With over 32,000 participants registered, discussions in Baku will address the critical role of urban areas and the built environment in climate change mitigation and adaptation. The COP29 Declaration on Multisectoral Actions Pathways (MAP) for Resilient and Healthy Cities calls on Parties and stakeholders to enhance multisectoral cooperation to tackle climate challenges faced by cities.
As a record number of people are set to attend the UN Biodiversity Summit in Colombia, the importance of transforming economic models conducive to protecting and restoring the world’s natural ecosystems and their inhabitants is becoming increasingly clear. Today, the UK Government has announced its first Special Representative for Nature as governments and climate leaders come together at COP16 to review progress on the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework adopted in 2022 and discuss updated action plans for meeting its targets.
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As governments look to ensure their next round of NDCs are conducive with a just transition, at COP29 the Baku Initiative on Human Development for Climate Resilience will be launched, establishing a strategic global collaboration on human development and climate change.
The 2nd MEFED Dialogue Paves the Way for Deepened Energy Cooperation between Germany, the European Union, and the Mediterranean and Gulf Regions. Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action of the Federal Republic of Germany, Robert Habeck, and the Minister for Environment and Energy of the Hellenic Republic, Theodoros Skylakakis, hosted the 2nd MENA-Europe Future Energy Dialogue (MEFED24) yesterday (September 8th 2024) in Thessaloniki. The aim of this dialogue is to strengthen energy cooperation between the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and Europe.
Africa bears an increasingly heavy burden from climate change and disproportionately high costs for essential climate adaptation, according to a new report from the WMO
Progress on climate adaptation is slowing on all fronts when it should be accelerating to catch up with rising climate change impacts and risks, according to a new United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report.
Clean cookstoves Ashden Award winner from 2006 meets King Charles in Nairobi – 2023 Ashden Award nominee following in footsteps of success
UK Minister for Development and Africa, Andrew Mitchell, will announce new projects worth £49m during a visit to Kenya for the inaugural Africa Climate Summit
GOGLA and IKEA Foundation form a strategic partnership, with a funding of EUR 4 million to help the off-grid solar sector
IRENA’s new report Off-grid Renewable Energy Statistics 2022 shows that off-grid renewables continue to grow despite the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The UK Government has invested £100 million in renewable energy projects across Africa.
A boat, named FlipFlopi, made entirely of recycled plastic waste has set sail in Kenya.
380,000 people are set to benefit from a new climate change resilience project in Rwanda.
Heavy rain and flooding has caused large scale destruction and displacement in Kenya.
Two UN agencies are pushing for new farming techniques in Africa to address concerns over food security.
Agro-ecology is a farming style that focuses on utilising nature for food production without damaging it.
The Mozambique National Institute of Meteorology (INAM) is launching a new climate-smart agriculture project with the help of the Nordic Development Fund.
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has this week announced its plans to invest in innovative solar systems to provide power to rural communities on the African continent.
A recent report by the Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has revealed that land degradation could force millions of people to migrate over the next 30 years.