Chatham House Environment and Society Centre

The ICJ’s climate ruling: Is inaction on climate change now a legal liability? The Court’s advisory opinion affirms that inadequate action on climate change may violate international law. Its findings could shape the contours of debate at COP30.

"Coming in the lead-up to COP30, scheduled for November in Brazil, [the ICJ's climate ruling] will provide smaller countries with important new leverage" argues Bhargabi Bharadwaj.

Read the full article 👉 www.chathamhouse.org/2025/08/icjs-climate-ruling-inaction-climate-change-now-legal-liability

01.08.2025 16:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Episode 59: The Future of Climate Diplomacy 2: Kaveh Guilanpour Ahead of the landmark COP30 in Belem, Brazil, this November, calls for reform of the UNFCCC and COPs are growing, as are concerns that the only formal global forum for climate negotiation and cooperat

🎙️Ahead of COP30, we're interviewing thought leaders in the climate world about what the future of climate diplomacy should look like.
The second guest in this mini-series is Kaveh Guilanpour, Vice President for International Strategies at C2ES.

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30.07.2025 16:22 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Designing border carbon adjustments (BCAs) is complex

Policymakers face consequential decisions about measurement, verification, coverage, revenues, crediting, offsets, exports, exemptions and more

How can countries navigate this? And can the world avoid an unholy mess of contradictory regimes?

18.07.2025 09:18 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

We’re proud to launch a new collaborative report on the circular bioeconomy at the 9th WCEF in São Paulo!

👉 Download the full report "Beyond the technical loop," here: tinyurl.com/3bmfteyn

📅 Join (or watch) the #WCEF2025 side event happening today for the live discussion: tinyurl.com/2h2htds9

12.05.2025 13:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Climate Briefing: Episode 53: How to transform food systems Food systems contribute to around a third of global emissions and have a substantial impact on a range of other areas too, including biodiversity and human health. Transforming food systems is critica...

🚨 New Podcast Alert 🚨
🎙️ Episode 53: How to transform food systems

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08.05.2025 09:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🌊 The Nile Basin: Climate change, water and future cooperation

As part of the EU CASCADES project, Greg Shapland, Kevin Wheeler and Ana Elisa Cascao offer new insight into how climate and geopolitics intertwine along one of the world’s most vital river systems.

📄 Read it now: tinyurl.com/2td6225x

29.04.2025 15:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Episode 52: What’s next for the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage? Increasingly severe climate change impacts are wreaking destruction across the world, with disastrous implications for human health, wellbeing, livelihoods, culture and security. How to deal with ‘los

For our first-ever post on Bluesky, we’re bringing you a brand-new podcast 🚨

🎙 What’s next for the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage?

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23.04.2025 13:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0