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Following on from Finance Day here at COP26 was Energy Day, on which international agreements were reached on coal and just transition principles. Here, edie rounds up seven key headlines from the day.
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UNEP / Duncan Moore / 25 Mar 2021 (UNEP)* — Did you know nature is one of humanity’s best defences for adapting to climate change? A new funding opportunity is scaling up ecosystem-based adaptation across the world. The call for proposals is now The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration is launching in June this year. The goal is ambitious – to trigger a global movement for restoring the world’s ecosystems. This is not merely for nature’s sake, say experts. Mounting evidence shows that a global re-greening could help humanity adapt to climate change. In cities, restoring urban forests...
The East African Wednesday February 24 2021 Flood-affected areas in Jamalpur, Bangladesh in 2020. Developing countries lack funding to take appropriate action to prevent or minimise the adverse effects of climate change. PHOTO | NurPhoto via AFP Summary Huge gaps remain particularly in finance for developing countries and in bringing adaptation projects to the stage where they accrue real reductions in climate risks. Advertisement According to the Adaptation Gap Report by the United Nations, poor and vulnerable regions continue to suffer the most from the associated impacts as the global em...