Germany and Cop host UAE led contributions to get a fund for climate victims up and running, in an early win for the Cop28 presidency Governments have collectively pledged more…
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Climate Home News’ Cop28 bulletin day 1
Sign up to get our weekly newsletter straight to your inbox, plus breaking news, investigations and extra bulletins from key events Dubai airport is filling up with Cop delegates, who are…
How can corporates ‘course correct’ on climate?
When jubilant government negotiators signed the Paris agreement in 2015, they agreed to hold a global stocktake at the end of 2023 of how the fight against climate change is…
Ten years on from Haiyan, Shell’s intimidation won’t silence me
I am named in a Shell lawsuit against Greenpeace for trying to board their oil rig, but I won’t stop fighting their climate vandalism Ten years ago this month, huge…
The Cop28 climate summit must set us free from fossil fuels
My homeland of Denmark played its part in causing the climate crisis but is now phasing out fossil fuels. In Dubai, the world must follow Cop28, marking a key stress…
Here’s how the oil-rich UAE delivers a Cop28 ‘win’
The Cop28 team must show leadership on fossil fuel phase-out, renewable and energy efficiency, finance, climate plans and loss and damage In just over two weeks nearly 200 governments will…
We need more humanists in climate campaigning
Climate advocacy is overly dominated by scientists and engineers and is weakened by the lack of historians, philosophers and artists As Cop28 draws near, I’m preparing with different climate justice…
Fearing repression, non-binary people stay away from Cop28
Non-binary and trans people have been detained and deported at Dubai airport and being gay is effectively criminalised in the UAE People who define themselves as neither male nor female…
Slow start for Indonesia’s much-hyped carbon market
Since President Widodo launched Indonesia’s exchange two months ago, there’s been barely any trading of carbon credits In September, Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo opened the country’s first carbon exchange IDX…
Ghana’s flood victims blame government for overflowing dam destruction
Last month, a government-owned electricity company deliberately spilled water from its dam, displacing tens of thousands Janet Ofeforpa was at her family cassava farm in south-east Ghana when overflowing water…
