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The financial outcome of COP26 is a glass half full, but it’s not far from a failure.
Research on the front lines of climate change highlights the need to address the mental health outcomes of extreme weather events.
The world promised progress at the Glasgow climate conference. Now it has to turn those promises into reality. A former senior UN official describes what to watch for in the coming year.
Loss and damage – the three words which define the Glasgow summit’s disappointing outcome.
Pitched at an initial US$8.5 billion, the partnership has the potential to be one of the largest individual climate finance transactions to date. But can a just transition be achieved?
The press releases sound promising, but the negotiations have a long way to go. Here’s what’s ahead at the midpoint of the COP26 climate talks.
Banks are making inroads with investments, but that’s only one third of their activity.
Early investments generate rapid cost reductions, while further delay simply slows innovation and compounds the climate crisis.
Clean energy innovation, giving up coal, cutting methane and getting China and India on board for net-zero can deliver progress at COP26.
New Zealand has announced a more ambitious pledge to cut emissions, but the commitment relies on buying credits from offshore. There is no system for doing this yet, or for ensuring genuine cuts.
Helping developing nations pay for the expensive work of emissions reduction and adaptation benefits everyone on the planet.
Five aspects need attention if African governments are to be able to mitigate, adapt to and manage climate change in the coming critical decade.
The world isn’t on track to avoid dangerous climate change, and this year’s climate conference, COP26, is crucial, a former senior UN official writes.
Rich nations need to provide far greater climate adaptation financing to low income countries and plug the holes that siphon their limited fiscal resources to tax havens.
Without financial support that helps communities adapt to climate impacts, climate change is projected to push tens of millions more Africans into extreme poverty by 2030.
Rich countries have promised to compensate poor ones for the impacts of climate change.
This is a transcript of part 1 of Climate Fight: the world’s biggest negotiation, a series from The Anthill podcast.
Countries are expected to commit to more ambitious targets for 2030, but how they will achieve them is still up for debate.
Listen to the first episode of a new series from The Anthill Podcast ahead of the COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow.
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Visiting Professor of Practice, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford
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Professor of Political Science, UCL
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Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland
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PhD Candidate in Climate Justice Policy, University of Warwick
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Environment + Energy Editor and Host of the Climate Fight podcast series, The Conversation
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Research Fellow, Oxford Net Zero, Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS), University of Oxford
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Lecturer (Political Science), University of Lagos
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Distinguished Policy Fellow, Lead, Governance and Legislation, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Research fellow, Australian National University
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Director, Melbourne Climate Futures, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Social Policy, University of South Wales
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Professor of pedology and land evaluation, Addis Ababa University
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Chair in Environmental Economics, University of Bath
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Justice, University of Bristol
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Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior; Director, Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota
