Climate Change & Energy

Briefing Paper

Given the particular vulnerability of informal urban settlements, it is of utmost importance to ensure the speed, eligibility, adequacy and accessibility of damage financing. Innovative approaches that take into account the specific characteristics and needs of informal settlements must be considered and implemented.

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Climate change is already resulting in more intense and frequent disaster events. These events are either so-called sudden onset events that occur within hours or days, such as flash floods, heavy rainfalls or storms or slowonset processes such as drought and rainfall variability that are not visually striking and have an immediate disruptive effect. Their gradual progression can obscure immediate impacts, which makes it difficult to measure or even perceive changes (Singh et al. 2021). Both types of events can result in disastrous consequences for the affected people, their belongings, and the environment.

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Fossil fuel extraction fans the flames of the climate crisis and hinders development in African countries.

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The expansion of fossil fuels in Africa has serious social and economic consequences that hinder development in many countries. The report “Fossils Implicated.” shows how renewable energies can promote sustainable development and at the same time support global goals such as the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Climate Agreement.

• Publisher: Climate Advisers Network, Power Shift Africa, Misereor
• Publication date: June 2024
• Pages: 40

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Climate Mitigation and Justice in the energy sector. Five perspectives from Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Misereor has started a dialogue process on sustainable energy, mitigation in the energy sector and energy justice with partners in 7 countries. Not only clean energy but fair and equal access to resources and energy has been a special focus. Read the key findings.

The document can also be ordered by e-mail at: Silvia.Cottin@misereor.de

Report

European governments and the EU are handing out more than €112 billion each year to prop up the production and consumption of fossil fuels, despite a pledge to phase out harmful subsidies out by 2020.

A new report by the Overseas Development Institute and Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe, where Misereor is a member, has for the first time gathered detailed information on the support provided to fossil fuels such as oil, gas and coal from 11 European countries and the EU between 2014 and 2016. CAN Europe urges Governments to stop subsidizing fossil fuels and invest into climate friendly development.

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Limiting global temperature rise as set out in the Paris Agreement can only be achieved – according to mainstream opinion – by technologies hopefully available in the future. This publication shows practical examples how we can realize a habitable world for all already today, instead of postponing the solutions to the climate crisis.

Briefing Paper

The encyclical Laudato Si’ – A Magna Carta of integral ecology as a reaction to humanity’s self-destructive course. This background paper explores the potential relevance within a pluralistic society of the important encyclical Laudato Si’ issued by Pope Francis in June 2015.

Policy Document

Establishing Human Rights Principles in the Urban Agenda. Misereor Policy Paper on the 3. UN Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III).

Report

This report summarises inputs and discussions of a conference organised in India in October 2009 by Misereor and Welthungerhilfe in partnership with South-Asian partner organisations. It includes the recommendations that were formulated and that highlight the need to recognise local people’s strategies in adapting to climate change.

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Various “climatefriendly” agricultural solutions have already been proposed: they include biochar and no-tillage agriculture. Against this background, Misereor uses this series of papers to examine whether these solutions actually lead to climate-friendly and equitable agriculture with a clear commitment to a pro-poor approach.

Report

Climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing our globalized world today. The poor population in developing countries will be particularly affected by global warming, of which developed countries are the major drivers. Science clearly indicates that a global temperature rise of 2°C above pre-industrial levels may change the face of the world irreversibly. A range of
mitigation solutions is needed to avoid exceeding the 2°C limit. The need for truly sustainable and climate-friendly development is clear.

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Enhancing food security in a sustainable way without putting the global climate at risk is one of the main global challenges. It is clear that support for farmers is urgently needed. Many argue that carbon markets are a good instrument for the mobilisation of fi nancial resources to ensure climate change mitigation in the agricultural sector while also alleviating poverty and fostering adaptation to the severe impacts of climate change. Misereor, based on its 50 years of experience in poverty alleviation, does not share these hopes...

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No-till agriculture is one of the ‘climate-smart’ solutions promoted as a panacea for problems such as hunger and climate change. Several voices advocate no-till as a way to benefit from international climate finance and existing and future carbon markets. But is no-till really a solution to reduce hunger in the world and mitigate climate change? And should no-till farming benefit from existing and future carbon markets?

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Biochar is promoted as a silver bullet for various challenges: enhancing carbon sequestration in soils, enriching soils in order to raise yields, and contributing to food security and poverty reduction. In order to spread this technology, many now advocate including biochar and soil carbon in general in a carbon market scheme.