Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

As of 1 July 2020, the number of cases had nearly doubled, with at least 1,550 climate change cases filed in 38 countries, according to the UNEP Global Climate Litigation Report. As of January 2022, 1,853 cases have been reported. In 2017, there were 884 cases brought in 24 countries.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

C increase over pre-industrial temperatures was hanging by a thread at the end of COP26, subsequent economic and geopolitical events appear to have dealt a blow to those ambitions – at least in the short term. The sense of optimism at COP26 turned out to be short lived. “We Beast from the east.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Jam open the closing window – The UN Environment Programme’s Emissions Gap Report 2022 was the most sobering of the many pre-COP27 analyses published this week, highlighting the inadequacy of our efforts to tackle the causes of climate change. Current pledges will nudge global warming down from its present 2.8°C C course to 2.5°C

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Sustainable Development Network

OCTOBER 31, 2022

SDSN will be hosting and participating in a variety of events alongside COP27. Below are the details of those events. CEET’s objective is to promote and highlight Egypt’s major theme: “Getting to implementation”, through a first-time in history, engineer-led and co-designed decarbonization forum.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Bureaucratic barriers The failure in scaling blended finance in a meaningful way is well known – flows are decreasing with volumes falling to a 10-year low in 2022, according to the latest Convergence report. With adaptation finance flows remaining dangerously low to meet climate goals, has COP28 made a difference?

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) says: “This vulnerability is driven by the prevailing low levels of socioeconomic growth in the continent. UNEP wants to see more investment diverted towards supporting African countries in meeting their nationally determined contributions (NDCs). This is the case in Africa.”.

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Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 21, 2021

All this work was featured in our virtual Zero Emissions Solutions Conference alongside the first week of COP26. The Networks program also issued two new SDG Action publications to support the UN’s Decade of Action : the SDGs Edition in July for the High-level Political Forum and the Climate Action Edition for COP26.

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Chris Hall

MAY 27, 2022

In the wake of COP26, and with the 27 th edition in sight, the latest IPCC assessment reports [1,2] starkly highlight the risks we are facing if we fail to curb greenhouse gases emissions. References: [1] IPCC, 2022: Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. 4] SwissRe, 2022. 1], [3], [4]). Tignor, E.S.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 31, 2023

Current climate pledges by governments are falling short, with the latest analysis by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) putting the world on track for a temperature rise of between 2.4°C To address the emissions gap and keep the 1.5°C Its mission is to enable and ensure VCMs make a meaningful contribution to the 1.5°C

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Chris Hall

JUNE 1, 2022

Six months on from COP26’s Global Methane Pledge, the quick wins needed to achieve 2030 targets pose steep challenges. At COP26, 112 countries signed the Global Methane Pledge , an initiative designed to reduce global methane emissions by at least 30% by 2030. The first meeting is scheduled for November 2022.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 16, 2023

C as possible, experts say. The IPR forecasts that climate policies put in place since COP26 set the world on a 1.8°C C temperature pathway. Last year, the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) ‘ Emissions Gap Report ’ said climate policies enacted worldwide could result in 2.8°C C of global warming by 2100 – and between 2.4-2.6°C

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

However, the question of where the money would come from remained open as the gavel went down in 2022. Ahead of COP28, UNEP released its flagship adaptation report, finding that the current “adaptation finance gap” sits at about US$194 – 366 billion per year.

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