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Democratic Republic of the Congo’s environment minister says country has not agreed to ‘30 by 30’ deal

With biodiversity declining at unprecedented rates and less than a decade remaining to avert the worst effects of climate change, world leaders and policymakers are on the hunt for new and innovative solutions. In the halls and meeting rooms of global COP conferences, digital technologies have been heavily promoted to…

Everything you need to know about the once-in-a-decade chance to stop the loss of biodiversity – and how you can help

Climate change is an existential threat to human civilization and planetary ecosystems. Yet despite 27 UN Conference of the Parties (COP) meetings that have taken place so far, the international community has been unable to ward off imminent disaster.

The recent COP27 climate conference was billed as the moment to implement the climate change commitments states made at COP21, held in Paris in December 2015.

At COP 27, negotiators have been haggling over how to pay for the mounting costs of climate change

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Many firsts were achieved at COP27 to which Aotearoa enthusiastically signed up, but we have a chasm between climate commitment and action.

How developing countries' 30-year battle for "loss and damage" funding culminated in a new agreement in Egypt.