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Gender Just Climate Solutions
Approaches to effectively achieve the Paris Agreement must be both gender-equitable and locally driven to amplify the voices of those most adversely impacted by the climate crisis at the frontlines.
23rd Meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Barcelona Convention (COP 23)
Delegates praised the Convention as an example of how to translate global commitments into regional action. The week’s highlights included the adoption of the new Programme of Work and Budget 2024-2025, and the Portorož Ministerial Declaration, in which Parties commit to a healthy Mediterranean environment.
Climate Finance: The Role of the Climate Funds in Supporting Developing Countries
The four major climate funds jointly announced their commitment to enhance access to and increase the collective impact of climate finance. At this event, high-level leaders discussed the drive to achieve coherence and complementarity in crucial climate finance processes.
Land and Environmental Defenders: Advancing Climate Justice
These activists are central to the fight against environmental degradation, with Indigenous territories comprising 70% of the world’s protected biodiversity.
A Just Transition Work Programme with the Trade Unions Delivering Climate Justice
Representatives of trade unions, workers, and youth called for solidarity between climate and labor movements to achieve a just transition and combat the climate crisis. This event stressed basic rights – labor, energy, food, and others – at stake in the push for climate and social justice.
Can Carbon Capture and Storage Decarbonise the Cement Sector in Developed and Emerging Economies?
As human activities continue to release substantial amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere, Carbon Capture and Storage serves as a method to mitigate the impact of greenhouse gas emissions.
Enhancing Ambitions with International Cooperation towards a Successful 2050 Net-Zero Transformation
As sea levels rise and weather-related disasters fuelled by climate change beset coastal regions, international cooperation is a crucial component of efforts to deploy clean, renewable energy technologies. At this event, Marshall Islands officials and technology experts shared their experiences making these partnerships and technologies work.
Environment Management Group High-level Dialogue: Strengthening UN system Climate Action in support of Parties to the UNFCCC
For the UN system, the complexity and urgency of the triple environmental crisis requires a coordinated approach to address biodiversity conservation, pollution, climate change and linkages between human rights and sustainability.