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Figueres emerges Global Ambassador of Under2 Coalition

Christiana Figueres, former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and Convenor of Mission 2020, was on Thursday, June...

Christiana Figueres joins UN Secretary General race

From border disputes in the South China Sea to the ongoing conflicts and refugee crisis in Syria the world is an increasingly unstable place....

How Paris became possible, by UN climate chief

Christiana Figueres speaks at TED2016 – Dream, February 15-19, 2016, Vancouver Convention Centre, Vancouver, Canada In 2009, six months after a spectacularly failed climate change summit...

UNFCCC boss, Christiana Figueres, bows out

Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Christiana Figueres, will serve out her term that ends in July. She has...

Paris Agreement: UAE urged to diversify economy from oil

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has abundant opportunities to diversify its economy away from oil as a result of the impulse of the Paris...

Paris climate summit opens with call to end fossil fuel subsidies

A coalition of close to 40 governments, hundreds of businesses and influential international organisations on Monday called for accelerated action to phase out fossil...

Japan pledges $1.5bn to Green Climate Fund

Japan on Sunday announced a pledge of $1.5 billion to the Green Climate Fund (GCF) ahead of next week’s pledging conference in Berlin. The pledge,...

UN NAMA Registry records first matched support between Austria, Georgia

  A new UN Registry which records and matches offers of support from developed nations to the stated plans of developing countries to reduce and...

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COP29: WHO demands urgent integration of health in climate negotiations

Ahead of the 2024 UN Climate Change Conference in Baku (COP29), the World Health Organisation (WHO) has called for...
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COP29: Vanuatu-driven ICJ climate change case looms amid emissions rise

With a new, revised schedule announced this week, the stage is set for the International Court of Justice (ICJ)...

Forests get a boost from new GCF policy on REDD+ results-based payments

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has adopted a landmark policy on REDD+ results-based payments, a major boon for forest...

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COP29: WHO demands urgent integration of health in climate negotiations

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