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Transitional Committee Conducts Inaugural Meeting for Loss and Damage Fund
Adaptation

Transitional Committee Conducts Inaugural Meeting for Loss and Damage Fund

Key procedural milestones were set out by the Transitional Committee established to operationalize the Loss and Damage Fund (L&D Fund) in its first meeting held in Luxor, Egypt from March 27 – 29, 2023. The body concluded its first engagement with the adoption of a work plan leading up to COP28, outlining the steps to […]

Climate Spotlight StaffClimate Spotlight Staff
March 29, 2023
COP28 president-designate says the world needs “course correction”
Action and Advocacy

COP28 president-designate says the world needs “course correction”

by Climate Spotlight Staff “The world is playing catch-up in keeping global temperatures below 1.5 degrees,” Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, COP28 president-designate, told participants at the World Government Summit, held in Dubai in February 2023. His home country, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), will host this year’s upcoming climate change conference. The UAE has the […]

Climate Spotlight StaffClimate Spotlight Staff
February 24, 2023
person foot prints on sands photo
Action and Advocacy

Carbon footprint fraud?

How big oil shift global focus on CO2 emission from fossil fuel producers to Jane and John Public by Marco Lopez The carbon footprint of a homeless person in the United States is on average 8.5 tons of CO2 per year, a 2008 study from a research class at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) […]

Climate Spotlight StaffClimate Spotlight Staff
January 3, 2023
silhouette of airplanes
Action and Advocacy

Richest people in UK ‘use more energy flying’ than poorest do overall

The wealthiest people in the UK burn through more energy flying than the poorest burn in every aspect of their lives, according to new research. The analysis of data from 2019 highlights “significant inequalities” in energy use across the country. Those in the top 10% of incomes used nearly three times as much energy in […]

Climate Spotlight StaffClimate Spotlight Staff
December 31, 2022
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