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  • COP16 negotiations end in 'landmark' deal for financing

    28 February 2025

    The reconvened talks ended with a transformative deal on financial mobilisation, with the private sector urged to increase its contributions to a global fund, writes Genevieve Redgrave

  • What COP29 got wrong...and how to get it right

    09 December 2024

    Misaligned incentives are stunting climate progress, write UKSIF's James Alexander and US SIF's Maria Lettini

  • After COP29, can voluntary carbon markets scale again?

    27 November 2024

    COP29 paved the way for the resurgence of demand for carbon credits - but only if we address the many paradoxes that abound in the market, argues Renat Heuberger

  • COP29: a step Baku-wards?

    15 November 2024

    At the conference's half-way mark, underwhelming progress lays bare the challenges of the transition, writes Peter Cripps

  • COP29 finance day: Harmonisation initiatives the highlight of underwhelming day

    14 November 2024

    Multi-jurisdiction taxonomies and a push for harmonised transition plan rules stole the headlines, as finance proved a sticking point, Michael Hurley writes

  • COP 29: Will AI be mentioned in the final text?

    11 November 2024

    AI, with all its implications for emissions, should be hotly debated in Baku and have a significant presence in the final agreement, argues Mathieu Nègre

  • Global Biodiversity Framework 'in jeopardy' after COP16 finance failure

    04 November 2024

    The COP16 biodiversity summit has failed to reach agreement on crucial issues relating to finance, leaving delivery of the landmark Global Biodiversity Framework agreed two years ago "in jeopardy".

  • European Leaders at COP16 are Helping Protect Indigenous Lands

    01 November 2024

    Protecting 30% of the Earth should not mean expelling Indigenous Peoples and local communities from their land, write Dr. James C. Deutsch and Dr. Viviana Figueroa

  • From COP to coop

    01 November 2024

    While COP16 is important, it is also worth paying attention to a bond issue from a UK chicken producer, write Ulf Erlandsson and Trisha Hutchinson

  • Comment: Financial grievances weigh on COP16

    01 November 2024

    The rift between the Global South and the Global North was inescapable at the biodiversity summit and is hindering progress, writes Peter Cripps.

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