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…
Category: Earth
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…
Governments are avoiding renewable energy goals
Katye Altieri leads Ember’s research on tracking global clean power commitments to 2030, and Dave Jones is chief analyst at Ember. Two years ago, the world stood on the cusp…
Brazil drops support for plastic products ban in new global pact
COP30 host Brazil has distanced itself from the most ambitious proposals at UN talks on ending plastic pollution held in Geneva this week, including a ban on some plastic products,…
Campaigners urge countries to vote for a strong plastics treaty
Environmental campaigners have called on governments to “stop hiding behind consensus” at the UN plastics treaty talks and instead opt for a vote which they hope would win enough backing…
Korean farmers sue state power utility for damages
Six South Korean farmers have announced plans to sue the country’s state-owned utility company, arguing that its burning of fossil fuels has contributed to climate change and damaged their crops.…
Deadlock in UN plastics talks raises fears of watered-down deal
As talks on finalising a global plastics pact remain deadlocked, calls are growing for ambitious countries not to settle for a “bad” deal that fails to tackle the growing production…
EU advises DR Congo against oil drilling in “Green Corridor”
The European Union has advised the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) not to allow oil drilling in a huge stretch of land spanning nature-rich rainforests and peatlands which the EU…
Oil states accused of using scare tactics to sink green shipping deal
A group of eight oil- and gas-exporting nations has urged governments not to adopt a pact aimed at cutting the shipping industry’s carbon emissions, saying the deal’s targets are too…
