A pipe carries carbon dioxide captured from emissions at a generating station in Thompsons, Texas, on 16 February 2017. Photograph: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images
A handful of wealthy…
Rich industrialised countries responsible for excessive levels of greenhouse gas emissions could be liable to pay $170tn in climate reparations by 2050 to ensure targets to curtail climate breakdown…
Rich industrialised countries responsible for excessive levels of greenhouse gas emissions could be liable to pay $170tn in climate reparations by 2050 to ensure targets to curtail climate breakdown…
A new investigation into Chevron’s climate pledge has found the fossil-fuel company relies on “junk” carbon offsets and “unviable” technologies, which do little to offset its vast greenhouse gas…
The world’s top fossil fuel companies owe at least $209bn in annual climate reparations to compensate communities most damaged by their polluting business and decades of lies, a new study calculates.
A leading private equity firm that claims to be an industry climate leader in fact almost doubled its average annual greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel investments over the past decade,…
Lawyer in a civil lawsuit launched by towns in hurricane-hit Puerto Rico describes why it is using laws used to target mob bosses
The same racketeering legislation used to bring down mob bosses,…
Global heating crisis is felt most by countries that are least to blame, so reparations are central to demands for climate justice
Supercharged extreme weather events are striking every corner of…
Legislation drafted by Alec part of backlash against Indigenous communities and environmentalists opposing oil and gas projects
Republican-led legislatures have passed anti-protest laws drafted by…
Young campaigners from the continent most affected by the climate crisis face financial and accreditation difficulties for Cop27
African climate activists from some of the countries most affected…
The new Unicef goodwill ambassador would like to see reparations from nations most responsible for climate crisis
Vanessa Nakate knows what it’s like to be Black and overlooked. In January 2020, an…
Phoenix’s new ‘heat tsar’ is betting on less asphalt, more green canopy and reflective surfaces to cool the sprawling heat island
A surge in heat-related deaths amid record-breaking summer…
The island imports 85% of its food but these three farms are part of the agroecology movement that seeks food sovereignty and climate solutions
Puerto Rico was once a thriving agricultural hub…
It would be almost impossible for the US to comply with its greenhouse gas reduction pledges without the $1.75tn package that Manchin refuses to support
The collapse of Joe Biden’s Build Back…
Schemes such as carbon trading favored by polluting nations lead to ecologically destructive projects like biofuels and dams.
Indigenous communities facing an upsurge in land grabs, water shortages…
At least 83 murdered in 2012-2019, with a third of attacks targeting opponents of energy mega-projects
At least 83 Mexican land and environment defenders were murdered between 2012 and 2019, while…