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COP29 Must Increase Climate Finance and Stand Up to the Fossil Fuel Industry 

Union of Concerned Scientists

After spending a week in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, I’m now gearing up to attend the 29 th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP29) to the Framework Convention on Climate Change in Baku, Azerbaijan, from November 11-22.

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

At COP29, world leaders must deliver outcomes that respond to the acute state of the climate crisis, including: An agreement on a robust climate finance goal (aka the new collective quantified goal, or NCQG , on climate finance). Climate vulnerable countries need funding to start flowing quickly. to 2.8 °C

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Do We Really Need New Technology to Fight Climate Change?

Union of Concerned Scientists

And yet, technological innovation is not what’s standing in the way of significant and necessary near-term climate progress. These pieces are critical to unleashing necessary change—regardless of the technologies at hand—yet are too often overlooked. Now we need to rapidly accelerate the clean energy momentum already underway.

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Three International Climate Priorities for UNGA and NYC Climate Week

Union of Concerned Scientists

That means we’ll need to quickly add additional clean energy policies and policies to phase out fossil fuels just to meet our 2030 goals. Failing to provide this finance not only risks the world’s ability to cut emissions sharply and quickly, it is also imposing an increasingly unjust toll on the least developed nations.

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What is Our Ocean’s Role in the Transition to Clean Energy?

Ocean Conservancy

Clean ocean energy solutions are critical to reducing emissions and averting the climate crisis. Climate change is the single greatest threat our ocean faces. It puts the wildlife and communities that depend on the ocean at risk through impacts like ocean acidification, sea level rise and temperature changes.

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MAS Launches Singapore-Asia Taxonomy

Clean Energy Law

Green , James Bee , and Kevin Mak On 3 December 2023, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) unveiled the Singapore-Asia Taxonomy for Sustainable Finance (Taxonomy) at the United Nations COP28 climate conference in Dubai. TRACTION will address challenges and develop solutions to scale up CFPP retirement using carbon credits.

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Canada delivers on climate promise, takes significant step towards ending public fossil finance 

Enviromental Defense

Unceded Algonquin Anishinaabe Territories [Ottawa, ON] – Today the Government of Canada released a plan to end new public finance for fossil fuels abroad and instead prioritize clean energy projects. Vanessa Corkal, Senior Policy Advisor, International Institute for Sustainable Development.