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Global leadership on climate is changing, with positive developments on coal use in China and India likely to reduce projected global carbon emissions by roughly two to three billion tonnes by 2030 compared to our estimate last year. The recent, highly adverse rollbacks by President Trump are unlikely to have a major impact on global emissions by 2030.

During its 12th meeting, the Green Climate Fund Board adopted a new Strategic Plan for the fund. This report contains an overview of key decisions and summary of the meeting outcomes.

This briefing looks at issues that relate to the possibility of early entry into force for the Paris Agreement, the status of Party INDCs, protection of the Paris Agreement's 1.5°C temperature goal, and the implications of decision 1/CP.21 on the Paris Agreement's treatment of loss and damage.

A short summary of the 10 key messages from the final report of the Structured Expert Dialogue.

Unless ‘climate neutrality’ is strictly defined as ‘zero global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions’ in the Paris Agreement, which seems very unlikely at this stage of the negotiations, it is clear that it will lead to an undermining of efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.