Women-led and women’s rights organizations are on the frontlines of today’s humanitarian crises—but many are at risk of disappearing. As global needs rise due to conflict, climate change, and displacement, deep cuts to foreign aid are threatening organizations that provide life-saving services for women and girls. In March 2025, UN …
The Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) recently carried out an analysis of the extent to which the EU (and its then 15 Member States) fulfilled the solemn promises made to developing countries in the so-called 'Bonn Declaration' of 23 July 2001. Eight years ago, at the UNFCCC Conference of …
The developed countries have refused to share a portion of the profits they make from the international carbon trade to replenish a fund meant to help poor and developing countries adapt to climate change. With the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting ending in Poland on a bleak …
The climate change conference in Poznan, which ended last week, would be remembered for little else but the activation of the Adaptation Fund a year after it was set up. Developing countries, including India to some extent, can now send proposals to the Fund for projects to safeguard vulnerable communities …
Priscilla Jebaraj POZNAN (POLAND): As the U.N. climate talks wound down here on Friday evening, developing countries are celebrating the small success of operationalising an Adaptation Fund, even while expressing frustration about the progress toward a post-2012 treaty to fight climate change.
The classical have and have not divide is destined to turn the climate change summit here into a failure. Forget identifying the elements that would be negotiated in Copenhagen next winter, there is a strong possibility that rich industrialized countries or Annex 1 countries could even tinker with the set …
The aim of the recent UN climate change conference in Nusa Dua (Bali, Indonesia) was widely held to be two-fold. To finalise the operational details of the Kyoto Protocol Adaptation Fund (AF), and to put together a
@sunitanar The much-awaited Paris Agreement on climate change was adopted by all members of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on Saturday. The Agreement will now be open for ratification by each member nation from April 2016 onwards. Some highlights from the draft text: Achievements for developing …
