Oil giants Shell, Eni, ExxonMobil and TotalEnergies breached international human rights law by selling their assets in Nigeria without cleaning up decades of pollution or compensating local people in the…
Category: Earth
Climate Home News seeks pitches on energy transition minerals
Climate Home News is seeking pitches on the trends shaping the extraction, processing and governance of key raw materials for the energy transition, including lithium, nickel, copper and rare earths.…
Bangladesh heatwaves hit health hard, making life a costly business
Abida Begum, a 37-year-old mother, sat weeping in the crowded ward of a children’s hospital in Dhaka, where her son aged two had been battling pneumonia for the past week.…
Like many dysfunctional relationships, the UNFCCC and the IPCC need to talk more
Svante Bodin is chair of the advisory board of the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative (ICCI) and affiliated with the Bolin Centre for Climate Research at Stockholm University. Örjan Gustafsson is…
Countries must deal with imported emissions in a fair way
Dr Arunabha Ghosh is the CEO of the New Delhi-based think tank Council on Energy, Environment and Water and Professor Laurence Tubiana is the President and CEO of the European…
EU’s record wildfire emissions highlight threat to forest carbon sinks
Climate-heating emissions from wildfires in the European Union have surged to record levels this year as flames have engulfed over 1 million hectares of land – equal to 13 times…
Does the future of green manufacturing lie in 3D printing?
Back in 2011, Israeli-American academic Hod Lipson wrote: “We are smack bang in the middle of a second industrial revolution.” The robotics engineer, now a professor at Columbia University, was…
Amazon nations pledge support for Brazil’s COP30 rainforest fund
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…
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…
