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Momentum grows towards 2050 zero carbon shipping target

Momentum grows towards 2050 zero carbon shipping target

Nigeria, Chile and Vietnam are among countries now backing a stronger climate goal for international shipping, but cost concerns remain

At the UN biodiversity negotiations, countries agreed to protect 30% of the world's land and oceans.

‘Kunming-Montreal’ deal sets up new fund for biodiversity by 2023

Countries committed to mobilise $200 billion “from all sources” to protect 30% of the world’s land and water ecosystems by 2030

India's female cane cutters face child marriage and hysterectomy

India’s female cane cutters face child marriage and hysterectomy

Women and girls in India’s sugar fields are exposed to sexual harassment, backbreaking work and inadequate healthcare

Cop15 global nature deal passes despite DR Congo's objection

Cop15 global nature deal passes despite DR Congo’s objection

The Chinese presidency gavelled through a biodiversity pact in Montreal, overriding the funding concerns of some African delegates

Mexico's new climate plan is worse than its old one, analysts say

Mexico’s new climate plan is worse than its old one, analysts say

Mexico, a country of 130 million, is one of only two G20 countries not to have set net zero emission targets

Migrant labourers suffer exploitation in India's sugar fields

Migrant labourers suffer exploitation in India’s sugar fields

Millions of people migrate each year to work in India’s sugar fields under extreme heat, harsh conditions and debt bondage

India's sugarcane farmers struggle to cope with droughts and floods

India’s sugarcane farmers struggle to cope with droughts and floods

In India more intense droughts and floods are destroying sugarcane crops and plunging millions of farmers and their families into debt

Cop15 delegates in Montreal clash over finance negotiations

After developing country walkout, ministers arrive to rescue nature talks

Tensions are running high at the Cop15 biodiversity summit over a finance gap estimated at $700 billion per year

Destruction of Brazil's Cerrado savanna soars for third year in a row

Destruction of Brazil’s Cerrado savanna soars for third year in a row

Brazil’s outgoing president Jair Bolsonaro has presided over four years of destruction of the Amazon rainforest and the Cerrado grasslands

Rich nations mobilise $15.5bn for Vietnam's coal-to-clean transition

Rich nations mobilise $15.5bn for Vietnam’s coal-to-clean transition

The deal will help Vietnam to peak its greenhouse gas emissions five years earlier than planned and scale up renewable energy generation

EU strikes internal deal to tax carbon at its borders

EU strikes internal deal to tax carbon at its borders

The world-first scheme will protect European industries from being undercut by polluting competitors, but angers emerging economies

Delegates gathered in the plenary at the COP15 UN Biodiversity summit in Montreal.

Governments split on ditching nature-harming subsidies in Montreal

Negotiators at the Cop15 biodiversity summit in Montreal have until Friday to agree a “nature pact” that can get rid of harmful subsidies

Industrial complex on the Meghna river, Bangladesh

AIIB finds gas plant in Bangladesh compatible with Paris goals

AIIB’s fast-tracking of a 600MW LNG plant could set a precedent for more development finance to fossil gas projects, campaigners warn

Germany considers €1 billion in support for 10 fossil fuel projects overseas

Germany considers €1 billion in support for 10 fossil fuel projects overseas

German support for any of the projects would breach a pledge made last year to stop funding coal, oil and gas projects overseas from 1 January

UK coal mine approval sparks global fury and hypocrisy claims

UK coal mine approval sparks global fury and hypocrisy claims

The decision to allow a new coking coal mine goes against official climate advice and the UK’s international rhetoric on fossil fuels

EU agrees law to crack down on deforestation in supply chains

EU agrees law to crack down on deforestation in supply chains

The EU deforestation law aims to stop imports of products if their producers have cut down trees to grow them

Cop28 will be held at the Dubai Expo site

UAE plans to have it both ways as Cop28 climate summit host

The Gulf oil and gas exporter is going big on renewable energy investment and food security, while expanding hydrocarbon production

EU chief flags concerns about Biden's 'buy American' climate plans

EU chief flags concerns about Biden’s ‘buy American’ climate plans

Ursula von der Leyen is mooting increased public support for EU cleantech industries, in response to the US’ Inflation Reduction Act

Lula Brazil climate change election

Brazil’s incoming government set to scrap gas pipelines and power plants

Marina Silva, tipped as the next environment minister, tweeted that the planned infrastructure would cost the country $22bn over four years

Battle lines drawn in talks on new plastics treaty

Battle lines drawn in talks on new plastics treaty

US and Saudi Arabia want a bottom-up deal focused on recycling, while a “high ambition coalition” wants top-down curbs on plastic production

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