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COP29 climate change conference: Outcomes
The 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, in Baku, Azerbaijan, ended on 24 November 2024, two days late. The conference adopted a new collective quantified goal on climate finance destined towards developing countries, and finalised the rules for the operationalisation of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, which provides for bilateral and global carbon trading.
COP29 climate change conference in Baku
The 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change will be held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 11 to 22 November 2024. The COP29 host has framed the conference around two pillars; 'Enable ambition' and 'Enable action', the first focusing on parties' climate action plans and the second on climate finance. During its November I session, the European Ϸվ is due to vote on a motion for a resolution on COP29, tabled by its Committee on the Environment, Public ...
EU certification framework for carbon removals
Delivering climate neutrality by 2050 will require carbon removals to cover remaining hard-to-abate emissions and to deliver, from 2050, negative emissions as per the EU Climate Law. The proposed certification framework seeks to ensure a transparent and credible governance framework for building trust in EU-certified carbon removals and to incentivise further deployment. The co-legislators reached a provisional agreement in February 2024. Ϸվ is expected to vote on the final text ...
COP28 climate change conference: Outcomes
The 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, ended on 13 December 2023. The conference operationalised the Loss and Damage Fund, which was established by COP27 in 2022. It also concluded the first global stocktake of climate action under the Paris Agreement and adopted a decision calling for accelerated short-term action and an orderly transition away from fossil fuels towards climate-neutral energy systems – the first-ever ...
EU green strategic autonomy: The challenge of combining two objectives
The 2015 Paris Climate Agreement and the 2019 European Green Deal initiated a wave of EU policies and legislation to combat climate change and protect the environment. Achieving a green transition became a key driver of EU policies. While many pieces of legislation were being discussed or adopted, the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine moved the political focus to supply chain security and energy dependencies. Since then, achieving open European strategic autonomy for the EU economy ...
Climate change [What Think Tanks are thinking]
Last year’s UN Climate Change Conference, COP27, made some headway in efforts to fight climate change, but its overall progress was limited. The gathering agreed to create a loss-and-damage fund, to support poorer countries disproportionately affected by climate change while only being responsible for a small share of global greenhouse gas emissions. Governments at COP27 also called for reform of the International Monetary Fund and the multilateral development banks, to align global public finance ...
The COP27 Climate Change Conference
This study provides an overview of the status of international climate negotiations and issues at stake at the COP27 climate change conference. It also addresses the current implementation of the Paris Agreement, the stakeholders in the negotiations and the climate policies of key Parties. This document was provided by the Policy Department for Economic, Scientific and Quality of Life Policies at the request of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI).
Climate change [What Think Tanks are thinking]
Russia’s war on Ukraine has reduced supplies of gas and oil to the European Union and other regions, increasing energy prices and complicating efforts to cut emissions of greenhouse gases. Faced with oil and gas shortages, some countries have started to fire up polluting coal power plants which had previously been shut down, or have postponed their planned closure. Burning coal or lignite emits much more carbon dioxide than using oil and gas to produce electricity. Scientists and analysts are urging ...
The 2022 G7 Summit: Against the backdrop of Russia's war on Ukraine
The 48th G7 Summit took place at Schloss Elmau, Germany, on 26-28 June 2022. Russia's war on Ukraine has heavily affected the G7's deliberations this year and created pressing new global challenges that were discussed both in the preparatory meetings and at the summit itself. The resulting communiqué focuses on supporting Ukraine, on reducing the impact of the war on the global economy, security of supply and prices of energy and food, climate challenges and the new G7 partnership for infrastructure ...
COP26 climate change conference: Outcomes
Following prolonged talks, the 26th Conference of the Parties ended late on 13 November 2021. With countries' nationally determined contributions (NDC) ahead of the event leading to an estimated 2.7°C warming towards the end of the century, the host, the United Kingdom, set the goal to keep a limit of 1.5°C warming within reach.