Climate and energy ministers from G7 nations agreed a coal exit deadline – with a caveat, but made little progress on other fossil fuels and finance
Right-wing President Javier Milei has taken an axe to funding for education and scientific bodies, sparking fears for climate research
Environment minister Steven Guilbeault accuses “some countries” of slow-walking negotiations, ahead of talks in Ottawa
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
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 Science Based Targets initiative ignores the good a company’s products do in avoiding planet-heating emissions – only counting those from its operations
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
The World Bank and IMF have a big part to play in raising the $3 trillion needed to help countries meet global development goals and the Paris accord
When the Japanese and US leaders meet in Washington, they should back a renewable energy future that will end harm to our health and livelihoods from fossil gas
Experts say UN rules around forests and oil are open to abuse, so that countries like Guyana can claim to be carbon-negative without cutting emissions
New regulations and monitoring advances could turn the tide on methane emissions from oil, gas and coal production this year
Ex-Im’s financing would boost fossil fuel production in the Gulf state with the construction of over 450 new oil and gas wells
Podesta will lead US international climate diplomacy alongside his current job overseeing the rollout of domestic clean energy subsidies
Food and plants dumped into US landfills are rotting and warming the planet but “weak” regulations have not been improved
The Biden administration is freezing approvals of new LNG export permits as climate considerations take centre stage.
A group celebrating the sabotage said they opposed the pipeline out of solidarity with marginalised people in the USA
Xie Zhenhua has stepped down and John Kerry has announced he will do the same in a few months time
Vice-president Kamala Harris pledged $3 billion to the Green Climate Fund at Cop28, which Congressional Republicans will likely try to block
The government aims to cut the amount of energy needed for its economic growth by 2.5% in 2024, putting it far off track for a key five-year climate target
Renewable energy schemes make up four-fifths of Kyoto-era projects hoping to keep selling offsets under Article 6, sparking concerns over the credibility of the new market.
The government will consider incentives to charge electric vehicles at off-peak hours and to let vehicles sell their electricity to the grid
China opposed six Green Climate Fund projects because the proposals flagged the risk of forced labour in the manufacturing of solar panels.
Clean energy is a priority as China promises $100 billion of development funding – but don’t call it climate finance
From Beijing, climate envoy Xie Zhenhua stood firm against stronger rhetoric against coal, oil and gas deployed at UN headquarters
Despite Beijing’s sponge city project, the capital was overwhelmed by recent floods with dozens dying and a new “sponge airport” shut down
China is the world’s biggest manufacturer of renewable energy equipment and is making plans for how to dispose of it once it stops working
Indebted farmers, facing falling yields and water scarcity, want legally guaranteed price support for more crops – but that may not fix their climate woes
Nearly two fifths of India’s districts depend on the coal sector and a rapid phasedown would be devastating for millions of people
Nineteen countries signed up to an India-led alliance this month to boost production of biofuels, but experts raise sustainability concerns
The country is not moving away from coal yet, doesn’t want to hand rich nations a win and thinks the JETP terms aren’t good enough
The world’s largest economies agreed to push for a tripling of renewable energy capacity by 2030, but made no progress on oil and gas phaseout
If approved by the cabinet, India’s new electricity policy would end the construction of new coal-fired power plants after the planned 28 GW are built
India wants to become a leader in green hydrogen production and to develop huge solar projects in the Ladakh region of the Himalayas
The government ignored warnings that building large hydropower projects in the Himalayas was unsafe. Now Josimath town is falling apart
Many Global South climate groups are funded by the German government, a political ally of Israel, and feel unable to criticise Israel’s military action in Gaza
The government is relying on special cow food and green plane fuel to cut emissions – but officials warn some solutions may fall short
France has abandoned plans to phase out tax breaks on agricultural diesel in efforts to appease its increasingly disgruntled farmers
The UK is opening itself up to repeated lawsuits from foreign oil and gas firms if it passes the Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill
The European Commission has proposed a 90% cut to net emissions by 2040 but has dropped specific targets for farming
As the backlash against laws protecting nature intensifies across Europe, public pressure has helped push forests centre stage in Poland
Giorgia Meloni has unveiled a long-awaited plan for African development named after Enrico Mattei, founder of oil and gas giant Eni.
While the previous Polish government tried to water down the EU’s climate action, the new one is supporting ambition
The UN agencies that will run the Santiago Network recommended it should be based in Nairobi but governments have instead chosen the world’s third-most expensive city
The Nigerian government is sinking billions into the long-delayed project but economic and security problems are mounting
Shell’s oil spills have ruined farms and fisheries and locals want compensation before it sells up
The minister Jean-Pierre Bemba bribed witnesses in his war crimes trial and holds power over the environment minister Eve Bazaiba
Gwede Mantashe’s ministry argues for cutting ambition on renewables and investing more in gas. also plugging so-called “clean coal”
Whistleblowers raise alarm over American consultancy’s growing influence in pushing carbon markets and developing energy transition plans
Last month, a government-owned electricity company deliberately spilled water from its dam, displacing tens of thousands
To build the East African Crude Oil Pipeline, Total is moving over 2,000 graves in Uganda and Tanzania, with no respect for local customs
Ultra free-market president Javier Milei has not so far been able to get cuts to environmental regulations through Congress
The Brazilian government wants to tap forest protection funds to pave a major highway. Western donors say that goes against the fund’s rules.
Donations meant to preserve the Amazon rainforest may be spent paving the road, which critics say will worsen the forest’s destruction
Tricky politics have hampered renewable growth and plans to stop oil and gas exploration have sparked economic fears
A nature conservation foundation has accused Argentine scientists of slander after criticism of their rewilding methods
Brazil will go back to the climate targets it drew up in 2015 while it works on new and improved ones
Debt-for-nature and debt-for-climate swaps are becoming more common, with Ecuador’s recent $1.6bn deal the biggest yet. How do they work?
Bolivia wants to chop down trees to grow soy, beef and palm oil while Venezuela is unwilling or unable to restrain illegal gold mining
Analysts said Saudi Arabia’s government may be losing faith that the world wants to keep buying more of its oil
Khalil was a researcher who drew attention to the impacts of climate change on the Gaza Strip before being killed by Israel’s bombs
US and Saudi Arabia want a bottom-up deal focused on recycling, while a “high ambition coalition” wants top-down curbs on plastic production
The Middle East has not been used to planning for intense rainfall but the region must learn the lessons of recent flooding which killed Asian migrants, experts warn
Europe needs low-carbon hydrogen and the Middle-East and North Africa can produce it
Chair of the Arab group for a decade, Shasly is absent from interim climate talks in Bonn and is being replaced by Albara Tawfiq
The proposals aim to harness solar power to bring drinking water to Palestinian territories but Israel’s support is needed
Saudi Arabia wants to become a leading exporter of hydrogen from both clean and dirty sources as part of an economic diversification plan
China and India are on track to triple renewable capacity this decade, but were put off by anti-coal language and cost concerns
Non-binary and trans people have been detained and deported at Dubai airport and being gay is effectively criminalised in the UAE
Since President Widodo launched Indonesia’s exchange two months ago, there’s been barely any trading of carbon credits
Experts said that China didn’t want to shut down coal mines and was likely under-counting its coal mine methane emissions
Even though we now have the Paris agreement, cooperation between the world’s two biggest emitters, US and China, is still crucial
After its pleas for grants not loans fell mostly on deaf ears, Indonesia has watered down its plans to shut coal power plants early
The G7 has offered to mobilise $15.5 billion to get Vietnam from coal to clean energy but just 2% of this is grants
A finance tool to shut down Asian coal plants up to a decade early will swing into action “soon”, says Asian Development Bank climate envoy
Australia has offered visas and climate finance to Tuvalu in a security pact to counter China’s influence in the Pacific region
The climate minister of Pacific Island Vanuatu says those choosing the Cop31 host should examine Australia’s gas expansion plans
While small islands still say the Green Climate Fund is better than the rest, they are facing problems getting money from it
Campaigners are challenging the UK government over its assessment of environmental impacts of a trade deal with Australia
They folded after winning concessions from the government which will make producing coal and gas more expensive
Being recognised as partiuclarly vulnerable can help countries access climate finance and plan adaptation strategies
At this week’s Pacific Island Forum the new Australian government got a warmer response from its smaller neighbours but was pressed to keep fossil fuels in the ground
AGL had planned to split in two and keep burning coal for another two decades or more, before Mike Cannon-Brookes led a shareholder revolt