Republicans’ anti-ESG attack may be silencing insurers, but it isn’t changing their pro-climate business decisions
Republicans are pressuring insurers out of climate coalitions but won’t change their pro-climate business decisions
Bonn talks offer opportunity to bridge the adaptation gap
With climate devastation growing, we can’t keep sidelining climate adaptation at governments’ climate talks
How a local victory against petrochemicals can spur global action on plastics
The Banner sisters fought for the preservation of land in America’s ‘Cancer Alley’. They are now in Paris to demand a global cap on plastic production.
Climate movement must switch on to UAE threat
The UAE’s authoritarian rulers needs oil and gas revenues to placate their people and keep themselves in power
G7 leaders must fulfil their promise to stop funding fossil fuels
Rich nations’ leaders need to uphold their commitment to a clean and sustainable energy future.
Reporting on climate adaptation is a mess – here’s how to fix it
Information about projects to help adapt to climate change is scattered, hard-to-find and incomplete, making keeping track of them impossible
Carbon credit rule-makers must engage Indigenous People
Indigenous people protect the forests but the organisation writing up a rule-book for high-quality carbon offsets has not adequately consulted them
Climate in court: The Paris Agreement’s role in safeguarding human rights
The European court on Human Rights will rule on whether climate inaction breaches human rights and the case will have global implications
I’m a COP veteran. Here are 3 suggestions for the new Loss and Damage fund
Cop27 resulted in the historic decision of setting up a loss and damage fund to help vulnerable countries, but success depends on a few key actions.
The IPCC’s climate scientists have done their job – now we must do ours
As citizens, we must educate and inspire our peers to act on climate change through positive and empowering campaigns
Japan’s ‘green transformation’ would derail the energy transition in Asia
Japan plans to prolong fossil fuels across Southeast Asia, by promoting carbon capture, gas and the co-firing of ammonia at coal power plants.
Circuses have evolved and so must UN climate summits
As formal negotiations get into the finer details, Cop28 should bring more focus – and accountability – to action in the real economy
Taiwan’s failure to clean up industry endangers its net zero pledge
Comment: Taiwan’s industry is responsible for more than half of its emissions but the government’s new climate policies have no specific plan to tackle them.
Vulnerable communities must call the shots on loss and damage fund
Poor and marginalised groups should be represented on the fund’s board, managing budgets and making decisions about their own lives
The climate vulnerable are starting to roar
The Cop27 summit won a breakthrough for those on the frontlines of the climate emergency. Cop28 must herald the end of oil and gas
Energy Charter Treaty exodus shows a global power shift
European governments are abandoning a treaty that has become a barrier to climate action, but legal hurdles remain
Gas is casting a long shadow over green development in Africa
At the Cop27 summit in Egypt, a dash for gas risks distracting from the support for climate resilience Africans really need
I never got to say goodbye to my relatives, victims of climate chaos
My loss is just one of many for Africa. If we do not get justice at Cop27, I fear conflict and scarcity will escalate beyond national borders
Climate finance isn’t reaching African communities – Cop27 must fix this injustice
Indigenous peoples and local communities receive less than 1% of all climate funding despite scoring wins for people and nature
Africa’s broken food markets must be fixed to tackle hunger
A handful of large companies make big profits by controlling the food trade in Africa, while doing nothing to increase its climate resilience