The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) has taken a huge step regarding disaster risk management and financing in the region after signing a deal with the African Risk Capacity (ARC).
C40 Cities will create a Global Youth Initiative, bringing together leaders of climate movements from all over the world, to work with with mayors.
Announcement comes out of several days of…
A seismic shift is under way. According to author and futurist, Jeremy Rifkin(The Third Industrial Revolution, The Zero Marginal Cost Society), we are in the final phases of the fossil fuel era. In…
New report shows that multilateral development banks funding for renewables fell by half a billion dollars last year.
This despite need for clean energy investment to rapidly increase to tackle…
As Switzerland’s glaciers melt, dangerous rockfalls become more likely and towns are forced to live under an existential threat
The thunderous roar that resounded through Bregaglia in Switzerland …
In an interview with EURACTIV Germany, Karsten Neuhoff, a climate expert and professor, spoke about Germany’s hotly-debated climate protection bill, stressing that a clear regulatory framework with “…
idhima Pandey was just nine years old in 2017 when she filed a lawsuit against the Indian government for failing to take action against climate change. Pandey’s fierce, astounding passion for the…
Manmade sea walls and the effects of climate change eating away at Stockton beach, and locals are rallying to save it.
Noel Burns started work on Stockton beach as a council lifeguard in 1971 and…
A conservation group plans to buy the largest privately owned sequoia grove as the climate crisis threatens the species’ future.
Few living beings have experienced as much as the giant sequoias.…
San José, Costa Rica, 10 October 2019 - After three days of panels, high-level discussions and exchanging best practices for climate action, PreCOP25 in San José concluded today with calls for more…
On September 23, the United Nations opened its Climate Action Summit here in New York, three days after the Global Climate Strike, led by Greta Thunberg, swept through thousands of cities worldwide.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Eight European Union states have called on the bloc’s incoming top climate official, Frans Timmermans, to raise the EU’s carbon dioxide reduction target for 2030 to 55% from 40…
Almost 400 all-time high temperatures were set in the northern hemisphere over the summer, according to an analysis of temperature records.
The records were broken in 29 countries for the period…
Women may be underrepresented in clean energy careers in general, but there is no shortage of Yale women alumni working in renewable energy. Credit the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental…
Experts in energy and environmental fields weigh in on the need for an urgent transition to alternative energy.
As energy demand rises around the globe, so does concern about climate change. The…