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Greenhouse gas emissions
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Waking up: the vital long-term finance goal of the Paris Agreement
Next year’s Global Stocktake offers an incentive to unpack and advance the Paris Agreement’s long-term goal on climate finance, captured in Article 2.1c. Failure to explore the goal, including how to track and report it, will impact two better-known ambitions: limiting temperature rise to well below 2°C and increasing ability to adapt
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Why we need more leaders like Desmond Tutu to champion action for climate justice
Archbishop Desmond Tutu was a frontrunner in demanding climate justice for countries bearing the brunt of climate impacts. We need more world leaders to carry forward his legacy
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2016 – when global meets local in climate action
Building on the historic agreement forged in Paris, IIED's director Andrew Norton looks at the opportunities to ensure global agreements on the need for sustainable development reach the local level
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French lead drive for global climate agreement
There is much debate as to whether the Paris climate summit can deliver an adequate response to the challenge of climate change. In the wake of the tragedy of last Friday's attacks in the French capital, Andrew Norton pays tribute to France's efforts to secure an ambitious agreement and hopes for success
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Using the power of judiciary to protect people from climate change
A Dutch legal ruling sets a precedent on the need for national action on climate change – and hope for citizens seeking to hold their governments to account
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A 1.5 degree goal could save us from ourselves
As climate negotiations continue in Bonn this week, Stephanie Andrei and Saleemul Huq argue that it would be in everyone's interest to strengthen the target for limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees
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Zero-zero, dolphins and conversations for change
IIED director Camilla Toulmin reflects on her trip to Lima for the COP20 Development and Climate Days
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D&C Days in Lima to highlight 'historic opportunity' to reduce poverty and emissions to zero (#zerozero)
Extreme poverty and the impacts of climate change can be overcome by far-sighted, joined-up action on both at once, the Development and Climate Days event at UN climate talks in Peru will hear
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IIED responds to IPCC climate change report
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released its Fifth Assessment Report, issuing the starkest warning yet on the perils of continuing with 'business as usual'
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Letter to America: Gambia envoy asks Obama directly for US climate leadership
Pa Ousman Jarju, Minister of Environment of Gambia and former chair and special envoy on climate change for the 48 Least Developed Countries, has written an open letter to US President Barack Obama
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Climate action: Diplomats' discussions yield four themes for 2014
The Gambia's Special Climate Envoy identifies four themes for action on climate change in the UN negotiations and beyond
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Finally, the US gets serious on climate change
President Obama's declaration on limiting emissions of carbon dioxide by a third from coal-fired power plants in the US marks the tipping point in US engagement in tackling climate change
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Cambodia to climb climate change readiness ladder
Cambodia is one of several countries that are developing monitoring and evaluation frameworks to track different climate change actions at national as well as local levels
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Ensuring an Energy Sustainable Development Goal delivers for poor people and the planet
In late February, discussions over the post-2015 development agenda reached a milestone. The co-Chairs of the Open Working Group (OWG), the body tasked with preparing a Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) proposal for consideration by the UN General Assembly in September 2014, issued a "Focus Areas Document".
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Green Climate Fund: a big step forward, but many decisions pending
The UN climate change convention's Green Climate Fund (GCF), aims to help countries adopt "transformational" pathways to low carbon, climate resilient development. Its 6th board meeting last week in Bali yielded mixed results for the world's most poor and climate vulnerable countries.
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REDD+: 3 things to consider so men and women share the benefits
Linking commodities that drive deforestation with gender offers great opportunities that capitalise on the advantages of different actors
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Poor and vulnerable countries are defying climate inaction
Slow progress at global climate talks is belied by the plethora of actions in many smaller and more at-risk developing nations.
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Urban societies can adapt to resource shortage and climate change
Cities can break the link between high living standards and significant contributions to climate change, using many technologies and policies that are already available if not widely used.
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Climate change study provides greenhouse-gas emissions for 100 cities in 33 nations
Study asks 'whose greenhouse gas is it anyway?' and urges a broader look at cities and climate change
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Can international law break the deadlock in climate talks?
An international lawsuit on greenhouse gas emissions could help create the political pressure and third-party guidance needed to revive global climate negotiations.
