🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

36 “recognizes” 32 “notes” 21 “recognizes” 18 “welcomes” 14 “invites” 8 “underlines” or “underscores” 6 “decides” The text of COP agreements is always lawyerly, but by any objective accounting, the final text of COP28 is weak with few meaningful decisions. 🧵

Addressing debt traps & climate vulnerable nations. A more transparent approach to credit ratings and temporary suspension of ratings in crises are key steps to a climate-responsive financial system prosyn.org/aXzG1WL Project Syndicate  ODI Global | odi-global.bsky.social Emily Wilkinson UN Development UNDP Climate

Some more thoughts on the #COP28 outcome, speaking as a #ProductionGap report lead author... First, three important context: 1. Every single word and comma in the GST had to be agreed upon by delegations from 199 countries. A single country could block or object to any one word.

#COP28 negotiations finally wrapped up to a mixed reception. ODI Global | odi-global.bsky.social colleagues had a busy fortnight in Dubai pushing forward some critical agendas. Here's my take with the wonderful Sarah Colenbrander on whether the UAE Consensus really delivered: buff.ly/474S6e8

Preparing for COP29 in Azerbaijan? You can use the same playbook. Once again, the critical climate negotiations will be led by an oil boss from a petrostate, no doubt producing decision text littered with loopholes for polluters.

What a success story! Mangroves have been declining worldwide for decades, but Pakistan has expanded its mangroves from 48,331 hectares in 1986 to 143,930 hectares in 2020. The benefits? 🐟 Healthier fish stocks 🌊 More climate resilience 🍃 CO2 storage news.mongabay.com/2024/02/pakist…

It was an honour to speak at #G7 #Climate Ministerial in Turin this week. We urged scaling up of #finance for climate resilient devt & tabled proposals for the new climate finance #goal at #COP29. Thanks to Sarah Colenbrander & Michael Jacobs for their stellar work for the event!