Latest content: Commonwealth Climate Change Programme

It’s not every day I fall back in love in a car park. But it happened while I was filming a short video with several self-confessed carbonphiliacs — including biomimicry guru Janine Benyus and Baroness Patricia Scotland, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth Secretariat.

A groundbreaking study laying down the devastating consequences of climate change and rising seas was published by the Commonwealth Secretariat in September 1989.

Commonwealth finance ministers, meeting at the IMF in Washington DC, were told much more needed to be done to tackle the challenges of climate change.

The Secretary-General Patricia Scotland has discussed how to deepen the partnership between the Commonwealth and the United Nations at a meeting with its head, Ban Ki-moon.

With the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the time is ripe for fresh approaches to gender-responsive climate action. Most Commonwealth states are vulnerable developing countries, which are expected to be adversely affected by climate change.

‘No more excuses on decisive and effective climate action!’ This was the message that rang loud and clear as Commonwealth governments and climate change experts and practitioners met today at a Commonwealth Dialogue on Climate Change.

The Commonwealth needs to take responsibility for delivering the global climate change agreement signed in Paris last December, the new Secretary-General will argue today.

Caribbean countries have shown great leadership in “mobilising the world” to act on the threat posed by climate change, the Secretary-General Designate of the Commonwealth of Nations, the Right Honourable Patricia Scotland QC, has said.

The Commonwealth proposes responding to the twin threats of climate change and unsustainable debt through innovative financing.

Commonwealth Secretary-General welcomes last weekend’s historic Conference of Parties (COP21) climate change agreement to limit global emissions.

Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma submitted this Commonwealth Statement to the High Level Segment of the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris.

The Commonwealth Chair-in-Office, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat of Malta affirms the commitment of Commonwealth leaders to limiting global warming at climate negotiations in Paris.

Commonwealth leaders issue statement on climate action ahead of COP21.

Commonwealth Finance Access Hub will help countries successfully bid for climate action funding.

UK Prime Minister David Cameron urged governments to step up efforts to tackle corruption, violent extremism and climate change

Commonwealth countries pledge billions of pounds to climate action in a special session at the Commonwealth summit.

Calls for action on climate change dominate discussions during day three of the Commonwealth Youth Forum in Malta.

Youth leaders from Commonwealth countries in the Pacific have called for greater action to support countries threatened by climate change and for governments to empower young people to participate in decision-making processes.

Regional and pan-Commonwealth winners receive £14,000 grant between them

Speaker: Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma

Foreign ministers meeting in Perth ahead of CHOGM 2011 say urgent funding needed