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Debt-for-nature swaps will also be a topic at French President Macron's climate finance summit. The idea sounds promising: They are supposed to release money for climate and nature protection in countries of the Global South, and at the same time help in the fight against the debt crisis. But their benefits are likely to be limited.
By Alexandra Endres
With the Summit for a New Global Financial Pact, France's President Emmanuel Macron wants to put the financial issue at the top of the agenda in climate protection. The topics of the summit: reform of the Bretton Woods system, more money from private investors and alignment of financial flows with the Paris Agreement. The front row of global politics and many African heads of government meet in Paris.
By Claire Stam
After Bonn is before Dubai: Between the preparatory conference and COP28, many meetings will be held at which formal and informal negotiations will continue and preliminary decisions will be reached. We have compiled the most important ones.
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The Bonn Climate Change Conference only partially fulfilled its function of making technical preparations for COP28: Many issues, such as the global stocktake, remained unresolved and were postponed without much progress. A long dispute over the agenda slowed things down even further — an overview of the results.
By Alexandra Endres
The negotiations in the run-up and at COP28 around CO2 reduction, adaptation and finance will be tough. But after the conference in Bonn, a few "landing zones" for compromises are emerging.
By Bernhard Pötter
The European Scientific Advisory Council on Climate Change has published its recommendations for the EU's 2040 climate target. The researchers aim for a greenhouse gas reduction target of 90 to 95 percent. And they show various ways how the target could be achieved.
By Lukas Knigge