What were the main outcomes of the talks and what do we need to do to make enough progress at the next round of negotiations this December in the United Arab Emirates? Find out in this short video produced by RLS’s International Climate Justice Program in partnership with Spumoni Cooperative.
Tags: climate justice, cop, COP27It was a tale of two COPs. One tale told of a historic breakthrough in responding to developing countries’ demands around financing for climate-induced loss and damage — for many, a sign of moral triumph. But there was another story, one in which much-needed progress on climate change mitigation and adaptation was ultimately derailed.
Tags: climate action, climate justice, COP27, loss and damageRLS NYC partnered with MADRE in supporting a delegation of Indigenous women leaders from the Maasai communities in Kenya and Tanzania to COP27.
Tags: COP27, indigenous rights, indigenous womenThis new report unpacks COP27’s outcomes on issues related to Loss and Damage and ways forward as we look to SB58 and COP28.
Tags: climate justice, COP27, loss and damage, Santiago network, UNFCCCThe International Climate Justice Program supports a civil society coalition to demand action against the corporate influence of fossil fuel companies over the climate talks.
Tags: climate justice, COP27, UNFCCC. This brief draws on examples of loss and damage throughout Africa as well as the submissions from African Parties to suggest how the Santiago Network can be fit for purpose and urgently operationalised to provide support to address the needs on the ground in African and other vulnerable developing countries.
Tags: climate change, climate crisis, climate justice, COP27, loss and damage, Santiago networkAaron Eisenberg, RLS-NYC project manager, talked with Dharna Noor, climate reporter of the Boston Globe, to understand the shifting terrains in the U.S. post West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency at the Supreme Court (the case related to the Clean Air Act and the ability of EPA to regulate carbon dioxide emissions), and the largest climate bill ever passed in the US, the Investment Recovery Act or IRA, passed this summer.
Tags: climate justice, COP27, just transitionIf COP27 is to deliver what our planet needs, the capitalist agenda must be disrupted, including the call that Global North countries pay their climate debt and deliver their fair share of climate action.
Tags: climate justice, cop26, COP27, paris agreementThis policy brief looks at the key outcomes on Loss and Damage from the SB 56 intersessional and articulates the expectations for an ambitious outcome on the road to and at COP 27. It also provides a set of recommendations for what should be achieved at the conference in order to develop a roadmap for meeting the needs on the ground in vulnerable developing countries.
Tags: climate justice, COP27, loss and damage, UNFCCCAdrián Martínez Blanco, the Director and founder of La Ruta del Clima, recently attended two key climate-related UN meetings: Stockholm +50 and the Intersessional climate talks of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). He shared his perspective of the relevance and outcomes of these meetings from a Latin American civil society perspective. Adrian, […]
Tags: climate justice, COP27, loss and damage, UNFCCC