This week's edition of Environment weekly highlights includes: news analysis on the 29th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) outcomes, some of the key UK and international climate litigation developments in 2024 pertaining to the energy sector, the key takeaways and what is on the horizon for 2025 and beyond and insured losses from natural catastrophes projected to pass US$135bn in 2024, marking the fifth consecutive year in which the total exceeded US$100bn, according to a report by the Swiss Re Institute. It also covers Friends of the Earth (FoE), along with co-claimants, Doug Paulley and Kevin Jordan’s appeal against the High Court's October 2024 decision, which dismissed their legal challenge to the UK government's National Adaptation Programme 3 (NAP3) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)’s adjournment of negotiations for a legally binding global treaty on plastic pollution until 2025, following the conclusion of the fifth session in Busan, South Korea. In additions this week, the Department for...
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