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This is a developed country tactic that has been used before. It was also used during the negotiations on the Loss and Damage Fund at COP27 last year

Das Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) der University of Cambridge hat gerade sein COP28 Briefing veröffentlicht.

The Mena region’s embrace of climate-related investment initiatives has continued with Bahrain-based alternative investment firm Investcorp unveiling a platform dedicated to climate-themed investment. The platform has been launched in partnership with Bahrain’s sovereign wealth fund Mumtalakat and a number of other Bahrain-based firms. According to Investcorp, the platform will target private capital investment in companies […]

For 30 years, developing countries fought to set up a dedicated loss and damage financing facility to pay for the harm incurred by vulnerable countries due to the escalating climate crisis. Article 8 of the 2015 Paris Agreement recognized the issue of loss and damage but didn’t compel countries to pay for it. Finally, at […]

At COP28, the world must face the reality that business-as-usual is not delivering the needed cuts to greenhouse gas emissions. For most countries, squeezed public finances and the new era of “higher for longer” interest rates present a terrible trade off: short-term financial health versus the long-term health of our planet.  It is against this backdrop […]