After days of long, intense marathon sessions of negotiation, COP 29 concluded in the early hours of Sunday morning in Baku. The negotiated outcomes included a new $300 billion international climate finance goal, known as the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG). President Biden issued a statement praising the outcome, noting this goal “will help mobilize the… Read more »
November 25, 2024
COP29 Wrap Up
After days of long, intense marathon sessions of negotiation, COP 29 concluded in the early hours of Sunday morning in Baku. The negotiated outcomes included a new $300 billion international climate finance goal, known as the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG). President Biden issued a statement praising the outcome, noting this goal “will help mobilize the… Read more » 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: NOVEMBER 22, 2024 BAKU, AZERBAIJAN. ACT Alliance is extremely disappointed in the new text offered on the New Collective Quantified Goal for climate finance today at COP29. This conference has been called the “finance COP”, yet this document does not provide anywhere near enough funding and there are no arrangements to hold… 
During COP29, the World Council of Churches (WCC) interviewed Patricia Mungcal, a young climate advocate and humanitarian leader from the National Council of Churches in the Philippines and a member of the ACT Alliance delegation. Speaking from Baku, Azerbaijan, Mungcal reflected on the challenges faced by frontline communities in disaster-prone regions, the barriers youth face… 
Climate change impacts all of us, wherever we live, work, or go to school. And in all parts of the world, people are creating economies and societies that are more resilient to climate change, ones in which clean, renewable energy is combined with sustainable use of water, land, and other natural resources. In many places, local… 
The first week of the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, is over. As the gathering heads into the second week, here are some points worth noting: Week 1 of COP is typically meant to finalize as much as possible in negotiations so that Week 2 can focus on the most complicated issues. As… 
At COP29 today the United States announced that it scaled up U.S. support for vulnerable developing countries to over $3 billion in FY23 to implement the President’s Emergency Plan for Adaptation and Resilience (PREPARE). At the COP 29 U.S. Center today, speakers representing U.S. federal and local government, private sector, and civil society discussed how… 
In response to a statement by the Azerbaijani Presidency of the COP in which he defended the right of developing nations to sell their oil and gas as “gifts from God”, WCC and the ACT Alliance issued the following Press Release. As a member of ACT Alliance and the World Council of Churches, the PC(USA)… 
As COP29 kicks off this week in Baku, Azerbaijan we reshare this post from our partners at ACT Alliance. The following was the result of a virtual meeting of East and Southern Africa faith leaders in July 2024. They requested that ACT Alliance, Caritas Internationalis, and the Anglican Alliance develop this statement based on their… 
Senior Advisor at the U.S. Department of Treasury for Inflation Reduction Act Implementation, Ronald Newman, recently addressed the 226th General Assembly’s Environmental and Climate Justice Committee. ( Learn more about the Inflation Reduction Act here.) The Committee then chose to share 10 minutes with Newman for their report to the whole assembly. That presentation can be… 
Ahead of two major UN environmental conferences and responding to the intertwined biodiversity and climate crises, the World Council of churches has released a statement that calls upon churches, among others, to learn from Indigenous spiritualities and practices that safeguard biodiversity as well as to mobilise communities of faith to exert pressure and build political…