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 …
Climate negotiators from 197 countries, including India, will gather in Bonn in Germany from Monday for a two-week meeting to discuss the implementation of the landmark 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement and how to step up action. At the crucial inter-sessional talks, experts said, progress needs to be made on …
This brief from SEI, IDDRI and ODI finds that a transboundary view of climate risk creates opportunities for international cooperation on adaptation. This brief asserts that the critical importance of adaptation is still under-valued in international negotiations. Specifically, the view that adaptation is a local problem is holding back ambition …
Dodoma — Parliament yesterday unanimously endorsed the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The Minister of State in the Vice President's Office (Union Affairs and Environment), Mr January Makamba, tabled the motion in Parliament, asking legislators to endorse the agreement so that Tanzania could benefit …
The 2015 Paris Climate Agreement was the first instance of countries adhering to take a collective action against global warming. More than 190 countries came forward and submitted their contributions in the form of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions, reflective of their ability and capacity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, as …
Bank holdings in “extreme” fossil fuels skyrocketed globally to $115bn during Donald Trump’s first year as US president, with holdings in tar sands oil more than doubling, a new report has found. A sharp flight from fossil fuels investments after the Paris agreement was reversed last year with a return …
Canada will likely miss a 2020 interim carbon emissions reduction target and will need to take strong measures if it further hopes to meet its Paris agreement commitment, said an audit released Tuesday. Canada had set a target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions linked to global warming by 17 percent …
India is now home to a new international treaty-based organisation following the signing of the headquarters agreement between the government and the newly-formed International Solar Alliance here on Monday. The agreement was signed between Minister of State for External Affairs V.K. Singh and ISA Interim Director General Upendra Tripathy. According …
Poland will host the 24th Session of the Conference of the Parties this year on 3-14 December 2018 Civil society organisations (CSOs) and allies have expressed concern over the passage of a Bill in Poland that will prevent environmental rights defenders to protest against detrimental climate change policies during COP24 …
In a step towards a cleaner environment, the number of coal-based fired power plants under development have seen a steep decline, especially in India and China, a report said on Thursday. The report, however, warns that despite a global coal phase-out trend in new coal plants, emissions from operational plants …
Climate change experts from across Africa will meet in Kenya in April for a five-day conference to highlight strategies for accelerating global climate action, a Kenyan official said on Thursday. Keriako Tobiko, the Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Forestry, said the first African Climate Week will be held in Nairobi …
This year's Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) was supposed to have been held in our home country of Vanuatu, deep in the South Pacific. Instead it will open this April in London, and for that we can - in part - blame our changing climate. Thousands of miles away …
The number of coal-fired power plants built worldwide fell steeply over the past two years, but emissions are too high to keep global warming within relatively safe levels, campaigners said on Thursday. The start of new builds dropped by 73 percent between 2015 and 2017, as China tightened restrictions on …
Kolkata stands to benefit the most from bringing down carbon pollution Fifteen cities in Asia and Africa could each see at least a million fewer premature deaths this century if they cut toxic carbon dioxide emissions along the levels promoted in the global climate change agreement, scientists said on Monday. …
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced the appointment of US businessman and philanthropist Michael Bloomberg as his Special Envoy for Climate Action on Monday, which is a promotion from his former position as Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change. The announcement was made at a ceremony held at the …
The Dutch prime minister has urged the EU to “raise the bar” on climate action by adopting a new emissions reduction target for 2030 of 55% below 1990 levels. The high-profile intervention comes shortly after calls by Swedish and French ministers on the European Commission to commit to deeper, faster …
Develop the concept of aggregate emission targets, which are goals for national emissions but do not dictate the forms of regulation used to achieve the goals. Compare aggregate emission intensity, quantity, and price targets adopted at the national level but implemented cost effectively at the rm level. Obtain simple ranking …
On November 4 2016, the Paris Agreement entered into force. To date, 190 countries have submitted 164 nationally determined contributions (NDCs) outlining their own goals and methods to reduce emissions in common effort to limit global temperature increases this century. In maintaining momentum after Paris and NDC implementation, more onus …
Donald Trump has said the United States could re-enter the Paris climate change agreement – and that he would have taken a “tougher stand” in Brexit negotiations than Theresa May. The US president said his country could join the international accord if it had a “completely different deal” but called …
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the United States could "conceivably" return to the Paris climate accord, although he stopped short of signaling any move in that direction. "Frankly, it's an agreement that I have no problem with, but I had a problem with the agreement that they signed, …
The Trump administrations decision earlier this year to pull out of the historic 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, saying the Obama-era deal was an attempt to diminish the US economy and take jobs away, has not stopped incredible global momentum to curb global warming. The Trump administrations decision earlier this year …
