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Dear readers,
Welcome to the Climate Weekly newsletter by the Centre for Science and Environment’s Climate Change programme and Down to Earth.
Forests have been in the limelight against the backdrop of 30th Conference of Parties (COP30) to the UNFCCC—to be held later this year in the Amazonian city of Belem, Brazil. The climate mitigation potential of forests is being emphasised at various multilateral forums. CSE Climate’s Rudrath Avinashi reports on the fifth Global Dialogue under the Sharm el- Shaikh Mitigation Ambition and Implementation Work Programme that was held during 19-20 May in Panama. The dialogue was aimed at enabling mitigation action in the forest sector, addressing sub-themes such as halting and reversing deforestation, sustainable management of forests, and the role of data and technology as well as access to finance.
At the dialogue, the least developed countries (LDCs) highlighted the need for long-term predictable finance for sustainable forest management. Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) was shared as one of the existing mechanisms through which climate finance can flow effectively. However, the issues of increasing difficulty of monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) vis-à-vis technology, capacity building and financial support remained unresolved.
In extreme weather news, the World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) latest report underlines the dangers of the planet edging closer to irreversible climate thresholds—predicting unprecedented warming through 2029. According to their forecast, between 2025 and 2029, the global average near-surface temperature will range between 1.2°C and 1.9°C above pre-industrial levels (1850-1900 baseline). Further, there is a 70 per cent likelihood of the five-year average crossing the 1.5°C threshold—signalling how close the planet is to breaching Paris Agreement limits.
On Tuesday, June 3, CSE Climate will host a webinar with climate experts on the Baku to Belem Roadmap—set up at COP29 to chart pathways for mobilising at least $1.3 trillion annually in climate finance by 2035 for developing countries’ climate needs. Join us for a rich conversation on the way ahead for developing countries to bridge the climate finance gap.
Finally, CSE Climate has launched Carbon Politics—a monthly podcast for decoding the politics of climate change from the lens of the Global South. Watch the first episode on “The Crisis in Multilateralism” with Avantika Goswami and Trishant Dev.
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By - Upamanyu Das
Climate Change, CSE
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| EXTREME WEATHER TRACKER |
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A May like no other: Rainfall replaces heatwaves across India, 29 May 2025
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Hotter years ahead: WMO predicts unprecedented warming through 2029, 28 May 2025
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