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Climate Change Forum in APAC Hopes To Bring Global Solutions

3BL Media

​As the global community steps up to accelerate urgent action against climate change, a multitude of sustainability events are taking place over the next few months to make critical progress towards a healthier planet. It is co-organised by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the UNEP through the APAN secretariat.

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COP27: A Breakthrough for People and Planet

3BL Media

Serving as a negotiator to the series of Climate Change COP events since COP21 (2015) where the Paris Agreement was adopted, Dr Abdel-Aziz provided the Alliance with exclusive insight into this year’s landmark developments and future prospects. Human activity is overloading the natural carbon cycle.

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SDSN September 2017 Events Summary

Sustainable Development Network

SDSN and our partners hosted the following events in and around the UNGA: Meet the Networks September 17, 2017 In advance of the UN General Assembly in New York, SDSN hosted a special event at Columbia University for Permanent Representatives from the UN in New York to showcase the work undertaken by SDSN’s National and Regional Networks.

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A Very African Climate Conversation

Chris Hall

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) says: “This vulnerability is driven by the prevailing low levels of socioeconomic growth in the continent. UNEP wants to see more investment diverted towards supporting African countries in meeting their nationally determined contributions (NDCs). This is the case in Africa.”. Increasing concern.

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SDSN at COP27

Sustainable Development Network

SDSN will be hosting and participating in a variety of events alongside COP27. Below are the details of those events. In this session, the Council will present engineering solutions for the energy transition and some key recommendations to serve as critical engineering inputs to COP negotiations.

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The Energy Trilemma: Affordability, Security and Climate

Chris Hall

If the aim of restricting climate change to within the Paris-agreed 1.5°C C increase over pre-industrial temperatures was hanging by a thread at the end of COP26, subsequent economic and geopolitical events appear to have dealt a blow to those ambitions – at least in the short term.

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Take Five: Fewer Fans for GFANZ

Chris Hall

Speaking in New York , UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen, noted that ‘30×30’ is just one of 21 elements of the draft framework, and urged governments to go beyond commitments to “hold each other and ourselves to account”. I’m not a scientist,” he said, at an event hosted by the New York Times.