On November 11, 2024, the 29th Conference of Parties (COP29) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) opened in Baku, capital of petrostate Azerbaijan. Originally scheduled to conclude on November 22, negotiations dragged on until November 24. The conference almost collapsed when developing countries walked out in response to developed countries’ refusal to…
November 6, 2024 9:00AM – 5:00PM EAT Register here: http://bit.ly/48xMJqu IBON Africa is organising the CSO Convergence on Carbon Trading titled, “Advancing Climate Justice amidst Carbon Trading in Africa.” This CSO Convergence on Carbon Trading will convene civil society organisations, communities’ representatives, and peoples’ movements to discuss the state of play of carbon trading in…
From November 11 to 22, 2024, Jennifer Del Rosario-Malonzo (Executive Director), Ivan Enrile (Programme Manager), Jax Bongon (Climate Justice Policy Officer), and Melanie Feranil (Research and Policy Coordinator) will represent IBON International at the 29th UN Climate Change Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan. Through the campaign Global Call for #ClimateReparations and #RealSolutions, IBON International will…
Against the backdrop of an intensifying climate crisis that affects the most marginalised and the proliferation of market-based climate solutions, peoples and communities in the Global South are increasingly taking matters into their own hands. Collective actions from grassroots sectors—such as workers, farmers, women, youth, indigenous peoples, urban and rural poor, and others—are at the…
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In May 2016, former President Uhuru Kenyatta introduced the Climate Change Act, the first of its kind in Africa. It was designed not only to establish mechanisms and strategies for achieving low-carbon climate development, but also to mainstream climate change as a central agenda in the development process. The legislation was enacted as a response…
IBON International COP28 Update #1 Dubai, UAE, December 10 – The first week of the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change saw mixed outcomes, including the adoption of the funding mechanisms to respond to climate impacts, but with major setbacks in other key areas due to developed…
December 10, 2023 13:15 – 14:45 Side Event Room 6 (Bldg. 85) In 2013, Typhoon Haiyan hit countries in the Pacific, such as the Philippines. Said to be one of the most powerful typhoons ever recorded, it claimed more than 6,000 lives, left millions homeless, and cost an estimated USD 12.9 billion in damages. Ten…
The 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Dubai, UAE is taking place against the background of a world on the edge of irreversible planetary catastrophe. Millions of poor people who have done the least damage to the environment and climate contend with worsening weather extremes…
NEWS RELEASE Nairobi, Kenya – African countries are among the hardest hit by the climate crisis which continues to exacerbate protracted conflicts, perennial hunger and drought, and widening inequalities as well as external debt, among others. In a region that has been faced with increasing climate challenges and complex trade dynamics, conversations on the nexus…
‘Decolonize to Decarbonize’ or D2D is a campaign call that aims to bring to attention how imperialist countries in the global North and their corporations are using the climate crisis to co-opt peoples’ demands to transition away from fossil fuels to further colonise global South frontiers for resource grabbing and exploitation. This briefer contains the…
