Claire Thomas is director of Minority Rights Group.For centuries, Indigenous peoples have demonstrated the indivisibility of human and ecosystem well-being. Now, the highest court in the world is behind them.A…
Abida Begum, a 37-year-old mother, sat weeping in the crowded ward of a children’s hospital in Dhaka, where her son aged two had been battling pneumonia for the past week.…
Svante Bodin is chair of the advisory board of the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative (ICCI) and affiliated with the Bolin Centre for Climate Research at Stockholm University. Örjan Gustafsson is…
Dr Arunabha Ghosh is the CEO of the New Delhi-based think tank Council on Energy, Environment and Water and Professor Laurence Tubiana is the President and CEO of the European…
Authorities in China and Nepal have agreed to share cross-border information about the risks of glacial lake outburst floods across the Tibetan region, in a first step that could be…
Imports of solar panels from China to Africa rose sharply in the year to June, capable of generating 60% more electricity than imports in the previous 12 months according to…
Climate-heating emissions from wildfires in the European Union have surged to record levels this year as flames have engulfed over 1 million hectares of land – equal to 13 times…
Back in 2011, Israeli-American academic Hod Lipson wrote: “We are smack bang in the middle of a second industrial revolution.”The robotics engineer, now a professor at Columbia University, was referring…
The eight Latin American nations that are home to the Amazon Basin have pledged support for a new global fund that will seek to channel finance for rainforest conservation, in…
