Climate Action

A new model for forest finance or just more debt? (Jawad Khalid – Lowy The Interpreter)

The launch of the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) has been hailed as a landmark in global climate finance – a new model to...

Pacific Islands: Without literacy, climate resilience is nigh on impossible (Serena Sasingian – Lowy The Interpreter)

Bill Gates’ recent essay “Three tough truths about climate” carried a warning worth heeding in the Pacific: don’t let the urgency of climate change...

The COP30 and COP31 summits must be a display of southern hemisphere stewardship (Izabela Pereira Watts – Lowy The Interpreter)

Climate talks in Brazil have begun with the high-level COP30 general plenary and the attendance of more than 40 world leaders. The United Nations...

STATEMENT: Brazil Announces Pledge to Quadruple ‘Sustainable Fuels’ (World Resources Institute)

At the COP30 Leaders’ Summit, Brazil announced the Belém 4X Pledge on Sustainable Fuels, a commitment to quadruple production and use of ‘sustainable fuels’...

STATEMENT: COP30 Leaders’ Summit Concludes with Major Pledges for Climate, Nature and People (World Resources Institute)

The COP30 Leaders’ Summit concluded today with major announcements and pledges from world leaders, as well as political calls to action ahead of the...

Advancing Local Climate Action for Ambitious NDCs 3.0 (Abiyot Dagne, Carolina Useche, Chaandi Malhotra, Héctor Miguel Donado, Ivy Murgor, Marc Manyifika, Max Jamieson, Nadia...

Nations around the world are ushering in a new decade of climate action through revised nationally determined contributions (NDCs), due this year. The urgency...

For New Global Forest Pledges to Succeed, They Must Center Forest Communities (Celine Salcedo-La Viña, Minnie Degawan, Kevin Currey and Edward Davey – World...

Forests are among our most powerful allies in the fight against climate change. As the world races to halt and reverse deforestation globally by...

5 Ways COP30 Can Make Progress Where Countries’ Climate Plans Fall Short (David Waskow, Jamal Srouji, Kiyomi de Zoysa, Cynthia Elliott, Nathan Cogswell, Deirdre...

Amid record heat and worsening climate impacts on people’s lives, 2025 is a turning point for global climate action, as countries renew their climate...

World’s Informal Housing Crisis Demands a Climate Response (Wanjira Mathai – World Resources Institute)

When floods hit my hometown in Kenya last year, it was the poorest communities who suffered most. In Nairobi, where more than 3 million...

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