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Mia Mottley: the 'fearless' leader pushing a global settlement for …
WEBNov 18, 2021 · Barbados’ prime minister Mia Amor Mottley made her mark on the Cop26 climate talks in Glasgow with a rip-roaring speech telling the leaders of the world’s largest economies to “try harder” to avert catastrophic climate change. A 2C overheated world “is a death sentence,” she said. The first female leader of her country, Mottley is ...
Chileans look to new constitution to return water to communities
WEBJul 16, 2021 · A new constitution. Communities are hopeful that a new constitution will dismantle water privatisation in Chile and ensure fair distribution. 4 July 2021 will be remembered as a historic day in Chile. An indigenous woman, Elisa Loncon, assumed the presidency of a convention to write Chile’s new constitution. 155 citizens were elected by ...
Transport - Climate Home News
WEBTransport accounts for a growing share of global emissions. The EU should lead a push for clean travel at home and internationally. The cruise industry says LNG is a climate solution. It’s not. 26 September 2023. Some of the world’s biggest cruise companies are claiming to be green, while continuing to use weakly regulated fossil fuels.
Meet the woman who first identified the greenhouse effect
WEBFeb 9, 2016 · Meet the woman who first identified the greenhouse effect. Eunice Foote demonstrated the heat-trapping properties of carbon dioxide at a scientific conference in 1856, newly digitised records show. Irish physicist John Tyndall is commonly credited with discovering the greenhouse effect, which underpins the science of climate change. …
Mafalda Duarte named as next chief of UN climate fund
WEBMar 14, 2023 · By Chloé Farand. The UN’s flagship climate fund has appointed one of the few women leaders in the multilateral climate finance space as its next executive director. Mafalda Duarte, a Portuguese national, joins the Green Climate Fund from the Washington-based Climate Investment Funds (CIF), where she served as CEO since 2014.
How to fix the finance flows that are pushing our planet to the brink
WEBMay 1, 2024 · Even as they brand themselves as responsible channels for climate finance, the world’s most powerful financial institutions are pushing our planet to the brink. Their stated aim to get “bigger and better” really amounts to all-out push to get “bigger” but only token tweaks to get “better”. The Spring meetings ended with business ...
Concerns raised about Green Climate Fund flood defence project …
WEBFeb 19, 2021 · By Megan Darby. Concerns have been raised about a $66 million flood management project financed by the Green Climate Fund in Samoa, after river walls failed to protect a hotel from flash flooding in December. The project was approved at a GCF board meeting in the Samoan capital Apia in December 2016, held at the Sheraton …
Pete Betts honored by climate diplomats - Climate Home News
WEBOct 24, 2023 · Pete Betts, a veteran British climate negotiator and one of the architects of the Paris Agreement, has died aged 64. His 35-years-long career in the UK civil service culminated in him taking on the role of the EU’s lead negotiator – at a time when the UK was still in the EU. Widely praised for his ability to build bridges and challenge ...
Italy's Africa plan raises concerns about fossil fuels - Climate Home …
WEBJan 30, 2024 · Italy plans to channel billions of euros from its climate fund into a development programme for Africa that observers fear could promote fossil fuels and “false solutions” to global warming. At a summit in Rome with two dozen African and European leaders on Monday, Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni unveiled a long-awaited …