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  • Espinosa named as Figueres' replacement

    19 May 2016

    Patricia Espinosa will replace Christina Figueres as the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

  • Yvo De Boer resigns as Director-General of GGGI

    18 May 2016

    Former UN climate chief Yvo De Boer has announced his resignation as Director-General of the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI).

  • People Moves - March 2016

    22 March 2016

    The latest people moves at companies including SunEdison, RWE, Green Climate Fund, DNV GL, Schroders and more

  • Gold Standard and AkzoNobel issue first carbon credits

    25 February 2016

    Chemicals giant AkzoNobel and carbon offset specialist Gold Standard have issued the first batch of carbon credits under a landmark scheme for reducing carbon emissions in shipping.

  • Figueres steps down as UN's climate chief

    22 February 2016

    Christiana Figueres has announced plans to step down as UN climate chief, following the "historical" Paris agreement in December, firing the starting gun on a race to become her successor.

  • Ban Ki-moon challenges investors to double green investments by 2020

    28 January 2016

    UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon issued a rallying call to investors to double their financing of clean energy by 2020, to build on the commitments of the Paris climate summit.

  • Environmental pioneer Maurice Strong dies

    01 December 2015

    Maurice Strong, whose pioneering work at the UN in the 1970s paved the way for this week's landmark climate change summit in Paris, has died at the age of 86.

  • INDCs can limit global warming to 2.7°C, says UN's Figueres

    30 October 2015

    Investors have welcomed research suggesting that the national pledges made ahead of the Paris climate summit have the potential to limit global warming to 2.7°C.

  • Climate finance for emerging markets jumps 19% to $62bn in 2014

    08 October 2015

    Finance from industrialised nations to support climate change projects in developing countries rose 19% to $62 billion in 2014 from $52 billion the previous year, according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

  • CDM must stop verifier exodus, warns new Executive Board member

    26 February 2014

    The Clean Development Mechanism will struggle to recover if verifiers continue to leave the market, a new member of its oversight board has warned.