The new steps, still in discussion, come on top of initial steps approved in April that will boost World Bank lending by up to $50 billion over the next decade.
Kerry's visit to China as US climate envoy marks the formal resumption in top-level climate diplomacy between the countries. He is the third top US official to visit Beijing in past month.
By Valerie Volcovici BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said it was "imperative that China and the United States make real progress" in the four months before U.N.-sponsored climate
John Kerry urged China to partner with US to cut methane emissions & reduce the climate impact of coal-fired power, with both sides aiming to rebuild trust after suspension in talks last year.
John Kerry and Xie Zhenhua, who have worked together for almost two decades, will meet in Beijing between 16 and 19 July to discuss methane emissions, deforestation and climate change.
He was referring to ‘Nationally Determined Contributions,’ the emissions-cutting pledges that serve as countries’ national contributions to meeting 2015 Paris Agreement’s goals.
A White House report has suggested the Biden administration is open to studying the possibility of the effectiveness of solar radiation management, bringing concept to headlines again.
Over the past 30 years, temperatures have warmed by 0.2 degrees Celsius per decade. Drought and storms caused most of the $9 billion in economic damages in 2022.
Pakistan's Minister for Climate Change, Sherry Rehman, has been instrumental in formulating the loss and damage fund facility for developing nations at COP 27 in Egypt.
Though mean temperatures had temporarily breached the 1.5C threshold before, this was the first time they had done so in the northern hemisphere summer that starts on 1 June.
Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.
With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.
If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
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