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

Union of Concerned Scientists

I am grateful to have met and learned from people who experience on a daily basis the devastation wrought by fossil fuel production and fossil fuel-driven climate change—and who are now campaigning for a fossil-free Niger Delta.

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

As I discussed in a previous blogpost , this funding is crucial for lower-income countries to be able to make a rapid clean energy transition while closing the huge energy poverty gap for millions of people without access to modern forms of energy. Progress on support for climate adaptation.

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Do We Really Need New Technology to Fight Climate Change?

Union of Concerned Scientists

We already have so many of the foundational technological building blocks of the clean energy transition at hand: renewables, energy efficiency, energy storage, and pathways to electrifying a vast array of energy end uses. Now we need to rapidly accelerate the clean energy momentum already underway.

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

Enviromental Defense

Federal government releases new policy aimed at ending international public financing for fossil fuels, next step is ending domestic financing . This new policy will end a significant portion of EDC’s support for fossil fuels and redirect those funds to support the clean energy transition.

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

Ocean Conservancy

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, fossil fuel production accounts for 35% of global greenhouse gas emissions. For the first time, Ocean Conservancy attended the annual International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Assembly to help advance a just clean-energy transition.

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MAS Launches Singapore-Asia Taxonomy

Clean Energy Law

This effort will allow financial institutions and market participants to use a shared set of definitions, enhancing the availability of taxonomy-aligned financing and supporting sustainable development in CGT-affiliated markets. TRACTION will address challenges and develop solutions to scale up CFPP retirement using carbon credits.

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Analysis: What’s at stake for India and South Asia at COP26?

A Greener Life

Bangladesh and Pakistan have promised significant reductions in their carbon emissions, but both countries continue to invest in and rely on fossil fuel infrastructure, particularly coal and gas. Holding on to too much coal also means that adding a lot of new renewable energy capacity may not necessarily help decarbonise the economy.