What's in a word? The US discourse on loss and damage
Climate Weekly newsletter: John Kerry's speech before Congress rejected the term 'climate reparations' to describe loss and damage.
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Climate Weekly newsletter: John Kerry's speech before Congress rejected the term 'climate reparations' to describe loss and damage.
Session 3 of TED Countdown Summit 2023 tackled some of the knottier issues related to climate change -- from the massive amount of money needed to finance the global green transition, to the struggle for energy access in developing nations and the ecosystem effects of fast fashion -- and offered glimpses of the world-changing solutions already underway to lead us into a clean, prosperous future for all.
If there is no 11th hour volte-face, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders last week took what will be their most consequential decision in the half a century of the current iteration of the regional integration movement. They agreed at their...
Plumes of heat-trapping pollutants last billowed from the giant stacks of South Africa's Komati Power Station in October. That's when the coal-fired plant was shut down to make way for
Agreement on the need to massively increase private sector finance to developing and middle-income countries to allow them to transition to clean energy was a clear outcome of the recent Summit for a new Global Financial Pact in Paris. Turning this theory into practice is complicated, yet it is totally doable if all actors in the worlds of policy and finance accept this new reality and stop pretending business-as-usual is an option.