From Africa to Southeast Asia, the Trump administration is cancelling US support for projects designed to replace coal, oil and gas with clean energy, pushing instead for the use of…
Category: Climate
How to make electric vehicles that don’t trash forests with mining
Perrine Fournier is a forest and mining campaigner at forests and rights NGO Fern. Our fossil fuel addiction must end for humanity to have a livable future. An important element in…
Let’s use early milestones to stay focused on climate action
Mukhtar Babayev is COP29 President and Azerbaijan’s Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources. It has been a noisy few months since the COP29 climate summit in Baku. Unpredictability, volatility, distraction…
Rising copper demand fuels concern over pollution and rights abuses
To help meet the needs of the energy transition, global demand for copper – a mineral critical for making electric vehicles, wind turbines and solar panels – is set to…
Brazil calls on local groups to “inspire” a boost in climate action
Brazil’s COP30 presidency wants to elevate grassroots solutions to the climate crisis to the global level in a bid to spur governments to bolster their national climate plans. With six…
Climate justice is vital for global security
Nicola Sturgeon is an MSP (Member of the Scottish Parliament) and former First Minister of Scotland. Ben Wilson is International Policy Lead for Stop Climate Chaos Scotland. The world is…
COP30 must heed the elephant in the room: fossil fuels
Andreas Sieber is the associate director of global policy and campaigns at 350.org. Stela Herschmann is Climate Policy Specialist at Observatório do Clima, a network of 130 Brazilian organisations. Four…
First carbon credit scheme for early coal plant closures unveiled
Carbon registry Verra has launched a new rulebook for generating carbon credits from the early phase-out of coal power plants that are replaced with cleaner energy sources. Carbon credit projects…
Without debt relief, climate action will fail
Laurie van der Burg is global public finance campaign manager at Oil Change International. Mariana Paoli is global advocacy lead at Christian Aid. Rebecca Thissen is global advocacy lead at…
US tariffs threaten solar panel production and jobs in Thailand
On a humid day in February, a small group of workers huddled in front of a large solar panel factory inside Thailand’s biggest manufacturing hub in the eastern coastal province…
