Megan Rowling

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Editor @ClimateHome. No longer posting on X due to the far-right views of its owner. Find me: https://t.co/Xv5UQwQfNr

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Bonn bulletin: Developing nations ask x3 adaptation finance by 2030

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.
Is the world’s big idea for greener air travel a flight of fancy?

1 week ago | climatechangenews.com | Matteo Civillini |Azril Annuar |David Fogarty |Megan Rowling

This is the starting point for Europe’s lofty dreams of greener air travel – a collection point in Malaysia for greasy plastic bottles filled with discarded frying oil, thousands of miles from its final destination.
Bonn Bulletin: Climate talks delayed by agenda fight

1 week ago | climatechangenews.com | Tais Gadea Lara |Joe Lo |Megan Rowling

A month ago, ahead of the mid-year UN climate talks, the Brazilian COP30 Presidency warned governments against “introducing potentially contentious new agenda items that could further burden the process or detract from agreed priorities”. But two such items – submitted by Bolivia on behalf of the Like-Minded Group of Developing Countries (LMDC) which includes China and Saudi Arabia – have proved highly contentious and prevented the negotiations in Bonn from beginning as planned today.
Pará's Amazon forest carbon deal in doubt as prosecutors move to block it

2 weeks ago | climatechangenews.com | Tiffany Higgins |Megan Rowling

Federal prosecutors in Brazil’s Pará state have filed a lawsuit calling for the immediate suspension and cancellation of a multi-million-dollar contract between the state and a coalition of foreign governments and companies for the sale of carbon credits from the Amazon forest. The prosecutors argued, among other things, that the deal – valued at up to $180 million – is invalid because Pará lacks a legally approved system to create and sell CO2 emissions reductions from lowering deforestation.
Women aren't 14 times more likely to die in disasters

1 month ago | climatechangenews.com | Bridget Burns |Megan Rowling

Bridget Burns is executive director of WEDO (Women’s Environment and Development Organization), a global advocacy organization advancing gender equality and climate justice. You’ve probably heard this stat before – it’s repeated in headlines, conferences, even UN speeches: “Women are 14 times more likely than men to die in disasters.”It’s dramatic. It sticks. It moves people. But here’s the problem: It’s not actually true. Or at least, not in the way it’s been used.
Peruvian farmer loses RWE case but sets climate precedent

1 month ago | climatechangenews.com | Megan Rowling

A German court on Wednesday dismissed a Peruvian farmer’s lawsuit seeking damages from German utility RWE for allegedly putting his home at risk through climate change, as the judge ruled that a damage-risk estimate was too small to take the case further.
The Peruvian farmer who has changed the climate litigation landscape forever

1 month ago | climatechangenews.com | Monica Feria-Tinta |Megan Rowling

Monica Feria-Tinta is a barrister at the Bar of England & Wales, and a leading advocate in environmental and climate change litigation both in English and international courts. What do melting glaciers in the Cordillera Blanca, a mountain range in Peru, have to do with RWE, a fossil fuel giant based in Germany? The answer could have profound consequences for the role of climate litigation in tackling the climate crisis.
Climate justice is vital for global security

1 month ago | climatechangenews.com | Nicola Sturgeon |Ben Wilson |Megan Rowling

Nicola Sturgeon is an MSP (Member of the Scottish Parliament) and former First Minister of Scotland. Ben Wilson is International Policy Lead for Stop Climate Chaos Scotland. The world is at a crossroads. The impacts of climate change are destabilising societies, causing conflict, and deepening economic hardship.
On May Day, workers are calling

1 month ago | climatechangenews.com | Anabella Rosemberg |Megan Rowling

Anabella Rosemberg is senior advisor on Just Transition at Climate Action Network International (CAN-I). This May Day, the battle lines are clear: workers’ rights and climate justice must stand together – or we will all fall together. Jobs or the environment? For too long, politicians and corporations have framed the conversation as a false choice.
Individual action won't save the climate – unless governments and businesses back it

2 months ago | climatechangenews.com | Mindy Hernandez |Megan Rowling

Mindy Hernandez is director of the Living Lab for Equitable Climate Action at the World Resources Institute. We’ve all heard it: Eat less beef. Fly less. Buy secondhand. Track your carbon footprint. But what’s less known is that the very idea of a ‘personal carbon footprint’ was popularized by oil giant BP, which, in a 2004 campaign, encouraged people to measure their own emissions – diverting attention from the fossil fuel industry and toward individual consumers.