Pakistan explores debt-for-nature scheme to accelerate its 10 billion tree tsunami

News Creditors could grant Pakistan debt relief in exchange for meeting nature restoration targets, under a proposed first-of-its-kind bond

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News Interim UN climate talks move online to address negotiation backlog

News Climate diplomats agreed to hold an informal and extended virtual meeting in June, despite connectivity concerns, to make progress on sticky issues

News In Amazon protection talks, US demands action from Bolsonaro

News Joe Biden promised to mobilise $20 billion to protect the Amazon rainforest, but negotiations with Jair Bolsonaro’s government are fraught

News Climate watchers pay tribute to Nicaraguan envoy Paul Oquist, who died on Monday

News The outspoken diplomat, who famously described the Paris Agreement as a “path to failure”, will be remembered as a complex figure who fought for justice

News Joe Biden’s $1.2bn budget for Green Climate Fund falls short of campaigner demands

News The proposed US contribution to the UN’s flagship climate fund this year is not enough to catch up with other donors

Total signs deal to build East African oil pipeline, despite lack of finance

News Uganda and Tanzania have given political backing to the 1,445km East African Crude Oil Pipeline, but climate campaigners are deterring investment

Emerging economies share ‘grave concern’ over EU plans for a carbon border tax

News Brazil, South Africa, India and China say EU plans for a carbon levy on imported products like steel and cement will unfairly penalise their economies

Net Zero

India calls out rich nations for setting net zero goals over robust short-term targets

Ireland’s government agrees on climate bill to set 2050 net zero goal in law

Stuck in the middle: Ukraine aims for net zero but struggles to access finance

Indian lawmaker submits private bill to achieve net zero emissions by 2050

Health must be put at the heart of national climate plans

After the World Health Organization called for a green and healthy Covid recovery, health must be a priority in countries’ climate plans

It took the Suez Canal crisis to highlight the scale of the polluting shipping sector

The growing global shipping fleet is increasing the sector’s climate and environmental impacts. To rein it in, we need a global carbon price for shipping

How the shipping industry can halve climate-warming black carbon in the Arctic

Switching to cleaner shipping fuel would prevent Arctic warming and deliver an easy win for the climate

It’s time to end subsidies for burning wood from forests

Trees are worth much more to humanity alive than dead, say 500 scientists in an open letter to leaders in the EU, US and East Asia

Three ways the EU, China and US should deepen cooperation on climate in 2021

Building coalitions on green finance and carbon pricing and putting climate at the heart of diplomacy will allow the big three emitters to deliver on net zero goals

Covid-19 normalised social protection. Now apply it to the climate crisis

Almost every country rolled out measures such as cash transfers, food and sick pay to cope with coronavirus. Victims of climate shocks need the same support

The Biden-Harris administration can rebuild democracy and climate action

With strong business support and an experienced team of dealmakers, Biden inspires confidence he will deliver on his climate and environmental justice plan

Gas pipeline investment shows flaws in EU ‘climate bank’ approach

The European Climate Bank claimed its €1 billion investment in the Southern Gas Corridor was “climate neutral”, based on mistaken assumptions

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