Logistical challenges in the Amazon city of Belém has made the participation of business leaders at COP30 “very difficult”, according to private-sector representatives, as Brazilian government officials step up their…
Category: Climate
UN climate chief issues rallying cry on national climate plans as deadline looms
Governments must present their new national plans to cut planet-heating emissions and boost climate resilience as soon as possible, the UN climate chief has urged, with several major economies yet…
Major banks neglect energy transition risks from mining as demand booms
Banks and investors funding the extraction of raw materials that are needed for the clean energy transition are failing to address the social and environmental risks of mining, an analysis…
UN experts accuse top oil firms of rights violations over Nigerian asset sales
Oil giants Shell, Eni, ExxonMobil and TotalEnergies breached international human rights law by selling their assets in Nigeria without cleaning up decades of pollution or compensating local people in the…
Climate Home News seeks pitches on energy transition minerals
Climate Home News is seeking pitches on the trends shaping the extraction, processing and governance of key raw materials for the energy transition, including lithium, nickel, copper and rare earths.…
Bangladesh heatwaves hit health hard, making life a costly business
Abida Begum, a 37-year-old mother, sat weeping in the crowded ward of a children’s hospital in Dhaka, where her son aged two had been battling pneumonia for the past week.…
Like many dysfunctional relationships, the UNFCCC and the IPCC need to talk more
Svante Bodin is chair of the advisory board of the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative (ICCI) and affiliated with the Bolin Centre for Climate Research at Stockholm University. Örjan Gustafsson is…
Countries must deal with imported emissions in a fair way
Dr Arunabha Ghosh is the CEO of the New Delhi-based think tank Council on Energy, Environment and Water and Professor Laurence Tubiana is the President and CEO of the European…
EU’s record wildfire emissions highlight threat to forest carbon sinks
Climate-heating emissions from wildfires in the European Union have surged to record levels this year as flames have engulfed over 1 million hectares of land – equal to 13 times…
Does the future of green manufacturing lie in 3D printing?
Back in 2011, Israeli-American academic Hod Lipson wrote: “We are smack bang in the middle of a second industrial revolution.” The robotics engineer, now a professor at Columbia University, was…
