Holding a COP in the Amazon, the world’s largest tropical rainforest, has raised hopes that this year’s UN climate summit in Brazil will be free from the shadow of fossil…
Governments are expected to face fraught discussions next week over the timeline of several key climate science reports and the fallout of a reported US exit from the Intergovernmental Panel…
The push for a global levy on international shipping emissions won additional support from another dozen countries during talks in London this week, but it is still opposed by a…
Steve Edwards is head of biodiversity at South Pole. The 16th United Nations Biodiversity Conference of the Parties (COP16) in Colombia late last year underscored an urgent truth: global efforts to…
Deforestation in Colombia rose 35% in 2024 from a 23-year low the previous year, fueled by an uptick in the Amazon region, environment minister Susana Muhamad said on Thursday. The…
At the first board meeting of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) since President Donald Trump cancelled $4 billion in US pledges to it, countries sparred this week over who should…
Europe’s top polluting companies have ploughed three-quarters of their $2.1 trillion profits since 2010 into shareholder payouts rather than clean energy investments, according to Friends of the Earth.Between 2010 and…
Japan missed a UN deadline by submitting its new 2035 emissions reduction target a week late, reportedly because the government had received so many public comments on the 60% cut…
The UN’s climate change body is bringing back regular gatherings in the Global South in 2025 after the annual week-long events were cancelled last year due to lack of funding…
