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PNG will not attend UN COP29 summit: Foreign Minister Tkatchenko

30 Oct 2024

Tkatchenko said: “Papua New Guinea is making this stand for the benefit of all small island nations. We will no longer tolerate empty promises and inaction, while our people suffer the devastating consequences of climate change.”

Landmark court case sees activist group sue gas giant Santos for allegedly misleading investors

30 Oct 2024

Gas giant Santos told investors it had a clear plan to achieve net zero emissions by 2040 but had no evidence to back it up, the Federal Court has heard during the first morning of litigation against the gas giant.

COP this – gas is not a climate solution

30 Oct 2024

Hosting COP31 climate talks is an opportunity to showcase South Australia to the world, writes Belinda Noble, but not if we allow it to promote gas.

Planet will warm as much as 3.1°C under current policies: UN Report

29 Oct 2024

Without greater action, the planet will warm as much as 3.1 degrees Celsius, with a “massive gap between rhetoric and reality” that must be closed by new climate pledges under the Paris Agreement, according to the UN.

UK’s next Paris pledge should commit to ‘81% emissions cut by 2035’: govt advisors

29 Oct 2024

The UK should make an international pledge to cut its greenhouse gas emissions to 81% below 1990 levels by 2035, according to the government’s advisory Climate Change Committee.

More companies ditch junk carbon offsets but new buyers loom

29 Oct 2024

Corporate purchasers are moving away from projects rated ineffective by a watchdog even as dealmaking at the UN climate summit offers potential for a comeback.

Do bike lanes really cause more traffic congestion? Here's what the research says

29 Oct 2024

Studies from around the world show bike lanes ease congestion, reduce emissions and are a boon to businesses.

Japanese youth sue utilities over climate impact

29 Oct 2024

A group of 16 Japanese young people is suing utility firms over their carbon emissions, in the latest case worldwide of activists using courts to press for action on climate change.

Investors are ramping up climate advocacy, with all eyes on COP29

29 Oct 2024

Investors the world over are calling on governments to use every tool in their toolbox, from fiscal carrots to regulatory sticks, to ensure industries can pivot and prosper in a clean energy future.

A wind power crisis is holding back the world’s green energy goal

25 Oct 2024

While solar deployment is accelerating, bottlenecks in the wind industry are jeopardising the chance to meet a global target to triple renewable capacity by 2030.

Earth is likely to have its hottest year on record – again

25 Oct 2024

NASA’s top climate scientist says the planet is being tested and ‘we have not yet passed that test.’

Why the time is right for Australia’s second shot at carbon pricing

25 Oct 2024

By Ross Garnaut | OPINION: Australia now has a government and parliament wanting to build Australia as the renewable energy superpower of the zero-carbon world economy.

China's Q3 economic losses from natural calamities surge

25 Oct 2024

China's third-quarter economic losses due to natural disasters, from super typhoons to floods, more than doubled from the first six months of 2024, reaching $32.3 billion.

Eighty-eight countries to present oral arguments in international court’s climate hearing

25 Oct 2024

The International Court of Justice will determine the existing financial liability of countries for their contribution to climate change, with over 100 countries and organisations presenting over 12 days at the hearing starting in December.

United States: 'Worrying confluence' of flood risk, social vulnerability and climate change denial

25 Oct 2024

In certain parts of the United States, especially Appalachia, New England and the Northwest, the ability of residents to prepare for and respond to flooding is being undercut on three different levels.

Key Atlantic current could collapse soon, 'impacting the entire world for centuries to come,' leading climate scientists warn

24 Oct 2024

Forty-four of the world's leading climate scientists have called on Nordic policymakers to address the potentially imminent and "devastating" collapse of key Atlantic Ocean currents.

Four lessons from 30 years of US-China climate cooperation

24 Oct 2024

A look back reveals four crucial lessons for future engagement and global progress.

Greek PM deplores worst climate conditions in four decades

24 Oct 2024

Wildfire-plagued Greece has suffered its worst year in terms of climate conditions in four decades in 2024, its prime minister told parliament on Wednesday.

US disaster loan program exhausts funds after Hurricane Helene

24 Oct 2024

The U.S. Small Business Administration said on Tuesday it has exhausted funds for its disaster loan program following increased demand from Hurricane Helene, with the U.S. Congress being in recess.

American university requires students to take a class on climate change

24 Oct 2024

To better prepare students for a future shaped by climate change, University of California, San Diego is requiring students to take at least one course relating to climate change in order to meet graduation requirements.

King Charles to face climate protests as he heads to Samoa for Commonwealth summit

23 Oct 2024

King Charles just faced a protest in Australia and he could be confronted with another at the upcoming Commonwealth summit, where the UK is under mounting pressure to provide financial reparations for its role in the climate crisis as well as slavery.

Germany earmarks $3 billion for decarbonisation subsidies

23 Oct 2024

The German government has earmarked up to 2.8 billion euros to support 15 industrial companies in their bid to decarbonise under its first round of "climate protection contracts".

Pacific and Caribbean island nations call for the first universal carbon levy on international shipping emissions

23 Oct 2024

The International Maritime Organization has been asked to enact a carbon levy of $150 per ton of emissions from large freight and passenger ships. The IMO’s 175 member nations have until next year to vote.

Cities face ‘severe degradation’ without meaningful climate action, warn experts

23 Oct 2024

Cities that fail to take meaningful climate action face a future of severe degradation with infrastructure collapse and environmental deterioration, climate and health experts warn.

Public EV chargers are good for business as well as the planet

23 Oct 2024

Research shows that businesses with charging stations nearby see an economic boost.

Where there’s smoke: the rising death toll from climate-charged fire in the landscape

23 Oct 2024

Now, new international research has linked the warming climate to some of the deaths from exposure to fire smoke in large parts of the world.

Humanity is on the verge of ‘shattering Earth’s natural limits’, warn biodiversity experts

22 Oct 2024

As the Cop16 conference begins, scientists and academics say human activity has pushed the world into a danger zone.

Climate on the agenda at Commonwealth heads of govt meeting

22 Oct 2024

Climate change and the fate of global oceans will be in sharp focus at the meeting in Samoa, which will feature King Charles and possibly Elon Musk.

Solar surge will send coal power tumbling by 2030, IEA data reveals

22 Oct 2024

Global electricity generation from solar will quadruple by 2030 and help to push coal power into reverse, according to analysis of data from the International Energy Agency (IEA).

Toronto and Montreal move ahead with fossil fuel ad restrictions on transit

22 Oct 2024

The motions are backed by federal anti-greenwashing laws aiming to stem the tide of misinformation produced by Canada’s oil and gas industry.

Revealed: Biomass firm poised to clear Bornean rainforest for dubious ‘green’ energy

22 Oct 2024

Indonesia’s strategy for increasing renewable energy production could see Indigenous communities lose huge swathes of their forests to biomass plantations.

New report condemns increasing violence and legal retaliation against environmental activists

22 Oct 2024

Global Climate Legal Defense launched the report and a photo exhibit of environmentalists persecuted by governments and the fossil fuel industry at the close of last month’s Climate Week NYC.

UN asks Asia-Pacific countries to invest more in preventing damage from disasters

21 Oct 2024

Disasters, including those wrought by fiercer storms, are threatening more people and could derail economic progress in the Asia Pacific region if governments don’t invest more in disaster mitigation and prevention.

New York officials call for big oil to be prosecuted for fueling climate disasters

21 Oct 2024

Oil majors’ conduct can constitute reckless endangerment due to fossil fuels’ effect on global heating, advocates claim.

Political candidates who fight climate change stand to benefit in election

21 Oct 2024

A majority of Floridians expressed support for political candidates who fight climate change in a new Florida Atlantic University survey.

The growing threat of climate-sensitive infectious diseases

21 Oct 2024

Ahead of the Paris Olympics, authorities closely monitored and prepared for dengue in Paris due to its potential to spread in the increasingly warm climate of the region.

Weather forecasting is deadly for marine wildlife

21 Oct 2024

Globally, hundreds of thousands of weather balloons are launched every year, and become a threat to marine animals after they burst—though the scale of their impact remains unknown.

Why might people believe in human-made hurricanes? Two conspiracy theory psychologists explain

21 Oct 2024

While most people turned to meteorologists for explanations during Florida's recent hurricanes, a vocal minority remained sceptical, proposing that the hurricanes were engineered, that Florida’s weather was being manipulated, or even that it was targeted at Republican voters.

Tracking negotiating texts at the UN’s COP16 biodiversity summit

18 Oct 2024

Delegates are descending on Cali, Colombia for the first set of biodiversity negotiations since the world’s nations agreed a landmark deal in 2022 to “halt and reverse” nature loss by the end of the decade.

US charges against carbon-offsetting boss highlight wider industry problems

18 Oct 2024

Kenneth Newcombe, a carbon-offsetting pioneer, is accused of a 100-million-dollar fraud scheme that could see him sentenced to 20 years in jail.

Brazil state to consult Indigenous people on carbon credits sale

18 Oct 2024

The government of the Brazilian state of Para in the Amazon will consult Indigenous communities on how they will benefit from the future sale of carbon offset credits that U.S. companies have agreed to buy to try to protect the rainforest.

What happens to the world if forests stop absorbing carbon? Ask Finland

18 Oct 2024

Natural sinks of forests and peat were key to Finland’s ambitious target to be carbon neutral by 2035. But now, the land has started emitting more greenhouse gases than it stores.

LNG is worse for the climate than coal – new study

17 Oct 2024

A highly-anticipated peer-reviewed study finds that LNG has a greenhouse gas footprint that is 33% larger than coal. The data suggests the expansion of LNG is a major threat for the climate.

Qantas accused of greenwashing as climate advocates lodge complaint over sustainability, net zero claims

17 Oct 2024

An environmental advocacy group has lodged a complaint with the consumer watchdog over claims Qantas makes on sustainability and climate.

Worst drought in century devastates Southern Africa, millions at risk

17 Oct 2024

More than 27 million lives affected by worst drought in a century, with 21 million children malnourished, says WFP.

Washington state's landmark climate law hangs in the balance this election

17 Oct 2024

A groundbreaking law that forces companies in Washington state to reduce their carbon emissions while raising billions of dollars for climate programs could be repealed by voters this fall, less than two years after it took effect.

‘It’s mindblowing’: US meteorologists face death threats as hurricane conspiracies surge

17 Oct 2024

Storms Helene and Milton have triggered rise of misinformation stoked by Trump and fellow Republicans.

Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year. Is nature’s carbon sink failing?

16 Oct 2024

The sudden collapse of carbon sinks was not factored into climate models – and could rapidly accelerate global heating.

BP abandons goal to cut oil output, resets strategy

16 Oct 2024

BP has abandoned a target to cut oil and gas output by 2030 as CEO Murray Auchincloss scales back the firm's energy transition strategy to regain investor confidence.

Deforestation remains low, but fires surge in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest

16 Oct 2024

The rate of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has remained near a six-year low despite a surge in the number of fires burning in Earth’s largest rainforest.

Australia
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese

No room for the timid: setting Australia’s 2035 emissions target is a daring tightrope act

Today 11:00am

Any week now, Australia will set its 2035 emissions target. It must signal the nation’s strong ambition on climate action, to drive policy and investment. And it must avoid being seen as either unrealistic or too costly.

United States
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California is backsliding on climate progress. It’s (mostly) Gavin Newsom’s fault

Today 11:00am

The California Supreme Court just gave state officials a golden opportunity to revitalize the rooftop solar industry, helping millions of homes and businesses lower their electric bills and fight the climate crisis.

China
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Is historically arid Beijing ready for a wetter future?

Mon 25 Aug 2025

Beijing's mountainous northern Huairou district and neighbouring Miyun district received a year's worth of rain in a single week, triggering flash floods that devastated entire villages and killed 44 people in the deadliest flood since 2012.

Europe
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EU wildfires hit new record as flames scorch area larger than Cyprus

Mon 25 Aug 2025

The area burned this year has exceeded the 1 million hectare mark for the first time since records started in 2006.

United Kingdom
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What happens to net zero if the trees don’t survive?

Wed 20 Aug 2025

When climate change undermines the climate plan.

Canada
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Challenges persist in bid to mine the deep sea, even after boost from Trump

29 Jul 2025

After years of delay, the deep-sea mining plans of Canadian firm The Metals Company (TMC) now appear to be progressing as it pursues a controversial new path to securing a license to mine in international waters under U.S. jurisdiction.

Asia
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India needs $467 billion climate finance by 2030 to decarbonise 4 key sectors

Mon 25 Aug 2025

India will need to mobilise USD $467 billion in climate finance by 2030 to put four of its most carbon-intensive sectors – power, steel, cement and transport – on a low-carbon pathway.

Pacific
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Rise in dengue fever outbreaks across the Pacific driven by the climate crisis, experts say

13 Aug 2025

Samoa, Fiji and Tonga among the worst affected amid warning the disease and others will become ‘more common and more serious’ as the planet warms.

Antarctic/Arctic
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Iconic Antarctic species at risk amid 'regime shift', with 'rapid and self-perpetuating changes'

Fri 22 Aug 2025

Scientists say there is emerging evidence of abrupt and potentially unstoppable changes in the Antarctic environment.

Africa
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Africa’s top climate change challenges: a fairer deal on phasing out fossil fuels and mobilising funds

Fri 22 Aug 2025

African countries have made binding commitments to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. To do this, they will need to shift to renewable energy and stop mining and using fossil fuels like oil and coal.

South America
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Bolivia will choose a new president but environmental activists see little hope of progress

Fri 22 Aug 2025

Many Indigenous and environmental leaders doubt the election will bring progress in stopping deforestation, wildfires or pollution in the Amazon.

United Nations
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Brazil issues last-ditch plea for countries to submit climate plans ahead of COP30

Wed 20 Aug 2025

Only 28 countries have submitted carbon-cutting proposals to the UN, with some of the biggest emitters yet to produce plans.

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