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The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Change: What Happens Now?

Law Columbia

Photo by Mathias Reding on Unsplash Climate change litigation has finally reached the world’s highest court. On March 29, 2023, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution requesting an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the obligations of States with respect to climate change.

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Will UN Climate Talks in Azerbaijan Deliver on Finance and Emission Reductions? 

Union of Concerned Scientists

That’s because countries previously agreed under the Paris Agreement that, by the end of 2024, they would decide on the new quantum of climate finance for lower-income countries, building on the previous target of $100 billion/year. Climate vulnerable countries need funding to start flowing quickly. to 2.8 °C

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One Last Climate Warning in New IPCC Report: ‘Now or Never’

Inside Climate News

By Bob Berwyn Whatever words and phrases the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change may have been parsing late into Sunday night, its new report , issued Monday, boils down to yet another dire scientific warning. Greenhouse gas emissions need to peak by 2025 to limit global warming close to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7

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All Eyes on Baku: Expectations for Canada at COP29

Enviromental Defense

Climate Finance is the Litmus Test for COP29 COP29 has been dubbed the “climate finance COP”. When countries signed the Paris Agreement back in 2015, they agreed to centre equity in how we tackle the climate crisis. COP29 is the deadline for negotiations that would set a new target for 2025.

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IPCC report: global emissions must peak by 2025 to keep warming at 1.5°C – we need deeds not words

Environmental News Bits

C of global warming – the “safe” limit for temperature rise outlined in the Paris Agreement – as soon as the early 2030s, according to a landmark report by the world’s most senior climate scientists. by Keith Baker (Glasgow Caledonian University) Earth could exceed 1.5°C

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Climate Experts Available to Comment on COP29 from Baku, Azerbaijan and in Canada

Enviromental Defense

This new framework aims to replace the existing 2009 commitment from developed countries to provide $100 billion annually between 2020 and 2025 — a target missed by years. At least $1 trillion per year is required to meet the immediate climate needs of developing countries. The next round is due in February 2025.

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We are not reaching 1.5ºC earlier than previously thought

Real Climate

Of all the troubling headlines emerging from the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) WG1 report, one warning will surely dominate headlines in the next days and weeks: Earth is likely to reach the crucial 1.5? the year on which the 20-year period 2025-2044 is centred, as stated in Table 4.5