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Cost of a KitKat: Big brands leave sugar farmers at the mercy of climate extremes

December 21, 2022

Nestlé, Coca Cola and Pepsi are among the buyers from Nanglamal Sugar Complex, which smallholders say gives no help with climate resilience

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Momentum grows towards 2050 zero carbon shipping target

December 20, 2022

Nigeria, Chile and Vietnam are among countries now backing a stronger climate goal for international shipping, but cost concerns remain

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‘Kunming-Montreal’ deal sets up new fund for biodiversity by 2023

December 20, 2022

Countries committed to mobilise $200 billion “from all sources” to protect 30% of the world’s land and water ecosystems by 2030

The post ‘Kunming-Montreal’ deal sets up new fund for biodiversity by 2023 appeared first on Climate Home News.

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India’s female cane cutters face child marriage and hysterectomy

December 20, 2022

Women and girls in India’s sugar fields are exposed to sexual harassment, backbreaking work and inadequate healthcare

The post India’s female cane cutters face child marriage and hysterectomy appeared first on Climate Home News.

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Cop15 global nature deal passes despite DR Congo’s objection

December 19, 2022

The Chinese presidency gavelled through a biodiversity pact in Montreal, overriding the funding concerns of some African delegates

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Mexico’s new climate plan is worse than its old one, analysts say

December 19, 2022

Mexico, a country of 130 million, is one of only two G20 countries not to have set net zero emission targets

The post Mexico’s new climate plan is worse than its old one, analysts say appeared first on Climate Home News.

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Migrant labourers suffer exploitation in India’s sugar fields

December 19, 2022

Millions of people migrate each year to work in India’s sugar fields under extreme heat, harsh conditions and debt bondage

The post Migrant labourers suffer exploitation in India’s sugar fields appeared first on Climate Home News.

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The sweet life goes sour – Climate Weekly

December 16, 2022

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India’s sugarcane farmers struggle to cope with droughts and floods

December 16, 2022

In India more intense droughts and floods are destroying sugarcane crops and plunging millions of farmers and their families into debt

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After developing country walkout, ministers arrive to rescue nature talks

December 16, 2022

The current gap in biodiversity finance is estimated at $700 billion per year.

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Climate Home’s five must-read climate change stories from 2022

December 15, 2022

The hype machine behind a $70,000 carbon credit, fossil fuel fights in Sharm el-Sheikh and other essential journalism

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Destruction of Brazil’s Cerrado savanna soars for third year in a row

December 15, 2022

Brazil’s outgoing president Jair Bolsonaro has presided over four years of destruction of the Amazon rainforest and the Cerrado grasslands

The post Destruction of Brazil’s Cerrado savanna soars for third year in a row appeared first on Climate Home News.

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Rich nations mobilise $15.5bn for Vietnam’s coal-to-clean transition

December 15, 2022

The deal will help Vietnam to peak its greenhouse gas emissions five years earlier than planned and scale up renewable energy generation

The post Rich nations mobilise $15.5bn for Vietnam’s coal-to-clean transition appeared first on Climate Home News.

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Vulnerable communities must call the shots on loss and damage fund

December 14, 2022

Poor and marginalised groups should be represented on the fund’s board, managing budgets and making decisions about their own lives

The post Vulnerable communities must call the shots on loss and damage fund appeared first on Climate Home News.

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EU strikes internal deal to tax carbon at its borders

December 13, 2022

The world-first scheme will protect European industries from being undercut by polluting competitors, but angers emerging economies

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Governments split on ditching nature-harming subsidies in Montreal

December 13, 2022

Negotiators at the Cop15 biodiversity summit in Montreal have until Friday to agree a “nature pact” that can get rid of harmful subsidies

The post Governments split on ditching nature-harming subsidies in Montreal appeared first on Climate Home News.

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Baking the cakeist Cop – Climate Weekly

December 9, 2022

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AIIB finds gas plant in Bangladesh compatible with Paris goals

December 9, 2022

AIIB’s fast-tracking of a 600MW LNG plant could set a precedent for more development finance to fossil gas projects, campaigners warn

The post AIIB finds gas plant in Bangladesh compatible with Paris goals appeared first on Climate Home News.

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Germany considers €1 billion in support for 10 fossil fuel projects overseas

December 9, 2022

German support for any of the projects would breach a pledge made last year to stop funding coal, oil and gas projects overseas from 1 January

The post Germany considers €1 billion in support for 10 fossil fuel projects overseas appeared first on Climate Home News.

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UK coal mine approval sparks global fury and hypocrisy claims

December 9, 2022

The decision to allow a new coking coal mine goes against official climate advice and the UK’s international rhetoric on fossil fuels

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