Matteo Civillini

5 days ago | climatechangenews.com | Matteo Civillini

Brazil’s COP30 presidency wants to elevate grassroots solutions to the climate crisis to the global level in a bid to spur governments to bolster their national climate plans. With six months until the climate summit gets underway in the Amazon city of Bélem, only 21 countries have put forward updated targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions through to 2035, despite a self-imposed end-of-February deadline, which has now been extended until September.

1 week ago | climatechangenews.com | Matteo Civillini

Carbon registry Verra has launched a new rulebook for generating carbon credits from the early phase-out of coal power plants that are replaced with cleaner energy sources. Carbon credit projects using the methodology will aim to monetise emissions avoided through the retirements of plants ahead of schedule.

2 weeks ago | climatechangenews.com | Matteo Civillini

President Donald Trump’s move on Thursday to kickstart deep-sea mining could be a lifeline for the Canadian company that is pushing to be the first to supply strategic minerals from the ocean floor. The firm signalled its intention weeks ago to seek permits from the US administration for the activity in a challenge to UN governance, but whether the gambit pays off remains to be seen.

2 weeks ago | climatechangenews.com | Matteo Civillini

President Xi Jinping has committed China to producing a comprehensive emissions reduction plan, covering for the first time all economic sectors and greenhouse gases, under the UN climate process. In a speech widely seen as reaffirming the commitment of the world’s biggest polluter to global climate action, Xi said on Wednesday that “no matter how the international situation changes, China will not slow down its efforts to address climate change”.

1 month 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.