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Cop28 bulletin: US GCF pledge and ‘greenwash’ oil and gas charter

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World leaders set out their climate plans and negotiating positions at Cop28. Follow the news and views with Climate Home News, live

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

As carbon credits face intense scrutiny, negotiators will wrangle over how to ensure the integrity of a new global carbon market

Could petrostate UAE be the climate summit host that lands an international agreement to exit coal, oil and gas?

Samuele Landi has been convicted for bankruptcy fraud in Italy. That was no problem for the UAE firm doing forest carbon credit deals across Africa.

Data shows countries provided $89.6bn in 2021, but funding for adaptation declined.

The taskforce, set to be launched at Cop28, will consider the feasibility of levies on shipping, aviation, financial transactions and fossil fuels.

Backed by the EU, Namibia has a $20 billion plan to export green hydrogen. A secretive tender process raises concerns for nature and citizens.

After the UK cut short a £52m climate adaptation scheme in Malawi, vulnerable communities saw their livelihoods destroyed by Cyclone Freddy

Developing and developed countries are wrangling over whether finance should be included in an adaptation framework to be approved at Cop28

Climate Home analysed how highly-publicised commitments are faring two years on from their announcement

After its pleas for grants not loans fell mostly on deaf ears, Indonesia has watered down its plans to shut coal power plants early

China opposed six Green Climate Fund projects because the proposals flagged the risk of forced labour in the manufacturing of solar panels.

Betts was the EU’s chief negotiator when the Paris Agreement was signed. He has died a year after being diagnosed with cancer.

Clean energy is a priority as China promises $100 billion of development funding – but don’t call it climate finance

While technical tweaks should make the World Bank’s capital go further, their impact depends on shareholders injecting fresh funds

Major oil and gas producers hit back at World Bank reforms that aim to channel more money into clean energy

The UN’s flagship climate finance initiative can barely sustain its existing portfolio after a lackluster fundraising conference on Thursday

Project owners in Cambodia and Brazil are selling carbon offsets to Uber, Marathon and ArcelorMittal despite an uptick in deforestation