Matteo Civillini

London

Reporter at Climate Home News

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Loss and damage fund to hand out $250 million in initial phase

1 week ago | climatechangenews.com | Matteo Civillini

The Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) will spend $250 million until the end of 2026 on an initial set of interventions to help developing countries deal with the aftermath of climate-driven disasters. At a three-day meeting in Barbados, the UN fund’s board agreed on the strategy for the start-up phase of the mechanism, which will initially focus on strengthening national responses to climate catastrophes rather than community-level action – something activists had called for.
Power-hungry AI data centres seen driving demand for fossil fuels

2 weeks ago | climatechangenews.com | Matteo Civillini

Surging artificial intelligence (AI) use will drive up demand for fossil fuels to power data centres, but widespread adoption of AI applications could reduce greenhouse gas emissions overall, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in a new report. Power-hungry data centres will consume as much electricity by 2030 as Japan uses today – more than double their current demand – largely as a result of the global AI rush, the Paris-based watchdog forecasted.
African banks back oil export pipeline despite climate commitments

3 weeks ago | climatechangenews.com | Vivian Chime |Matteo Civillini

Speaking at COP29 in Azerbaijan about the impact of climate change on Africa, the executives of Afreximbank promised to double-down on their commitment to a just energy transition on the continent. But, four months later, the multilateral lender has confirmed its support for a controversial pipeline that would carry crude oil from Uganda to the Tanzanian coast for export overseas.
Carbon credit auditors suspended in sham rice-farming offsets

1 month ago | climatechangenews.com | Matteo Civillini
Electricity demand surges, expanding renewables and fossil fuels

1 month ago | climatechangenews.com | Matteo Civillini

Despite record additions, clean energy sources could not fully meet a surge in electricity demand in 2024, driven mainly by the effects of rising temperatures, an annual review by the International Energy Agency (IEA) showed on Monday. Renewables and nuclear energy provided four-fifths of the rise in electricity generation, which increased by 4% last year – marking “a significant acceleration” from the average annual growth seen in the last 15 years, the IEA said.
US approves multi-billion loan for troubled Mozambique gas plant

1 month ago | climatechangenews.com | Matteo Civillini

The United States will provide a $4.7-billion loan to a fossil gas plant in Mozambique that has been described as a “carbon bomb” and is beset by allegations of human rights abuses. The US Export-Import Bank (EXIM), a government agency, on Thursday approved financial support for the liquefied natural gas (LNG) project run by French energy giant TotalEnergies in the country’s northern Cabo Delgado region. US EXIM has yet to publicly confirm the deal, but its approval has been widely reported.
Climate summits must move towards action

1 month ago | climatechangenews.com | Matteo Civillini

Global climate diplomacy must shift focus from highly “politicised” negotiations to advancing real collective action on the ground to remain credible, Brazil’s COP30 presidency has warned. In a long letter setting out his vision, André Aranha Corrêa Do Lago, president-designate for this year’s UN climate summit in the Amazon city of Belém, called for a “new era” in which “words and texts” agreed by countries bring about economic and social transformation.
Most cookstove carbon credits ruled out of quality scheme

1 month ago | climatechangenews.com | Matteo Civillini

Nearly all existing carbon credits generated by cleaner cookstove projects cannot use a market-leading quality label unless they switch to more stringent methods of calculating emission reductions approved by a leading voluntary carbon market watchdog.
Countries fail again to decide on timing of key IPCC climate reports

1 month ago | climatechangenews.com | Matteo Civillini

Governments have delayed for the third time a key decision on the timing of an influential climate science assessment, after failing to resolve deep divisions at a meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) over whether and how to align its work with UN climate policy.
In Trump's shadow, IPCC set to decide on timing of climate review

2 months ago | climatechangenews.com | Matteo Civillini

Governments are expected to face fraught discussions next week over the timeline of several key climate science reports and the fallout of a reported US exit from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). At a week-long plenary meeting of the IPCC in Hangzhou, China, diplomats and scientists will again try to decide whether flagship reports reviewing the world’s knowledge of climate change should be ready in time for the next UN assessment of global climate action.