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网页COP29 aims to boost battery storage and grids for renewables, as pledges proliferate. 19 September 2024. News Governments are being asked to sign up to a goal to boost energy storage six-fold and renew or add 80 million km of …
Mia Mottley: the 'fearless' leader pushing a global settlement for …
网页2021年11月18日 · Barbados’ prime minister Mia Amor Mottley made her mark on the Cop26 climate talks in Glasgow with a rip-roaring speech telling the leaders of the world’s largest economies to “try harder” to avert catastrophic climate change. A 2C overheated world “is a death sentence,” she said. The first female leader of her country, Mottley is ...
Swiss propose expanding climate finance donors, academics urge …
网页2024年8月16日 · Switzerland and Canada propose ways to expand climate finance donors. Published on 16/08/2024, 2:37pm. Detailed criteria would include China and Gulf States in the donor base. But experts recommend incentives not coercion. An activists holds a placard during a climate strike in September 2023, in Edmonton, Canada. Photo: Artur Widak/NurPhoto.
Ecuador nears "historic" vote to keep Amazon oil on the ground
网页2023年10月7日 · By Doménica Montaño. The fate of the Yasuní rainforest, at the heart of the Ecuadorian Amazon, will be decided at the polls this August, when the South American nation votes on whether to leave large oil reserves found within Yasuní on the ground. It is the first time that Ecuadorians will vote on an ecological issue of this magnitude.
Meet the woman who first identified the greenhouse effect
网页2016年2月9日 · Meet the woman who first identified the greenhouse effect. Eunice Foote demonstrated the heat-trapping properties of carbon dioxide at a scientific conference in 1856, newly digitised records show. Irish physicist John Tyndall is commonly credited with discovering the greenhouse effect, which underpins …
UNFCCC's work at risk due to "severe financial challenges"
网页2024年3月21日 · The UN’s climate body (UNFCCC) is facing “severe financial challenges” as the ability to fulfill its expanding workload is being put at risk by governments’ failure to provide enough money. The UNFCCC executive director Simon Stiell made an urgent plea for more funding to over 40 ministers and negotiators gathered on Thursday in ...
EU floats 90% emissions target but drops green farming measures
网页2024年7月2日 · The European Union’s executive arm has proposed a target to cut the bloc’s net greenhouse gas emissions by 90% but, after protests, backed away from a target for farmers to reduce their emissions. Yesterday, the European Commission recommended a 90% cut on 1990 levels by 2040 to complement the …
Confusion surrounds China’s pledged climate finance towards the …
网页2023年7月6日 · The delivery of a multi-billion climate fund pledged by China nearly eight years ago to support the Global South remains “unclear”, experts have told Climate Home News. Some experts suggested that China has “only delivered 10%” of the China South-South Climate Cooperation fund since it was announced eight years ago, calling the pace ...
China opposes ‘not realistic’ global fossil fuel phase-out
网页2023年9月21日 · China’s climate envoy Xie Zhenhua said today that a global fossil fuel phase-out is unrealistic, dampening hopes that such an aim could be agreed at the Cop28 climate talks. In a speech in Beijing today, the veteran negotiator said that “completely eliminating fossil energy is not realistic”, according to a translation provided by the ...
Hopes fade for plastic production curbs - Climate Home News
网页2024年3月5日 · Hopes for a new global treaty to include limits on rocketing production of plastic worldwide have faded after government negotiators sidestepped the issue at UN talks in the Canadian capital of Ottawa earlier this week. At the fourth – and penultimate – round of talks, negotiators did not agree to continue formal discussions on how to cut ...