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Don’t be fooled: CCS is no solution to oil and gas emissions

The oil and gas industry wants you to believe it can capture its emissions and keep drilling as usual. That’s no way to avert climate chaos

Vietnam prime minister JETP Cop28. Vietnam coal path becomes uncertain as finance falls short

Vietnam charts uncertain coal path as finance falls short

Vietnam’s just energy transition partnership plan has no timeline for retiring coal, as backers offer mainly commercial loans, not grants

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Cop28 bulletin: Fossil fuel phase-out language takes shape

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Cop28 bulletin: IPCC chief defends Al Jaber over science firestorm

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Cop28 bulletin: Al Jaber goes off script, denies science

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Cop28 bulletin: US GCF pledge and ‘greenwash’ oil and gas charter

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US tees up Congress battle with $3bn Green Climate Fund pledge

US tees up Congress battle with $3bn Green Climate Fund pledge

Vice-president Kamala Harris pledged $3 billion to the Green Climate Fund at Cop28, which Congressional Republicans will likely try to block

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Cop28 bulletin: Fossil fuel phaseout is on the table

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Avoid our mistake: Don't let World Bank host loss and damage fund

Avoid our mistake: Don’t let World Bank host loss and damage fund

At the Global Partnership for Education, we paid a high price to be hosted by the World Bank. A loss and damage fund should be independent

To triple renewable energy, the Global South needs finance

To triple renewable energy, the Global South needs finance

A renewable energy target will be debated at Cop28 but financial reforms are needed for the Global South outside China to meet that target

The EU is about to revive a failed climate solution

The EU is about to revive a failed climate solution

The EU once led the world in combatting flawed forest offset schemes. Now it’s looking to give them a new lease of life.

The cruise industry says LNG is a climate solution. It's not

The cruise industry says LNG is a climate solution. It’s not

Some of the world’s biggest cruise companies are claiming to be green, while continuing to use weakly regulated fossil fuels

This youth climate lawsuit could transform accountability for climate harms

Why Portuguese youth are suing European countries over wildfires

The case, to be heard in the European Court of Human Rights on Wednesday, could change the way states are held accountable for climate harms

Leaders must listen to the people and end fossil fuels

Leaders must listen to the people and end fossil fuels

Masses of people will take to the streets in 650 events around the world this weekend, to call for a phaseout of coal, oil and gas

top calling people 'climate refugees'

Stop calling people ‘climate refugees’

We need to recognise the diversity of ways climate impacts influence people’s movements, not reduce them to one label

Countries pledge $270m to set up loss and damage fund at Cop28

Identifying loss and damage is tough – we need a pragmatic but science-based approach

It’s often hard to judge whether a drought is weather-related or climate related and whether people are displaced by the drought or conflicts

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