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Ireland is the first country to divest from fossil fuels

Since 2012 the number of commitments on fossil fuel divestment has increased rapidly, reaching over 1000 institutions worth 7 trillion euro.

COP24 wrap-up

At the U.N. climate summit in Poland, countries agreed upon the Katowice Climate Package, a set of rules for implementing the Paris Agreement. It is the outcome of a complex COP, due to technicalities and difficult international context. After two weeks and one extra day of tense negotiations, the rulebook to face and contain climate change got the green light.

When health is taken into account, reducing emissions is an opportunity, not a cost

Meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement could save about a million lives a year worldwide by 2050 through reductions in air pollution alone, according to the World Health Organization. Health gains from climate action would be approximately double the cost of mitigation policies at the global level, and the benefit is even higher in countries such as China and India.

Not enough: latest studies put pressure on COP24 to speed-up climate action

Just days before the start of the COP24 climate summit in Katowice, a mounting pile of major reports points to the same message: despite the efforts in place, action to tackle climate change is still far away from the objectives set in the Paris agreement.

New Global Commission “to bring scale and speed” to climate adaptation solutions

The new Global Commission on Adaptation aims to set in motion a global movement to heighten the visibility and political importance of climate adaptation while

New Bioeconomy Strategy supports the 2030 Agenda and Paris Agreement

The European Commission has set a new Bioeconomy Strategy focused on three key aspects: developing new technologies and processes for the bioeconomy, developing markets and

Climate Week NYC 2018

UNFCCC Executive Secretariat Patricia Espinosa will deliver a keynote speech today, September 24th, to kick-off the 10th annual Climate Week NYC, where government ministers, investors,

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Sweden launches new hub to explore the linkages between climate change and conflict

Climate change is linked to some of the most pressing security challenges of our time, but the complex relationship between climate change and conflicts is far from being untangled. A new Sweden-led research collaboration aims to investigate the security implications of climate change.

Leading from the bottom-up: climate action is getting local

The Global Climate Action Summit held in San Francisco provided local leaders with a powerful platform to raise their voice, urging national governments to do more and better to tackle climate change ahead of 2020.

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World Ozone Day: while the Montreal Protocol succeeds, more efforts is needed to tackle climate change

The theme of the 2018 World Ozone Day, which is marked every year on 16 September, is Keep Cool and Carry On, a “rallying call urging all of us to carry on with the exemplary work under the Montreal Protocol”.

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Uneven progress in Bangkok casts shadow over COP24 climate talks

The extra round of negotiations to define the rules of the Paris climate agreement closed in Bangkok without satisfactory steps forward on the rulebook due to be adopted at COP24 in December. “We cannot allow Katowice to remind us of Copenhagen”, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said.

The future of the Paris agreement at stake in Bangkok

The extraordinary session of UNFCCC negotiations to step up progress on the Paris rulebook opens on September 4 in Bangkok. The summit will last five

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