COP28: cash pledges needed to spur loss and damage fund
Climate-vulnerable countries want to see at least US$100 billion a year paid into the Loss and Damage Fund.
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Climate-vulnerable countries want to see at least US$100 billion a year paid into the Loss and Damage Fund.
Published days before COP28 in the UAE, a report has charged four Arab states as being in the world's top 20 fossil-fuel contributors. Despite calls to divest from fossil fuel and invest in renewable energy, the world continues to ignore our pleas.
As the world focuses on energy transition and decarbonisation, there is clearly no shortage of bold ambition on the part of many African governments to play a key role in global efforts...
The UN said countries have to slash their emissions by 42% by the end of the decade.
While humanity's efforts to curb planet-warming emissions are nowhere near enough to avoid heating the world to catastrophic levels, tentative improvements show that progress is possible.Warming of that scale would prompt catastrophic climate disasters worldwide, including the risk of mass extinctions, the melting of glaciers and permafrost that could eventually unleash metres of sea level rise and unliveable conditions across much of the planet.