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Belize launched its vision for its two-year chairmanship of AOSIS at a 19 Feb 2019 event at UN HQ.

March 2019

Where action on climate change, sustainable development and oceans intersects - Belize's vision for AOSIS

Belize has embarked on its two-year term leading the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS). The Caribbean nation’s vision for the Alliance, which turns 30 this year, focuses on ambitious action on climate change, sustainable development and oceans.

February 2019

Glacial melt spells more trouble in the Himalayan LDCs

Dr Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Dr Fahad Saeed

The recent landmark International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) report on glacial melt in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya (HKH) region paints a drastic picture, indicating that the glaciers will melt by one third even if global temperature rise is limited to 1.5°C, a goal of the Paris climate agreement. However, the picture becomes even bleaker for the region’s Least Developed Countries, in which the report projects glaciers will recede by some 50% by the end of the century, spelling disaster for the poorest people living on the roof of the world.

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Klima Streik Fridays For Future Demonstration 25 01 2019 Berlin

February 2019

Livin' in the future - delaying climate action and intergenerational justice

Dr Carl-Friedrich Schleussner

School kids around the world are taking to the streets demanding that the older generation step up efforts to tackle climate change, which they see as a major threat to their future. The teenagers of today will still be alive to bear the climate impacts of tomorrow - like sinking coastlines and cities, droughts, floods, crop failures - and will have an ever shrinking range of options to deal with the legacy of inaction on cutting carbon emissions.
(Also available in German)

February 2019

The inadequate in pursuit of the out-of-date: Germany’s coal exit must be revised by 2020

Dr Carl-Friedrich Schleussner

Germany's Coal Commission has ignored essential review guidelines of the national climate targets with regard to the Paris Agreement. The commission's plan must be revised already by 2020, alongside the EU's and Germany's targets.

(Article also available in German)

December 2018

Progress on Loss and Damage in Katowice

Dr Olivia Serdeczny

As far as Loss and Damage is concerned, the Katowice climate talks delivered a solid outcome. Developing countries were calling for the inclusion of Loss and Damage in the transparency framework and the Global Stocktake. We can now say: they succeeded.

Katowice, Poland. Can COP24 deliver on 1.5°C?

December 2018

Setting the rules: can COP24 deliver on 1.5°C?

COP 24 is about more than a set of rules. It’s about designing a system that can deliver climate action in line with the IPCC’s clear message: that we must do everything possible to limit warming to 1.5°C, and that we need to act fast. Will governments gathered in Katowice act with the urgency and unity needed for preventing the most dangerous levels of climate change?

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Where action on climate change, sustainable development and oceans intersects - Belize's vision for AOSIS

Glacial melt spells more trouble in the Himalayan LDCs

Livin' in the future - delaying climate action and intergenerational justice

The inadequate in pursuit of the out-of-date: Germany’s coal exit must be revised by 2020

Progress on Loss and Damage in Katowice

Setting the rules: can COP24 deliver on 1.5°C?