The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
The increasingly interconnected nature of the global economy means that the impacts of climate change mitigation measures, or response measures, are not confined within the borders of countries implementing them. Such impacts will become of even more and growing importance under the decentralised and increasingly ambitious new climate regime. This …
The Blueprint for Action (‘the Blueprint’) is a tool to support integrated, nationally-led and equity-driven plans to prepare for El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and other climate hazards, absorbing risks without jeopardizing development gains, and informing climate-smart development plans to reduce risk. The Blueprint encourages the global, regional, national and …
The Blueprint for Action (‘the Blueprint’) is a tool to support integrated, nationally-led and equity-driven plans to prepare for El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and other climate hazards, absorbing risks without jeopardizing development gains, and informing climate-smart development plans to reduce risk. The Blueprint encourages the global, regional, national and …
India played a seminal role in the Paris Climate Change deal coming into force in 2016, a landmark pact that will help define the legacy of UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon who handed over the baton to his successor Antonio Guterres as the raging conflicts in the Arab world, the refugee …
If countries abide by the Paris Agreement's global warming target of 1.5 degrees Celsius, potential fish catches could increase by six million metric tonnes per year, estimates a new study. The researchers also found that some oceans are more sensitive to changes in temperature and will have substantially larger gains …
Actively engaging women in climate mitigation activities can yield multiple benefits, including improved jobs,better livelihoods, and more equitable revenue flows. Efforts are moving forward to design climate funding mechanisms to help capture these benefits, but policy makers and other stakeholders need more guidance on designing gender-responsive climate policies and funding …
As climate diplomacy becomes an increasing necessity, more countries are working to integrate climate change into their foreign policy. They do this both to further international cooperation to combat and address the issue and to protect domestic interests in climate change decisions that have wide implications on economic development, national …
Countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean urgently need financial support to green their power sectors and thereby implement their national climate action plans under the Paris Climate Change Agreement. This is a key finding of a survey conducted by the secretariat of the UN Framework Convention …
Following the 2016 entry into force of the Paris Agreement, governments are now expected to turn their greenhouse gas emissions pledges into concrete climate policies. Given the global public good nature of climate change mitigation and the important differences in cross-country marginal abatement costs, distributing abatement efforts across countries could …
Pope Francis urged national leaders on Monday to implement global environmental agreements without delay, a message that looked to be squarely aimed at U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. Addressing a group of scientists that included theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, the pope gave his strongest speech on the environment since the election …
The Marrakech Climate Conference marked a new start for the global community to turn the Paris Agreement on climate change into action, but negotiations on climate financing will continue as progress on this issue remains slow, the head of the Chinese delegation said on Saturday. Xie Zhenhua, Chinese climate special …
MOROCCO: Amid reports that six G20 nations - Argentina, Australia, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United States - have failed to take action in line with their Paris Agreement pledges, the countries on penultimate day of the UN climate change conference (COP22) on Thursday appeared to have more or …
Amid apprehension that US President-elect Donald Trump might withdraw the US from the climate-rescue Paris Agreement, India on Thursday said that one should not react on assumptions and “wait” and keep a “close watch” on the situation. Environment Minister Anil Madhav Dave, during a media interaction organised by BASIC countries, …
Chief negotiator Ravi Shankar Prasad pushes for Doha Amendment ratification by April 2017 Seeking a clear definition of climate justice in the Paris Agreement implementation guidelines and pushing for uninterrupted flow of finance from developed countries to meet the targets of the agreement are on top of India’s agenda at …
MARRAKECH, Morocco: The International Solar Alliance (ISA), brainchild of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, moved to a next level when more than 20 countries, including India, France and Brazil, signed its framework agreement on Tuesday - the first day when it was opened for signature here on side-lines of the UN …
The Global Adaptation & Resilience Investment Working Group (GARI) released its discussion paper, “Bridging the Adaptation Gap,” reporting that 70 percent of private investors surveyed see both risk and investment opportunity from the impact of climate change. According to GARI, 78 percent of 101 surveyed investors and other stakeholders thought …
Donald Trump's win may be a bad news for climate action under the Paris Agreement. He had not only repeatedly questioned the science underlying climate change, but also once called it a "hoax" and pledged to pull the United States out of the global climate deal. Though the US under …
Trump has expressed disdain for green initiatives, may pull US out of pacts The election of Donald Trump may see climate negotiators go into crisis mode. The concerns stem from Trump’s various statements — such as his 2012 tweet, “The concept of global warming was created by and for the …
In this new CDKN technical report, Xolisa Ngwadla and Samah El-Bakri explore in detail the task ahead to transform the Global Adaptation Goal in the Paris climate agreement: from warm words into real action that will save lives and livelihoods on the ground. The comprehensive scope of the Paris Agreement, …
MARRAKECH, MOROCCO: As poor and deteriorating air quality chokes the capital, India puts forward its priority list for global action to reduce carbon dioxide pollution in Marrakech. New Delhi says much more needs to be done to reduce carbon dioxide pollution immediately rather than waiting for 2020. While preparing the …
