#Green Building Dubai

[greenbuildingconsultant]

Including green construction techniques in your remodeling project in Dubai benefits the environment as well as your property's general comfort and worth. You can design a long-lasting sustainable living place by collaborating with knowledgeable experts like a green building consultant and taking advantage of the experience of a respectable green building consultancy. With Agile Advisors, begin your journey toward sustainability right now and positively benefit the environment and your community.

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[beevean]

Even if it's not because of a world ending catastrophe, Eggman simply doesn't want others potentially taking what he's staked his claim on. The reason he at least cooperated with Sonic and his friends when it came to the Black Arm's invasion, and against the Metarex in X, was basically, "Ah, hell no! This is my turf!"

But then again there are people who unironically have Eggman going all, "Free Palestine", as if he's the type of guy that would do something like that without any kind of ulterior motive whatsoever.

IDW isn't helping to disprove the whole Sonegg narrative, here.

And on the subject of whether Eggman has actually killed anyone, directly or indirectly, kind of ends up becoming moot when I'm sure his actions have inevitably given countless people severe PTSD, which can be just as bad if not worse than death.

That response to Mike Pollock's... whatever that was, was both tasteless and hilarious. As if Eggman wouldn't just drop a fat nuke over the whole region to build a Dubai-style resort lol. hardly the best character to use as a puppet for your message. What, if Dan Green suddenly spouted Putin apologism, would the fandom draw Mephiles holding a Ukraine flag? Please don't do this.

Like, yeah, even if we accept Eggman has never killed anyone, and people in the Sonicverse can survive floods, explosions and planets breaking... that doesn't change the severity of his crimes. He is an ecoterrorist who has unleashed destructive gods multiple times, destroyed the moon and broadcasted it live, destroyed countless places, chained planets together enslaving a whole alien race by using them as a power source, and conquered the world - Sonic in Arsenal Pyramid implied there are people being forced to work there.

oh but eggman doesn't want to enslave people, just force them to obey his laws :)

And again, this is all the game stuff. In IDW, he also caused the Metal Virus apocalypse, which was depicted to be extremely traumatizing and a near-death experience for everyone who succumbed to it. I know everyone just forgot about it, but it wasn't retconned! It happened!

tl;dr: eggman isn't suddenly pebbles just because he may not have a body count.

anyway, in lighter news, Sonegg canon. Always has been. Especially IDW Sonegg. Sonic still loves and trusts the guy, aww <3 and Eggman also is happy to ask Sonic for help because he's hurt they're mocking him <3 they should ditch everyone and go on a date <3

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

For Lula to be a climate leader, he must phase out oil

At COP28, the Brazilian president has sent mixed messages by aligning with OPEC. If he really wants to tackle the growing threat of droughts and floods, he must set a clear fossil-free, pro-nature direction for the UN climate summit he will host in Belém in 2025

The biggest-ever UN climate summit is well underway in Dubai with eighty thousand participants discussing hundreds of agenda items to avert the climate crisis, but ultimately there is only one goal that matters: reducing carbon emissions as quickly as possible by phasing out fossil fuels and eradicating deforestation.

By comparison, everything else is hot air. Delegates can talk all they want about green technology, net zero pledges, compensation payments, scientific studies and other well-intentioned initiatives, but none of that will be effective unless the world halts the build up of carbon dioxide and other planet-heating gases in the atmosphere. That existential challenge, upon which all life on Earth depends, can only be achieved by phasing out coal, oil and gas and restoring the health of the world’s climate infrastructure: the forests, oceans, wetlands and other centres of natural vitality.

If anyone was still in any doubt about the urgency of the climate crisis, this horrendously destructive year has surely made them realise we cannot wait a second longer: 2023 is already confirmed as  the hottest year on record. July was the warmest month in more than 120,000 years. This has brought devastating drought to the Amazon, floods to southern Brazil, heatwaves to the Andean mountains, fires to Canada and death and destruction across many parts of the planet. This is just the start. If emissions from fossil fuels and forests continue to increase, then temperatures will continue to rise for decades. We will look back on 2023 as one of the coolest years of our lives. Soon, it won’t just be dolphins and fish that suffer mass mortalities, it will be people. “We are terrified,” a group of 1,447 scientists said in an open letter released at Cop28. “If we are to create a liveable future, climate action must move from being something that others do to something that we all do.”

The first week of Cop28 shows the desperate need for a new perspective. The process has been captured by the very people who profit most from increasing carbon emissions. The president of this climate conference is Sultan Al Jaber, who is the CEO of the biggest oil and gas company in the United Arab Emirates. As many climate campaigners have joked, this is like putting a fox in charge of a henhouse or asking Dracula to run a bloodbank. But it is not funny when the man in charge of addressing the most difficult and important challenge in human history goes on record to deny that eradicating fossil fuels is the only way to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius or that a life without oil would send humanity back into caves. These comments, which have been thoroughly rebutted by scientists, reveal the true face of the fossil fuel industry, which has been holding up progress for more than three decades.

All of which makes Brazil’s decision to align itself more closely with the world’s biggest oil cartel Opec, more disappointing. Announced at the start of the climate summit, the timing of this move could not have been more of a kick in the teeth to international efforts to tackle global heating. It is brutally pragmatic. Brazil aims to expand oil production in defiance of advice from the International Energy Agency that 1.5C is impossible if countries open new fields. The day after Cop28 finishes, Brazil will hold an auction of dozens of new oil development blocs. All of these steps will mean more drought, more suffering, more death in the years to come.

Continue reading.

[voidscarredadjudicator]

Drizzle Season 2023 is out for Splatoon 3. You know what that means?

(Long post warning)

It means me having the totally normal immediate reaction of, "what new ingame content can I use as inspiration for Humanity's Endling and it's side stories?"

This post is gonna sorta double as both a very surface level analysis of new stuff in Splatoon 3 (mainly the new maps) and a brief look into my creative process for how I go about taking what's shown in the game and applying it to the canon of the world Kaleb finds himself in. One of my goals is to keep what happens in HE as close to the canon as presented in the game as possible, while still making very healthy use of the blank space that is things the games nor extended lore don't necessarily address, and quite obviously bending the rules a bit here and there to make the story... well, happen? 'Cause if I were 100% dedicated to preserving canon, the series would look something like this.

they wasn't lyin, them humanitys really do be endling

Jokes aside, basically what all that means is I enjoy filling in the blanks to make the game world feel more full. Like, if possible, I wanna have the series written in a way where you could easily headcanon it as something that's happening in the background of Splatoon 3 as you are playing it.

...At least until we get to the later acts. HE ain't just a slice of life. But let's not get too ahead of ourselves here :)

But as that statement ominously implies, I have a general idea of the overarching plot for all five acts, and the process of writing is basically me ironing out the details and stringing it together into a cohesive narrative. Luckily for me, details are sometimes filled in for me by Nintendo. Speaking of which, let's look at Crableg Capital!

You can kind of already see it just barely peeking from behind the crane on the right, but Hagglefish Market is visible from up here, and they actually added this stage into the background of Hagglefish as well, so you can actually see it from down there, too.

From up here, you can more or less make out the exact route Kaleb came from in Act I, Ch7

I know for certain Crableg wasn't there before; I spent a frankly weird amount of hours doing recon on Hagglefish for Act I. Can't wait for this to become some New Mandela Effect meme or something. Anyways, you can see from up here that there's a lot of green grass in this city that's meant to be in the middle of a desert, so I kinda have this feeling that an ungodly amount of the city's water supply is fed right into keeping that greenery. I can see Kaleb drawing a comparison to Dubai, or maybe even Las Vegas to a lesser extent. Speaking of Vegas, you know what it has? Tons of ads. You know what this stage also has? Tons of ads!

shoutout to the paragliding jellyfish btw

Okay, well, obviously it's nowhere near as bad as Vegas. But I needed a segue, dammit. Now to be fair, I can't read any of these signs, so they might not actually be ads. Like, clearly at least a couple of them are company logos on the bigger skyscrapers. But the concrete building at the end of the clip? I don't know what those signs would be otherwise.

Like, who are they advertising to? The people in the neighboring buildings? The ads face outward, so it couldn't be that. Maybe it's extremely cheap ad space because basically nobody would see it, but then whatever in-universe powers that be decide these stages decided, "yes. of course. the actively under construction highrise. the perfect spot." I'd imagine that ad space probably skyrocketed in value, because there's no way these ink sports aren't televised to at least some capacity in canon.

Speaking of absurd spots for stages...

Shipshape Cargo Co. At first, it looks like you're on some platform underneath an oil rig or something to that nature. Then you realize that you're somehow moving. Then you notice the bow of the ship on the far end of the stage, then it's like, "Oh shit I'm on one of those half-submersible cargo ships!"

So not only did the folks running these ink sports decide that an active construction zone was a good spot for a stage, but they also decided to set up a stage on the back of a presumably en-route freight ship. And it's far enough north for there to be goddamn icebergs floating around. If anything, this season's maps have convinced me that an organization equivalent to OSHA does not fucking exist in the Splatoon universe. I'm aware that culturally, turf wars were at first backstreet sports and very unofficial/disorganized, and also there were stages in Splatoon 1 and 2 that would raise the same concerns (i.e. old Hammerhead Bridge, Saltspray Rig, Piranha Pit, etc.), so I really shouldn't be surprised by all this, but... I dunno, it's almost 4 am at the time of writing.

I don't have much more to say about Shipshape, though. Like, it's a very cool concept for a map, and if for whatever reason I need Kaleb to freeze to death, I'll have it in mind. Crableg is... very helpful, though.

Y'know, isn't it interesting that a lot of stories end with the hero scaling a huge tower?

Just a thought. 🙂*

Oh yeah, I also spotted this in the catalogue!

Lola got to be a model! I'm so proud of her! 🥰

I don't have much else to say right now, though. I might do a follow-up for Big Run if Um'ami Ruins has a cool enough atmosphere to warrant it; otherwise Undertow Spillway having that alarm blaring during the last Big Run was the coolest shit ever and I can't believe I accidentally predicted it as a stage w/ it being half flooded in Act I.

By the way, I am going to be grinding the shit out of this upcoming Big Run for that gold helicopter figure, so if you wanna play with me, I'm still in the 'Endling' pool. Again, if you spot Lola herself, that's me! I tend to go pretty hard in Salmon Run though as it's actually my favorite mode, so uh... if you're not EVP and you join me, it might average out the hazard level to something a lot harder than you may be used to. So fair warning!

*all ominous foreshadowing is subject to change

[buycommercialpropertiesindubai]

Understanding Dubai's Residential Property Market: A Buyer's Guide

Understanding Dubai's residential property market is essential for making informed buying decisions. This buyer's guide provides an in-depth look at the key aspects of the market and tips for successful property purchases.

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Market Overview

Market Dynamics: Dubai's real estate market is dynamic and influenced by various factors such as economic growth, government policies, and global trends. Understanding these dynamics helps buyers make informed decisions.

Property Types: Dubai offers a wide range of residential properties, including apartments, villas, townhouses, and penthouses. Each property type has its own advantages and considerations.

Regulatory Framework: The Dubai Land Department (DLD) and the Real Estate Regulatory Agency (RERA) oversee the market, ensuring transparency and protecting buyers' rights. Familiarize yourself with the regulations and guidelines set by these authorities.

For property purchase options, explore Buy Residential Properties in Dubai.

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Home Loans: Most buyers in Dubai finance their purchases through home loans. Several banks and financial institutions offer competitive mortgage rates and flexible terms. Research different lenders and compare their offers to find the best deal.

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Down Payment: Ensure you have sufficient funds for the down payment, typically 20-25% of the property's value for expatriates. Consider additional costs such as registration fees, agent commissions, and maintenance charges.

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Location: Choose a location that aligns with your lifestyle and investment goals. Popular residential areas in Dubai include Downtown Dubai, Dubai Marina, Palm Jumeirah, and Arabian Ranches. Consider factors such as proximity to schools, workplaces, and amenities.

Developer Reputation: Research the reputation of the property developer. Established developers with a track record of delivering high-quality projects on time are usually a safer choice.

Property Condition: Inspect the property for any structural issues, maintenance needs, and potential repairs. Hire a professional inspector if necessary to ensure the property is in good condition.

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Title Deed Verification: Ensure the property has a clear title and is free from any legal disputes or encumbrances. The DLD provides title deed verification services to help buyers confirm the property's legal status.

Sales Agreement: Review the sales agreement carefully and seek legal advice if needed. Ensure all terms and conditions are clearly outlined, including the price, payment schedule, and any additional costs.

Residency Visa: Property buyers in Dubai may be eligible for a residency visa. The visa duration and requirements vary depending on the property's value and the buyer's nationality. Consult with the DLD or a legal expert to understand the specific visa requirements and benefits.

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Mixed-Use Communities: Integrated communities that offer a mix of residential, commercial, and recreational facilities are gaining popularity. These developments provide residents with a convenient and holistic living experience.

Conclusion

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[dubai-properties-2024]

Samana IVY Gardens 2 at Dubai Land

Samana IVY Gardens 2 at Dubai Land is your next destination to experience an urban lifestyle within a healthy community. “Dubai Land” embraces everything that is environmentally friendly and promotes an active and balanced lifestyle in the heart of Dubai.

Get ready for the big launch by Samana on June 6, 2024, for IVY Garden 2. It is located in Dubai Land, near major roads such as Al Ain Dubai Road and the Emirates Road, as well as its proximity to Dubai attractions such as The Green Planet, Al Fahidi Historical Neighbourhood, Dubai Dolphinarium, and IMG Worlds of Adventure.

It is a resort building with all the facilities you look for in Dubai Living. Samana offers various residential unit types and spaces, with prices starting at 55,000 AED, making it worth noting the attractive easy payment plan.

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[greenbuildingconsultant]

How to Integrate Green Building Practices into Your Renovation Project in Dubai

Green building techniques are becoming more and more crucial to include into restoration projects as Dubai establishes itself as a center for sustainability and innovation. By emphasizing sustainable design, energy efficiency, and eco-friendly materials, you may improve the environment and increase the value of your property. Here's how to successfully apply these techniques to your Dubai renovation job.

1.Consult a Green Building Expert During your remodeling, consulting with a Green Building Consultant in Dubai can offer you insightful advice. These professionals can assist you in determining the best tactics for your project because they are knowledgeable with sustainable building methods. They will evaluate your current setup and provide recommendations for improvements that comply with green building guidelines.

2. Select a Trustworthy Green Building Consulting Firm Choose a UAE-based green building consultancy that has experience in eco-friendly remodeling. Reputable consultancies have experience with a range of projects and can provide customized solutions to meet your unique requirements. Additionally, they can help with gaining certifications like Estidama or LEED, which are crucial for advancing sustainability in the area.

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5. Use Water Conservation Strategies One essential component of sustainable building is water conservation. Install techniques include rainwater collection, drought-resistant landscaping, and low-flow fixtures. Your Dubai-based Green Building Consultant can offer advice on the best ways to use water-saving technologies and practices in your renovation.

6. Make an indoor air quality plan. Ensuring that indoor air quality remains high is crucial for the well-being of residents. Reduce indoor pollutants by using low-VOC (volatile organic compound) paints, coatings, and materials. Selecting goods that enhance air quality while upholding practical and aesthetic criteria might be helped by a green building consultant in the United Arab Emirates.

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In summary Including green construction techniques in your remodeling project in Dubai benefits the environment as well as your property's general comfort and worth. You can design a long-lasting sustainable living place by collaborating with knowledgeable experts like a green building consultant and taking advantage of the experience of a respectable green building consultancy. With Agile Advisors, begin your journey toward sustainability right now and positively benefit the environment and your community.

[beardedmrbean]

You know it's a crisis when Germany's Green vice-chancellor cancels attending a climate summit.

Robert Habeck, who's also economy minister, was supposed to be at the COP28 summit this week in Dubai.

Instead, he is in Berlin, wrangling with coalition partners over an emergency agreement for next year's budget. 

The crisis exploded on 15 November, when Germany's constitutional court declared that the government's budget was illegal for breaking German laws against taking on new debt.

That left a hole of tens of billions of euros.

Now the government has just a few days to come up with a solution, if it wants to pass the 2024 national budget before 1 January without emergency sittings.

On Wednesday Germany's cabinet meets for the last time this year. A revised budget would have to be put to parliament in next week's final sessions before Christmas, so ministers should agree this week on how to balance next year's budget, while sticking to the law.

This is not so much a debt crisis, as an anti-debt crisis. A German law, known as the "debt brake", limits the amount of new borrowing the government is allowed to take on.

The law is enshrined in the constitution since Chancellor Angela Merkel introduced it in 2009 and is a matter of faith for conservatives, who brought the case to the courts.

So it was a coup for the conservative opposition when three weeks ago judges ruled that Olaf Scholz's left-leaning government was breaking this law.

Balancing Germany's budget is a feature of German politics, and is known as the schwarze Null, or black zero. It limits a government's budget deficit to 0.35% of economic output.

Exceptions are allowed in national emergencies, such as the Covid pandemic. The government had planned to use emergency debt left over from the pandemic, to spend on Germany's shift to green energy instead. Germany's constitutional court has declared this wheeze illegal.

That leaves an estimated shortfall of €60bn (£51bn; $65bn) for 2023, and €17bn for 2024.

For the current year the government has decided to get round the "debt brake" by declaring 2023 an emergency year, because of the energy crisis sparked by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, although this may also be challenged in the courts.

But so far, it's not clear what Mr Scholz is proposing for 2024.

A much-anticipated parliamentary speech by the German chancellor last week did nothing to clarify that. His main message was: Trust me, we have a plan. He also repeated his mantra in German-accented English that "you'll never walk alone".

Behind the scenes the three coalition parties have spent the last few days in late-night meetings scrambling to reach an agreement. German commentators can only guess at who is negotiating what, based on which government building has the lights on late at night.

Broadly speaking the only solutions are tax rises, spending cuts or more debt. But these are three very different parties, with conflicting views over borrowing and spending.

The business-friendly small-state liberal FDP, which runs the finance ministry and holds the purse strings, is ideologically opposed to higher taxes and obsessed with keeping the "debt brake".

Chancellor Scholz's centre-left SPD meanwhile refuses to roll back a promised increase on social spending, and the Greens are determined to boost investment in Germany's transition to renewables.

An uncomfortable coalition at the best of times, and these are not the best of times.

Until now the cracks have been papered over by throwing money at causes important for each party.

But all three are doing badly in the polls and have been punished in recent regional elections, making party members unruly and party leaders less open to compromise. The main reason that a compromise looks possible is that poor poll numbers mean there's no appetite within the government for fresh elections.

Green ambitions to soften the "debt brake" will be difficult to agree in parliament because this needs a two-thirds majority.

Opposition conservatives smell blood, so are in no mood to compromise, and even liberal coalition partners may not agree. But Robert Habeck is rumoured to be planning to get round borrowing rules by arguing for an exemption for crucial future infrastructure.

Either way, the coalition may still find a way to spend money on what's important to each party, just less of it.

[zindagi-jhandwa-firbhi-ghamandwa]

There's this tendency among delusional lefties and liberals (in the west and in India) to think that because they defend Muslim people from Islamophobia (as one should, Islamophobia is bad), that somehow Muslim people aren't as conservative, regressive and antithetical to the ideas of the left as their Christian and Hindu counterparts.

And then you end up with situations like this.

So, Islamophobia is rampant in the west and in India and it was particularly bad in the 2000s. That's when defending Muslim people from hate became an important part of liberal values. And I repeat, THAT'S GOOD. It's important to defend people from hateful bigotry.

But I feel that liberals have ended up becoming useful idiots for Muslim extremism. Take, for example, the rampant anti-Semitism from the left whenever people discuss Israel, or how western liberals completely refuse to acknowledge any wrongdoing done against Israel, or that Israel is the only country in that region where women and LGBT people have anything remotely resembling equal rights. Even when you highlight that these facts do not justify Israel's abuses against the Palestinian people, simply mentioning these points instantly makes you a Zionist pig,

Meanwhile, American universities have received huge grants from Middle Eastern countries, both in terms of money but also subsidised land (and kafala slave labour) to build international campuses in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha etc. This appears to be a plan to turn liberal academia into apologists of Islamic fundamentalism.

Islam is the world's largest religion. Oil states are spending literally trillions of dollars on white washing, sports washing and green washing the human rights abuses committed in its name.

Islamophobia is bad because Muslims are no worse than Christians or Hindus or Jews.

But they're also no better.

If you feel "betrayed" that a majority Muslim city council passed anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, then you're an idiot. Being gay is punishable by death in almost every Muslim majority country in the world. How fucking stupid are you?

If you're on The Left, then you have to come to terms with the fact that religion is your enemy. All religions are your enemy. Defend people from bigotry but don't let them turn you into a tool for their bigotry. The enemy of your enemy is not your friend.

[ridenwithbiden]

#NewMoon HELL YES. IT'S ABOUT TIME. THANK YOU #JohnKerry

"ENDINGS AND NEW BEGINNINGS"

UN Climate Change News, 13 December 2023 – The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) closed today with an agreement that signals the “beginning of the end” of the fossil fuel era by laying the ground for a swift, just and equitable transition, underpinned by deep emissions cuts and scaled-up finance.

In a demonstration of global solidarity, negotiators from nearly 200 Parties came together in Dubai with a decision on the world’s first ‘global stocktake’ to ratchet up climate action before the end of the decade – with the overarching aim to keep the global temperature limit of 1.5°C within reach.

“Whilst we didn’t turn the page on the fossil fuel era in Dubai, this outcome is the beginning of the end,” said UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell in his closing speech. “Now all governments and businesses need to turn these pledges into real-economy outcomes, without delay.”

The global stocktake is considered the central outcome of COP28 – as it contains every element that was under negotiation and can now be used by countries to develop stronger climate action plans due by 2025.

The stocktake recognizes the science that indicates global greenhouse gas emissions need to be cut 43% by 2030, compared to 2019 levels, to limit global warming to 1.5°C. But it notes Parties are off track when it comes to meeting their Paris Agreement goals.

The stocktake calls on Parties to take actions towards achieving, at a global scale, a tripling of renewable energy capacity and doubling energy efficiency improvements by 2030. The list also includes accelerating efforts towards the phase-down of unabated coal power, phasing out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies, and other measures that drive the transition away from fossil fuels in energy systems, in a just, orderly and equitable manner, with developed countries continuing to take the lead.

In the short-term, Parties are encouraged to come forward with ambitious, economy-wide emission reduction targets, covering all greenhouse gases, sectors and categories and aligned with the 1.5°C limit in their next round of climate action plans (known as nationally determined contributions) by 2025.

Helping countries strengthen resilience to the effects of climate change

The two-week-long conference got underway with the World Climate Action Summit, which brought together 154 Heads of States and Government. Parties reached a historic agreement on the operationalization of the loss and damage fund and funding arrangements – the first time a substantive decision was adopted on the first day of the conference. Commitments to the fund started coming in moments after the decision was gaveled, totaling more than USD 700 million to date.

There was more progress on the loss and damage agenda with an agreement also reached that the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and the UN Office for Project Services will host the secretariat of the Santiago Network for Loss and Damage. This platform will catalyze technical assistance to developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change.

Parties agreed on targets for the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) and its framework, which identify where the world needs to get to in order to be resilient to the impacts of a changing climate and to assess countries’ efforts. The GGA framework reflects a global consensus on adaptation targets and the need for finance, technology and capacity-building support to achieve them.

Increasing climate finance

Climate finance took center stage at the conference, with Stiell repeatedly calling it the “great enabler of climate action.”

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) received a boost to its second replenishment with six countries pledging new funding at COP28 with total pledges now standing at a record USD 12.8 billion from 31 countries, with further contributions expected.

Eight donor governments announced new commitments to the Least Developed Countries Fund and Special Climate Change Fund totaling more than USD 174 million to date, while new pledges, totaling nearly USD 188 million so far, were made to the Adaptation Fund at COP28.

However as highlighted in the global stocktake, these financial pledges are far short of the trillions eventually needed to support developing countries with clean energy transitions, implementing their national climate plans and adaptation efforts.

In order to deliver such funding, the global stocktake underscores the importance of reforming the multilateral financial architecture, and accelerating the ongoing establishment of new and innovative sources of finance.

At COP28, discussions continued on setting a ‘new collective quantified goal on climate finance’ in 2024, taking into account the needs and priorities of developing countries. The new goal, which will start from a baseline of USD 100 billion per year, will be a building block for the design and subsequent implementation of national climate plans that need to be delivered by 2025.

Looking ahead to the transitions to decarbonized economies and societies that lie ahead, there was agreement that the mitigation work programme, which was launched at COP27 last year, will continue until 2030, with at least two global dialogues held each year.

Event participation and inclusivity

World leaders at COP28 were joined by civil society, business, Indigenous Peoples, youth, philanthropy, and international organizations in a spirit of shared determination to close the gaps to 2030. Some 85,000 participants attended COP28 to share ideas, solutions, and build partnerships and coalitions.

The decisions taken here today also reemphasize the critical importance of empowering all stakeholders to engage in climate action; in particular through the action plan on Action for Climate Empowerment and the Gender Action Plan.

Strengthening collaboration between governments and key stakeholders

In parallel with the formal negotiations, the Global Climate Action space at COP28 provided a platform for governments, businesses and civil society to collaborate and showcase their real-world climate solutions.

The High-Level Champions, under the Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action, launched their implementation roadmap of 2030 Climate Solutions. These are a set of solutions, with insights from a wide range of non-Party stakeholders on effective measures that need to be scaled up and replicated to halve global emissions, address adaptation gaps and increase resilience by 2030.

The conference also saw several announcements to boost the resilience of food and public health systems, and to reduce emissions related to agriculture and methane.

Looking ahead

The negotiations on the ‘enhanced transparency framework’ at COP28 laid the ground for a new era of implementing the Paris Agreement. UN Climate Change is developing the transparency reporting and review tools for use by Parties, which were showcased and tested at COP28. The final versions of the reporting tools should be made available to Parties by June 2024.

COP28 also saw Parties agree to Azerbaijan as host of COP29 from 11-22 November 2024, and Brazil as COP30 host from 10-21 November 2025.

The next two years will be critical. At COP29, governments must establish a new climate finance goal, reflecting the scale and urgency of the climate challenge. And at COP30, they must come prepared with new nationally determined contributions that are economy-wide, cover all greenhouse gases and are fully aligned with the 1.5°C temperature limit.

“We must get on with the job of putting the Paris Agreement fully to work,” said Stiell. “In early 2025, countries must deliver new nationally determined contributions. Every single commitment – on finance, adaptation, and mitigation – must bring us in line with a 1.5-degree world.”

“My final message is to ordinary people everywhere raising their voices for change,” Stiell added. “Every one of you is making a real difference. In the crucial coming years your voices and determination will be more important than ever. I urge you never to relent. We are still in this race. We will be with you every single step of the way.”

“The world needed to find a new way. By following our North Star, we have found that path,” said COP28 President, Dr. Sultan Al Jaber during his closing speech. “We have worked very hard to secure a better future for our people and our planet. We should be proud of our historic achievement.”

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