Climate Toolbox for NDC Partnership

The Climate Toolbox draws together tools, guidance, platforms, and advisory support from leading institutions in a searchable database to help countries plan and implement their NDCs.

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UNFCCC Submissions Tracker

Tracking and sharing opportunities for stakeholders to give input to the UN climate change negotiations.

The countries that are parties to the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement regularly come together to discuss the implementation of these agreements and elaborate further measures to enhance climate action. These negotiations are multi-faceted: they cover various issues and work programmes related to the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions, adaptation, loss and damage, finance, technology, agriculture, gender, and many other topics.

To lay the ground for these meetings and make the best use of the limited negotiation time, the UNFCCC Secretariat is often tasked with collecting stakeholders’ views ahead of time. Some of these calls for submission are open only to parties, but many are also open to other stakeholders. This means academics, civil society organizations, private sector entities, and youth and Indigenous Peoples’ groups, among others, can submit their views on various issues relating to the climate negotiations. They can propose topics for workshops and dialogues, provide feedback on the effectiveness of specific work programmes, highlight gaps that should be addressed, and point to resources that might help governments and others enhance their climate action.

The UNFCCC Submissions Tracker is an effort to raise awareness about these input opportunities. An embedded spreadsheet tracks opportunities by subject and deadline while providing broader context and suggestions on which stakeholders may be especially interested.

Find the UNFCC SUBMISSIONS TRACKER  explainer and embedded spreadsheet here

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Climate Pulse - C3S new tool to monitor the state of our Climate at a glance

To make climate monitoring more intuitive and available to everyone, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S*) presents Climate Pulse, a new interactive application that gives a concise and precise picture of the near-real time status of our climate.

To make data more accessible to a wider audience, C3S has released Climate Pulse, an interactive and intuitive tool displaying key global-average surface air temperature and sea surface temperature data, enabling users to better understand how our climate is changing, explore different years, and download and share the data, charts and maps obtained.

Explore Climate Pulse interactive application here

Explore Copernicus Interactive Climate Atlas here

Visit Climate Pulse home webpage here

Read Copernicus Global Climate Highlights 2023 here

Copernicus Earth Observation Programme: About the Climate Change and Atmosphere Monitoring Services

ECMWF implements the Climate Change and Atmosphere Monitoring Services on behalf of the European Commission. Copernicus is the European Union's (EU) flagship programme on monitoring the Earth’s environment using satellite and in-situ observations. Copernicus delivers operational data and information services on a range of topical areas. The information provided by the services are freely and openly accessible to users.

Visit Copernicus Climate site here

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Climate adaptation becomes less effective as the world warms

A Guest post for Carbon Brief

Breakthrough - The National Centre for Climate Restoration

The National Centre for Climate Restoration (Breakthrough) is an independent think tank that develops critical thought leadership to influence the climate debate and policy making.  
Breakthrough’s mission is to develop and promote strategy innovation and analysis that is essential to deliver safe climate restoration.

Safe climate restoration is defined as actions to re-instate natural climate processes that generate global average temperatures and ocean acidity that are safe for all species and for civilisation.  (ie. preindustrial temperatures & acidity).
Time has run out for half measures and it is now imperative that work begins to restore safe climate conditions as fast as humanly possible - this will require action at emergency scale and speed.

Breakthrough Publications

Download and read 2018 report "What Lies Beneath" here

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Visit the Climate Reality Check website here

Download and read Breakthrough new short guide series here

Read David Spratt - research director at Breakthrough - newsletter ClimateCodeRed here

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What Are Greenhouse Gas Accounting and Corporate Climate Disclosures? 6 Questions, Answered

WRI insight - written by Kyla Aiuto, Sarah Huckins and Hannah Momblanco

The origin of greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting, or measuring emissions from companies and other entities, dates to the late 1990s, but interest has grown exponentially in the past few years with the proliferation of both voluntary and more recently, mandatory corporate climate disclosure initiatives.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) finalized a rule in March 2024 that will require companies to disclose some of their emissions if they're deemed financially material to investors. The European Union enacted the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) in 2023, which will require companies operating in Europe to disclose their emissions beginning in 2025. The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) released a voluntary GHG reporting standard (IFRS S2) in 2023; three countries have made it mandatory for corporations operating in their nation, while several others are considering doing the same. And significantly, almost 400 organizations have committed to advancing the adoption or use of the ISSB’s sustainability standards (including IFRS S2) at a global level.

GHG emissions disclosure is a critical climate change mitigation and accountability tool, as well as a key step towards achieving ambitious emissions-reduction goals. To avoid the worst impacts of climate change, global greenhouse gas emissions need to drop by nearly half by 2030 and ultimately reach net zero. The process to achieve these GHG emissions reductions starts with GHG accounting.

Here, we answer questions about this rapidly evolving field: 

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Essential research findings to support decision-making in a critical decade

A Message from the Future II: The Years of Repair

Do we have a right to be hopeful? With political and ecological fires raging all around, is it irresponsible to imagine a future world radically better than our own? A world without prisons? Of beautiful, green public housing? Of buried border walls? Of healed ecosystems? A world where governments fear the people instead of the other way around?

“A Message From the Future II: The Years of Repair” is an animated short film that dares to dream of a future in which 2020 is a historic turning point, where the lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic and global uprisings against racism drive us to build back a better society in which no one is sacrificed and everyone is essential.

The film is a sequel to the 2019 Emmy-nominated short film “A Message From the Future” with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and features the art of Molly Crabapple, with the political storytelling of Naomi Klein, Avi Lewis, and Opal Tometi. The cast of narrators from around the world includes Tometi, Emma Thompson, Gael García Bernal, and the Nigerian poet and activist Nnimmo Bassey.

Produced by The Intercept and The Leap

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