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Feb 18
BRIEFING: Morocco’s strategic role in shaping green shipping at the IMO
On the occasion of the February meetings of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), IMAL director Rachid Ennassiri has authored a...

Jan 31
"Baku was a betrayal": Statement on the outcome of COP29
Statement on the outcome of COP29 and the new finance goal (NCQG) by IMAL's Iskander Erzini Vernoit, published in African...

Nov 18, 2024
Comment article in Nature: "Quantifying international public finance provision needs for the new UN climate finance goal"
As deliberations on the new UNFCCC climate finance goal enter the second week at COP29 in Baku, IMAL director Iskander Erzini Vernoit has...

Nov 6, 2024
The Need to Scale Climate Finance Provision for Just Transition: A Perspective from Morocco
The following article was co-written by IMAL director Iskander Erzini Vernoit with Bouzekri Razi, director at the Ministry of Energy...

Nov 1, 2024
New UNCTAD report on NCQG cites IMAL analysis
A new UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) report released ahead of COP29 calls for an ambitious New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) on...

Oct 11, 2024
"Countries remain quite far apart" - Commentary on Pre-COP in AFP
Speaking to Agence France Presse from the Pre-COP in Baku several weeks ahead of COP29, Iskander Erzini Vernoit, a director at IMAL,...

Sep 11, 2024
For a finance goal fit for 1.5°C, now is the time for pragmatism and courage
In the decision on the new climate finance goal at COP29, developed countries must recall the spirit of Paris — to set an ambition for a...

Aug 9, 2024
REPORT: Rebuilding Confidence and Trust after the $100 billion: Recommendations for the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG)
IMALÂ is pleased to share its timely new report: "Rebuilding Confidence and Trust after the $100 billion: Recommendations for the New...

Jun 23, 2024
"No leg to stand on" - Commentary in response to UN poll (Climate Home News)
Photo credit: Pedro Armestre/Greenpeace A recent UNDP poll surveyed over 75,000 people in 77 countries on their views on climate change....

Jun 23, 2024
Commentary on midyear UN climate negotiations: "continuation of the struggle for international climate justice" (African Arguments)
Delegates at Bonn huddle to discuss the new Global Goal on Adaption text, one of the key agenda items along with climate finance. Credit:...


Jun 6, 2024
North Africa’s disappearing nomads: Why my community needs climate finance
My people are experiencing loss and damage, and deserve international support under a new climate finance goal – negotiators in Bonn and...

May 20, 2024
Mediterranean Alliance of Think Tanks on Climate Change co-launched by IMAL in Istanbul
Union for the Mediterranean - https://ufmsecretariat.org/ The Imal Initiative for Climate and Development was pleased to co-convene the...

Feb 20, 2024
De Dubaï à Bakou : que retenir des négociations de la COP28 et quelles perspectives pour la COP29 ?
(The following article, authored by IMAL's Imane Saidi and Iskander Erzini Vernoit, first appeared in Medias24 .) Malgré les tensions...

Dec 13, 2023
"Car without wheels" - Commentary on COP28 adaptation outcome (Climate Home News)
A child looking for water in a rural area of Benin during a drought (Photo: UNDP Benin /Flickr ) A Climate Home News article on the...

Nov 30, 2023
THEMATIC TARGETS AND INDICATORS FOR THE GLOBAL GOAL ON ADAPTATION (GGA)
POLICY PAPER ON PERSPECTIVES FROM THE INTERNATIONAL PLATFORM ON ADAPTATION METRICS (IPAM), EDITED BY THE IMAL INITIATIVE FOR CLIMATE AND...


Nov 15, 2023
Overcoming challenges in adaptation finance to enable wider progress on the GGA
A version of this article was first prepared as a contribution to a compendium paper produced by the International Platform on Adaptation...


Oct 9, 2023
"Financing gap on the order of trillions" - Commentary on 2023 WB-IMF Annual Meetings (AP)
The following quote, from IMAL director Iskander Erzini Vernoit, appeared in the Associated Press in a news article marking the start of...


Jul 28, 2023
Losses and Damages related to Floods in Morocco - Submission to UNFCCC
This submission to the UNFCCC was made by IMAL on behalf of the AMCDD, Morocco's national climate and environment CSO network, of which...


Feb 1, 2023
La réforme financière internationale: Briefing et recommandations sur Marrakech 2023
Comment réaliser à Marrakech une percée historique pour le Sud en matière de climat et de développement? This briefing was developed by...

Jan 10, 2023
De Charm el-Cheikh à Dubaï : que retenir de la COP27 et quelles perspectives pour la COP28 ?
Par Imane Saidi, Chercheuse, & Iskander Erzini Vernoit, Directeur executif, chez Imal Après deux semaines de négociations, de compromis...
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