Sub-Saharan Africa will miss the UN’s 2030 goal to provide clean cooking for all at today’s pace, with universal access now more realistic by 2040 due to large gaps in…
Category: Climate
Brazil under fire for loosening environmental rules ahead of COP30
The approval last week by Brazil’s Congress of a bill that weakens environmental safeguards for mining, infrastructure and agricultural projects has raised concerns at home and abroad that the new…
New climate plans must supercharge energy transition, says UN’s Guterres
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for governments to “go all-out” on the energy transition by ensuring their new national climate plans help increase clarity and certainty about the switch…
Brazil offers COP30 cruise ship rooms and cap on costs
The Brazilian government says it has offered accommodation for COP30 costing no more than $220 a night to representatives of some of the world’s poorest countries after African and Pacific…
Locals in Brazil’s lithium hub fear losing legal protections
For centuries, gold and diamonds brought fortune seekers to Brazil’s Jequitinhonha Valley. As a global lithium rush draws them here again, some local people fear the mistakes of the past…
Airlines risk legal challenges by advertising jet fuel as “sustainable”, NGO warns
The aviation industry should stop branding all alternatives to traditional kerosene as “sustainable” or risk facing lawsuits, a climate nonprofit has warned, as concern grows about fraud in the production…
How can we help people prepare for extreme heat?
Dr. Niall McLoughlin is co-director at Climate Barometer. Throughout recent weeks, Europe has yet again experienced the deadly effects of record-breaking extreme heat. Hundreds of heat alerts were put in…
Wealthy nations accused of delaying loss and damage fund with slow payments
Wealthy nations risk undermining the loss and damage fund’s plan to deliver $250 million in aid next year to climate-vulnerable countries hit by extreme weather, board members from developing nations…
Pacific islands push back against growing climate threats
The Cook Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia are separated by around 6,000 kilometres of Pacific Ocean. Despite the vast stretch of water between them, the two small island…
Trees can’t get up and walk away, but forests can
An army of treelike creatures called Ents marches to war in the second The Lord of the Rings movie, The Two Towers, walking for miles through dark forests. Once they…
