New #COP29 climate finance text is out.
A vague $1.3T target with no teeth, $250B in debt-creating finance, 0 commitment to end fossil fuels & no mention of #HumanRights nor #LossAndDamage.
Rich countries are dodging climate responsibilities & vulnerable nations will again pay the price.
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“Trillions, not billions!”
At #COP29, voices from the Global South demand climate finance that is adequate, predictable, and just.
Public finance —not loans— is essential for adaptation, mitigation, and #LossAndDamage. 
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"The hearings will begin on Monday, December 2, with over 100 countries and organizations presenting in 30 minute increments over two weeks. At the request of the UN General Assembly, the #ICJ will determine the existing financial liability of countries for their contribution to #ClimateChange and what actions countries must take to prevent climate change. The advisory opinion, while non-binding, could set a new standard for climate litigation."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmcgowan/2024/11/12/international-court-releases-detailed-hearing-schedule-for-climate-change-opinion/
#LossAndDamage
Forbes · International Court Releases Detailed Hearing Schedule For Climate Change Opinion
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"Africa, responsible for only 2.8% of global emissions from 1850 to 2021, faces the toughest challenges from climate change.
The $792 million pledged during COP-28 to set the LDF in motion was welcomed by developing countries, especially those in Africa.
#Africa requires between $290 billion and $440 billion between 2020 and 2030 to finance #LossAndDamage needs, highlighting the significant gap between pledges and the current realities."
https://independent.ng/climate-change-africa-deserves-huge-compensation/
independent.ngClimate Change: Africa Deserves Huge Compensation – Independent Newspaper NigeriaIndependent.ng - Nigeria News - Top Nigerian newspapers - Breaking news - Top news headlines from Nigeria and World.
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"Attempts to establish legal obligations for businesses to pay for the impacts of #ClimateChange have been largely unsuccessful.
The UN Rapporteur’s report on “Climate Justice: #LossAndDamage” pushes for international legal development in this area.
It is within the remediation pillar that the most noteworthy proposal is found. It calls for businesses and countries with high GHG emissions to pay for the impacts of climate change."
Forbes · UN Report Calls For Businesses To Pay For Climate Change, Restructuring Of Economy
The #Philippines has been chosen to host the board of the "#LossAndDamage" fund created by #UN talks, marking another step towards providing #FinancialHelp for countries to recover and rebuild from the impact of #GlobalWarming.
Last month, the #WorldBank's board approved a plan for the bank to act as interim host of the fund for four years.
Philippines chosen to host climate 'loss and damage' fund board
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/philippines-chosen-host-climate-loss-damage-fund-board-2024-07-09/
Analysis: #Africa’s unreported #ExtremeWeather in 2022 and #ClimateChange
by Daisy Dune, October 26, 2022
"From deadly #floods in #Nigeria to devastating #drought in #Somalia, Africa has faced a run of severe – and sometimes unprecedented – extreme weather events since the start of 2022.
"But while the US hurricane season and 40C heat in the UK have captured headlines, many of Africa’s most extreme and life-changing weather events went largely unreported in global-north media.
"Ahead of COP27 in Egypt – which is being referred to as 'Africa’s COP' – Carbon Brief has used disaster data, humanitarian reports and local testimony to investigate Africa’s 2022 extreme weather events – and examined how they could be linked to climate change, according to scientists.
"Carbon Brief’s analysis of disaster records finds that extreme weather events in Africa have killed at least 4,000 people and affected a further 19 million since the start of 2022. However, the impacts of African extreme events often go unrecorded – especially for #heatwaves – and so the true figures are likely to be much higher.
"The investigation also shows that:
Drought and famine have killed 2,500 people in #Uganda and affected eight million in Ethiopia this year [2022]
More than 600 people have died in #Nigeria’s worst floods in a decade. This includes 76 people who were killed when a boat carrying flood victims capsized.
Southern African countries, including #Madagascar and #Mozambique, were battered by six severe storms this year, killing at least 890 people.
Temperatures reached #48C in #Tunisia in July [2022], fanning the flames of extreme #wildfires.
Nearly two million people in #Chad were affected by floods in August and October.
"The toll of extreme weather on African lives is one example of 'loss and damage' – a term to describe how climate change is already harming people, especially the world’s most vulnerable.
"'Africa contributes 4% of global emissions, yet is at the frontline of the loss and damage. #LossAndDamage finance is not negotiable,' #AdenikeOladosu, a climate activist from Nigeria, tells Carbon Brief."
Read more:
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-africas-unreported-extreme-weather-in-2022-and-climate-change/
Carbon Brief · Analysis: Africa’s unreported extreme weather in 2022 and climate change - Carbon BriefCarbon Brief’s analysis of disaster records finds that extreme weather events in Africa have killed at least 4,000 people and affected a further 19 million since the start of 2022.
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"Decolonising Climate Coloniality in an era of Loss & Damage : A Primer for Artists".
23 Feb 2024
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Speakers: Farhana Sultana and Harjeet Singh 
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Been thinking of my late mentor & collaborator Dr. Saleemul Huq & wondering what he would have had to say about #COP28. Or how his presence there might have informed, inspired, interrupted different discussions, as it had in all prior COPs. Pretty sure he would have had scathing words at the end.
Perhaps he was spared having to witness paltry commitments to #LossAndDamage & #Adaptation #climatefinance & lack of concrete plans on #JustTransition #fossilfuels
30:00 minute mark:BBCNewshour - COP28: agreement calls for "transition away from fossil fuels" - BBC SoundsDelegates at the UN Climate Conference agree to "transition away from fossil fuels"
All eyes on #COP28 final document and what concrete plans are laid out. Equitable and fair outcomes are critically important. #fossilfuelphaseout has to be matched with viable, affordable, available #renewables & #justtransition. Funding for #LossAndDamage & #ClimateAdaptation are critical alongside mechanisms for accountability. Fast action has to be matched with #ClimateJustice.
I talk about #COP28 #FossilFuelPhaseOut #ClimateJustice #LossAndDamage #JustTransition & global climate governance - the hypocrisy of it & its enormous possibilities, about signal & substance.
On CBC Radio @CBC, episode link here, check it out!
CBC ListenActivists clash with oil industry at COP28 | The Current with Matt Galloway | Live Radio | CBC ListenClimate activists have voiced concerns about the growing influence of oil and gas industry lobbyists at COP 28. As the climate conference wraps up in Dubai, we hear what progress has been made, and where the sticking points have been.
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"Wealthy countries most responsible for the climate emergency have so far pledged a combined total of just over $700m (£556m) to the #LossAndDamage fund – the equivalent of less than 0.2% of the irreversible economic and non-economic losses developing countries are facing from global heating every year."
The Guardian · $700m pledged to loss and damage fund at Cop28 covers less than 0.2% needed
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@Schouten_B You're the one gaslighting: China's annual output has only exceeded the rich countries in recent years, since we outsourced most of our manufacturing to it. Atmospheric CO2 and its effects on temperature are cumulative: the overwhelming majority of emissions are due to North America and Europe since the Industrial Revolution. We are the most responsible. We need to do the most to fix it. #COP28 #DecarbonizeNow #LossAndDamage #ClimateJustice
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"For years, climate-vulnerable countries have asked wealthier nations – who have largely amassed their riches through unbridled CO2 emissions – to take their fair share of responsibility for the #climate crisis and pay up for the damage caused.
The fund launched on the first day of the UN climate negotiations this year is meant to address that imbalance."
#LossAndDamage #LossAndDamageFund
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/12/2/reparations-fund-historic-but-real-fight-begins-now-climate-campaigners
Al Jazeera · Reparations fund ‘historic’, but real fight begins now: Climate campaigners
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22/n A couple of weeks ago, at a pre-COP28 meeting in #AbuDhabi, there was further real progress, when rich and poor country governments managed to agree on a blue-print of the #LossAndDamage fund. This will be announced officially in #Dubai at #COP28 next week, but it’s really good this is already in place - now we “just” need actual money to start materialising.
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21/n Another key concern at #COP28 is #LossAndDamage. This was the one area where there was real progress at #COP27 last year in Egypt: for the first time, countries agreed to set up a fund for vulnerable countries hit hard by climate disasters. Loss and Damage is simultaneously essential and deeply inadequate as a #ClimateJustice measure: no amount of money is going to compensate for the loss of entire Islands or cities! But it must be provided
It's "almost an insult," said Brandon Wu, director of policy and campaigns at ActionAid USA. If the US responsibility for about a quarter of historical greenhouse gas #emissions were equated with a fair share of #LossAndDamage finance "that would mean the #US should be providing $70 billion per year" by 2030, he added.
WAPO · Kerry's promise of 'millions' for climate damages criticized by activistsUS Special Presidential Envoy for Climate Change John Kerry made the offer of several million dollars at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Singapore.
The untimely death of a masterful climate communicator Dr Saleemul Huq is a huge blow to the international climate community, especially with the #COP28 around the corner.
Article by Columbia Journalism Review:
https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/saleemul_huq_obituary_climate_change.php
#climatechange #climatejustice #LossAndDamage #climatecrisis
Columbia Journalism ReviewThe untimely death of a masterful climate communicator<p>Two years ago today, I boarded a train from London to Glasgow to cover COP26, a huge United Nations climate summit, from a media perspective for CJR. Ahead of time, I was advised to call Saleemul Huq, a prominent climate scientist from Bangladesh who had recently written a newspaper column offering journalists and readers advice […]</p>