With 500,000 mostly young climate activists rallying in Madrid streets, COP25 delegates agreed to disagree on nearly everything, with smaller nations striving to pave the way for implementation of…
Coalition of actors from the US rejects Trump's stand on climate change.
As the US federal government steps down from the Paris Agreement, a group of representatives from local governments, business…
Several days have passed since the closing of the UN Climate Change Conference COP25 in Madrid, and it is important to conduct an honest and realistic assessment of what happened so that appropriate…
Through a new Green Deal, the EU plans to neutralize Europe’s carbon footprint by as early as 2050. While the plan is ambitious, it highlights the need for world leaders to work together. After all,…
Loan of US$ 100 million to National Bank of Egypt to address energy efficiency, climate mitigation and adaptation projects for SMEs
EBRD and Green Climate Fund co-financing GEFF programme in Egypt…
More people are eating meat in China, leading to farmers using more fertilizers.
Can a larger meat consumption be linked to more premature deaths and air pollution? That seems to be the case in…
Plan for biggest fossil fuel producers to pay $1 per tonne of carbon pollution estimated to raise at least $1.5bn a year.
Australia’s fossil fuel industry would stump up for a national climate…
Approved in 2018 after six years of negotiations, the Escazú Agreement is the first and single environmental human rights treaty in Latin America and the Caribbean – the region with one of the world’…
Oxford City Council has announced that will put £19 million into a fund for the climate emergency.
In response to the Oxford Citizens’ Assembly on Climate Change, Oxford City Council will set a …
Yesterday was Australia's hottest day on record, according to preliminary data from the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM).
The average maximum temperature across the country was 40.9 degrees Celsius,…
WASHINGTON — As his coal mining company hurtled into bankruptcy, Robert E. Murray, the former chief executive, paid himself $14 million, handed his successor a $4 million bonus and earmarked nearly $…
The case for hardwiring social justice into climate action
The very fact that this year’s COP25 climate summit had to be hastily moved to Spain, after street protests against economic inequality…
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has highlighted the opportunity for the aviation industry in Europe’s green deal.
At the Sustainable Innovation Forum 2019, organised by Climate…
In pursuit of the 2015 Paris Agreement’s demand for a “just transition” to a low-carbon, climate-resilient future – one offering social justice to those who fear losing jobs and communities as high-…
Italy and Mexico today committed to stepped-up climate and environmental education in order to equip a new generation with the knowledge, awareness and skills needed to tackle climate change and…
At the UN Climate Change Conference (COP25) in Madrid, Global Climate Action brought together leaders from across sectors and borders for a lively series of events, which were given concrete…
The longest United Nations climate talks on record have finally ended in Madrid with a compromise deal.
Exhausted delegates reached agreement on the key question of increasing the global response to…
Nine people were killed and more than 1,400 rendered homeless after a major storm slammed into the island.
Nine people were killed and three are missing in northwest Madagascar after Cyclone Belna…
Excellencies,
Ladies and gentlemen,
We are losing the climate race.
On our current trajectory we are looking at a 3- to 4-degree temperature rise by the end of the century.
But we can choose…