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With the UN Oceans Conference entering its second day, talk in the corridors is still preoccupied with the impact the US decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement will have on the international effort to tackle climate change and bring the world’s ailing marine systems back from the brink of catastrophe. As Dr. Sylvia Earle,… Continue reading Day 2 UN Oceans Conference: One World, One Ocean

From Reuters Foundation Dr. Mohamed Shainee Seafood consumers are more discriminating than ever before. Not only do they increasingly demand fish that are harvested sustainably, they also look for “fair trade” products that also support local and traditional fishing communities. But these labels still only represent a tiny fraction of the global seafood market—not nearly… Continue reading UN Oceans Conference: Healthy Oceans = Healthy Communities

The Paris Agreement was almost three decades in the making. It was designed for maximum flexibility and universal participation. It even allows countries to adjust their climate plans based on national circumstances. If the US wishes to change its contribution, that would be unfortunate but is its prerogative. Renegotiating the entire agreement, however, is not… Continue reading Paris Agreement is not ‘renegotiable’

This is climate change. Earlier than usual rainfall in Bangladesh that flooded 400,000 hectares of agricultural land in the country’s northeast destroyed 2 million tonnes of rice, sending the price of the staple crop soaring at the market and raising of a food shortage. The government has started to make emergency plans to make up… Continue reading This is climate change: Floods, Fighting and Famines

BONN, GERMANY—A week before the start of the latest round of UNFCCC negotiations here, when international attention was fixated on whether or not the United States would remain in the Paris Agreement, the host country set a record that shows the direction energy markets are headed: On the last day of April, 85 percent of… Continue reading New German Energy Record Points to Future

Transcript of statement delivered on 23 March by Amb. Ahmed Sareer Climate Change and the Sustainable Development Agenda United Nations Headquarters New York City 23 March 0930 in Trusteeship Council Chamber President of the General Assembly, Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC, Excellencies, Colleagues, Let me start by thanking Ambassador Peter Thompson, the President of the… Continue reading Transcript of Climate Change and the Sustainable Development Statement

This article originally appeared on The Reuters Foundation site. By Thoriq Ibrahim The relationship between excessive carbon dioxide emissions and severe climate change impacts is well documented: In the past few years alone, the atmospheric concentration of CO2 reached its highest level in 2 million years. At the same time, we witnessed the hottest global… Continue reading The Climate Change and Sustainable Development Nexus

The devastation persists. The longest-running coral bleaching event in history, which has impacted reefs across the globe, will continue into 2017, according to a troubling forecast from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Coral Reef Watch. The alert isn’t as severe as in recent years after average sea surface temperatures have cooled following a significant… Continue reading Coral Bleaching Conditions Persist

It has always been the case that tackling climate change depends more on the actions taken on the ground than the ones in UNFCCC negotiating rooms. Climate solutions and climate talks are linked, to be sure, but this week the two intersected in what may be the strongest signal yet that the Clean Energy Age… Continue reading Renewables installations surpass fossil fuels