Nature and sustainable recovery the themes of UN Environment Assembly UNEA Ministry of the Environment Press release
The UN Environment Assembly UNEA-5 brings together the UN Member States and representatives of the business sector and civil society organisations to a session conducted virtually on 22-23 February. The themes of the meeting are the role of nature in reaching the Sustainable Development Goals and green rebuilding and sustainable recovery after the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Finnish delegation is led by Minister of the Environment and Climate Change
Krista Mikkonen, who will also participate in a high-level discussion on strengthening the role of the environmental sector in post-COVID-19 recovery.
Barbara Creecy has conceded that traders in some of the largest economies in the world are unlikely to prioritise trade with SA because of its high carbon-intensive production processes.
): These United Nations entities support climate science and international negotiations, respectively. The United States provides around two-fifths of the IPCC s total budget and one-fifth of the UNFCCC s. The 2021 bill maintained funding at the same level as last year, but this amount is less than the $10 million previously provided under Obama.
The US should take a fresh look at multilateral climate institutions.
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Hard work by many members of Congress ensured overall U.S. climate finance did not significantly decline during the Trump administration. But as other countries have continued to scale up their funding, the U.S. has fallen down the rankings. The Biden administration must make up for lost time by rapidly scaling up climate funding and restoring the country to a leading role.
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Reversing Global Warming: The Glitter Belt Way
by Narayanan Komerath - Feb 16, 2021 09:17 AM
The Glitter Belt solution
Snapshot
The focus on carbon reduction is a loud but curious feature of the global warming debate.
I argue that reducing heat input is the real issue, and suggest how that can be done in time to stop and reverse climate change, long before carbon reduction can become effective.
The industrialised former colonisers are facing economic competition from the former colonies. The latest in a long series of global movements demands reduction of carbon emissions.
This happens to target nations with coal-fired economies and poor people with wood-fired cooking.