The United Nations Climate Change Conference COP28 is set to open on Thursday, November 30 with a resounding call to accelerate collective climate action. The conference takes place in what is already known to be the hottest year ever recorded in human history and as the impacts of the climate crisis wreak unprecedented havoc on…
COP27 officially opens in Sharm el-Sheikh, to Focus on Delivering on the Promises of Paris
The organisers of the 27th Conference of Parties of the United Nations Climate Change have promised to deliver on the promises. At the first press conference in Sharma El Sheikh, Egypt, UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell said COP27 has set out to ensure that outcomes from the formal and informal process must truly…
New UN report spotlights trends in Climate Action
By Henry Opondo While countries are stepping up institutional arrangements for planning, funding, implementing, monitoring and evaluating climate action, they however still need to make full use of key opportunities this year to shift gears. According to a report published by UN Climate Change, prepared as UN Climate Change input to the UN Climate Action…