Geneva SDG Community Coffee: Peace, justice, and gender equality
This event will explore the interlinkages between Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)16 on Peace, Just and Inclusive Societies and SDG 5 on Gender Equality
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Indonesia's JETP Deal Will Only Succeed if Coupled with Radical Measures to Unblock Renewable Energy Pipeline
At the G20 Summit in Bali, a group of developed countries—led by the United States of America and Japan—pledged to mobilize US$20 billion (around Rp300 trillion) over the next 3-5 years to accelerate Indonesia’s energy transition through early retirement of coal power plants and deployment of renewable energy. The flood of new finance for renewable energy under the so-called Just Energy Transition Partnership agreement (JETP) is certainly welcome—but unless the critical barriers to renewable energy deployment in Indonesia are addressed, the deal will fail to deliver.
Carbon trading: A tool for reconciliation or colonization?
Eriel Tchekwie Deranger’s home community of Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation is in what she calls a “sacrifice zone.” The nation borders the oil production epicentre of Canada: the oilsands, which leak toxic chemicals and wreak havoc on local ecosystems.
National Training Workshop on Cameroon's Investment Treaties – Phase 2
From November 22 to 24, 2022, IISD, in cooperation with the Commonwealth Secretariat, organized the second phase of its national training on investment treaties on behalf of the government of Cameroon
Global Market Report: Cocoa prices and sustainability
This report presents the production and consumption trends of the cocoa sector and how voluntary sustainability standards can improve the commodity's market resilience.
COP27 ends with historic compensation fund to address climate change-induced disasters- Key details
COP27: The UN climate summit agreed to set up a "transitional committee' to decide how the money will be provided and who will contribute to the fund. Its recommendations will be discussed at COP28 next year.
Egypt summit decides to set up a fund for climate catastrophes, no other progress
After resisting it for years, the developed world finally caved in on the issue of loss and damage at the UN climate summit in Egypt, agreeing to the longstanding demand by vulnerable countries to establish a fund to pay for climate disasters that have been brought on by global warming.
The world waited far too long for this, says India after COP27 ends with historic compensation fund
The UN climate summit in Egypt concluded on Sunday with a landmark decision to establish a fund to address loss and damage, but the outcome on other crucial issues such as India's call for phasedown of all fossil fuels reflected little progress.
In a historic first, rich countries will pay for losses and damages caused by climate change
Loss and damages fund has long been a demand of the developing world, which is facing the brunt of climate change. At COP27, talks over the fund nearly broke down late Saturday.
COP27 ends with historic compensation fund; delivers less on other issues
The UN climate summit in Egypt concluded on Sunday with a landmark decision to establish a fund to address loss and damage, but the outcome on other crucial issues such as India's call for phase down of all fossil fuels reflected little progress.