With more and more businesses setting net zero emissions targets, the voluntary carbon market needs stronger quality control to scale up, says UN special envoy
Campaigners accuse the Green Climate Fund of letting governments game the UN’s Redd+ forest protection scheme, as Indonesia is awarded $103 million
Travel restrictions allowed illegal deforestation to flourish in Indonesia – and government plans to cut environmental protections raise fears for the future
An independent advisory body on environmental policy warned Germany risks exhausting its carbon budget by 2029 without robust climate action
Sponsored content: The Inter-American Development Bank is working with governments to keep up momentum on climate action despite the public health crisis
Trading carbon is widely said to make emissions cuts cheaper. But for whom? And why is it dominating climate diplomacy in Madrid?
It has proven the hardest part of the Paris Agreement to create rules for, with warnings a weak decision could undermine the accord. Now it will dominate UN talks in Madrid
In one of Africa’s fastest deforesting nations, community control over the land offers villages new income, infrastructure and dignity
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Satellite analysis shows ‘vanishing’ lake has grown since 1990s, but climate instability is driving communities into the arms of Boko Haram and Islamic State
Vote share up in mining regions after deal to transition away from coal, manifesto calls for ‘consideration of planetary limits as conditions for economic progress’
Vulnerable countries are backing governance reform at the Green Climate Fund, while emerging economies resist efforts to impose conditions on finance
Sponsored content: A Climate Investment Funds scheme with forest-dependent communities has exceeded expectations, according to an independent review
Sponsored content: Community-led projects launch Indigenous perspectives onto the global climate stage
Brazil, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Indonesia all face a year of political flux placing their vast rainforests in peril
Sponsored content: To make real progress on climate requires a multi-sectoral, programmatic approach
Favouring market tools over real pollution cuts in the richest countries is a recipe for climate disaster
Sponsored content: GCF expands its forest portfolio with local projects that have global climate impacts
Scandinavian country leads funding to save the world’s tropical forests, but cannot do it alone, say past and present environment ministers
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