EU plans restrictions on climate-wrecking fishing method
The European Union plans to ban bottom-trawling in marine protected areas by 2030 but the fishing industry is resisting the measures EU countries will be required to reduce the harmful…
No pay, no say – Climate Weekly
Sign up to get our weekly newsletter straight to your inbox, plus breaking news, investigations and extra bulletins from key events No pay, no say. That is what African nations would…
Destruction of Brazil’s Cerrado savanna soars for third year in a row
Brazil’s outgoing president Jair Bolsonaro has presided over four years of destruction of the Amazon rainforest and the Cerrado grasslands Deforestation in Brazil’s Cerrado savanna rose for the third year…
Climate Home’s five must-read climate change stories from 2022
The hype machine behind a $70,000 carbon credit, fossil fuel fights in Sharm el-Sheikh and other essential journalism In 2022, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine broke energy markets around the world,…
Azerbaijan weaponises conservation law in conflict with Armenia
Azerbaijan accuses Armenia of deforesting the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, but satellite data tells a different story The government of Azerbaijan is weaponising the forests and animals of Nagorno-Karabakh in peace…
After developing country walkout, ministers arrive to rescue nature talks
Tensions are running high at the Cop15 biodiversity summit over a finance gap estimated at $700 billion per year As the UN biodiversity negotiations in Montreal enter their final stages,…
Africa objects to US chairing UN climate fund, citing unpaid $2bn
The Green Climate Fund is making cutbacks to its project portfolio, while the US fails to deliver on a years-old funding pledge African governments sought to block the US from…
Mexico’s new climate plan is worse than its old one, analysts say
Mexico, a country of 130 million, is one of only two G20 countries not to have set net zero emission targets Mexico’s new climate plan, announced last month at COP27…
Migrant labourers suffer exploitation in India’s sugar fields
Millions of people migrate each year to work in India’s sugar fields under extreme heat, harsh conditions and debt bondage This story is the second of Climate Home News’ four-part…