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Funding for Annual UN Climate Talks Plummets as Mining Companies Slash Contributions — Reports

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Tags: COP25 UNFCCC Chile's Tele 13 Radio journalist Paula Comondari reported on Wednesday that the national Mining Council's expected $10 million funding package for the UN ’s 25th Conference of the Parties ( COP25 ) was to be slashed to just $2 million.

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Are ISO's Draft Guidelines on Climate Action the First Steps Toward Geoengineering?

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Tags: geoengineering Solar Radiation Management UNFCCC Paris Agreement International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Instead of focusing on limiting global temperature rise, these guidelines argue for using radiative forcing, or the total excess heat warming Earth's atmosphere, as the metric.

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COP27: New Global Adaptation Agenda aims to establish climate resilience goals

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UNFCCC executive secretary Simon Stiell said that a renewed focus on climate adaptation was a "crucial, pressing necessity". At the COP26 Climate Summit last year, richer countries promised to double support for adaptation to $40bn a year by 2025.

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How the Integrity Council's new global benchmark could prove a watershed moment for the carbon market

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ICVCM said the next version will explore complex issues such as the implications of Corresponding Adjustments under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, whether all carbon credit projects should make a contribution towards the UNFCCC Adaptation Fund, and how to further strengthen sustainable development requirements.

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What Is Carbon Accounting? Standards, Frameworks, Developments and Challenges

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Yet it wasn’t until 1992, with the adoption of the United Nations Framework Convention on Change (UNFCCC) during the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit , that a global movement to inventory GHG emissions, and with that, carbon accounting, began. To improve the system, a more granular method has been developed by the company Energy Tag.

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US Now Officially Out of the Paris Climate Agreement

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Tags: Paris Climate Agreement Donald Trump UNFCCC Vice President Joe Biden Either way, the U.S. withdrawal has hurt trust in the country's ability to follow through on climate diplomacy initiated by one administration when another takes power.

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Can a tiger change its stripes? Meet the pulp and paper giant bankrolling a huge Sumatran rainforest reserve

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Boasting a $2.33bn price tag, it is the largest single investment in APRIL's 30-year history. The research is already uncovering fascinating data which RER staff hope will feed into regular climate science assessments from the UNFCCC, so as to provide more accurate picture of the carbon stocks of different forms of forest and peatland.