Tag: Paris Agreement

COP29: New Initiatives and Financing for Combating Climate Change and Achieving Peace

The first week of the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29), held in Baku, has concluded, with the event running until November 22. As previously reported, the opening days were marked...

Green Growth: 30 Percent of World Regions Achieve Economic Growth While Reducing CO2 Emissions

An increasing number of regions worldwide are succeeding in combining economic growth with a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions, according to a study conducted by experts from the Potsdam Institute for Climate...

Why Aren’t We Reducing our Reliance on Fossil Fuels Faster?

The world must rapidly cut its greenhouse gas emissions. Remarkable progress has been made, especially in the adoption of renewable energy in the transport and energy sectors, but the change is not...

Sports for Nature Initiative Shaping Focus on Biodiversity in Sports and the Olympic Movement

As Paris celebrates with the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games, behind the scenes, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Paris 2024 Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Paris 2024)...

Tripling Renewables by 2030 Requires a Minimum of 16.4 Per Cent Annual Growth Rate

The Renewable Energy Statistics 2024 released by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) today shows that despite renewables becoming the fastest-growing source of power, the world risks missing the tripling renewables target...

Hottest May on Record Spurs Call for Climate Action

May 2024 was the warmest May on record, marking the 12th consecutive month in which the global average temperature reached a record value for the corresponding month, according to data from the...

Global Temperature Record Streak Continues

It was the warmest April on record – the eleventh month in a row of record global temperatures. Sea surface temperatures have been record high for the past 13 months. Extreme weather...

Cooperation Between Sciece and Business for a Sustainable Future

Eight years have passed since the signing of the Paris Agreement, which set the goal of holding the global average temperature increase below 2°C compared to the pre-industrial levels, with the indication...

Record Growth in Renewables, but Progress Needs to be Equitable

Renewable Capacity Statistics 2024 released by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) today shows that 2023 set a new record in renewables deployment in the power sector by reaching a total capacity...

Private Sector and Diplomatic Support Grows for Global Greenhouse Gas Watch

Support for a proposed new global greenhouse gas monitoring infrastructure is spreading beyond WMO Members and partners to the private sector and wider diplomatic world. The WMO Global Greenhouse Gas Watch (G3W) will...

What Role Can Young People Play in Tackling the Climate Crisis?

The impacts of the climate crisis are already widespread: from increased floods, droughts and wildfires to more devastating storms and temperature extremes. Scientists estimate the world is experiencing a global temperature increase of...

How do Countries Measure Greenhouse Gas Emissions?

With the 2022 Emissions Gap Report due to be released in October this year ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt, the focus is on how fast countries...

EBRD Loans USD 100 Million to Boost Renewables in Turkey

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is extending up to USD 100 million in financing to Adnan Polat Enerji Yatirimi A.S. (APEY) as part of a financing package jointly provided...

As Heatwaves Blanket Europe, Cities Turn to Nature for Solutions

Heat records continue to topple across the globe as concurrent heatwaves bake multiple countries. From the United States to Europe and China to Japan, extreme temperatures have soared for weeks, killing hundreds of...

How Secretive Methane Leaks are Driving Climate Change

Massive methane leaks, known as super-emitter events, have been taking place at oil and gas fields all over the world, from the United States to Turkmenistan. The releases, most of which can...

We are not Alone on the Path to Green Transformation

Less developed countries are torn between the struggle to preserve energy stability and the domestic economy on the one hand and the pressures imposed by the global energy transition on the other....

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