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The failure of voluntary carbon markets have shown that carbon markets, offsets, and removals do not work. Instead, they provide a smokescreen for big polluters to keep on emitting at the expense of people and nature.
Following another year of record-high global heat and extreme weather events, UN climate chief Simon Stiell told negotiators at COP29 in Baku that setting an ambitious new climate finance target is crucial for the well-being of all nations, including the wealthiest and most powerful.
“Accelerating Coal-to-Clean Energy Transitions: First Report and Recommendations of the Coal Transition Commission” seeks to advance the collective understanding of the opportunities, challenges and potential policy solutions to hasten the transition.
More than 100 organisations from across the international health and climate community have endorsed nine recommendations for the summit in ‘A COP29 for People and Planet’, a policy brief produced through consultations convened by the Global Climate and Health Alliance.
In schedule change, Vanuatu’s testimony will now open landmark ICJ climate change case as 110 UN member states and intergovernmental organisations make their case in The Hague, starting 2 December.
As negotiators descend on Baku they will know that 2024 is set to yet again be the hottest year in history, so each of the last 10 years is among the 10 hottest on record. The planet is now the hottest it’s been in 120,000 years, long before humans started choosing safe places to live and farm.