Felix Wertli is the Swiss Ambassador for the Environment and was the country’s lead negotiator at INC 5.2.In 2022, the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA) mandated the global community to negotiate…
While China’s planet-warming emissions keep falling, its growing use of coal to produce liquid fuels and chemicals – including plastics – risks threatening its climate goals, a new analysis has…
Nearly two years since a group of countries threw their weight behind a goal to triple the world’s nuclear power capacity by 2050 to fight climate change, energy experts say…
The COP30 president warned on Tuesday there are differences in how governments think the international community should respond to an upcoming review of countries’ plans to cut planet-heating emissions –…
Patricia Espinosa is COP30 Special Envoy for Latin America and the Caribbean, CEO and Founding Partner of onepoint5 and former UNFCCC Executive Secretary.From the cloud-crowned canopy of the Andes to…
A coalition of environmental campaigners and Indigenous groups is suing the Chilean government for systematically failing to curb pollution in the heart of the country’s copper mining region, as demand…
UN talks on creating a global pact to stem plastic pollution collapsed in Geneva with no agreement or clear way forward after a chaotic night of negotiations failed to break…
Diplomats in Geneva are racing to clinch a last-minute agreement on a global plastics pact and rescue fraught talks from collapsing without a deal.As negotiations neared the end of their…
Katye Altieri leads Ember’s research on tracking global clean power commitments to 2030, and Dave Jones is chief analyst at Ember.Two years ago, the world stood on the cusp of…
