On 19 January 2017, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan hosted a roundtable seminar with international experts and country representatives to follow up on G7 efforts to address climate-fragility risks.
The Mekong River is vital, serving >66 million people. Sabine Blumstein shares 3 reasons for more climate diplomacy.
Rex Tillerson, the only-just-erstwhile CEO of ExxonMobil, faces the senate foreign relations committee on Wednesday at a confirmation hearing on his nomination as secretary of state. Karl Mathiesen captures the key exchanges.
“The environment dominates the global risks landscape. Climate change was the number two underlying trend this year. And for the first time, all five environmental risks in the survey were ranked both high-risk and high-likelihood, with extreme weather events emerging as the single most prominent global risk.”
2016 was an exciting year for the ECC Exhibition, as it visited many countries and received high-ranking backing. Translated into several languages, the ECC Exhibition travelled across the globe as part of the Climate Diplomacy initiative, supported by the German Federal Foreign Office. The Exhibition was hosted by political institutions, universities and it was even displayed in a park. Two modules celebrated a worldwide premiere, together with great new interactive features, based on the online version launched in 2015. We are happy to share the following highlights:
As the World Bank starts shuttle diplomacy between New Delhi and Islamabad to resolve the latest dispute over the Indus Waters Treaty, officials in both India and Pakistan reiterate their support to the treaty itself.
The race is on for Saudi Arabia to find new sources of income before the oil age peters out. Could acting on climate change cause some of the world’s wealthiest countries to collapse into disorder and danger?
Beijing’s policies have seen China invest heavily in renewables and support the UN’s first major climate pact. Ed King argues that without US cover it will face new scrutiny this year.
The Climate Diplomacy platform has been dedicated to monitoring and supporting the climate debate, by gathering and promoting stories, which touch on different aspects of climate diplomacy. Thus, to end the year on a positive note and maintain the motivation for 2017, we’ve complied our top ten climate diplomacy stories published on our platform over the past year.