Climate Change

EU institutions at risk of strengthening the net-zero smokescreen in carbon removal debate

European Union (EU) is on its way to pass a first-of-its kind carbon removal legislation.

IATP comment to the U.S. Department of Forest Service on CCS special use exemption

The following comment was submitted to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service on December 14, 2023 regarding the CCS special use exemption (RIN 0596–AD550.

Now we see it: First thoughts on FAO’s Roadmap for food security within a 1.5°C climate ceiling

As we anticipated in our comment a few weeks back, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) dropped its report, Achieving SDG2 With

Weak COP28 outcomes on climate action, finance and food systems lack needed urgency, leaving it to countries to take the lead

Before dawn in Dubai, COP28 negotiators issued a final text that included a call to transition away from fossil fuels. Yet, the call sets a feeble course for the phaseout of their use, finance commitments are weak and equity is largely ignored.

IATP reacts to FAO’s Achieving SDG2 without Breaching the 1.5C Threshold: A Global Roadmap

MINNEAPOLIS—Today, in response to the launch of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)’s launch of its anticipated Roadmap to achieving SDG2 without breaching the 1.5˚ C Threshold: A Global Roadmap, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy Executive Director Sophia Murphy, Ph.D., issued the following statement:

The clock is ticking: climate change and voluntary carbon markets

In January 2023, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved the arms of the Doomsday Clock to 90 seconds to midnight, the closest to Doomsday since the clock was started in 1947.

EU’s double standards on double counting

At this year’s COP28, countries will try again to adopt rules for carbon offset trading, in particular, for removals, under Article 6.4 of the Paris Agreement.

Global Methane Pledge’s slow start

Two years ago, more than 120 countries (now 150), led by the United States and European Union, signed the Global Methane Pledge at COP26.

Centering food security in the fight to avert climate catastrophe: the UN FAO proposes a Roadmap

Mitigating climate change risks in agriculture trade: Time for action at COP28

The COP28 United Nations climate summit takes place against the backdrop of heightened alarm over the failure of the global community to meet climate targets and increasing evidence of the negative impact and economic costs of climate change on food production, food trade and food security.