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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.
In 2024, mountains will feature strongly in a number of climate processes, such as the the expert dialogue on mountains at the climate talks in Bonn this June.
"The only GST that matters for 1.5°C": key takeaways from the first global stocktake at COP28
Dr Neil Grant, Bill Hare, Dr Carl-Friedrich Schleussner
We breakdown the key takeaways from the first global stocktake (GST) since the Paris Agreement and how it sets the stage for the next two years in climate.
Safeguards and exit points for the World Bank as host of the Loss and Damage Fund
Dr Olivia Serdeczny, Manjeet Dhakal, Sneha Pandey
An agreement was reached to establish the World Bank as the interim host of the Loss and Damage Fund. Developing countries signed up to this on certain conditions. We unpack the safeguards put in place and look at the three points at which the Fund could exit the World Bank.
Second Glasgow Dialogue: lessons from latest Committee meeting on loss and damage finance
Dr Olivia Serdeczny, Sneha Pandey
Key takeaways from the Transitional Committee’s second meeting on operationalising the new loss and damage fund and funding arrangements.