Climate politics
Campaigners call on António Guterres to rescue ‘imperilled’ biodiversity deal
With five months to the critical summit, a “Paris Agreement for nature” is floundering as finance and political leadership fall short
Bumpy road to a clean future – Climate Weekly
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Germany, Japan must not water down G7 commitment to end fossil fuel finance
There are worrying signs from Berlin and Tokyo of backsliding on a pledge to end public finance for fossil fuel projects overseas by the end of the year
Ibrahim Thiaw appointed interim UN Climate Change head
The head of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification will head UN Climate Change from 17 July and until a permanent replacement to Patrica Espinosa is found
Urgency fizzles out in Bonn – Climate Weekly
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Data exclusive: The ‘junk’ carbon offsets revived by the Glasgow Pact
Analysis for Climate Home identifies hundreds of problematic projects that could be used to greenwash national and corporate climate plans
Patricia Espinosa: Some rich nations felt demands on finance were ‘too strong’
Outgoing UN climate change head says finance from rich to poorer nations is what makes the international action possible – and failure to deliver is stalling progress
China rejects ‘major emitter’ label in talks to step up climate action
To bridge the 1.5C gap, countries agreed to set up a work stream to accelerate action this decade. But at Bonn climate talks, no-one can agree on what it should look like
Saudi Arabia’s senior negotiator Ayman Shasly steps back from climate talks
Chair of the Arab group for a decade, Shasly is absent from interim climate talks in Bonn and is being replaced by Albara Tawfiq
EU lawmakers form cross-party coalition to block gas and nuclear from green taxonomy
From the Greens and left to the centre-right, MEPs object to gas and nuclear investments getting a “green” label
