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We’re in a Race.

A race against time and against ourselves. Against the dangerous idea that we can’t do this, that there is no way.

Unlike most races, it won’t have one winner. In this race we all win, or we all lose. Winning it requires a radical, unprecedented level of collaboration, from all corners of our world. From our cities, businesses, regions and investors. From people everywhere.

Together we’re racing for a better world. A zero carbon and resilient world. A healthier, safer, fairer world. A world of wellbeing, abundance and joy, where the air is fresher, our jobs are well-paid and dignified, and our future is clear.

To get there we need to run fast, and get faster. We need more and more people to join the race, and right now. This is not about 2050, it’s about today.

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Land Use

A clarion call to reduce and phase out open waste burning

Open waste burning is one of the major contributors of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and poses major health hazards owing to the cocktail of air pollutants it discharges, according to a report published this week.

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Water

Catalyzing transformative urban water resilience projects

A new, more holistic approach and transformative initiative is needed to understand water and climate challenges.

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Energy

Delivering clean and affordable energy to Africa, faster

Affordable energy organisation, Power for All explains why Decentralised Renewable Energy (DRE) solutions such as solar can help countries expand access to on-site clean, sufficient, affordable, reliable, and sustainable energy.

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What are the Climate Action Pathways?

First launched in 2019, the Climate Action Pathways set out sectoral visions for achieving a 1.5°C resilient world in 2050, with overarching transformational milestones, and key impacts that need to be achieved to realize them.

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ستة أشهر منذ فعاليات مؤتمر الأطراف للمناخ السادس عشر

Six months on from COP26, we find ourselves in a stark and unnerving landscape. World leaders and leaders of the real economy must step up and shift from summits to solutions with the urgency that the situation demands (Arabic translation).

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Project Drawdown: We must prioritize activities that address both poverty and climate

A new intensive review has distilled from more than 400 scientific papers and reports a comprehensive, actionable set of technologies and practices that can mitigate climate change and contribute to alleviating extreme poverty at the same time.

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Campaign News

Six months from COP26

Half a year on from COP26, we find ourselves in a stark and unnerving landscape. World leaders and leaders of the real economy must step up and shift from summits to solutions with the urgency that the situation demands.

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Cities

Here’s how planning can help build resilient cities

Karim Elgendy, Chatham House & Martina Juvara, International Society of City and Regional Planners, explain why the UK’s planning system tool could be central to integrating climate change mitigation and adaptation in cities.

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Resilience

How South Africa’s recent floods compel climate action

South Africa is proactively responding to climate change through adaptation-focused regulation and green energy investments.

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Resilience

Why we need to globalize locally-led climate resilience

Communities across the world are coming up with locally-led solutions to help communities adapt to the impacts of climate change.

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We must use COP27 to transform energy and food systems

The latest IPCC report and Ukraine crisis show the urgency of phasing out fossil fuels, investing in renewables and developing sustainable agriculture, explains Egyptian UN Climate Change High-Level Champion, Mahmoud Mohieldin.

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“We are destroying the planet by destroying the people that protect it”

Indigenous rights activist and lawyer, Cindy Kobei discusses custodianship, the law, deepening equalities caused by the climate crisis, and the need to rekindle our connection with the natural world.

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Earth Day 2022: No time for complacency

Never in the history of humankind have we been faced with such a stark choice: to act now or risk losing it all forever. 

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How the world’s largest seafood companies can help tackle climate change

Seafood firms can reduce their impact on climate and the oceans – and in doing so can ensure they have a long-term thriving business, writes Nigel Topping, UN High Level Champion for Climate Action at COP26.

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Resilience

What are ‘sponge cities’ and how can they prevent floods?

A new AI-based study compares cities’ trees and lakes to how much concrete they have, to gauge their ability to respond to climate shocks.

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IPCC: The window is tight, but there is hope

The more we delay action, burn fossil fuels and destroy nature, the more brutal climate change will become, according to the latest IPCC scientific report on mitigating climate.

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Land Use

Bringing affordable and renewable energy to smallholder farmers

A sustainable and resilient agricultural sector is key to sub-Saharan Africa’s economic future. Here’s how solar water pumps can help.

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Land Use

War in Ukraine threatens access to Egypt’s staple food: bread

As with tortillas in Mexico and rice in West Africa, symbolism around bread has a spiritual dimension. Egyptians handle bread with care and respect at the bakery, on the street and in their homes.

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Resilience

A billion of the world’s most climate-vulnerable people live in informal settlements – here’s what they face

The IPCC’s latest report on climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability made it explicit that people living in informal settlements are the most vulnerable urban populations to climate change.

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Regional collaboration is a climate-action catalyst

MENA Climate Week will bring together key stakeholders to take the pulse of climate action in the region, explore climate challenges and opportunities and showcase ambitious solutions.

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Resilience

Directing finance to where it’s needed most – coastal cities

Scientists now say that the combination of rising sea levels, extreme weather events and population change in low-lying areas will put about a billion people at risk from coastal climate hazards beyond 2040. But they’ve also found that cities can offer the best hope of limiting that threat.

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