L'urgence climatique est une conséquence directe de l'utilisation des terres et de l'agriculture, des transports, des bâtiments et des processus industriels à forte intensité de carbone, ainsi que des sources d'énergie polluantes. En l'absence de changements profonds dans ces secteurs et d'une réduction drastique de l'empreinte carbone, il y a peu d'espoir de protéger la planète des effets dévastateurs d'un monde plus chaud.
Ce flux en direct vous tiendra au courant de toutes les dernières nouvelles de la Conférence des Nations Unies sur le changement climatique, connue sous le nom de 29e Conférence des Parties (COP29) à la Convention-cadre des Nations Unies sur les changements climatiques (CCNUCC), qui se tiendra à Bakou, en Azerbaïdjan.
10 Dec
2023
15:35
UNEP Report: Almost US$7 trillion spent annually on activities that harm nature
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Nearly US$7 trillion of public and private finance each year supports activities that directly harm nature – some 30 times the amount spent on nature-based solutions annually, it was revealed yesterday through UNEP's latest State of Finance for Nature report.
The report also highlighted the fact that these investments dwarfed the annual amount being invested in nature-based solutions, which totalled around $200 billion last year.
US$5 billion of these nature-negative finance flows come from the private sector, which is 140 times larger than private investments in nature-based solutions.
Almost half of that figure comes from only five industries: construction, electric utilities, real estate, oil and gas, and food and tobacco.
The head of UNEP’s Nature for Climate Branch, Mirey Atallah, said the report demonstrates that the climate crisis is still outpacing efforts to contain it. She said finance is “the great enabler, and without money flowing in the right direction, we cannot achieve the targets we have set” at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio to address the interconnected challenges of climate change, desertification and biodiversity loss.
10 Dec
2023
14:53
COP28 negotiations ongoing as IEA says only fossil fuel phase out will keep 1.5°C goal possible
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Negotiations over a range of issues continue at COP28 in Dubai today with diplomats and ministers attempting to agree on a huge range of complex issues, not least whether to include "fossil fuel phase out" or "phase down" in the final text.
Earlier today the International Energy Agency said that the impact of the two major voluntary pledges announced at COP28 – the pledge by 50 oil and gas companies to cut methane emissions by 2030 and the pledge by 130 countries to triple renewable and double energy efficiency – will only close 30 per cent of the gap needed to reach the Paris Agreement goals.
The IEA said that only an end to the use of fossil fuels and their ultimate phase out will keep the 1.5°C goal in sight.
Meanwhile, Carbon Brief have published a very handy tracker that keeps tabs on the status of each of negotiations. Negotiating tracks that have not yet published draft text are shown in red, while those with draft texts are orange. Items that have already been agreed are shown in green.
UNEP Executive Director: "No better future for the climate without justice, equity and true inclusion"
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UNEP will continue to support environmental human rights defenders, UNEP's Executive Director, said at COP28 earlier today. "These brave individuals and communities face intimidation, criminalization and death when they stand up to those who would devastate nature for profit. We stand with them."
She also underscored UNEP's determination to advance the world’s newest right: the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment.
"Because the environment makes our lives and wellbeing possible. Underpins sustainable development. And enables the fulfilment of many other rights," she added.
UN Report highlights targets so world can reduce hunger and stay within 1.5C goal
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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations released a report today at COP28 intended as a road map to how the world can reduce hunger and stay within 1.5C.
This is the first of three reports with the next two reports due to be released at COP29 and COP30.
This report contains targets including: reducing methane emissions from livestock by 25 per ent by 2030; safe and affordable drinking water for all by 2030; halving food waste by 2030 ensuring all the world’s fisheries are sustainably managed by 2030; and eliminating the use of traditional biomass for cooking by 2030.
Food and how it is produced is both a cause of and a victim of the climate crisis. Agriculture and livestock farming contribute to emissions, while farmers around the world are at risk from the climate impacts such as drought.
Draft text on Global Goal for Adaptation published
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The global goal on adaptation (GGA) is a collective commitment established under the Paris agreement – aimed at driving political action and finance for adaptation on the same scale as mitigation.
Adaptation refers to adapting to the impacts of climate change such as planting mangroves to combat rising sea levels or planting trees in cities to reduce temperatures.
There has been little progress on the CGA for the past six years and so today's draft text is welcome. It urges developed countries to double finance from 2019 levels by 2025, and highlights human rights, intergenerational rights, social justice, vulnerable groups, cascading risks and social protection measures.
Some analysts are disappointed with the text, saying it does not go far enough, given the urgency of the situation. UNEP's Adaptation Gap Report 2023, revealed that adaptation finance needs to reach $194-366b a year, yet public multilateral and bilateral adaptation finance flows to developing countries declined by 15 per cent to US$21 billion in 2021.
UN Report: Climate change severely impacting migratory species of wild animals
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Climate change is already having catastrophic impacts on many migratory animals and their ability to provide vital ecosystem services to humanity according to a major new report of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), a UN biodiversity treaty.
Released today at COP28, the report finds that the direct effects of climate change on many migratory species are already being seen, including poleward range shifts, changes in the timing of migration, and reduced breeding success and survival. Integral to the ecosystems they live in, migratory species support vital ecosystem services that both mitigate the impacts of climate change and increase the resilience to climatic hazards.
Food, Agriculture and Water Day will look into specific food and agriculture focuses include innovation investment, regenerative agriculture, and national transformation pathways, underpinned by financing mechanisms and project preparation.
UNEP Pavilion: Cultivating change: Pioneering financial innovations and technical solutions for food systems transformation
This event will bring together leaders, researchers, financial institutions, and policymakers who will share their visions, strategies, and successes in driving the food systems transition towards a sustainable, resilient, and inclusive system.
UNEP Pavilion: Food is never waste: Tackling food waste as an essential climate action
To achieve global food security, we need to half food waste and transition to circular food systems: act today to reduce the risks of and prepare for future threats. Identifying food waste reduction strategies is therefore essential to cut methane and other GHG emissions and reach Paris Agreement targets. This event will highlight key findings from the new Food Waste Index Report 2023, as well as successful anti-food waste initiatives from the region.
UNEP Pavilion:Cooking demonstration and lunch reception
A lunch reception and cooking demonstration by UNEP Advocate on Food Waste in West Asia, Chef Leyla Fathallah and Senior Director, Culinary, EMEA, Hilton, Chef Sebastian Nohse.
UNEP Pavilion: Wastewater and Nutrient Management: A Key for Climate, Water, Food and Energy Security
This event will highlight the nexus between nutrients, wastewater, and climate change and builds on the work done by the Global Wastewater Initiative and Global Partnership on Nutrient Management to reuse wastewater and recover nutrients from wastewater to protect marine and freshwater ecosystems.
Explore this UNEP interactive on the importance of coral reefs
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Coral reefs occupy less than 1 per cent of the ocean floor yet they are home to more than 25 per cent of marine life. Yet human activity and a warming planet are rapidly degrading these precious and fragile ecosystems.
Reefs teem with life. In fact, they harbour the highest biodiversity of any ecosystem globally, making them one of the most biologically complex and valuable ecosystems on the planet. These vibrant ecosystems exist throughout the tropics and support more than 1 billion people through their invaluable ecosystem services.
On Now: How forests can help tackle climate change
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Right now at the UNEP Pavilion, an event is on highlighting the potential of forests to combat climate change. The Collaborative Partnership on Forests – comprising 16 international organizations – recently unveiled its Joint Call to Action for Forests towards 2030. Building on this launch, this event will focus on best practices and case studies on capturing full values of forests, productive functions of forests and potential of renewable materials and green jobs.
Forests are home to more than half of the world’s land-based species of animals, plants and insects. They combat climate change because of their capacity to remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it, which is called forest mitigation.
This avoiding and reducing emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, which prevents the planet from warming to more extreme temperatures, is also called Climate change mitigation.
Forests also buffer the impacts of storms and floods. By feeding our rivers, forests supply drinking water for nearly half of the world’s largest cities. They also provide shelter, jobs and security for forest-dependent populations.
What are nature-based solutions and why do they matter?
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Given it's Forest and Land Use Day at COP28, there will be lots of discussion about nature-based solutions as a way to tackle both biodiversity loss and the climate crisis. So, what are nature-based solutions, and why do they matter?
Nature-based solutions simply mean that we turn to the natural world, rather than man-made solutions. For example, instead of building a sea wall to prevent coastal flooding, we plant mangroves. Or instead of a farmer using plastic sheeting to provide soil cover they plant cover crops.
Nature-based solutions usually have multiple benefits. For example, planting mangroves not only protects coastal communities from flooding, it provides a habitat for wildlife, improves soil quality and stores carbon – none of which a man-made flood defence does.
