Monica Ngambi was born in Zambia’s copper-rich northern province as the nation declared its independence on 24 October 1964. For 60 years, she has lived by the large copper mines…

As chair of the Group of 20 (G20) nations this year, South Africa wants to secure agreement for more local processing of the metals and minerals critical to the clean…

New research shows that hotter temperatures and erratic rainfall are pressuring cocoa production in West African countries that supply around 70% of the main ingredient for chocolate, quadrupling the price…

A massive new protected area in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) – equal to the size of France – has so far failed to include Indigenous people and local…

Ralph Regenvanu is Vanuatu’s Special Envoy for Climate Change and Environment. There are less than two months left for governments to deliver likely one of the biggest climate deals of…

Emily Armistead is Interim Executive Director at Madre Brava. One of the most striking, and widely shared, images of the recent catastrophic California fires was of a McDonald’s restaurant in Pasadena engulfed…

Susana Muhamad, Colombia’s minister of environment since 2022 and president of the COP16 UN biodiversity negotiations, has announced she will step down from government, but has asked President Gustavo Petro…

The head of the UN’s biggest climate fund has urged world leaders not to step back from channelling “critical” climate finance to the developing world after the United States reneged…

Thomas Hahn is associate professor at the Stockholm Resilience Centre and research leader for FAIRTRANS. Robert Höglund is a carbon removal advisor with Marginal Carbon. Mikael Karlsson is associate professor at Uppsala…