of climate on food supply, Oxfam found a 123 per cent rise in acute hunger in the 10 countries with the highest number of UN appeals driven by extreme weather events.