From Baku to Belém: Will the Rights Climate Shift to Guarantee the Right to a Healthy Environment?
www.daraj.media/en | January 07, 2025
On the night of November 23, in Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku, “the masks have come off” as “the governments of wealthy and developed nations revealed their true intentions—they never intended to honor their commitments under the Paris Agreement,
Read More…A new chapter: localising for impact in Pakistan
www.helpage.org | November 28, 2024
As part of HelpAge International’s ambitious localisation agenda, the HelpAge International country office in Pakistan has closed and FAID will take forward the ageing agenda with older people in the country.
Read More…At Baku, Debasish Kumar seeks global funds & support for Kolkata climate action plan
www.telegraphindia.com | November 26, 2024
A senior Kolkata Municipal Corporation official, in two key meetings held during the just concluded COP 29 at Baku (Azerbaijan), has highlighted the city’s priority to address the increasing risk of climate change in its impending climate action plan in tandem with air pollution.
Read More…Int’l community apprised of city climate action plan
www.thestatesman.com | November 26, 2024
The international climate community was apprised of the forthcoming Kolkata Climate Action Plan on the sidelines of the recently-concluded UN climate conference, COP-29, at Baku, Azerbaijan.
Read More…India fires warning shot with rejection of finance deal at COP29
www.climatechangenews.com | November 25, 2024
As COP29 wound up in the early hours of Sunday, India’s fierce objection to the climate finance deal that was the summit’s main outcome showed its resolve to act as a voice for the Global South in wanting more international support to step up climate action, diplomats and policy analysts said.
Read More…COP29 | No deal would have been better than the bad deal in Baku
www.deccanherald.com | November 25, 2024
If the downslide of international climate negotiations began in Copenhagen, when a dozen rich nations forced their agenda to deny and delay the need for greenhouse gas emissions reduction, it finally hit rock bottom in Baku.
Read More…$300bn for climate finance falls short of expectations
www.dawn.com | November 25, 2024
THE $300 billion package, agreed upon at COP29 in Baku as the new finance goal, is nothing to write home about and many from the developing world and civil society organisations fear it will jeopardise their efforts to adapt to the changing climate.
Read More…COP29: India rejects new USD 300 bn climate finance deal as inequitable
www.nationalheraldindia.com | November 24, 2024
India on Sunday, 24 November, rejected a new climate finance package of $300 billion for the Global South at the UN climate conference in Baku, saying it was too little and too late.
Read More…COP29 U.N. Summit: Civil society protests against climate finance proposal, calls for ‘no deal’ over ‘bad deal’
www.thehindu.com | November 23, 2024
Civil society members staged a silent march at the U.N. climate summit, condemning the developed nations’ proposal to increase annual climate finance to a meagre $250 billion by 2035.
Read More…COP29: Climate-induced migration in the spotlight
www.voanews.com | November 22, 2024
Before Cyclone Aila battered the southwestern coast of Bangladesh in 2009, Vikas Das lived with his family in a coastal hamlet, tending a small vegetable plot and fishing in a nearby river.
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