Technical Dialogue News Today

Net Zero: It’s a goal that much of the world has signed up for — balancing removing emissions with hard-to-abate emissions by the year 2050.

Charting a Path Forward: President Wickremesinghe Urges Action in the Face of Alarming Climate Predictions. In a compelling address at the 28th session of the Conference of Parties (CoP28) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Dubai, UAE Friday (01), President Ranil Wickremesinghe acknowledged the historical significance of the UN Conference...

Since the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2015, global progress has reduced the projected 2030 increase in greenhouse gas emissions from 16% to 3%. However, achieving the Agreements temperature targets requires a much more accelerated transition to economy-wide, low-carbon development, with a particular focus on the energy transition.

Taking stock of global progress towards achieving the Paris Agreement requires consistently measuring aggregate national actions and pledges against modelled mitigation pathways1. However, national greenhouse gas inventories (NGHGIs) and scientific assessments of anthropogenic emissions follow different accounting conventions for land-based carbon fluxes resulting in a large difference in the present emission estimates2,3, a gap that will evolve over time. Using state-of-the-art methodologies4 a...

The synthesis report hints at fossil fuel consensus, but African negotiators are displeased with its approach to equity, finance, and tech transfer.

The world is not on track to meet the long-term goals set out in the Paris Agreement for limiting global temperature rise, a UN report warns.

The Africa Climate Summit was all about money. Money, money, money. Financial and corporate solutions dominated the discussions as well as the final declaration. Where Africa needed to launch a wider South-South discussion for fair policies, the continent’s leaders locked themselves in rooms wi...

For countries of the Global South, the focus should be on the lack of concessional finance to drive the energy transition

Parties could not agree on adaptation, mitigation, Global Stock Take and equity among other things

Analysis in English on World about Agriculture and Climate Change and Environment; published on 2 Jun 2023 by CAN