Vietnamese anti-coal campaigner freed early from prison

Nguy Thi Khanh has been released a few months early from prison but two of her fellow campaigners remain in jail on tax evasion charges One of Vietnam’s leading environmental…

Local business group tries to keep South Africa’s coal plants alive

A business coalition in South Africa’s energy heartland is fighting against plans to shut down coal plants. Business interests in South Africa’s electricity capital want to keep coal-fired power plants…

Deja Vu – Climate Weekly

Sign up to get our weekly newsletter straight to your inbox, plus breaking news, investigations and extra bulletins from key events The Cop28 presidency has teamed up with the fossil fuel…

After court blocks renewables push, US promotes carbon capture & hydrogen

The Environmental Protection Agency will set limits on power plants’ emissions, forcing them to clean up or shut down The Biden administration unveiled a sweeping plan to slash greenhouse gas…

Ecuador gets cheap debt write-off with promise to protect Galapagos’s nature

Ecuador will get $12 million a year to spend protecting the wildlife and habitats of the Galapagos islands, in the largest “debt for nature” deal yet Ecuador sealed the world’s…

Nations split over fossil fuels and carbon capture

An agenda-setting gathering of climate ministers saw continuing disagreement over the need for fossil fuels phase-out and the role of technology Governments are split over whether to call for a…

Verra’s revamped forest offset programme comes under fire

Verra picked a controversial carbon credit verifier to review its new forest offset rules and critics say the changes don’t fix the problem The world’s leading carbon credits certifier has…

Germany promises €2bn to global Green Climate Fund

The pledge sets the bar for other wealthy countries and puts the fund on track for what it calls a “mid” level of ambition Germany’s leader Olaf Scholz has promised…

Cop28 boss slams rich nations “dismal” $100bn finance failure

Developed nations should have met the climate finance commitment in 2020. But they are still not there. The president of the Cop28 climate talks has blamed rich nations’ “dismal” failure…

Climate Weekly – US-China talks stall but survive

When Presidents Biden and Xi sat down together at the G20 in Bali last December and agreed to co-operate on climate change despite differences on Taiwan, the climate world celebrated.…