Electricity bills in South Africa could soon be lower thanks to a partnership between Absa Bank and the International Finance Corporation to finance resource-efficient buildings.
The International…
After signing a bilateral agreement on meteorology with Algeria in May 2023, Cameroon has announced that it will be stepping up its cooperation with Morocco to pool their expertise in this field.…
GuarantCo, a company in the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG), and the French bank Société Générale have granted a credit facility of 37.8 billion CFA francs to finance electric…
Aware of the economic and ecological potential of their tropical forests, the presidents of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Brazil and Indonesia have agreed to meet in Kinshasa on 25 August…
‘It’s not just the lions that are under pressure, it’s biodiversity in general,’ warn conservationists, amid a rapidly expanding human population.
Standing in a patch of damp forest, a clump of…
The Kenyan capital will be the epicentre of activities during Africa Climate Week (ACW), which begins on 4 September 2023. Among the events scheduled for Nairobi are the African Climate Action Summit…
This article is part of Euractiv's special report Europe’s melting glaciers.
Once a trendy outpost for Roman actors looking for a weekend of skiing and nightclubbing, the town of Pietracamela in…
German civil society has asked Berlin to back a controversial European Commission proposal to make renovating worst-performing buildings obligatory before buildings directive negotiations continue…
The oceans have hit their hottest ever recorded temperature as they soak up warmth from climate change, with dire implications for our planet's health.
The average daily global sea surface…
The eight countries that share the Amazon basin have fallen short of an agreed goal to end deforestation.
Delegates from the countries are meeting in the Brazilian city of Belém for a two-day summit…
For deaf children, teachers and scientists, talking about things like "greenhouse gases" or "carbon footprint" used to mean spelling out long, complex scientific terms, letter by letter.
Now they…
Analysis finds Treasury rules on new windfarms likely to stifle energy generation and keep bills high.
New offshore windfarms will be strangled by government red tape, costing UK billpayers £1.…
Fellow activists who have made protests similar to Trudi Warner’s challenge solicitor general as he decides whether to charge her.
Forty people, including an Olympic gold medallist and a former…
Exclusive: State oil firm, whose chief will preside over Cop28, also accused of ‘incoherent’ reduction targets.
The United Arab Emirates, which will run the crucial Cop28 UN climate summit in…
But experts say damage can be reversed if US and Canada act quickly to stop new plastics from entering lake system.
About 90% of water samples taken over the last 10 years from the Great Lakes…
As the Australian summer approaches, my apprehension is both a daily shock and uncannily normalised – and I know I’m not the only one feeling it.
These days, when I come back into the house after…
Named tropical storms and hurricanes, which have become more intense, have caused about 20,000 more deaths from 1988 to 2019.
Atlantic storms have become deadlier as the planet warms – and are…