Climate Diplomacy
New climate advisor: Podesta touts Biden's climate law, lays out COP29 vision (Axios), New US climate envoy urges Japan to set clear coal phase-down plan (Nikkei Asia $)
Azerbaijan: Newly elected leaders to be held to same climate obligations, says Cop29 chief (The Guardian), COP29 host Azerbaijan plans to upgrade climate target (Reuters)
China: Q&A: What does China’s ‘two sessions’ mean for climate policy in 2024? (Carbon Brief), US-China advance work on curbing methane emissions, US deputy climate envoy says (Reuters)
National climate plans: No big North Sea fossil fuel country has plan to stop drilling in time for 1.5C goal (The Guardian), Brazil’s clashing goals: Protect the Amazon and pump lots more oil (NYT $)
“Energy security”: CERAWeek begins: Cue the gas debate (E&E $)
International Finance
NCQG: Fossil fuel sector should pay climate finance, EU ministers say (Reuters), India calls for $1 trillion per year climate finance from next year, submits its proposal to the UNFCCC (India Times)
GCF: Biden seeks billions for UN Green Climate Fund (E&E $), In Somalia, Green Climate Fund tests new approach for left-out communities (Climate Home)
Debt: Explainer: New York lawmakers tackle sovereign debt reworks again (Reuters), Kenya lawmakers approve plan to issue debt swaps to fund budget (Bloomberg $)
World Bank: World Bank lender to poorest nations seeks record funding haul (Financial Times $), UN nuclear watchdog head urges development banks to fund new projects (Financial Times $), World Bank's Banga apologizes to kids sexually abused at Bridge schools (Devex)
US fossils: Fury over $500 million US Export-Import Bank loan to Bahrain 'climate bomb' (Common Dreams), The zombies of the U.S. tax code: Why fossil fuels subsidies seem impossible to kill (NYT $)
SDRs: A quiet revolution in climate finance (Foreign Policy $)
Impacts
Fossil fueled: Revealed: How the global oil industry is fueling Israel’s war on Gaza (The Guardian), Extreme heat could trigger the worst global financial crisis ever seen (New Scientist $)
Indigenous peoples: Tribes meeting with Inter-American Commission on Human Rights describe harms uranium mining has had on them, and the threats new mines pose (Inside Climate News), Native groups sit on a treasure trove of lithium. Now mines threaten their water, culture and wealth (AP), Norway and the Sami people end a dispute over Europe’s largest onshore wind farm (AP)
Loss and damage: Is water provision in drought-hit Zambia climate 'loss and damage' or adaptation? (Climate Change News), Loss and Damage Fund: Delays leave countries waiting and wondering (African Arguments)
Islands: Tuvalu prime minister calls on Australia for sovereignty ‘guarantees’ over treaty (The Guardian), US gives billions to island nations, tackling climate and China (E&E $)