Felix Dodds comments on sustainable development, coffee & life

Alice de Moraes Amorim Vogas , Liderança Estratégica em Política Climática | Gestão Programática de Eventos Globais | Parcerias Multissetoriais & Filantropia | Governança & Representação Internacional. During the São Paulo Climate Week, which wraps up today, we as #COP30 Presidency in the context of the NAPs Implementation Alliance had the pleasure to partner with Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) to host a roundtable with representatives from the financial sector to: 1. Discuss the landscape of investments in resilience 2. Learn from their concrete experiences of designing financial instruments to fund #ClimateAdaptation , and 3. Understand how NAPs are (or are not) being used by financial institutions as guiding stars to identify the demand for funding and decide on how to allocate it. I´ve learned a lot reading the Report from GFANZ , particularly the cases of AON and the Government of Jamaica, the Zurich and Maersk case presented by Andressa Mei...

  Delegates gather for the opening plenary of the June UN Climate Meetings in Bonn. Credit: Kiara Worth / IISD/ENB EX, North Carolina / SAN FRANCISCO, California, Jun 30 2026 (IPS) - With progress stalled on many issues, this year’s June talks in Bonn—which are supposed to smooth the way towards COP 31 in Antalya at year’s end—were widely judged a failure. What happened? And what does it mean for Antalya? (first published with InterPress Service here) “Deliberately delaying us.” “Spreading misinformation.” “Denying the science.” “Lacking integrity.” “Blocking progress.” “Costing countless lives.” These were just some of the charges delegates leveled at each other during the UN Climate Meetings held in Bonn this June. As delegates took up multiple issues in small “contact groups” and “informal consultations”, negotiations quickly became tetchy and irritable before descending into levels of rancor and even rudeness rarely seen before. And it was not just one issue where tempers fray...

  PRESS RELEASE   Global Renewable Energy Investment Hit USD 807 Billion in 2024 Record investment in renewables, but growth pace slows to 7.3%      Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 217 November 2025  - Global investments in the energy transition reached a new record of USD 2.4 trillion in 2024 – a 20% increase from the average annual levels of 2022/23. About one-third was directed towa...