Heaps of new renewable energy are going up in China, but there’s more to an energy transition than hardware In recent years, China has installed a mind-blowing number of solar…
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Dreaming big on climate action means finding the money to pay for it
The Paris summit failed to unlock real money for climate finance, potentially driving developing countries further into debt without boosting real climate solutions Many people probably think about international climate…
Bridgetown goes global – Climate Weekly
Sign up to get our weekly newsletter straight to your inbox, plus breaking news, investigations and extra bulletins from key events Thirty-nine world leaders, most of them from Africa, have spent…
World Bank to suspend debt repayments for disaster-hit countries
A pause on loan repayments can give vulnerable countries breathing space when hit by a natural catastrophe The World Bank will start offering a pause in loan repayments to the…
Multilateral banks’ investments in industrial livestock undermine their Paris climate commitments
Comment: Public money should stop flowing towards the expansion of animal agriculture, which is responsible for a fifth of the world’s emissions As world leaders meet tomorrow in Paris to…
Argentina launches gas pipeline with overwhelming political support
Argentina’s political class is promoting fossil fuels as a patriotic national endeavour and demonising any environmentalists who oppose them Argentina’s national oil company has begun to fill up a key…
South Africa’s coal lobby is resisting a green transition
Coal lobbyists have defended industry interests, met with politicians and delayed climate legislation in South Africa. Pascaline Mazibuko has become a recurrent voice in government consultations on the energy transition…
Scrooges block progress in Bonn
Sign up to get our weekly newsletter straight to your inbox, plus breaking news, investigations and extra bulletins from key events They say money makes the world go round and climate…
UN head Guterres contradicts Cop28 host on fossil fuel phaseout
The UAE say “fossil fuel emissions” should be phased out but Guterres said “fossil fuels” themselves must go, in a split on the role of carbon capture The United Nations…
Bonn climate talks at risk of collapse over 7-day agenda debate
With governments unable to agree on agenda, all the negotiations so far in Bonn could go to waste Seven days into climate talks in the German city of Bonn, governments…
