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Rich countries broke their main climate promise to developing nations, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development confirmed Friday. In 2009, high-income countries pledged to deliver $100 billion a year …
Rich countries broke climate finance promise, says OECD Read More
Wealthy nations are trying to make up for a $10bn shortfall in the $100bn annual target for climate finance they were supposed to have met in 2020, according to Bloomberg. …
Rich countries fall $10bn short in climate finance pledges Read More
American natural resource economist, Erik Nordman, has just written a book about Elinor Ostrom, the first woman to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The Mint quizzed him …
Commons concern Read More
The huge amount of money poured into the pandemic recovery—around $16 trillion, by the latest count—could have helped launch the world on a path to cut emissions quickly enough to …
Only 2% of the pandemic recovery goes to clean energy Read More
For decades, rich and poor countries were trapped in a stalemate over how to deal with the carbon-dioxide coated, rapidly overheating planet. The United States and other developed countries — …
A $100 billion promise holds the Paris Agreement together. Now, it’s coming apart. Read More
The recent net-zero pledges by major emitting countries and the potential for a “green recovery” from the Covid-19 pandemic “presents the opening” for the world to close the growing “gap” …
UNEP: Net-zero pledges provide an ‘opening’ to close growing emissions ‘gap’ Read More
India is the only “2°C compatible” country out of all the G20 nations, including the US, Brazil, Australia and several EU countries, a new report has found. The Paris Agreement, which came …
India Is the Only G20 Nation on Track to Meet Paris Agreement’s 2°C Goal: Report Read More
Global warming demands a swerve in how we teach economics, says Marc Beckmann. Global student movement, Rethinking Economics, has, since 2014, spoken out against the disconnect between what is going …
Fast and furious Read More
Most nations including top emitter China are likely to miss a 2020 deadline to upgrade national plans for fighting global warming, according to the UN’s climate chief. Patricia Espinosa told …
China among nations likely to miss 2020 deadline for climate plans Read More
Going carbon neutral by planting a trillion trees will make our climate problem worse says Kathleen McAfee. Will planting trees save the planet from global warming? Billionaires attending the 2020 …
The trillion tree delusion Read More