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Despite 31 years of pressure, 26 COPs and multiple workshops and dialogues, no dedicated finance to help people deal with the aftermath of climate impacts – also known as “finance to address Loss and Damage” – has been delivered under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This brief makes clear why a Loss and Damage Finance Facility must be established at COP27.

This brief was prepared as a follow-up to the "Science briefs on targets, goals and monitoring in support of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework negotiations" that were coordinated by Future Earth and GEO BON in support of the WG2020-4 meeting in Nairobi, Kenya in June 2022(CBD/WG2020/4/INF/2/Rev.2). Specifically, the objective of this brief is to extract and refine key…

Climate pledges leave the world on track for a temperature rise of 2.4-2.6°C by the end of this century Updated pledges since COP26 in Glasgow take less than one per cent off projected 2030 greenhouse gas emissions; 45 per cent is needed for limiting global warming to 1.5°C Transforming the electricity supply, industry, transport and buildings sectors, and the food and…

The State of Climate Action 2022 provides a comprehensive assessment of the global gap in climate action across the world’s highest-emitting systems, highlighting where recent progress made in reducing GHG emissions, scaling up carbon removal, and increasing climate finance must accelerate over the next decade to keep the Paris Agreement’s goal to limit warming to 1.5°C within reach. …

Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) are agroecosystems inhabited by communities that live in an intricate relationship with their territory. These evolving sites are resilient systems characterized by remarkable agrobiodiversity, traditional knowledge, invaluable cultures and landscapes, sustainably managed by farmers, herders, fisherfolk, and forest people in ways that…

With the world in the midst of the first global energy crisis – triggered by Russia's invasion of Ukraine – the World Energy Outlook 2022 (WEO) provides indispensable analysis and insights on the implications of this profound and ongoing shock to energy systems across the globe. Based on the latest energy data and market developments, this year’s WEO explores key questions about the…