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…
Category: Earth
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…
Fractious land COP ends without drought agreement
The African continent’s hopes for a legally binding agreement to combat drought have been dashed again, as UN land restoration talks in Mongolia passed the issue onto the next set…
Battle over cleaning up shipping set to resume at London talks
The US is expected to resume its attempt to sink measures for a greener global shipping sector at closed-door talks between governments at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in early…
New Zealand moves to protect business with law curtailing climate litigation
New Zealand’s parliament has adopted a controversial new law blocking a whole avenue of climate litigation and shutting down its most advanced corporate lawsuit, which has been blamed by the…
How safeguarding land protects our future
Inger Andersen is Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme When you live on the edge, you become acutely aware of balance. As a young woman straight out of…
As marine heat breaks records, countries seek ocean roadmap at COP31
With record-breaking ocean temperatures weakening the world’s largest carbon sink, a group of countries is pushing for the UN COP31 summit to deliver meaningful commitments to protect marine ecosystems. Yet…
