Climate Insights 2020: Policies and Politics
<p>A number of policies are extremely popular with Americans in 2020 and have been consistently popular across past surveys as well. For example, huge numbers of Americans favor government effort to shift
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Confronting Carbon Inequality: Putting climate justice at the heart of the COVID-19 recovery
<p>The report assesses the consumption emissions of different income groups between 1990 and 2015 – 25 years when humanity doubled the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. During 2020, and
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The Next Generation Africa Climate Business Plan: Ramping Up Development-Centered Climate Action
<p>Economic growth and shared prosperity in Sub-Saharan Africa will be increasingly undermined if vulnerabilities to climate change are not addressed. Climate impacts, which are already being felt will
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Report of the UN Economist Network for the UN 75th Anniversary: Shaping the Trends of Our Time
<p>The new report examines five mega trends: climate change; demographic shifts, particularly population ageing; urbanization; the emergence of digital technologies; and inequalities –that are affecting
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Ecological Threat Register 2020
<p>This is the inaugural edition of the Ecological Threat Register (ETR), which covers 157 independent states and territories. The ETR is unique in that it combines measures of resilience with the most
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United in Science 2020
<p>Climate change has not stopped for COVID-19. Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere are at record levels and continue to increase. Emissions are heading in the direction of pre-pandemic levels
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Tackling the triple crisis. Using debt swaps to address debt, climate and nature loss post-COVID-19
<p>Even before COVID-19, fears were growing over developing country debt, which had surpassed US$8 trillion by the end of 2019. The pandemic has made the situation much worse as its economic impact pushes
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Agricultural Finance for Climate Resilience
<p>This white paper summarizes how segments of U.S. agricultural and agribusiness finance could modify their policies and financial products to adapt to climate change in their own operations. Making agriculture
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Charting a New Climate: State-of-the-art tools and data for banks to assess credit risks and opportunities from physical climate change impacts
<p>Charting a New Climate is a report on physical climate risks and opportunities from Phase II of its Task Force for Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) Banking Programme with climate risk advisory
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Use of spatial information in national climate strategies
<p>As biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation continue largely unabated, it is becoming critical to strengthen nature-based solutions in national climate strategies, including Nationally Determined
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How Will Covid-19 Impact South Africa’s Climate Change Diplomacy?
<p>While South Africa is recognised as a strong voice in climate change negotiations, it is certainly not the most powerful country. As such, South Africa has had a difficult balancing act to play in protecting
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Green Climate Fund (GCF) Proposal Toolkit 2020
<p>Three years after producing the first guide of this kind with CDKN, Acclimatise has now released its latest Green Climate Fund (GCF) Proposal Toolkit 2020. This guide integrates the latest GCF policy
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The Case for Climate Action: Building a Clean Economy for the American People
<p>The new report – which comes after dozens of hearings, meetings, and input from experts, labor unions, mayors, environmental justice leaders, and native communities, among others – details
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United Nations Climate Change Annual Report 2019
<p>Climate change affects all aspects of human life and life on the planet. Because nearly all human activities contribute to it, climate change is interconnected with many other global challenges and
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State Of The Coast
<p>“State of the Coast” is an analytical assessment that uses the latest data to provide a snapshot of current coastal conditions, along with future-facing strategies and opportunities to create
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Designing a funding framework for the slow-onset impacts of climate change: insights from recent experiences with coastal retreat
<p>Effective management of slow-onset impacts such as coastal erosion, desertification and sea level rise and their often-transformative impacts on communities and countries has remained relatively unexplored
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Climate Fueled Weather Disasters: Costs to State and Local Economies
<p>The report, Climate Fueled Weather Disasters: Costs to State and Local Economies, quantifies the economic cost of specific extreme weather disasters on Americans today, including in specific states,
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Paris Agreement Compatible Sectoral Benchmarks
<p>While national emission trends are a useful tool for measuring government progress towards meeting the Paris Agreement 1.5˚C temperature limit at a global level, each government will have to address
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Building climate resilience through social protection in Brazil: the Garantia Safra public climate risk insurance programme
<p>This Policy Research Brief examines social protection's role in building climate resilience based on evidence from the Garantia Safra programme, a public index-based climate risk insurance scheme
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Food systems and climate change
<p>Climate change is both a negative outcome of environmentally damaging food systems, and a threat to the future of food production and the livelihoods that depend on it. The Sustainable Diets for All