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The G7 leaders “endorse the goals of an open and cooperative international Climate Club, and will work with partners towards establishing it by the end of 2022”. The Climate Club will seek to advance ambitious and transparent climate change mitigation policies towards climate neutrality, transform industries to accelerate decarbonization, and boost international ambition through…

Biodiversity underpins many SDGs well beyond the scope of SDGs 14 and 15 that respectively address life below water and life on land. The worldwide failure to address biodiversity loss has led to a growing consensus that fundamental, transformative changes are needed in order to reverse these trends. A recently published open-access book aims to provide and further…

29/06/2022 - Paris/Rome - The global agrifood sector faces fundamental challenges over the coming decade, particularly the need to feed an ever-increasing population in a sustainable manner, the impacts of the climate crisis and the economic consequences and disruptions to food supply linked to the war in Ukraine, according to a report released today by the Food and Agriculture Organization of…

The SDG 7 progress report reflects on the consequences of COVID-19 and the results from global modeling to determine to what extent current policies can help meet the SDG 7 targets and to identify possible additional actions. It also considers the investments required to achieve SDG 7. The SDG 7 policy briefs highlight the interlinkages between SDG 7, and SDGs 4 (quality…

By Alexander Müller, Managing Director, TMG Think Tank for Sustainability, Andrea Meza Murillo, Deputy Executive Secretary, UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), and Jes Weigelt, Head of Programmes, TMG Think Tank for Sustainability It has been five years since the last review of SDG 15 (life on land), and we are fast approaching the mid-way point in the final decade of…

Abu Dhabi, UAE, 13 July 2022 – Costs for renewables continued to fall in 2021 as supply chain challenges and rising commodity prices have yet to show their full impact on project costs. The cost of electricity from onshore wind fell by 15%, offshore wind by 13% and solar PV by 13% compared to 2020. This provides a fillip to increased climate ambition ahead of COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh…