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Not One Country Is Doing Enough To Provide Clean, Accessible, And Affordable Energy
Friday, 11 October 2024, 5:30 pm | Climate Action Network
In the name of ‘clean energy’, big corporations are supplying the world with the hardware needed for the energy transition. At the same time, they are extracting the critical minerals needed without the consent of Indigenous Peoples and impacted ... More >>
US$5trillion Owed To Global South By Global North Due To The Climate Crisis
Thursday, 3 October 2024, 4:54 am | Climate Action Network
Climate activists say wealthy countries, responsible for over 75% of global accumulated emissions since the start of industrialisation, have an obligation to support developing country climate action and pay for climate adaptation. More >>
G20 Taskforce Clima Can’t Afford Ambition To Slip: CAN
Monday, 30 September 2024, 11:28 pm | Climate Action Network
The G20 provided a record $1.4 trillion in public money to support fossil fuels in 2022. CAN asserts that an agreement to eliminate inefficient fossil fuel subsidies with a set deadline is critical and long overdue from the G20. More >>
Rich Nations Act In Bad Faith, Stay Silent On Future Climate Finance
Monday, 30 September 2024, 11:21 pm | Climate Action Network
Civil Society organisations expressed their disappointment at the lack of delegations’ preparation from developed countries. More >>
Global South Deserves An Ambitious And Equitable New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) On Climate Finance
Thursday, 26 September 2024, 8:41 pm | Climate Action Network
NCQG is a crucial mechanism for delivering on the promises of the Paris Agreement & ensuring a just & equitable transition to a low-carbon future. CAN International calls on all parties to engage constructively in the Ministerial Dialogue & commit ... More >>
CAN International Calls On COP Troika To Prioritise Fair And Grant-based Climate Finance For NDCs Aligned With 1.5°C
Wednesday, 25 September 2024, 12:45 pm | Climate Action Network
In its letter to the Troika, the climate network warns against the exclusive focus and reliance on private investment to fund countries’ climate plans, which can disproportionately burden developing countries & ordinary people, and severely hinder ... More >>
Climate Finance Goal Should Be Grounded In Developing Nations’ Needs
Monday, 16 September 2024, 1:46 am | Climate Action Network
"Not only does it have to be meaningful by its scale, the new finance goal should also match ambitious quality criteria, prioritising grant-based public finance, ensuring climate finance is not burdening the Global South and empowering the rich even more." More >>
Protest Actions Across The World Kick Off Global Fight To End Fossil Fuels
Friday, 13 September 2024, 8:01 pm | Climate Action Network
To be compliant with the goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement, the transition out of oil, gas and coal must be done at a pace and scale required to keep the global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius. More >>
UN Critical Energy Transition Minerals Next Steps: CAN Media Reaction
Friday, 13 September 2024, 7:49 pm | Climate Action Network
The energy transition must be just, equitable, affordable and clean. The CETM panel makes it clear that the necessary and urgent energy transition to 100% renewables is no shortcut to upholding the highest standards for human rights, indigenous peoples ... More >>
G20 Agree To Make The Super-rich Pay Their Taxes
Tuesday, 30 July 2024, 4:40 am | Climate Action Network
There is no climate action without justice, and that includes incorporating tax justice and debt justice as inviolable guardrails of the world’s financial systems.” More >>
COP29 President’s First Letter Outlining Baku Priorities: Climate Action Network Response
Saturday, 20 July 2024, 5:44 am | Climate Action Network
Climate Action Network International Executive Director, Tasneem Essop, said: “The importance given to the climate finance goal by the COP29 Presidency is good to see, and we urge governments to address the big elephant in the room: what is owed to ... More >>
G20 Finance Ministers: It's High Time We Tax The Super-rich, For The Sake Of People And The Planet
Wednesday, 26 June 2024, 6:11 am | Climate Action Network
CAN welcomes the report as an important step to ensure political commitment to deliver a real agenda on taxing the super-rich. More >>
Climate Action Network Outcome Reaction
Friday, 14 June 2024, 9:26 am | Climate Action Network
Bonn has flopped. The UN climate talks are failing. We are in a climate emergency, yet rich country delegates seem to forget this, at our peril. There was next to no progress across the board. The June intersessionals were filled with more air than ... More >>
Climate Action Network Expectations For G7 Summit
Thursday, 13 June 2024, 10:42 am | Climate Action Network
The G7 Summit is a crucial moment to hold these major polluters accountable and push them to deliver new climate finance targets by COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan. More >>
Pay Up For Climate Finance!
Tuesday, 11 June 2024, 5:26 pm | Climate Action Network
Youth groups, Indigenous peoples organisations, Women and Gender groups, Trade Unions, and members of the climate justice movement - collectively representing millions of people - are joining forces to demand rich countries start paying off the climate ... More >>
Reaction To Lawyers For Climate Action V Climate Change Commission Verdict
Wednesday, 23 November 2022, 2:58 pm | Climate Action Network
Cindy Baxter, Coal Action Network Aotearoa spokesperson said: “What’s shocking in this decision is the Court’s ruling that the 1.5C warming limit in the Zero Carbon Act is not legally binding. We call on the government to change the Act accordingly, ... More >>
New Zealand Climate Action Network Members React To Announcement Of New Climate Targets
Sunday, 31 October 2021, 5:57 pm | Climate Action Network
Forest & Bird - Kevin Hague, Chief Executive "Nature needs every country to do their fair share. This target is an improvement on the last target but is still not a fair contribution to global efforts. By setting this target the Government ... More >>
NZ Climate Action Network responds to Paris climate deal
Sunday, 13 December 2015, 11:23 am | Climate Action Network
Commenting on the publication of a new, possibly final, deal at the UN climate talks in Paris, New Zealand Climate Action Network coordinator David Tong said: More >>
NZ gets its fifth 'Fossil of the Day' placing at COP 18
Tuesday, 4 December 2012, 1:15 pm | Climate Action Network
The First Place Fossil goes to New Zealand because the NZ Environment Minister thinks NZ is ‘ahead of the curve’ in not signing up to a second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol. More >>
Fossil of the Day, 5 Dec 2011: Russia and NZ Take First
Thursday, 8 December 2011, 10:31 am | Climate Action Network
The second week of the United Nations climate change negotiations began with a heavy dose of Fossils. New Zealand and Russia shared a rare joint Fossil in First Place for wanting to benefit from a continuation of the Kyoto Protocol without being bound ... More >>