Despite being hosted in Germany, COP23 is the first UNFCCC summit to be presided over by a Small Island Developing State the Republic of Fiji, and many are therefore calling it “the Pacific COP”. Pacific states’ climate-related problems, however, concern a wider range of small island countries worldwide. Small islands and low-lying coastal areas share read more…
Tag: Adaptation
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UNESCO coral reef study sheds light on upcoming IPCC Special Report
In one year, in September 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is going to publish a special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C. Back in 2015, when the international community adopted the Paris Agreement, it requested that the IPCC would draft such a report. This is certainly linked to the read more…
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Chile launches new national action plan on climate change
Chile launched its new national action plan on climate change for the period between 2017 and 2022, the “Plan de Acción Nacional de Cambio Climático 2017-2022” (PANCC-II). In July, the Chilean president Michelle Bachelet presented the document together with the Chilean minister for the environment, Marcelo Mena, and the Chilean minister for public works, Alberto read more…
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IN-DEPTH: Monitoring progress of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
For the first time in 10 years, the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction – the most important international forum dedicated to the theme – will be held outside the UNISDR Geneva headquarters. The Mexican government is ready to welcome the 5,000 expected participants in Cancun, where the 2017 edition will be hosted from May read more…
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UN hosts High Level event to promote climate action and sustainable development
The UN General Assembly on Wednesday (March 23) held a High Level SDG Action event, titled “Climate Change and the Sustainable Development Agenda”, to invigorate political momentum on climate change and underscore the deep connections between the climate change and sustainable development agendas. This all-day event was hosted in collaboration with the Secretariat of the UNFCCC. read more…
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FOCUS AFRICA – Low emissions, high ambitions. A review of ten African countries’ pledges
The African continent contributes only marginally to climate change in terms of emissions, accounting for an overall 7 per cent share of global emissions. The main contributors are the most industrialized states of South Africa, Nigeria and Egypt. Nonetheless, the most ambitious contributions in terms of INDC-pledged emissions abatement came from less or almost non-polluting read more…
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FOCUS AFRICA – Energy made to export: the case of Algeria
A rentier state with a national GDP almost entirely dependent on hydrocarbons revenues, Algeria is a strategic geopolitical actor for the Mediterranean and Northern African area, and also a likely green energy exports leader in the near future, if policy pledges are to be fulfilled. The People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria is today the largest read more…
