UPDATED: COP28 agrees to operationalise Loss and Damage Fund
This is the first time that parties will almost seamlessly adopt an agenda on the first day of the conference.
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This is the first time that parties will almost seamlessly adopt an agenda on the first day of the conference.
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Take, for example, the loss and damage fund, which is the big takeaway of sub-Saharan Africa and other vulnerable countries ...
The COP27 assembled more than 46,000 delegations from nearly 200 countries in Egypt for two weeks to drive forward sustainable ...
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Mr Guterres welcomed the agreement on the loss and damage fund but said it is not enough.
Under the new fund agreed at COP27, donors will contribute to save lives and livelihoods from climate change related disasters.
Following the development, the new fund will see donors contribute to a global fund to save lives and livelihoods from ...
Mr Guterres lamented that the global emissions are at their highest level in history.
The group said adaptation is a matter of survival for Africa and that COP27 should deliver on scaling up action ...
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Monday ushered in new rounds of negotiations in a bid to finalise a workable communique that would shape climate actions ...
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This year, a major agenda being put forward by developing countries, mostly on the African continent, is the “loss and ...
Over $1 billion adaptation pledges across sectors have been made by different states and nonstate actors at COP27 and food ...
According to the programme schedule for Saturday (today), about 12 adaptation-focused themes are expected to featured.
50 per cent of the winning teams are said to be female-led.
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Mr Biden said to “permanently bend the emission curve, every nation has to step up.”
Facts have shown that meeting the goals set out in African countries’ NDCs would require additional funding of $41.3 billion ...
At COP 27, Mr Sajou said his agency has a line-up of opportunities worth about $10 billion to deliver over ...
The first part of COP27 kick-started with a high-level segment (Climate Implementation Summit) for Heads of State and Government on ...
Mr Buhari called for urgent and decisive climate action from the countries most responsible for the emissions that cause climate ...
By 2030, it is projected that the annual financing needs of poorer nations to combat climate change effects will be ...