Chinese industry is beginning to shift from fossil fuels to clean electricity, with wind, solar and batteries progressively displacing coal, oil and gas across the industrial sectors that made the…
Category: Earth
Industry and NGOs lobby to weaken UN carbon credit rules in “coordinated” push
Carbon credit developers, corporate buyers and some leading conservation NGOs are challenging new proposed rules to stop UN carbon credits being wiped out by fire, drought or logging, in what…
London talks raise hopes for green shipping deal
A relatively ambitious deal to reduce the shipping industry’s 3% of global emissions now looks more likely after four days of closed-door talks in London, observers say. The International Maritime…
Israel’s bombing has left Gaza climate vulnerable
Israel’s bombardment of Gaza during the conflict that broke out in October 2023 has wrecked progress towards adapting the enclave to climate change and left two million Gazans vulnerable to…
More support needed to power Africa’s food systems with renewables, experts say
As efforts to expand energy access across Africa grow, experts and policymakers have called this week for greater coordination and investment to power food production with renewables, arguing the sector…
UK’s budget juggling trick with rainforest loan for bus-fare cap needs transparency
Euan Ritchie is a senior research associate in the Europe programme at the Center for Global Development. Andy Burnham, the UK’s latest prime minister, has suggested reducing the amount the…
Loss and damage fund urged to hold emergency meeting on Nepal
After last week’s catastrophic flash flooding caused hundreds of deaths and an estimated $5 billion of destruction in Nepal, some board members of the UN’s new loss and damage fund…
From Belém to Antalya – gains, gaps and challenges for a new Just Transition Mechanism
Could a new mechanism to help countries transition to a cleaner, safer and fairer world be one of the main deliverables from the COP31 climate summit in Türkiye this November?…
Preventing wildfires must be the priority
Gill Einhorn is head of the Forest Future Alliance and Natalie Çilem is community lead of the Global Wildfire Leadership Network. Wildfires have devastated communities across the world this summer,…
India needs climate adaptation cash to be an investment, not a quick fix
Anuradha Barua, Aakriti Wanchoo and Swapan Mehra are from Iora Ecological Solutions, a New Delhi-based company focused on nature-based solutions, climate action, conservation and environmental policy. When Rojo Neog’s village…
