Joe Lo

2 days ago | climatechangenews.com | Matteo Civillini |Joe Lo

Although it now feels like a different lifetime, it was only 18 months ago that UN climate boss Simon Stiell hailed “the beginning of the end” of the fossil fuel era. At COP28 in Dubai, all countries agreed to a suite of collective actions – including transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems, tripling renewables, and halting and reversing deforestation – in response to their failure to keep climate goals on track as demonstrated by the Global Stocktake.

3 days ago | climatechangenews.com | Joe Lo |Vivian Chime |Megan Rowling

At COP26 four years ago, governments agreed to “urge” developed countries to double finance for adapting to climate change up to around $40 billion a year by 2025. That goal ends this year, although we will not know until 2027 if it has been met. But at a press conference in Bonn this afternoon, the Least Developed Countries group chair Evan Njewa called for a successor goal – tripling adaptation finance by 2030 on 2022 levels. “Adaptation is a lifeline,” he explained.

5 days ago | climatechangenews.com | Joe Lo

More than 200 climate campaign groups will issue a joint call for reforms to the way United Nations (UN) climate talks are conducted, saying that the negotiations have “reached breaking point”. The campaigners want decisions to be adopted by voting rather than requiring consensus among governments, as well as an end to what they call the “trade show” aspect of COP climate talks.

1 week ago | climatechangenews.com | Joe Lo

The Brazilian diplomats who will preside over the COP30 climate summit in November say they are focused on ensuring the hundreds of climate pledges already made by governments, corporations and others at previous COP meetings are met, rather than getting them to make fresh promises.

1 week ago | climatechangenews.com | Joe Lo

Not far from the hallowed spires and research labs of Oxford University, two workers in overalls and hard hats are searching for air travel’s “holy grail” – climate-friendly airline fuel made from nothing but carbon dioxide and green hydrogen.