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Mainstreaming gender in the new NDCs can help unlock the full potential of women and girls as powerful agents of change in the climate fight - here's how.
COP29 concluded with more than a few agenda items left unresolved. One was the 'just transition work programme'. What happened during these negotiations? And how can we ensure a better outcome at COP30?
Two new papers published in Nature Climate Change today ask whether the recent global temperatures at or exceeding 1.5° warming above preindustrial mean the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C limit has been reached or will soon be?
What did we just agree to? The COP29 outcome
Bill Hare, Rueanna Haynes, Manjeet Dhakal, Sasha Jattansingh, Uta Klönne
This COP is already being reflected on as one of the most difficult in the history of the negotiations. And the final text has not made it all worth it. So, what was agreed? And what does it mean for addressing the climate crisis and the work to come next year on the road to COP30 in Belém?
The IEA just published its 2024 World Energy Outlook: what does it say?
Bill Hare, Dr Neil Grant
Our experts pull out the key messages from the International Energy Agency's 2024 global update on the energy sector and its implications for the climate.
Delay tactics at IPCC-61 could put science inputs to the UNFCCC at risk
Uta Klönne, Dr Fahad Saeed
The latest Plenary of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just concluded in Sofia, Bulgaria. Despite days of deliberation, delegates were not able to agree on delivering the next round of reports in time for the second global stocktake, despite a request to do so from governments in the first global stocktake outcome agreed in Dubai last year.