The eight Latin American nations that are home to the Amazon Basin have pledged support for a new global fund that will seek to channel finance for rainforest conservation, in…
Category: Climate
COP bureau meeting ends in stalemate as Brazil insists Belém logistics can work
Countries remain at loggerheads with the Brazilian government team organising COP30 logistics in the Amazon city of Belém, after concerns that some delegations, especially from poorer countries, will not be…
Employers need plans to protect workers from rising heat stress, UN says
UN agencies have urged employers, trade unions, local authorities and health experts to team up on creating tailored plans to protect workers from heat stress, as a warming world exposes…
Emerging nations turn to Asian reactors for new wave of nuclear power
In the arid Al Dhafra region of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), about 400km from Dubai, the last of four dome-shaped reactors at the Barakah nuclear power plant came online…
China’s emissions fall but growing coal-to-chemicals sector raises concern China’s emissions fall but coal use threatens progress
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…
“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…
