Bonn, 28 April 2018 – Governments are meeting for the next round of UN climate change negotiations from 30 April to 10 May to further develop the guidelines for implementing the landmark 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement. This will allow the agreement to become operational. The guidelines, or operating manual, are needed to unlock practical actions to realize […]
Alejandra Cámara, Genesis Director, invited to be a Panelist in the Event
Alejandra Cámara, Genesis director and advisor of the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange, was invited to participate in the Roundtable
UN Climate Change News, 14 April 2018 — Countries at the International Maritime Organization have taken a crucial step to limit the climate impact of global maritime transport. At a historic session in London of the IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC), 173 Member States have adopted an initial strategy to reduce the carbon emissions of […]
Brussels, 14 March 2018 – The new Global Green Finance Index (GGFI) was launched today by Finance Watch and Z/Yen at an event in Brussels. The GGFI ranks the world’s financial centres according to perceptions of the quality and depth of their green finance offerings. In this inaugural edition (GGFI 1), financial centres in Western Europe outperformed […]
44 countries to sign the agreement
UN Climate Change News, 28 March 2018 – China reached its 2020 carbon emission target three years ahead of schedule with the help of the country’s carbon trading system according to Xie Zhenhua, China’s representative to UNFCCC negotiations. The development provides an important boost to the Paris Agreement on Climate Action, which has the central goal […]
UN Climate Change News, 9 March 2018 – Experts have established a global blueprint to better understand climate change, its impacts on cities, and the critical role local authorities play in solving this challenge. Cities are responsible for some 75% of global CO2 emissions, with transport and buildings being among the largest contributors. The research agenda […]
After more than 6 years of intense meetings and negotiations, 24 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have adopted in San Jose, Costa Rica, the “Escazú Agreement”, also known as Agreement by Principle 10. It is one of the most important environmental human rights agreements of the last twenty years. This multilateral instrument […]