2025 is the year to invest in forests – and the people who depend on them
With COP30 in the Amazon, governments, businesses and funders must step up restoration finance and put forests at the centre of climate action
Comment
See all 
Food systems are the missing ingredient from the COP30 menu
Despite making the Amazon the stage for this year’s UN climate summit, Brazil has stayed silent on the food system crisis, the top driver of its deforestation
It’s time for shipping to launch first global tax on a polluting sector
Decarbonising the seas is a strategic imperative for a sustainable trade system that can also generate climate finance for vulnerable countries
Will Indonesia’s new carbon market be a climate solution or a game for big players?
As palm oil and timber companies gear up to profit from carbon trading, the government must ensure transparency and a fair deal for Indigenous communities
A tale of two women: What climate vulnerability actually looks like
The “climate vulnerable” are often thought to be women and children in the Global South – a stereotype that reinforces existing inequalities and power imbalances
Can a different approach to risk accelerate the energy transition in the Global South?
A new energy model can help address perceived risks of renewable energy in the Global South and accelerate the energy transition.
How COP16 2.0 can unlock business investment to properly fund nature
Biodiversity COP16 ended with vague targets and limited accountability — but its resumed session in Rome provides an opportunity for businesses to step up
Global ‘cooling’: how will the IPCC explain 15-year temperature hiatus?
Climate sceptics have a favourite war cry: temperatures have not risen much for 15 years. How will the IPCC confront the challenge?
UN General Assembly: time for leaders to deliver climate ambition
World leaders need to take more ambitious actions to confront the mounting threat of climate change
Time for Angela Merkel to fill the climate leadership vacuum?
Angela Merkel is expected to win this weekend’s German election, but will a new coalition government be committed to climate and clean energy issues?
Kelly Rigg: Women’s leadership will strengthen climate action
This week 100 of the world’s leading sustainability leaders meet in New York. They’re all women, and they are ambitious for change
John Ashton: a winning climate coalition is waiting to be forged
Former UK climate envoy says low carbon industry and progressive politicians need to combine to build new political consensus on global warming
Will Norway’s climate ambition continue under Erna Solberg?
New centre-right government takes charge of climate progressive country, but questions remain over commitment to cutting domestic emissions
Analysis: UN climate finance talks lay foundation for Warsaw summit
A series of UN-sponsored long term climate finance talks concluded today in South Korea. E3G’s Amal-Lee Amin explains what we have learnt
Dealing in doubt: how big oil funds climate denial
Attacks on climate science have been going on for 25 years. Greenpeace’s Cindy Baxter explains why they’re heating up ahead of the IPCC AR5 report
Direct Action: should we give Tony Abbott’s climate plan a chance?
Anthony Hobley from Norton Rose Fulbright asks if the new Coalition’s Direct Action Plan is an end to Climate Action or simply a case of clever re-branding?
Does dynamic demand hold the key to an effective electricity grid?
Existing technologies hold the key to managing electricity demand says Jane Burston from the National Physical Laboratory
Comment: we can’t ignore costs of loss and damage from climate change
The issue of climate compensation at UN talks is like a house with many rooms writes Saleemul Huq – but few rich countries want to explore inside
Comment: it’s time to make the UN climate talks more accessible
International negotiations are often long, complicated, difficult to understand – but Joy Hyvarinen from Field argues it doesn’t have to be this way
EU faces dilemma as aviation climate deal stays grounded
Analysis: Europe’s attempts to impose a global aviation emissions trading scheme look isolated – it now has to decide how much it wants to pursue this policy
Comment: UK fracking fight highlights need for carbon pricing strategy
Polarised shale gas exploration debate makes an effective EU energy market strategy essential argues Simon Moore from UK think tank Policy Exchange
Anger and frustration as Ecuador’s Yasuni dreams die
President Correa blamed funding shortfall for initiative’s failure, but wider problems with Yasuni persist
Rainforest picnic: how to stop eating the Amazon this summer
Andrew Mitchell from the Global Canopy Programme explains how everything we eat and wear is linked to the world’s great rainforests
Cameron’s fracking push ignores UK’s binding climate targets
Prime Minister’s support for fracking does not explain how it can be reconciled with UK decarbonisation targets
Bob Watson: IPCC must address slowdown in global warming
In the first of RTCC’s ‘Climate Leaders’ series, former UN climate science chief Bob Watson discusses forthcoming AR5 report and political implications
Is 1.5C warming target still within reach?
Climate Action Network and Climate Analytics study says rapid investment in biomass, energy efficiency and carbon capture technologies required