Humanity faces ‘devastating domino effects’ including mass displacement and financial ruin as planet warms
Many of the gravest threats to humanity are drawing closer, as carbon pollution heats the…
The first week of the COP28 climate talks has come to an end not with the euphoria of the first days of breakthrough announcements, but with growing anxiety about whether the world will do anything
The thorniest issue at the global climate summit in Dubai is clear: Fossil fuels. More precisely, the role they should play in our rapidly warming future.
King Charles III told world leaders Friday that the warning signs of the climate crisis are being ignored and that the world is heading for “dangerous uncharted territory,” with devastating…
The decade between 2011 and 2020 was the hottest on record for the planet’s land and oceans as the rate of climate change “surged alarmingly,” according to a new report from the World Meteorological…
Global delegates at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai formally adopted a damage fund that was decades in the making, and several countries pledged millions of dollars to it to help nations hit ha
The UN climate change conference in Dubai is close to a big breakthrough on reducing the gases heating our planet, its United Arab Emirates hosts believe.
Expressing "cautious optimism", the UAE…
It's not all doom and gloom at the COP28 climate summit.
The Earth's climate is changing rapidly and urgent action is needed to avoid the most damaging consequences for people and nature.
But there…
Six of the world’s leading dairy companies have joined forces to establish the Dairy Methane Action Alliance (DMAA) in order to reduce methane emissions from dairy production.
The alliance, unveiled…
The COP28 climate talks in Dubai are scheduled to run from 30 November to 12 December. At the halfway point, we unpick the progress (and lack thereof) so far in terms of the key priorities of African…
For Africa, the climate crisis is a daily reality — one we have been living with for decades. Amid all noise around climate change, what we Africans need to see is action to help us adapt. How are we…
The COP28 climate talks in Dubai will see the first ever Global Stocktake. This five-yearly exercise could galvanise action or it could prompt mere empty promises. Olivia Rumble, a climate change…
On 2 December, President Gustavo Petro announced the COP28 climate talks that Colombia would formally join the bloc of nation-states seeking to negotiate a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty.…
Local communities are not the beneficiaries of climate action. They are the leaders and experts we must learn from and support.
Those of us working in the environment and climate space sit with…
The formula for allocating SDRs, an invaluable source of funding, was agreed in 1944 and channels the most money to the richest nations.
It is a truism that the countries and citizens that face the…
At the 28th United Nations Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (COP28), the United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced the creation of Alterra, an investment vehicle that aims to mobilise $250…
While the Three Basins Summit in Brazzaville ended without any major announcements last October, the Congo is delighted that France, the European Union (EU) and other development partners committed…
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