Right-wing President Javier Milei has taken an axe to funding for education and scientific bodies, sparking fears for climate research As a budget freeze for Argentina’s public universities amid soaring…
Brazil and France want the G20 to get behind a global minimum tax on billionaires’ wealth, also backed by IMF chief, but Germany rejects the idea The finance ministers of…
Environment minister Steven Guilbeault accuses “some countries” of slow-walking negotiations, ahead of talks in Ottawa next week The chair of this month’s penultimate round of talks to agree a global…
Tired of waiting for donor dollars for climate and nature protection to trickle down, Indigenous rights groups are creating new funds to do things differently For over a decade, Indigenous…
Comment: The Spring Meetings of the World Bank and IMF are a chance to transform outstanding debts for fossil fuel projects into grants for renewable energy systems Lidy Nacpil is…
Climate Home reveals that the World Bank Group has counted support for luxury hotels as climate finance, which experts say fails the most vulnerable The spotless white-sand beach of Le…
The Science Based Targets initiative ignores the good a company’s products do in avoiding planet-heating emissions – only counting those from its operations Chris Hocknell is the director of London-based…
Comment: Businesses are not required to cut all their value chain emissions in line with a 1.5C warming limit – and allowing offsetting could weaken efforts further Silke Mooldijk works…
Simon Stiell says far more money is required for developing countries to submit bold new climate plans, which would benefit all economies The head of the United Nations climate body,…