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COP 28 EU Energy Days Programme 4 – 5 December 2023 +++ EU and United Arab Emirates boost energy cooperation ahead of COP28 +++ CARBON OFFSET: EDF launches Oklima, a subsidiary dedicated to carbon offset solutions +++ UNCTAD: World Forum to Mobilize Investments for Climate, Energy, Health and Food +++ WMO: Lapland had a record warm August in places, while Western Finland was exceptionally rainy – Finnish Meteorological Institute

TRANSPORT EMISSIONS: Transport infrastructure: CINEA assigns over EUR 352 million of EU funding to boost greener mobility +++ G20: Statement by President von der Leyen at the first Session, ‘One Earth’, of the G20 +++ AVIATION EMISSIONS: S&D: EU Parliament to make aviation fuel more climate-friendly

Window to reach climate goals ‘rapidly closing’, UN report warns +++ Implementation must accelerate to increase ambition across all fronts, taking an all-of-society approach to make progress towards the Paris Agreement goals and respond to the climate crisis, finds technical report on first global stocktake
Technical dialogue of the first global stocktake. Synthesis report by the co-facilitators on the technical dialogue
WRI: STATEMENT: UN’s Global Stocktake Report Offers

CLEAN AIR: UN: ‘Act together’ for clean air, Guterres urges +++ EU PARLIAMENT REGISTER: AMENDMENTS and REPORT on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe (recast) +++ ANTARCTICA: Stabilitätsprüfung für die Westantarktis: Mariner Eisschild bislang nicht destabilisiert, aber möglicherweise auf dem Weg zum Kipppunkt

CLIMATE FINANCE: Global Green Bond Initiative strengthened by a new strategic partnership to foster green capital markets +++ Brazil: EIB and AllianzGI announce $77.5 million for Brazilian climate action projects with Vinci Climate Change Fund +++ WMO: Earth had hottest three-month period on record, with unprecedented sea surface temperatures and much extreme weather +++ WMO Bulletin: heatwaves worsen air quality and pollution
AIR POLLUTION: Towards cleaner air for Europe.

CARBON INDEX: EEX führt Global Carbon Index Familie ein +++ AFRICAN CLIMATE SUMMIT: UN News: Guterres leads call to make Africa ‘a renewable energy superpower’ +++ WMO: Early Warnings For All Action Plan for Africa is launched +++ Scientists assess the impacts of a warming ocean +++
CLIMATE FINANCE: Norway: Climate finance doubled four years ahead of deadline

EU Commission President von der Leyen participates in the Africa Climate Summit 2023 in Nairobi, Kenya +++ Africa Climate Week 2023: Charting a Fresh Course for Climate Action +++ Simon Stiell: It’s a global responsibility to collectively drive Africa’s green growth +++ Afrikanischer Klimagipfel in Nairobi: Afrikanische Lösungen für globale Herausforderungen – Auswärtiges Amt +++ WMO: Africa suffers disproportionately from climate chang

Climate Commissioner Designate Wopke Hoekstra resigns as foreign minister of the Netherlands +++ UN expert urges international support for The Bahamas amid climate crisis +++ WMO: Google adds health tips to extreme heat warnings +++ AFRICAN CLIMATE SUMMIT: African children bearing the brunt of climate change impacts +++ EU PARLIAMENT: OPINION on the proposal for a regulation establishing a Union certification framework for carbon removals

CLIMATE DATA: Eurostat: Are you interested in statistics on climate change? +++ UNFCCC: Pacific Dialogue amplifies voices of Small Island Developing States facing the brunt of climate change +++ Harnessing National Systems of Innovation for Climate Action +++ WRI: What to Watch at the First Africa Climate Summit

TRANSPORT EMISSIONS: ReFuelEU Aviation initiative: Sustainable aviation fuels and the fit for 55 package +++ WMO: Early Warnings for All gains ground with national launches +++ Early Warnings for All helps to reduce the vulnerability of Maldives +++ Climate Change Adaptation Issues for Arctic and Sub-Arctic Cities – Belfer Center +++ PIK zur Sommerbilanz 2023 des Deutschen Wetter-Diensts: Mitten im Klimawandel +++ Klimaextreme treffen angeschlagene Volkswirtschaften noch härter

STAFF CHANGES: Statement from President von der Leyen on the composition of the College and the next EU Climate Commissioner from The Netherlands +++ The Left: Hoekstra cannot possibly fill Timmerman’s shoes +++ Implementing Clean Energy Transitions – Focus on road transport in emerging economies +++ The Conservative: World economy affected by extreme weather events +++ PIK: Abrupte Veränderungen der Nordatlantikumwälzung in der Vergangenheit hatten Auswirkungen auf das globale Klimasystem

CLIMATE RISKS: What your insurer is trying to tell you about climate change – Belfer Center +++ Videokonferenz mit Peter Liese (EVP/CDU) zur Dekarbonisierung der Industrie am Beispiel der Zementindustrie +++ Resignation of Frans TIMMERMANS, Executive Vice-President, as Member of the Commission.