Paris, Madrid, Athens and Mexico City have announced at the C40 conference of mayors on climate change held in Mexico their plans to ban diesel vehicles from their centres by 2025.

In 2015, global CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion and industrial processes have stalled, confirming the slowdown trend observed since 2012. It is a result of structural changes in the global economy, global energy efficiency improvements and changing energy mix in key countries, concludes the latest report by the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency and the JRC.

Scientists warn increasingly rapid melting could trigger polar ‘tipping points’ with catastrophic consequences felt as far away as the Indian Ocean.

The European Commission's Unit for Regional Operations Latin America continental and the Caribbean in EuropeAid organised a side event about EUROCLIMA+ in the COP22, focused on challenges and priorities in climate change adaptation and mitigation in Latin America.

The side event focuses on challenges and priorities in climate change adaptation and mitigation in Latin America.

Year 2015 marked a turning point for renewables. Led by wind and solar, renewables represented more than half the new power capacity around the world, reaching a record 153 Gigawatt (GW), 15% more than the previous year. Most of these gains were driven by record-level wind additions of 66 GW and solar PV additions of 49 GW.

Distributional effects of public policies for mitigating climate change in Latin America: an approach to a meta-analysis Download (in Spanish)

On 19 October 2016, the Pre-COP Ministerial Meeting in Marrakech came to a close after two days of plenary sessions on final preparations for the 22nd Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP22).

Countries adopted a global, non-binding agenda for making cities safe, sustainable and resilient, at the close of Habitat III in Quito, Ecuador.

High greenhouse gas levels mark start of new era of climate reality, according to World Meteorological Organization.

The fifth edition of the Regional Workshop LEDS LAC was held from 26 to 28 September 2016 in Panamá and was focused on the implementation of the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), as well as other climate change commitments made by Latin American and Caribbean countries.

From 10 to 12 October 2016, LEDS LAC organized an expert workshop entitled "Exploring the Funding and Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) to the integration between mitigation and adaptation in climate policy".

This infographic prepared by the Technical Assistance of EUROCLIMA presents the main sources of climate finance in Latin America and the main sectors in which these sources operate.

This infographic prepared by the Technical Assistance EUROCLIMA (currently only available in English) presents key data on climate finance in Latin America and the Caribbean, with examples of successful experiences, main sectors funding sources and receivers.

From 16 to 18 October, 2016, EcoMobility Days were organised in Quito as a side event of Habitat III. The event was focused on bringing together representatives of cities looking to implement new forms of urban EcoMobility and urban development.

From 16 to 18 October, 2016, EcoMobility Days were organised in Quito as a side event of Habitat III. As part of the panel "Sustainable public transport in Latin American cities", Johannes Karremans, Team Leader of the Technical Assistance, gave a presentation about "Public transport to reduce GHG emissions, while reducing congestion, noise and local air pollution".

Nearly 200 countries struck a landmark deal on October 15th to reduce the emissions of powerful greenhouse gases, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), in a move that could prevent up to 0.5 degrees Celsius of global warming by the end of this century.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced that the Paris Agreement on climate change signed by world leaders this past April is set to enter into force on 4 November, as enough countries have signed onto the landmark accord to bring it to the emissions threshold that will trigger its implementation.

The European Parliament gave its approval to the final agreement reached at last year's climate change conference in Paris - the first-ever universal and legally binding global climate deal. The EU’s ratification of the Paris Agreement enabled it to enter into force, by fulfilling the second criterion of covering at least 55% of global emissions.

On 30 September 2016, the European Ministers for Environment agreed to speed up the process of ratification of the Paris Agreement. This agreement sets the framework for global action on climate change.