It's the end of week one at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, and world leaders have already made some big commitments.
More than 40 countries have promised to phase out coal by 2050, and…
Follow Ocean Day events at the climate summit in Glasgow for day five
Day five (and with it the first week at Cop26) is winding down in Scotland. Still, events are only just getting started.…
The UK is pledging £290m to help poorer countries cope with the impact of climate change, as the COP26 climate change summit enters its second week.
Government ministers from around the world are in…
It’s no use telling developing nations to decarbonise. The west must accept it bears the bulk of the blame for the climate crisis
Acouple of hundred years ago Britain was not a lot different from…
Small Modular Reactors have been called the future of nuclear
The irony of nuclear power is that despite it being one of the safest forms of energy available, its use has declined over the years in…
Tax reductions and subsidies to natural gas generate a wrong signal to the energy market, write Vlasios Oikonomou and Haris Doukas. A change of policy is needed before the phenomenon of energy…
World leaders at the COP26 summit in Glasgow are under pressure to respond to global warming, and intense heatwaves and frequent forest fires are becoming an increasing threat around the…
President Jokowi’s administration seems poised to break through the regulatory bottlenecks that have long held back the country’s renewable energy ambitions.
The year 2021 might end up being seen as…
Event co-staged by The Independent hears that protecting the continent’s carbon-rich landscapes is vital
The battle against climate change can only be won if Africa’s carbon-rich landscapes are…
Pledge by over 450 financial institutions in 45 countries billed as one of the successes of Cop26 summit
Hundreds of the world’s biggest banks and pension funds with assets worth $130tn have…
Will COP26 be a climate "turning point" as Boris Johnson wants, or more "blah blah blah" of the kind Greta Thunberg condemns?
At face value, things do not look promising, for a simple reason: the…
Whatever the outcome of the UN’s latest high-stakes crapshoot, a lengthy and arcane process must be followed first
It’s not the expectation that is unbearable with Cop26; it is the hope. The world,…
The Rainbow Warrior has brought us to Cop26 to speak up for the sidelined citizens of the global south. We can’t be ignored
The writers are members of the climate action group Fridays for Future…
Australia’s policy at Cop26 is weak and unacceptable. It doesn’t give me any sense of hope
Iam 15 years old, and like so many young people across the world, I came to climate activism through…
The 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) — the most important international climate conference since the one that resulted in the Paris agreement more than five years ago — began…
Scientists have provided another reminder that, when it comes to climate change, we're all in this together. A study published last month in Nature Climate Change concluded that at least 85% of the…
We have every tool we need to tackle the climate crisis. Here’s what some key sectors are doing
The climate emergency is the biggest threat to civilisation we have ever faced. But there is good news…
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