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NEWS: Everyone satisfied with Geneva text, but real negotiating begins in June, says lead negotiator for Least Developed Countries
Q&A: LDCs chair Prakash Mathema addresses hopes and fears of world’s poorest on UN climate deal
Nepal’s Prakash Mathema tells RTCC opportunity to address climate impacts is ‘closing fast’
Belgium, Germany, Norway, Switzerland and the USA offer nearly $200 million in climate adaptation investment to the world’s poorest countries
Least Developed Countries chair Prakash Mathema tells RTCC world’s poorest plan to be the loudest at the UN climate change negotiations
Someone will have to pay for the rising costs of the climate crisis – will it be those causing the damage, or those that suffer it?
Most governments want reports ready before the next global stocktake, but a dozen developing nations are opposed over inclusivity concerns
The world will need oil and gas for a few decades more – and the debate is heating up over who should get to produce and sell it
Developed and developing countries are gearing up for heated discussions over the size of the goal and who should provide money for it
Germany and Cop host UAE led contributions to get a fund for climate victims up and running, in an early win for the Cop28 presidency
The 2030 target is one of several contentious proposals at negotiations in the Dominican Republic this week over a new loss and damage fund
While drawing up their renewables deal with wealthy countries, Senegalese government, civil society, business and researchers had their say
The European Union pushed to restrict loss and damage funds to “particularly vulnerable” nations, but the definition is still up for debate
Analysts welcomed draft language on closing the ambition gap as Cop26 negotiations get to the crunch point
African nations and a group of 24 “like-minded” countries that includes China and India accuse donor countries of ducking substantive talks on finance
The UK presidency hopes a delivery plan for long-promised climate finance will start to restore trust ahead of Cop26, but experts warn late delivery means trouble
OECD figures show international climate finance increased by just 2% from 2018 to 2019, leaving a $20 billion shortfall to the 2020 target
Unpopular among the bloc’s trading partners, countries are seeking exemptions to the carbon levy, as Brussels hints alternatives to pricing may be considered to dodge the tax
The EU, the UK and Argentina were the only large emitters to present tougher climate targets by the UN’s 2020 deadline, with China and the US lagging