Reading Time: 5 minutes This blog summarises some of the key issues from this year’s COP in Egypt
Tag: Climate Change
Climate finance: generating the funds needed to address climate change
Reading Time: 4 minutes With COP27 about to end this blog sets out some of the key issues relating to how the actions needed in response to climate change might be funded.
What is Loss and Damage and why does it matter?
Reading Time: 5 minutes One of the key sticking points in negotiations, and ultimately unresolved issues from the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow was the issue
What to expect at COP27
Reading Time: 3 minutes This blog sets out what’s on the agenda at COP27 in Egypt, considers how the world has changed in the last 12 months and what action is needed now to achieve climate targets.
COP26 – what happened next?
Reading Time: 5 minutes This blog recaps on COP26 in Glasgow last year and considers some of the important developments affecting climate change negotiations since then.
International Climate Assessments – Round Six
Reading Time: 5 minutes The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has recently published the third and final part of its review of global climate research. Known as Assessment
NPF4: Energy for electricity and heat
Reading Time: 4 minutes Introduction SPICe is producing a series of blogs on the Draft Fourth National Planning Framework (NPF4), which provides a statutory strategy and framework for land use
NPF4 and the nature emergency
Reading Time: 6 minutes This blog discusses policies in the new draft Fourth National Planning Framework for biodiversity and nature recovery.
COP26: A fragile win – but for whom? Coal, fossil fuels; loss and damage
Reading Time: 5 minutes This blog attempts to set out what the key agreements (and disagreements) have been and to summarise the battle of narratives on the outcome of the negotiations and the Glasgow Climate Pact.
Not a moment to lose – some COP26 emerging themes
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Scottish Parliament has been involved in several events during COP26 about the role of Parliaments in a climate emergency. This blog summarises some themes from these events.