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April 30, 2021 During his four years in office, former US president Donald Trump cut off almost all international financing for global climate efforts. On April 22, the Biden administration reversed this policy, announcing the US will double its climate contributions to $5.6 billion annually by 2024. The pool of money includes streams from federal agencies like the US Development Finance Corporation and contributions to the UN-managed Green Climate Fund that aim to help poor countries adopt cl...

Rich countries need to cut the strings off climate finance Quartz 9 hrs ago © Provided by Quartz During his four years in office, former US president Donald Trump cut off almost all international financing for global climate efforts. On April 22, the Biden administration reversed this policy, announcing the US will double its climate contributions to $5.6 billion annually by 2024. The pool of money includes streams from federal agencies like the US Development Finance Corporation and contr...

April 15, 2021 John Kerry, America’s special envoy on climate change, is on a whirlwind global tour to drum up support for a climate “leaders summit” on Earth Day next week. He’s hoping to re-establish the US as a climate leader and extract more serious ambition from his peers, but has been dogged by a familiar complaint from officials in developing economies: the global race to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions is fundamentally unfair. Every country needs to reach net-zero emissions n...

How much does the US owe the world for climate change? Quartz 2 hrs ago © Provided by Quartz John Kerry, America’s special envoy on climate change, is on a whirlwind global tour to drum up support for a climate “leaders summit” on Earth Day next week. He’s hoping to re-establish the US as a climate leader and extract more serious ambition from his peers, but has been dogged by a familiar complaint from officials in developing economies: the global race to eliminate greenhouse gas em...

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Media coverage Media coverage Each year, CIFOR’s research and scientists are mentioned in over 1,500 news stories by local and international media outlets worldwide. Find the latest here, with over a decade of archives. Published on 19 Nov 2020 in the The Guardian Share this Franziska Haupt, the lead author of the report and also at Climate Focus, said: “Forests are absolutely essential. If we don’t stop deforestation, we won’t meet our climate targets. Infrastructure and mining are pro...

Mainstream Mainstream, VOL LVIII No 52, New Delhi, December 12, 2020 Trees and forests: Megaprojects risk pushing forests past tipping point – report | Damian Carrington Friday 11 December 2020 Huge road, energy and mining projects driving into heart of world’s remaining forests Infrastructure megaprojects risk pushing the world’s remaining forests past a “dangerous tipping point” and making climate targets unachievable, a report says. Tens of thousands of miles of roads and railways ...

America first. earth last. >> stay with us. lets bring in reporter chris cillizza and congressional reporter for the washington post. karoun derouza. chris, america first. this seems to be the most dramatic manifestation of that principle by the president to date. fair statement? >> absolutely. this goes beyond the climate focus which is important, but what this tells us is bigger than that. this is donald trump essentially making good on what he said he would do. he had a lot of world leaders s...