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Mozambique ‘faces climate debt trap’ as Cyclone Kenneth follows Idai
A loan from International Monetary Fund allows the African country to rebuild from climate-linked disaster – but drives the poor into debt, campaigners warn
The Paris Agreement always needed Extinction Rebellion and Greta Thunberg
Even as governments agreed the ambitious goals of the 2015 global pact, it was clear citizens would have to mobilise to hold them to their promises
We need a Green New Deal for Europe
A European sustainability pact, massive investments and the EU’s full regulatory power will be needed to address the climate crisis, writes Michel Barnier
Climate finance misses its mark in Ugandan landslide zones
On the slopes of Mount Elgon, residents live in fear of the next deadly landslide, as tree-planting solutions fail to take root
Indonesian VP candidate named in alleged coal scam
Sandiaga Uno may have personally benefited from payments made by one of Indonesia’s biggest coal miners to an offshore firm he owned, Global Witness says
Southeast Europeans ignore EU rules with €2.4bn coal subsidies
The EU’s Energy Community neighbours ‘systematically turn a blind eye’ to its state aid rules, a report by the secretariat finds
Leaders told to bring plans, not speeches to UN climate summit
A landmark conference hosted by Antonio Guterres in September aims to jolt flagging international action on climate change, in line with the latest science
‘We were ecologists before the capitalists’: the gilets jaunes and climate justice
France’s worst civil unrest in decades was sparked by an anti-pollution tax, but are the gilets jaunes fighting against climate action?
Capitalism can deliver the transformation the climate school strike demands
A letter to 16-year-old Greta Thunberg: ‘I’m a good-old institutionalised man… my generation can’t speak to power the way yours can’
Climate Weekly: Norway divests (a bit)
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Norway calls for $1 trillion fund to sell some oil and gas stocks
The government proposes to divest a reported $7.5 billion worth of shares in oil production, without banning mixed oil majors like Shell and Exxon Mobil
Climate Weekly: Who will govern geoengineering?
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French experts propose trillion-euro EU climate finance pact
Economist Pierre Larrouturou and climate scientist Jean Jouzel are leading a call to mobilise funds on a large scale, backed by more than 600 political figures
The CIF turns 10: unique finance for a unique crisis
Sponsored content: Independent analysis shows the success of a decade of investment in strategic partnerships and programmes to tackle climate
Irish energy industry calls for new links to Europe amid Brexit fears
Grid operator boss calls on Brussels to approve funding for a new electricity connection to France to avoid isolation from continent
Another dam fails in Brazil – Bolsonaro must not respond by gutting protections
Environmental regulations are not arbitrary hurdles for enterprise, if this government erodes them how many more people will be buried beneath the mud?
How grants can empower indigenous peoples to protect the climate
Sponsored content: A Climate Investment Funds scheme with forest-dependent communities has exceeded expectations, according to an independent review
Germany can end coal power much earlier than 2038
The market can deliver much faster end to coal power than proposed last week, but it needs a confident signal from the German government
Two Koreas build green cooperation
As part of broader thawing of relations, the north and south are working together in the fight against a tree-killing worm
A sanctuary fights to protect coral, fish and the livelihoods that depend on them
Sponsored content: The White River Sanctuary in Jamaica strives to protect a delicate habitat from the threats of overfishing, pollution and climate change