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Experts work on UN climate report amid US pushback

Today 12:15pm

Some 600 experts began to work Monday on the next major UN climate report, as the international consensus on global warming is challenged by US President Donald Trump, who deems the science a "hoax".

EU carbon border tax goes easy on dirty Chinese imports, industry warns

Today 12:15pm

Businesses say Brussels got its math wrong on the carbon footprint of imports from China, Brazil and the U.S.

Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions

Today 12:15pm

COMMENT: The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts.

China floods the world with gasoline cars it can't sell at home

Today 12:15pm

While Western nations focus on the competitive threat of Chinese EVs, a different challenge is reshaping the auto industry. Beijing's legacy automakers are saturating emerging and second-tier markets with fossil-fuel vehicles – often undercutting their foreign partners.

UK's 'largest' floating solar farm given go-ahead

Today 12:15pm

The 46,500-panel array will be installed at the Port of Barrow's Cavendish Dock in Cumbria and will be capable of producing enough energy to power 14,000 homes a year.

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From COP30 to net zero by 2070: India insists on not billions but trillions to lead the global south

Today 12:15pm

At COP30 in Belém this November, New Delhi demanded that wealthy nations provide climate finance on the scale of not billions but trillions, while pressing for technology access that does not tether developing economies to costly licensing regimes.

Shipping movements disrupted as climate change protesters block coal ships

Tue 2 Dec 2025

NSW police have arrested 141 people who attempted to block the shipping channel in Newcastle Harbour during Rising Tide protests, which began on Thursday.

Floods in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand leave more than 1,140 dead

Tue 2 Dec 2025

Flooding and landslides have killed more than 1,140 people across Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Malaysia following tropical storms in recent days, with efforts under way to help thousands affected by the extreme weather.

Europe must defend its deforestation law – for forests, business and its reputation

Tue 2 Dec 2025

Constant weakening and delays to the landmark EU regulation pose a threat to rainforests and erode Europe’s credibility as a stable, predictable market.

In blow to Lula, Brazil Congress revives controversial environmental bill

Tue 2 Dec 2025

Brazil's conservative-led Congress on Thursday reinstated much of a bill that makes it easier for companies to secure environmental permits, infuriating the leftist government and green groups.

Swiss reject compulsory civic duty, climate tax for super-rich

Tue 2 Dec 2025

Swiss voters on Sunday resoundingly rejected a proposal to replace the current men-only military conscription with a compulsory civic duty for all and another on taxing the super-rich to fund the climate fight.

Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown

Tue 2 Dec 2025

Vast swathes of Europe’s water reserves are drying up, a new analysis using two decades of satellite data reveals, with freshwater storage shrinking across southern and central Europe, from Spain and Italy to Poland and parts of the UK.

UK security, food and economy at risk without climate action, experts say

Mon 1 Dec 2025

Only urgent and radical action can prevent systemic breakdown affecting our economy, food supply and national security. This was the stark message from the U.K.’s first national emergency briefing on climate and nature to policymakers this week.

How China silences environmental reporters beyond its borders

Mon 1 Dec 2025

Journalists who report on the harms caused by China’s overseas infrastructure buildout in Africa face intimidation, surveillance and police pressure.

Australia finally acknowledges environment underpins all else. That’s no small thing

Mon 1 Dec 2025

COMMENT: In what are dangerous times for democracies around the world, parliament’s overhaul of nature laws in the EPBC Act shows ambitious reform remains possible.

Canada rolls back climate rules in energy deal with Alberta

Mon 1 Dec 2025

Under the agreement, the federal government will scrap a planned emissions cap on the oil and gas sector and drop rules on clean electricity.

Lessons for climate advocates from the Bill Gates ‘climate hack’

Mon 1 Dec 2025

OPINION: Many were frustrated, justifiably, by Bill Gates’ ability to steal headlines ahead of this year’s just-concluded round of U.N. climate talks, COP30.

Pollution from coal plants was dropping. Then came Trump and AI.

Mon 1 Dec 2025

Data centres’ hunger for electricity is prompting some states to keep their coal-burning power plants from closing – while DC relaxes air pollution limits.

The carbon capture plan turning cattle farms into power plants

Fri 28 Nov 2025

The Frontier coalition is backing new technology that produces green electricity from biogas, while capturing waste carbon.

Ed Miliband confirms crackdown on North Sea exploration – but new drilling will continue

Fri 28 Nov 2025

Strategy paper released with budget allows new oil and gas projects to move ahead if they are linked to existing fields.

COP30’s biofuel gamble could cost the global food supply – and the planet

Fri 28 Nov 2025

What was once considered a climate holy grail comes with serious tradeoffs. The world wants more of it anyway.

Brazil sees issues related to import of US biofuels 'practically resolved'

Fri 28 Nov 2025

Brazilian Vice President Geraldo Alckmin said on Tuesday that unspecified issues related to the country's imports of U.S. biofuels were "practically resolved".

Government projected to badly miss 2035 climate target, fall shy of 2030

Fri 28 Nov 2025

Australia is expected to badly miss its 2035 climate commitment, according to department projections.

Climate change could expand habitats for malaria mosquitoes, researchers warn

Fri 28 Nov 2025

A new study from the University of Copenhagen, published in Global Change Biology, shows that future climate change could create more favorable conditions for malaria mosquitoes, exposing millions of people across large parts of Africa to more dangerous mosquito bites.

Another COP wrecked by fossil fuel interests and our leaders’ cowardice – but there is another way

Thu 27 Nov 2025

COMMENT: The fingerprints of Russia and Saudi Arabia are all over the decision text in Brazil. But a group of nations led by Colombia and the Netherlands offer hope.

Floods in Thailand, Malaysia kill over 30, displace thousands

Thu 27 Nov 2025

Tens of thousands of people in Thailand and neighbouring Malaysia were displaced by widespread flooding, with streets submerged, homes inundated and at least 34 dead.

China's new coal plant permits set for four-year low in 2025, analysis finds

Thu 27 Nov 2025

China's new coal plant permits for 2025 are on track to fall to a four-year low, a new Greenpeace analysis showed on Tuesday, indicating that growing use of renewables is cutting into demand for new coal plants.

Public trust in science eroded by UN climate change language, study suggests

Thu 27 Nov 2025

The United Nations' climate change body may unintentionally be eroding public trust in science because of the way it communicates risk, new University of Essex research shows.

Trump seeks to ease US regulations for coal-fired power plants

Thu 27 Nov 2025

President Donald Trump's administration has asked a federal court to strike down 2024 soot limits for power plants and factories.

10 years after the Paris Agreement, world leaders are letting go of its most famous goal

Thu 27 Nov 2025

This year's U.N. climate negotiations crashed out on a hard truth: It’s all about the money.

This year’s climate talks saw real progress – just not on fossil fuels

26 Nov 2025

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva dubbed it the “COP of Truth”. Delegates did not shy away from the urgency of the moment as climate change intensifies and emissions continue to climb.

Amid the ashes

26 Nov 2025

This year the LA wildfire came for my hometown. What happened next is a warning for us all.

Experts dismiss coalition claims Chris Bowen cannot remain minister while leading COP31 negotiations

26 Nov 2025

Experts have dismissed claims Chris Bowen cannot remain a senior minister while playing a leading role in international climate negotiations, with one describing the argument as evidence of an Australian “culture cringe”.

Here’s what’s next in the fight to curb climate change, now that talks in Brazil have ended

26 Nov 2025

After an agreement from U.N. climate talks in the Amazon that fell short of many nations’ expectations, experts found some bright spots alongside weighty reasons for worry in the fight against global warming.

European Investment Bank pledges over 2 billion euros for African renewables projects

26 Nov 2025

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is pledging more than 2 billion euros ($2.3 billion) of financing for renewable energy projects on the African continent over the next two years.

Singapore sets course for 'green' methanol ship fuel supplies

26 Nov 2025

Singapore will start issuing bunkering licences next year to companies supplying methanol as marine fuel, in an effort to help global shipping cut carbon emissions.

UN warns world losing climate battle but fragile COP30 deal keeps up the fight

25 Nov 2025

Reaching agreement in divisive political landscape shows ‘climate cooperation is alive and kicking’, says UN climate chief.

There can be no information integrity without scientific and political integrity

25 Nov 2025

Opinion: I'm just back from COP30 in Belém and it is making me feel crazy to watch so many climate advocates and reporters declare the final text coming out of it a victory.

India, China step into leadership vacuum at climate meet as the West retreats

25 Nov 2025

With the US withdrawing from the Paris Agreement and Europe distracted by war-driven pressures, India and China have emerged as anchors at the Brazil climate summit by shaping climate finance and trade negotiations through coordinated positions.

The world lost the climate gamble. Now it faces a dangerous new reality

25 Nov 2025

Ten years ago the world’s leaders placed a historic bet. The 2015 Paris agreement aimed to put humanity on a path to avert dangerous climate change. A decade on, with the latest climate conference ending in Belém, Brazil, without decisive action, we can definitively say humanity has lost this bet.

G20 summit declaration stresses seriousness of climate change in snub to Trump

25 Nov 2025

The Leaders' Declaration from a Group of 20 summit in South Africa on Saturday stressed the seriousness of climate change, in a snub to U.S. President Donald Trump, who boycotted the gathering and doubts the scientific consensus that global warming is caused by human activities.

The strange and totally real plan to blot out the sun and reverse global warming

25 Nov 2025

A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat. The stakes are huge – and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.

COP30 fails to land deal on fossil fuel transition but triples finance for climate adaptation

24 Nov 2025

Instead of a global agreement to create roadmaps to shift away from fossil fuels and end deforestation, Brazil announces voluntary initiatives.

Article 6 wraps up with progress in hand and challenges ahead

24 Nov 2025

At COP30 in Belém, negotiators made a delicate balancing act in the evolving world of global carbon markets. Amid the buzz of side meetings and plenary sessions, key decisions on Articles 6.2 and 6.4 revealed both progress and caution.

Five key takeaways from a deeply divisive climate summit

24 Nov 2025

In three decades of these meetings aimed at forging global consensus on how to prevent and deal with global warming, this will go down as among the most divisive.

Ukraine to claim $44bn in climate damages from Russia: Why war is so bad for emissions

24 Nov 2025

Ukraine plans to seek nearly $44 billion in damages from Russia for emissions caused by the ongoing war, marking the first time a country will claim damages for an increase in emissions caused by conflict.

Trump, war, absent media: five threats to climate progress that dogged COP30

24 Nov 2025

Did the talks succeed or fail? The verdict must take account of the geopolitical minefield they took place in.

Europe plans service to gauge climate change role in extreme weather

24 Nov 2025

The EU is launching a service to measure the role climate change is playing in extreme weather events like heatwaves and extreme rain, and experts say this could help governments set climate policy, improve financial risk assessments and provide evidence for use in lawsuits.