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Despite being generally accepted as one of the most difficult years on record for many industries, 2020 demonstrated the inherent resilience of renewable energy solutions.
This point is captured by the fact that, in the face of industrial torpor across the board, global renewable energy installations are thought to have hit a record level in 2020, according to the latest statistics from the International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena). This fact stands in sharp contrast to the declines in production and consumption caused by the pandemic in the other energy sectors.
In the UAE, our firm commitment to combating climate change has only become stronger. In the words of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the UAE s Vice-President and Ruler of Dubai, “Climate change is the most prominent battle for mankind in the coming decades to preserve the planet Earth for new generations.” In a tweet at the end of last year, Sheikh Mohammed repeated the UAE’s national pledge to red
After more than a decade of working toward qualifying for payments under the REDD+ (Reducing Emissions caused by Deforestation and Forest Degradation) scheme, Indonesia received its first results-based financial rewards last year.
REDD+, a policy initiative recognized under the U.N. Paris Agreement in 2015, was created as a way to provide incentives to conserve tropical forests and curb planet-warming greenhouse gases that are emitted when they are cut down.
Initially, it was conceived as a market-based means for industrialized countries to pay forest-rich countries for their emissions reductions and contributions to meeting overall global climate targets through financial credits.
Indonesia applied to receive REDD+ results-based payments (RBP) based on data illustrating its efforts to curb emissions under terms detailed in an Indonesia-Norway bilateral partnership and the GCF.
Presidency in Review: Which Campaign Promises Did Trump Uphold?
By Aine Givens, Stacker News
On 1/9/21 at 8:00 AM EST
On the campaign trail in 2016, President Donald Trump made numerous promises about what he would do when he reached the White House.
Stacker compiled data from PolitiFact s Trump-o-Meter, which continually tracks the promises President Donald Trump made in his 2016 campaign for president. For four years, PolitiFact s reporters kept track of the promises and researched whether each promise was kept, broken, compromised on, stalled, or in the works. Each slide provides a description of the promise, the status of the promise, a link to more information from PolitiFact s researchers on the promise, and our own research into the promise.
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