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Enhancing Action & Cooperation for Sustainable Agriculture & Resilient Food Systems

In order to implement the GST targets and signals through enhanced NDC ambition and implementation, major barriers must be meaningfully addressed, turned into opportunities for enhanced international cooperation, and translated into development priorities and domestic policies. In the context of making the case for clear leadership to enable such action, this paper: focuses on the […]

Enhancing Action & Cooperation for the Transition Away from Fossil Fuels

In order to implement the GST targets and signals through enhanced NDC ambition and implementation, major barriers must be meaningfully addressed, turned into opportunities for enhanced international cooperation, and translated into development priorities and domestic policies. In the context of making the case for clear leadership to enable such action, this paper: focuses on the […]

Deploying Long-Duration Energy Storage in Virginia

Energy storage is crucial to enabling new clean energy to serve as firm, reliable electricity generation. Virginia has one of the largest state-level energy storage targets in the country, with a goal to deploy 3.1 GW of energy storage capacity by 2035—enough to power more than 2.3 million homes—and aims to procure 100 percent of […]

Enhancing Action & Cooperation for Halting & Reversing Deforestation

In order to implement the GST targets and signals through enhanced NDC ambition and implementation, major barriers must be meaningfully addressed, turned into opportunities for enhanced international cooperation, and translated into development priorities and domestic policies. In the context of making the case for clear leadership to enable such action, this paper: focuses on the […]

Enhancing Action & Cooperation for the Doubling of Energy Efficiency

In order to implement the GST targets and signals through enhanced NDC ambition and implementation, major barriers must be meaningfully addressed, turned into opportunities for enhanced international cooperation, and translated into development priorities and domestic policies. In the context of making the case for clear leadership to enable such action, this paper: focuses on the […]

Enhancing Action & Cooperation for Early Warning Systems

In order to implement the GST targets and signals through enhanced NDC ambition and implementation, major barriers must be meaningfully addressed, turned into opportunities for enhanced international cooperation, and translated into development priorities and domestic policies. In the context of making the case for clear leadership to enable such action, this paper: focuses on the […]

Enhancing Action & Cooperation for the Tripling of Renewable Energy Capacity Globally

In order to implement the GST targets and signals through enhanced NDC ambition and implementation, major barriers must be meaningfully addressed, turned into opportunities for enhanced international cooperation, and translated into development priorities and domestic policies. In the context of making the case for clear leadership to enable such action, this paper: focuses on the […]

Rising to the Climate Finance Challenge

Delivering the levels of finance necessary to implement climate solutions at the scale needed—almost U.S. $6 trillion for developing countries by the end of the decade according to the agreed outcome from the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) in Dubai—will be challenging. Nevertheless, available, accessible, and affordable climate finance from all sources will be […]

Engaging the Private Sector in the Loss and Damage Fund: Issues and Options (Fact Sheet)

The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) set out a historic agreement to operationalize the loss and damage (L&D) fund to address and respond to the impacts of climate change for those countries that are particularly vulnerable. The COP28 decision further established a Board of the L&D Fund […]

Public Sector Finance for Loss and Damage: Issues and Options

COP28 in Dubai achieved a historic breakthrough in addressing the finance gap for loss and damage (L&D). On the opening day, the Parties agreed to operationalize the L&D Fund for responding to L&D, which has received U.S. $661.39 million in pledges to date. More than U.S. $100 million was pledged for funding arrangements for L&D. […]