Tuesday, 25 February 2025

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FILE PHOTO: COP 29 President, Mukhtar Babayev, delivers remarks at the Copenhagen Climate Ministerial, in Helsingor, Denmark, March 21, 2024. REUTERS/Ali Withers/File Photo
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COP29 leaders unveil climate funding and energy storage goals

The Azerbaijani leadership has laid out its plans for what it hoped to achieve in COP29

The Foreign Secretary is expected to say that ‘action on the climate and nature crisis will be central to all the Foreign Office does’ (Lucy North/PA)
ElectricityFuelNewsPolitics

UK Foreign Office to push for global energy transition, says Lammy

David Lammy commits the Foreign Office to leading a global clean energy transition, forming an alliance for net-zero goals.

News Release

IAEA Outlook for Nuclear Power Increases for Fourth Straight Year, Adding to Global Momentum for Nuclear Expansion

16 September 2024 - Vienna, Austria: The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has revised up its annual projections for the expansion of nuclear...

Uncertainty around the US election outcome is weighing on climate negotiators ahead of the UN-led COP29 talks in November (AFP)
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Trump stalks global climate talks as COP29 draws near

Other countries 'holding back' on financial commitments at preliminary talks for COP29, given lack of certainty over Trump and Harris showdown.

The COP16 isn't expected to break new ground but is more a stocktake of progress since the last summit (AFP)
BiodiversityClimateEmissionsEnvironmentNewsPoliticsUnited Nations

Environment takes centre stage as global summits loom

The United Nations is about to host four major events to address environmental challenges.

NGOs accuse richer nations of blocking attempts to reach a solution on climate finance (AFP)
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Climate finance talks make little progress before UN summit

International negotiations on money to help developing countries tackle climate change concluded without a breakthrough this week.

A general view of solar panels under construction over the sea in Binzhou, in eastern China's Shandong province (AFP)
Critical MineralsEnvironmentMiningNewsPoliticsRegulationsResiliency

UN experts call for global system to trace critical minerals

UN experts call for a global system to trace critical minerals, ensuring fairness, human rights, and environmental care.

News Release

UN-convened panel releases recommendations for governments and industry to guide the global energy transition

Actionable recommendations and guiding principles aim to advance fairness and justice across critical energy transition mineral value chains on the way to net-zero...

News Release

UN-convened panel releases recommendations for governments and industry to guide the global energy transition

Actionable recommendations and guiding principles aim to advance fairness and justice across critical energy transition mineral value chains on the way to net-zero...

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