by GDI | Dec 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
Last month, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) hosted its annual conference of the parties (COP) in Belém, Brazil. Known as COP30, this year’s climate summit took place a decade after the milestone Paris Agreement at COP21, wherein...
by GDI | Apr 8, 2025 | Comment
Ever wondered how the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) generates its influential – often headline-making – climate reports? We caught up with José Antonio Puppim De Oliveira, GDI’s Professor of Climate Change Governance and Global Development, to...
by GDI | Mar 28, 2025 | Comment
by Yusra Suedi (Law) & Clare Cummings (Global Development Institute), Climate & Justice Study Group Between small island states formally requesting the International Criminal Court to recognise ecocide as a crime, 2000 Swiss women suing Switzerland for...
by GDI | Jan 9, 2025 | Comment
By Louisa Hann It’s the beginning of a new year – a time when many of us are looking to the future. Whether you’re trying to stick to a resolution or counting down the days until spring, January is often charged with a combination of renewal, resolve, and trepidation....
by GDI | Oct 1, 2024 | Comment
by Dr Gindo Tampubolon, Reader in Global Health A series of six scientific assessments by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports with increasing confidence that global warming poses major risks to the earth and its people. What is equally clear is...