Countries remain at loggerheads with the Brazilian government team organising COP30 logistics in the Amazon city of Belém, after concerns that some delegations, especially from poorer countries, will not be…
UN agencies have urged employers, trade unions, local authorities and health experts to team up on creating tailored plans to protect workers from heat stress, as a warming world exposes…
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved funding to develop one of the world’s largest unexploited copper deposits in southwest Pakistan – but critics warn the plan to extract the…
In the arid Al Dhafra region of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), about 400km from Dubai, the last of four dome-shaped reactors at the Barakah nuclear power plant came online…
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…
