Head of UNFCCC reconfirms #Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 will host COP29 in the city of Baku, from 11 to 22 November 2024.
COP29 President-Designate = Mukhtar Babayev, Minister of Ecology & Natural Resources
COP29 Lead Negotiator = @YalchinRafiyev, Deputy Foreign Minister
Azerbaijan to host next year’s Cop29 climate talks, according to two sources in the Cop28 meeting room where the decision was made.
https://t.co/jpTVo7ZMoy
UPDATE on COP29 presidency:
After a lot of back and forth, Armenia has confirmed it will no longer block Azerbaijan's bid to Preside over COP29
Azerbaijan now as good as certain to take on the COP29 Presidency
https://t.co/i3XUliNcVO
📢 New @WHO report provides a snapshot of the overall progress governments have made in addressing the #health risks of #climatechange to achieve the goals of the #ParisAgreement.
https://t.co/6MidSSYNAA
What does climate inequality look like?
The top map shows national responsibility for climate breakdown. The bottom maps show projected climate-change attributable health and mortality risks in 2050.
Happy to share our issue on Transdisciplinary Collaborations on Climate Change and Health. @ArthurWyns and I wanted to broaden the scope of transdisciplinarity to include various ways of knowing and to encompass intersectional and intergenerational notions https://t.co/lcRamzA1tm
I am of a matriarchal bloodline, I know fierce like the cradle of my grandmother. The women in my family have created all that we have with sheer grit; despite living as tribal/rural woman in one of the most patriarchal and violent countries against women in the world; Pakistan
Dates now confirmed:
The first meeting of the 'Transitional Committee' on loss and damage finance will take place 27-29 March in Egypt.
Representatives from 24 countries will have to hash out the details for a L&D fund by #COP28
Full list here: https://t.co/9UggCAb050
The decision to develop a loss and damage fund was one of the major outcomes of #COP27
A 'Transitional Committee' of 24 countries will now have to figure out the details by #COP28
Eight nominees have already been announced - more are expected soon
https://t.co/9UggCAb050
Among the selected members of the Loss & Damage Committee are:
-Barbados special envoy @AvinashPersau15 (the brains behind Mia Mottley's Bridgetown Agenda)
-UAE lead negotiator @HanaAlhashimi
- Egypt's lead negotiator @MoMoclimate
-Reps from SA, Chile, Colombia, Brazil
📢@TheLancetPlanet
📄Global biodiversity deal is not pandemic proof - @ArthurWyns
“It really is a missed opportunity that health was not incorporated,” said @DrAnnaStewart, Science Director of @Iai_News
➡️Full article: https://t.co/sEN5KLAFko
Health & Biodiversity decision just adopted in the final #COP15 plenary! This + health in new Global Biodiversity Framework provide key entry points for raising ambition, strengthening health leadership, cooperation and support 4 #OneHealth! @WHO @DrMariaNeira
196 countries have agreed to a global deal for nature!
It's goal: to halt biodiversity loss by 2030
Including by:
-protecting 30% land and 30% oceans by 2030
-30% of degraded ecosystems restored
-30B$ for biodiversity by 2030
Ful text of UN deal here: https://t.co/aW7UfzR7wU