Climate Diplomacy
UNFCCC: UNFCCC's work at risk due to "severe financial challenges" (Climate Home)
COP29: Tony Blair wants to help Azerbaijan run its climate talks (Politico)
National climate plans: Nations are undercounting emissions, putting UN goals at risk (Yale E360), Surge of new US-led oil and gas activity threatens to wreck Paris climate goals (The Guardian)
China: Fossil fuels must keep a role, new China climate chief says (Bloomberg $), Yellen says China's rapid buildout of its green energy industry 'distorts global prices' (AP)
Elections: USAID might stop climate aid, boost fossil fuels under Trump (E&E $)
International Finance
NCQG: New Climate Finance Goal: Too many options, too little time? (Down To Earth)
Loss and damage: African dismay at decision to host loss and damage advice hub in Geneva (Climate Home), World Bank initiates timeline for Loss and Damage funding (Hindustan Times)
Shipping levy: Shipping sector pushes to keep emissions-tax cash for itself (Climate Home)
Fossil finance: International gas projects test Biden's export agency (Politico Pro $), US and EU differ over the future of fossil fuel subsidies in OECD talks (Financial Times $), Zambian taxis drivers are hit by the fossil-fuel subsidy cuts (Climate Home), Nigeria to almost triple energy prices, keep subsidy for poor (Bloomberg $)
Multilateral development banks: AIIB in talks over second loan guarantee deal for World Bank (Financial Times $), World Bank approves $750 mln climate change loan to Colombia (Reuters), Mayors with ‘climate ambition’ urge MDBs to help plug finance gap (Devex $)
Impacts
LGBTQ+: Indonesian trans women seek stable work amid unpredictable weather (Context)
Development: The BBC, Guyana, and untangling North-South climate complexities (Drilled), The great African oil dilemma (Atmos)
Drought: 'We all need water': Panama's canal, and people, thirst for more (Context)
Heat: Emissions connected to top oil and gas firms may cause millions of heat deaths by 2100, study finds (The Guardian), Food prices will climb everywhere as temperatures rise due to climate change – new research (The Conversation)
Migration: The local case for climate migration solutions (Devex $)
Climate-security: Tuvalu accepts security and climate pact, says Australia’s Pacific minister (The Guardian)