What a success story! Mangroves have been declining worldwide for decades, but Pakistan has expanded its mangroves from 48,331 hectares in 1986 to 143,930 hectares in 2020.

The benefits?
🐟 Healthier fish stocks
🌊 More climate resilience
🍃 CO2 storage

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Preparing for COP29 in Azerbaijan? You can use the same playbook. Once again, the critical climate negotiations will be led by an oil boss from a petrostate, no doubt producing decision text littered with loopholes for polluters.

#COP28 negotiations finally wrapped up to a mixed reception.

ODI colleagues had a busy fortnight in Dubai pushing forward some critical agendas.

Here's my take with the wonderful Sarah Colenbrander on whether the UAE Consensus really delivered:

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Addressing debt traps & climate vulnerable nations. A more transparent approach to credit ratings and temporary suspension of ratings in crises are key steps to a climate-responsive financial system prosyn.org/aXzG1WL Project Syndicate
 ODI Emily Wilkinson UN Development UN DevelopmentClimate

36 “recognizes”
32 “notes”
21 “recognizes”
18 “welcomes”
14 “invites”
8 “underlines” or “underscores”
6 “decides”

The text of COP agreements is always lawyerly, but by any objective accounting, the final text of COP28 is weak with few meaningful decisions. 🧵

Some more thoughts on the #COP28 outcome, speaking as a #ProductionGap report lead author...

First, three important context:
1. Every single word and comma in the GST had to be agreed upon by delegations from 199 countries. A single country could block or object to any one word.

This conclusion is historic and insufficient. Historic because we finally have a global agreement naming fossil fuels as the problem and the source of the climate crisis and despite the oil lobby we held onto science based targets. Insufficient? You can read what the #cop28 text…

Spot who’s missing from the #UAEConsensus agreed at #COP28 ... 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏿‍♀️

#COP28 text gavelled through. My reaction: 👇

COP28 has spotlighted that while the world’s appetite for climate action has moved significantly forward, its willingness to pay lags behind.
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