BRI, BRICS, & Global South~

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, June 7, 2021 – The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), and the National Energy Administration of the People’s Republic of China (NEA) have today agreed to work to strengthen cooperation as the world’s largest renewable energy market builds momentum towards the achievement of its carbon neutrality goals. China has pledged to peak its CO2 emissions before 2030 and committed to the achievement of carbon neutrality before 2060. Under the […]

Russia has been slow to move on climate action – but that is about to change, with the government set to deliver a host of measures on climate change action, with a detailed plan to be published by October 2021. After seven years of sanctions and accusations of malign activities by all sides, political relations between Russia and both the US and the EU are at their worst since the […]

The 2021 Dasgupta Report provides a much-needed roadmap to correct flawed economic tools by valuing Nature as an asset. A test of whether markets will follow this roadmap involves quickly expanding voluntary carbon sequestration markets. Editor’s Note: Fundamentally, the Dasgupta Review develops the economics of biodiversity on the understanding that we, and our economies, are embedded within nature- not external to it. There has been an institutional failure to account […]

Facing the triple threat of climate change, loss of nature and pollution, the world must deliver on its commitment to restore at least one billion degraded hectares of land in the next decade—an area about the size of China. Countries also need to add similar commitments for oceans, according to a new report by the UN Environment Program (UNEP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO), launched […]

Global cooperation on climate change requires a commitment to multilateralism, international law, and the United Nations-led global system. When facing global challenges like the COVID-19 pandemic, some nations have resorted to finger-pointing and blame to hide their own weaknesses or try to gain petty short-term political advantages – at the cost of hundreds of thousands or even millions of lives. But at this moment, the dangers facing humanity are too […]

The Western media’s focus on China as “the world’s worst polluter” is devious and dishonest. The purpose of this article is to present the facts. Western mainstream media created Greta Thunberg as a pop celebrity, and so when she recently criticized China (and by implication the entire Global South), it is not surprising that her comments provoked a response. Thunberg is reported to have declared that being a developing nation […]