Orla Dwyer

IPBES: Four key takeaways on how nature loss threatens the global economy - Carbon Brief The "undervaluing" of nature by businesses is fuelling its decline and putting the global economy at risk, according to a major new report.

NEW – IPBES: Four key takeaways on how nature loss threatens the global economy | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org

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‘Cali Fund’ aiming to raise billions for nature receives first donation – of just $1,000 - Carbon Brief A major biodiversity fund – which could generate billions of dollars annually for conservation – received its first donation of just $1,000 in November.

NEW – ‘Cali Fund’ aiming to raise billions for nature receives first donation – of just $1,000 | @arunacsekhar.bsky.social @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org

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SCOOP: Carbon Brief has exclusively obtained a list of 84 countries "opposed" to adding a fossil-fuel roadmap to COP30 deal – but our analysis found a series of contradictions & likely errors

For eg 14 on list are also roadmap "supporters"

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Brazil’s $125bn forest fund – framed as the “biggest thing to come out of COP30” – goes live tomorrow.

Critics point out that TFFF “puts private investors first”, forest payouts last + sets a 🌳 bar too low to be “scientifically credible”.

@yaninequiroz.bsky.social and I 🕵🏽‍♀️, for @carbonbrief.org.

An aerial view of a forest. Credit: Akhararat Wathanasing / Alamy Stock Photo

NEW – UN report: Five charts showing how global deforestation is declining | @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org

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Q&A: What the ‘controversial’ GWP* methane metric means for farming emissions - Carbon Brief A controversial way of measuring how much methane warms the planet has stirred debate in recent years – particularly around assessing the climate impact of livestock farming.

Q&A: What the ‘controversial’ GWP* #methane metric means for farming emissions

By @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org
#climatecrisis
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Thanks Róisín!

Q&A: What the ‘controversial’ GWP* methane metric means for farming emissions - Carbon Brief A controversial way of measuring how much methane warms the planet has stirred debate in recent years – particularly around assessing the climate impact of livestock farming.

Missed this, as I was travelling, but an excellent explainer all about GWP* (read GWP-star) from @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org @carbonbrief.org

#methane #metrics #climateaction

Q&A: What the ‘controversial’ GWP* methane metric means for farming emissions - Carbon Brief A controversial way of measuring how much methane warms the planet has stirred debate in recent years – particularly around assessing the climate impact of livestock farming.

NEW – Q&A: What the ‘controversial’ GWP* methane metric means for farming emissions | @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org

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I’ve spent months looking into GWP* - a way of measuring methane that has been labelled an 'accounting trick' by some and a fairer way to assess methane by others

This Q&A gets into all the science and spats about GWP* and the current situation in places like NZ and Ireland 🐮

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Congrats Caroline, delighted to hear!

It has been a decade since the Paris Agreement.

And with COP30 in Brazil on the horizon, there have been calls for major reform at the UN climate talks.

We asked 16 experts - including former negotiators and COP veterans - what they think should change at these events.

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NEW ANALYSIS: Wildfires have already scorched a UK-record land area in 2025, double the previous high – and 4x above average

By Orla Dwyer, Ho Woo Nam + Tom Prater

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NEW – Revealed: ‘Cali Fund’ for nature still empty as emails show industry hesitation | @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org w/ comment from @sivathambisetty.bsky.social

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The Cali Fund agreed at COP16 talks last year is still empty 5 months after its launch - despite expectations of first pledges in spring

FOI docs also show that AstraZeneca did not take up an offer to be a "frontrunner" in committing to donate to the fund

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UK potatoes, South Korean cabbage and west African cocoa are among the foods that became more expensive after weather extremes fuelled by climate change in recent years

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Amid ongoing Bonn talks and London climate week, Brazil and the UN today began a “global ethical stocktake” to hear from civil society before COP30

Mary Robinson, co-organiser for the Europe discussions, says they talked about climate justice, accountability and the “need to rebuild community”

NEW – Glossary: Carbon Brief’s guide to 24 ‘climate-friendly’ farming methods | @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org @yaninequiroz.bsky.social

🎨 Kerry Ann Cleaver and Tom Pearson

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Today at 3pm (GMT), Carbon Brief is hosting a free webinar on the key outcomes of the resumed COP16 biodiversity talks 🎙️

Featuring our specialist team of food, land and nature journalists who are on the ground in Rome 🇮🇹 or following remotely

Register here ➡️ buff.ly/3D9PH98

What happened at round 2 of COP16 nature talks? 🇮🇹

In the early hours of this morn countries signed off on:

Strategy to raise more money to help conserve biodiversity

Plans to set up a “permanent arrangement” for nature finance

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Not a new nature fund just yet, but developing countries get something much bigger, 3 decades in the making: a permanent mechanism for biodiversity finance.

Esp significant in today's geopolitical climate that has cast a cloud over cooperation and hopes for more funding for nature and climate.

We're in what should be the final hours of COP16.

And there's new informal text out on 🌱 finance, key to its success.

With inputs from bloc reps, it seems way more coherent than the last draft.

L: 26 Feb draft. www.cbd.int/doc/c/b198/d...
R: Tonight's non-paper. www.cbd.int/doc/c/214f/6...

Talks winding to a close tonight at #COP16 round 2

Next round of draft texts are due in an hour, followed by a plenary at 9pm Rome-time that’s supposedly ending at 11pm 🤷‍♀️

Lots still left to discuss

EU says the new text is a "workable solution" and a "good text to start with"

Russia says it is happy to work with others on this, but it will be difficult to accept some terms given context has changed

Adds that there are many "small, interesting details" in the text where the "devil is sitting"

Amid all of this jargon, "rivers are in agony and animals are disappearing", says Bolivia

Says a nature fund is needed and that this text risks diluting past work and leading to never-ending discussions on financial mechanisms

UK said the text is "carefully balanced" and a "helpful next step" in this "long process"

Says it will mean having some "difficult conversations" with higher ups about some of the lines, which probably means it's "moving in the right direction"

**quick reminder that tomorrow is the last day of talks** 🫠

All countries are thankful to the presidency and all the rest, but still some real divisions on both specific aspects of the text and the broad terms

Brazil describes it as "quite a different text" to previous drafts

Haiti concerned that some aspects of the text would take too long

"2030 is tomorrow"

Egypt, Japan, Panama, Saudi Arabia and others saying they need more time to properly look over this new text

Panama worried by a "lack of ambition" and has "great concern" about the amount of time before a new nature fund would be operating, based on this latest text