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The implementation of climate policies by governments is slowing, widening the gap between policy action and climate commitments. The OECD Climate Action Monitor 2025finds that, based on its Climate Actions and Policies Measurement Framework (CAPMF), the number and stringency of policies increased by only 1% in 2024, confirming a loss of momentum since 2022. ...more |
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New taxes on the super-rich, fossil fuels, financial transactions and highly polluting and carbon-intensive activities should be explored as key ways of raising the finance needed to help poor countries, governments have been told in an influential report.
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Record wildfires and rising temperatures are threatening decades of forest growth in the northern hemisphere, potentially turning vital carbon sinks into carbon emitters, a new U.N. report said on Wednesday.
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Faced with droughts and sharper competition, Greek rice farmers are tapping into a new revenue stream: selling their cheap, broken rice to wedding goers instead of discarding it or using it for animal feed.
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Google has struck its biggest carbon removal deal, agreeing to finance restoration of the Amazon rainforest with Brazilian startup Mombak, as big tech hunts for high-quality credits to offset emissions tied to energy-hungry data centers.
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Representing AFED at the Council meeting of the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) and the Cairo Forum, organized by the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES), AFED Secretary General, Najib Saab, called on Arab states to help create “Alliance of the Climate Willing” (countries which are committed to climate action). ...more |
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Available new climate pledges by governments have only slightly lowered global temperature rise over the course of this century, leaving the world on the path to a serious escalation of climate risks and damages.
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EU climate ministers agreed a 2040 climate change target in the early hours of Wednesday after watering down the goal in last-minute negotiations, as they raced to clinch the deal before the U.N. COP30 summit in Brazil.
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Global food and packaging companies, including Nestle (NESN.S), PepsiCo (PEP.O) and Unilever (ULVR.L) have vowed to collaborate on cutting plastic use and push for regulation after U.N. talks in August collapsed, a report published on Tuesday showed.
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Today, the COP presidencies of Azerbaijan and Brazil published the Baku to Belém Roadmap to $1.3T. This report represents a key output agreed to at COP29, detailing how to deliver $1.3 trillion annually for developing countries from all international sources by 2035. ...more |
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