While China’s planet-warming emissions keep falling, its growing use of coal to produce liquid fuels and chemicals – including plastics – risks threatening its climate goals, a new analysis has…
Category: Earth
“Epic” effort needed to hit 2050 nuclear power target, experts say
Nearly two years since a group of countries threw their weight behind a goal to triple the world’s nuclear power capacity by 2050 to fight climate change, energy experts say…
COP30 president prepares for clash of views on how to respond to NDCs COP30 president prepares for clash on how to respond to NDCs
The COP30 president warned on Tuesday there are differences in how governments think the international community should respond to an upcoming review of countries’ plans to cut planet-heating emissions –…
Leaders should put the Amazon at the heart of a new green economy A new green economy for the Amazon
Patricia Espinosa is COP30 Special Envoy for Latin America and the Caribbean, CEO and Founding Partner of onepoint5 and former UNFCCC Executive Secretary. From the cloud-crowned canopy of the Andes…
Campaigners sue Chilean government over copper mining pollution
A coalition of environmental campaigners and Indigenous groups is suing the Chilean government for systematically failing to curb pollution in the heart of the country’s copper mining region, as demand…
Clock runs down on global plastics pact with no deal in sight
Diplomats in Geneva are racing to clinch a last-minute agreement on a global plastics pact and rescue fraught talks from collapsing without a deal. As negotiations neared the end of…
Governments are avoiding renewable energy goals
Katye Altieri leads Ember’s research on tracking global clean power commitments to 2030, and Dave Jones is chief analyst at Ember. Two years ago, the world stood on the cusp…
Brazil drops support for plastic products ban in new global pact
COP30 host Brazil has distanced itself from the most ambitious proposals at UN talks on ending plastic pollution held in Geneva this week, including a ban on some plastic products,…
Campaigners urge countries to vote for a strong plastics treaty
Environmental campaigners have called on governments to “stop hiding behind consensus” at the UN plastics treaty talks and instead opt for a vote which they hope would win enough backing…
Korean farmers sue state power utility for damages
Six South Korean farmers have announced plans to sue the country’s state-owned utility company, arguing that its burning of fossil fuels has contributed to climate change and damaged their crops.…
