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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. Throughout 2024, this newsletter brought you the highlights of climate policy research from CSE, and climate-relevant reportage from our affiliate publication DTE. As we gear up for 2025, let us recap the work done over the past year.
The summer of 2024 was the hottest on record. For India itself, data from CSE-DTE’s Rajit Sengupta and Kiran Pandey showed that our country recorded extreme weather events on 93% of days in the first nine months of the year. Events which occurred a few times every century are now happening every five years or less. The frequency adds to the severity of impact by not allowing sufficient time to recover from the cycle of losses and damages. The economic impacts of the climate crisis on the developing world cannot be underestimated.
Moreover, the global geopolitical environment has been tumultuous to say the least with escalating military and economic conflicts, genocide, inflation troubles, sovereign debt burdens, and rising political extremism – much of which is intertwined with the climate crisis. It is within this complex set of crises that we attempted to frame the climate policy debate in 2024, with justice and the rights of the Global South as our lens. Some of our research highlights are provided below.
- Our report on the European Union’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism filled a gap by laying out a Global South response to the policy.
- Our position paper on the New Collective Quantified Goal on climate finance provided detailed position mapping of country blocs prior to COP 29, and laid out principles for a successful outcome. We also conducted an online training programme on climate finance for 113 participants from 13 countries.
- Our report on Article 2.1c of the Paris Agreement attempts to decode its interpretations within UNFCCC and raises questions for further consideration. Further we partnered with ODI Global for a workshop on Article 2.1c, that yielded fruitful discussions.
- Our scoping report on voluntary carbon markets (VCM) in Africa lays the ground for further inquiry; building on our pioneering work for India in last year's ‘Discredited’ report. Our soon-to-be-launched VCM database for India (today the largest source of credits in the global VCM) - aims to promote transparency that is sorely needed.
- Our paper on Equitable Fossil Fuel Phaseout lays out a roadmap for who should lead the way, according to various social and economic criteria.
- Our engagement at the UNFCCC-COP forums, saw deep engagement with negotiators and civil society. We moderated a UNFCCC dialogue on Article 2.1c; spoke at and moderated side events; and built pressure for key priorities for the Global South. Articles we wrote along with DTE colleagues at COP 29 in Baku saw 1.1 million page views; videos saw 1.75 million views.
- Beyond the UNFCCC, CSE’s Climate Change Programme has been in London, New York, and Nairobi this year engaging on wide-ranging issues such as trade, global financial systems reform, fossil fuel phaseout, and carbon markets.
- Research aside, you can glance through all the climate-related reportage by DTE here, which encompasses articles by DTE’s climate reporters, CSE researchers, and external experts.
As we head into a tough year for multilateral climate policy, CSE and DTE will continue to make sense of it all – which is the role we play as an institution, and advocate for an equitable, climate-resilient future for the developing world.
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By - Avantika Goswami
Climate Change, CSE
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2024 marks hottest year ever for China, surpassing 2023’s record, 02 January 2025
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It’s official. 2024 is set to be hottest year ever, says WMO, 31 December 2024
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