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The Kyoto Protocol was not a failure

Overall, the countries that participated in the Second Commitment Period of the Kyoto Protocol have overachieved their collective target and achieved an overall emission reduction of 28% in 2020 (compared to 1990 emissions).
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Forests – still a neglected issue in climate negotiations

The protection of forests did not figure high on the UN climate convention’s COP28 agenda last December and it really seems negotiators are waiting for Brazil’s COP30 in 2025.
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Northern forests, climate change and the UNFCCC

Forests have a great potential to deliver on climate mitigation (and adaptation) while at the same time providing important benefits to biodiversity and the indigenous peoples who depend on them. Forests and their soils store approximately 60% of the total carbon stock contained in terrestrial carbon pools while emissions from deforestation and forest degradation account for around 30% of global carbon emissions. The Briefing is discussing options how to establish a negotiation process in the UNFCCC to protect forests.

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Countries are not on track to achieve the 1.5°C target

Discussions about new 2035 and 2040 climate targets have started in the European Union.
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Editorial: Canada not happy with EU Deforestation Regulation

EU Member States and the European Parliament recently agreed on the Regulation on deforestation-free products, which aims to promote the consumption of forest-friendly products and reduce the EU’s impact on global deforestation and forest degradation.
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Northern forests and climate change project

AirClim’s Northern Forests and Climate Change project aims to increase the visibility of Northern forests in the international climate debate. 
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Briefing

EU climate targets aligned with the Paris agreement’s 1.5°C objective

With climate impacts happening all around, governments are expected to increase action to limit greenhouse gas emissions and subsequent temperature rise. The longer we delay transformative action, the more substantial and challenging the necessary greenhouse gas emission cuts will need to be. This also applies to the EU.

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Northern Forests and Climate Change

AirClim’s Northern Forests and Climate Change project aims to increase the visibility of Northern forests in the international climate debate. To enhance international action this project aims at:
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Editorial: EU climate target still not adapted to climate reality

On 8 September, the UN once again issued a report showing how governments are failing to take adequate action to implement the promises they made in the Paris Agreement. The so-called Synthesis Report on the Technical Dialogue from the First Global Stocktake showed how governments are good at making ambitious collective commitments but fail to take the right action at home to turn these collective pledges into a reality.
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Global efforts to reduce energy demand

At the last G20 Leaders’ Summit, which took place on 9–10 September 2023 in New Delhi, India, the leaders of the world’s biggest economies agreed to pursue tripling renewable energy capacity globally.
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