Achieving the green transition requires rapid and large-scale investment from cities, national governments and the private sector acting in unison, writes Mark Watts.
Mark Watts is the executive…
Belgium and Ireland expressed support for tighter environmental regulations on private jets on Thursday (1 June) at a gathering of EU transport ministers, joining a push led by Austria, France, and…
After a rocky start to a week of negotiations, around 170 countries agreed to develop a first draft by November of what could become the first global treaty to curb plastic pollution by the end of…
From owls to hedgehogs to fungi, genetic material from plants and animals is being inadvertently hoovered up by air-quality monitoring stations around the world, creating an untapped “vault of…
Every year countries pledge to cut their greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to curb the impacts of climate change.
But still global temperatures keep rising.
Just last month, scientists…
The world is at a “tipping point” in the climate crisis that requires all countries to put aside their national interests to fight for the common good, the UN’s top climate official has warned.
Nation-state representatives have taken the first concrete step toward a legally binding treaty to regulate plastic, described as the most important green deal since the 2015 international climate…
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 network of young volunteers that translates climate information into dozens of languages is being boosted by new artificial intelligence tools designed by Google.
Since founding Climate Cardinals …
MILAN, June 5 (Reuters) - Europe must help Africa achieve economic growth using technologies which are much less polluting than the ones that helped developed economies flourish, Italian Energy and…
The fossil fuel industry, political lobbyists, media moguls and individuals have spent the past 30 years sowing doubt about the reality of climate change - where none exists. The latest estimate is…
Nelson Mugisha’s rural farming community near the shores of Uganda’s Lake Albert is lush and green – and woefully underdeveloped. Now, more than 15 years after oil was discovered in the area, a US…
Police have said climate activists’ daily slow march protests through London have cost them millions of pounds and thousands of officer hours in the past six weeks.
As MPs prepared on Monday to…
With their cattle killed by five years of drought, and aid agencies focused on children and mothers, older people in the Horn of Africa are facing terrible malnutrition
Global development is…
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More than 16 million people affected by conflict and climate change in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger need humanitarian aid, according to an American NGO report published…
A high-ranking executive of a Chinese solar panel maker was arrested on arrival at Munich airport in Germany accused of white-collar crime dating back several years to now-defunct EU trade measures…
The president of Turkmenistan has launched two initiatives aimed at cutting the colossal leaks of methane from the country’s oil and gas industry. Success would represent a major achievement in…
Mica, aged 15, learned about climate change at the young age of four, when his parents showed him the documentary Chasing Ice.
“I understood it more than my parents thought I would,” he testified…
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