The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) is to assist member states to develop their national African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) implementation strategy with an environmental bias in anticipation of
Bureaucracy is hampering Bangkok’s renewable energy drive as rival Vietnam powers into the regional lead. Thailand is lagging Vietnam in the race to transition from fossil fuels to clean energy
The Informal Dialogue on Plastics Pollution and Environmentally Sustainable Plastics Trade currently has 16 co-sponsors. Ambassador Chad Blackman of Barbados, one of the Dialogue’s co-coordinators, said the 21 June discussions
Thailand’s economy is currently at its weakest since the 1997 Asian financial crisis. This has led the Thai government to put on hold its plans to undertake major reforms of
A high-level dialogue on DLDD aimed to establish land restoration as a central priority ahead of upcoming COPs on climate, land and biodiversity. The discussion highlighted healthy land as the
This time last year, the UK was still deep in the grips of the pandemic’s first wave. But as we hunkered down – transport grinding to a halt, construction put
There is growing attention on the concept of carbon border adjustment mechanisms (CBAMs), a hypothetical form of trade restriction intended to deal with “carbon leakage”: the expectation that aggressive mitigation
Environment minister Javadekar calls the tax proposal regressive; Minister says India wants developed nations to do more. India and other developing nations will oppose plans by the European Union and
Fossil fuel levy can be avoided by buying carbon offsets that may have no benefit for climate Forest protection carbon offsets that may have no benefit to the climate have been used
The European Union’s huge subsidy programme for agriculture is failing to rein in greenhouse gas emissions from farming, despite 100 billion euros of such subsidies being labelled as climate spending since 2014.
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