The conservation sector must communicate better (commentary)
The Business of Conservation conference was held in Rwanda in August 2023. In the lead up, my social media feeds were full of NGOs I follow advertising their attendance and…
Sanctioned timber baron wins new mining concessions in Cambodia’s Prey Lang
PREAH VIHEAR, Cambodia — “I would like to announce to the public and the journalists that on November 2, the Ministry of Mines and Energy requested [Prime Minister Hun Manet]…
Governments fail to agree timeline for climate science reports in fraught IPCC talks
Saudi, India and China led opposition against a proposal to link the IPCC’s assessment cycle with the global stocktake, sources told Climate Home. Governments have failed to agree on a…
Why you shouldn’t go net zero this year
This article is sponsored by Terraformation. Corporate net zero pledges have turned out to be empty, useless and in extreme cases, made things even worse for the climate. They’ve resulted…
The world’s clothing boom is a climate changer
Every year manufacturers churn out some 100 billion garments, making fashion one of the world’s biggest industries generating more than $1.7 trillion in revenues and employing tens of millions of…
The State of the Voluntary Carbon Market
Limiting global warming to 1.5 ℃ above pre-industrial levels requires significant carbon reductions and 6 to 10 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide removal per year by 2050. The voluntary carbon…
Conservationists aim to save South America’s super tiny wild cat, the guina
For more than 200 million years, the ancient Valdivian Temperate Forest in southwestern Chile has been a refuge for plant and animal species found nowhere else on Earth. This global…