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Dear readers,
Welcome to the Climate Weekly newsletter by the Centre for Science and Environment’s Climate Change programme and Down to Earth.
While the conflict in Israel-Palestine rages on, a small group of climate negotiators convened recently in the Nile-side city of Aswan in Southern Egypt to fight another crucial battle – to secure funds for loss and damage. The fourth meeting of the Transitional Committee (TC4) for the Loss and Damage Fund (LDF) saw soaring disagreements, meetings running past 1AM, and negotiators postponing their return flights.
Tamanna Sengupta and I captured the drama of the proceedings and contextualized its relevance to the climate justice discourse. We need to pay attention to how rich countries are searching for exit routes and stalling discussions on delivering money for climate damages. It is a niche issue, seemingly far removed from our daily routines. But, we argue, it is the purest distillation of the climate justice issue - the fact that the polluters are being asked to pay for damages that have reversed decades of development in the poorest parts of the world; damages that are themselves caused by carbon-intensive development which has enriched the polluters. The failure of TC4 shows us that rich countries are not climate leaders, as they claim to be – they are dodgers of responsibility and must be called out as such.
Elsewhere, Sehr Raheja of CSE Climate unpacks some of the headline discussions at the IMF / World Bank Annual Meetings in Marrakesh this month. Manas Agrawal of CSE’s Industrial Pollution programme discusses how plans for India’s domestic carbon market will soon evolve; he quotes Trishant Dev of CSE Climate who says “it's crucial for policymakers to emphasise transparency, conduct more extensive consultations, and prevent conflict of interests during the process of shaping this regulatory framework”. And our new paper Discredited– on the voluntary carbon market in India – is represented by DTE in two excellent interactive infographics.
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By - Avantika Goswami
Climate Change, CSE
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World on brink of 6 interconnected risk tipping points: UN report, 26 October 2023
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Himalayan communities are under siege from landslides — and climate change is worsening the crisis, 25 October 2023
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