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Hydrogen has great potential as a carbon-free energy carrier. Here’s a look at the momentum behind this widely applicable technology. Hydrogen could play a central role in helping the world reach net-zero emissions by 2050. As a complement to other technologies, including renewable power and biofuels, hydrogen has the potential to decarbonize industries including steel, petrochemicals,…

UN Climate Change News, 2 November 2022 – A key Committee dealing with climate finance has published four new reports that will form an important basis for discussions by governments at the UN Climate Change Conference COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh (6–18 November). The reports provide clarity on where the world stands in its efforts to mobilize the billions of dollars needed every year to green…

The world is falling short on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and in efforts to adapt to the changing climate. Actions and support to developing countries remain insufficient as climate risks grow and impacts increasingly devastate the lives and livelihoods of vulnerable countries and communities. Moreover, for some people and in some places, it is too late to attempt to adapt to…

COP27 is the next meeting of 198 countries that have signed the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change to be held in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, on 6-18 November 2022. The UN and the international civil society bodies are urging the world’s industrialised nations to ‘lead by example’ by taking ‘bold and immediate actions’. Egypt, the host for COP27, has included compensation…

What’s the context? From reducing temperatures to stopping disease, forests play a bigger role than just cutting emissions to combat climate change Forests are world's biggest land-based carbon absorbers Rainfall stabilisation, cooling among other benefits Deforestation threatens global food and water security LONDON - From the Amazon…

Meetings Coverage General Assembly Second Committee Seventy-seventh Session, 10th & 11th Meetings (AM & PM) GA/EF/3569 10 October 2022 The Second Committee (Economic and Financial) tackled the issue of sustainable development today, with Csaba Kőrösi (Hungary), President of the seventy-seventh session of the General Assembly, setting the…