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Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch joined a coalition of 15 state attorneys general raising concerns over climate-related financial activism in a letter sent to the “Big 4” accounting firms: Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG, and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

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African countries have committed themselves to cutting greenhouse gas emissions and protecting their people from the worsening effects of climate change. These commitments form part of the Paris Agreement, an international climate treaty adopted in 2015 in which countries agreed to take steps to limit global warming.

While the professional body has welcomed the government’s guidance on climate‑related transition planning, it has called for more targeted resources for investors and further policy development to enable corporate action on the transition.

This week, UC Berkeley students will settle into lecture halls and around seminar tables for their first classes of fall semester. While some courses will be longstanding prerequisites, others will be brand new, designed to equip students for a rapidly changing world and to think deeply about it. Some students will dive into the past,…

Every discussion of climate finance in Afghanistan eventually collides with a question that is rarely asked out loud: should this country receive climate finance at all? Everything else—how the money should flow, what it should fund, which region should be prioritized—is downstream of that first question. And as long as it remains unanswered, or answered…

Welcome to Climate Tech Startups to Watch, Trellis’s fast-pitch competition featuring the most promising early-stage startups in climate tech this year. 

Generative AI can help scale climate services to meet growing demand. This approach is illustrated here with two prototype AI systems designed to enhance access to climate data, support decision-making, and improve efficiency. Key concerns are identified around responsibility, quality, and trustworthiness of AI outputs. Emerging best practices in system development are linked to core…

The All Aboard Coalition may have fallen short of its ambitious goal of raising $300 million to co-invest in promising climate tech ventures, closing its fundraising at $133 million. 

______________ OPINION By William Matovu and Wangui Muna Climate finance has become increasingly effective at funding climate interventions. It has been far less effective at creating businesses capable of attracting commercial investment. Public and concessional finance alone will never meet Africa’s investment needs. As governments prepare for another round of global climate negotiations, the challenge…