Attending the UN climate (COP28) and biodiversity (COP16) conferences during the past two years, it strikes this observer that the UN specialist environmental agreements on

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JAKARTA — An Indonesian government plan to clear forests spanning an area twice the size of South Korea for food and biofuel crops has sparked

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With global warming topping the key limit of 1.5C last year, adapting to worsening climate impacts has become a “necessity”, top scientist warns Europe’s climate

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The idea of taxing the super-rich to fund climate action shot up the international agenda during Brazil’s G20 presidency The world’s richest people are likely

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Heliene’s Mountain Iron, Minnesota facility. Courtesy: Heliene) A North American manufacturer is pressing pause on its plans to build out a solar cell manufacturing facility

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Madagascar is home to weird and wonderful creatures that occur nowhere else on the planet. In many parts of the island, this biodiversity is under

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A mighty blaze in Madagascar’s Ranomafana National Park is menacing the home of the world’s rarest lemur species. Disastrous dry conditions have turned the biodiversity

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1. Long-awaited plastics treaty flops, for now Despite around-the-clock efforts from delegates, negotiators and numerous advocacy groups, the fifth session of the U.N. Environment Programme’s

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Comment: The aviation industry has been slow to engage with the climate change agenda and new technology that could help it decarbonise is still being

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