World leaders will gather in Paris this week with ambitions to reimagine global financing for a new era shaped by climate change, as a cascade of crises swamps debt-burdened countries.
French…
Tax extreme wealth to pay for the climate-related damage to the poorest, a group of more than 100 leading economists have urged.
A wealth tax on the fortunes of the world’s richest people would…
Questions over a tax on global shipping and other big sources of greenhouse gas emissions, and how countries should go about setting up a loss and damage fund continue to be the subject of fierce…
he mishap around the European Sovereignty Fund has exposed the fault lines in the EU’s approach to industrial policy. How to fill the gap – and compete on par with the US and China – will be a…
Malaysia is set to trial offshore floating solar off its coast for the first time under a link-up between the Asian nation’s largest utility and sector pioneer SolarDuck.
Dutch-Norwegian firm…
Greenhouse gas emissions from shipping could be halved by 2030 without damaging trade, new research has found, as countries prepare to meet to discuss a potential new tax on carbon produced by ships…
Heads of state and civil society representatives committed on Friday (23 June) to work towards a “fundamental reform” of the international development aid framework, agreeing on several measures to…
An Iowa meteorologist says he is resigning from the television station where he works because he developed post-traumatic stress disorder after threats over his climate change coverage.
On Wednesday…
Developing countries will be the first victims of the dangers of climate change, facing a threat that affects the rest of the world, too. Political will is the most important weapon in our arsenal to…
The Church of England is divesting from fossil fuels in its multibillion pound endowment and pension funds over climate concerns and what the church claims are recent U-turns by oil and gas companies…
Letting a huge mine keep digging months after planning permission ran out is potentially unlawful and sets a terrible precedent, lawyers have said.
An enforcement notice giving Ffos-y-Fran opencast…
The Netherlands has almost the same amount of solar generating capacity as the whole continent of Africa. That must be, in part, because the interest on a loan to set up a windfarm in Africa is about…
Half of the US population has faced an extreme weather alert since 1 May and many more are likely to face risks from wildfires, flooding, tropical storms and extreme heat as summer begins.
The Union…
The England and Australia squads were warned this week about the danger of Just Stop Oil activists attempting to disrupt the second Ashes Test, with representatives of the England and Wales Cricket…
The Climate Change (Amendment) Bill, 2023 has been proposed in Kenya to incorporate carbon markets and participation in them as a way to enhance response to climate change.
The EU needs to accelerate the implementation of the European Green Deal if it is to achieve climate neutrality by 2050, according to a new flagship report released on Monday (26 June).
The first…
Hoarding during the Covid-19 pandemic underlined just how important loo roll is to the British public. But working from home had another unexpected effect: less waste paper from offices, which means…
Africa’s growing population desperately needs clean, modern energy in the home. Currently, more than 900 million people, 85% of the region’s population, still rely on solid biomass fuel (like wood…
The future of Spain’s nuclear power industry hinges on next month’s election, with the opposition party that now leads the polls campaigning to extend the use of the plants that the government wants…
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