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GHGs thousands of times more damaging than CO2 are being smuggled into Europe
9 Apr 2024
The impact of hydrofluorocarbons on global warming can be up to thousands of times greater than that of carbon dioxide.
Degrowth: Five things I wish everyone knew
9 Apr 2024
OPINION: As we approach Earth Overshoot Day, climate change is only one of six planetary boundaries we are transgressing.
Africa's carbon sink capacity is shrinking
8 Apr 2024
The population of Africa, the second-largest continent in the world, currently sits at about 1.4 billion, but is set to exceed 2 billion by 2040.
Handful of producers churn out 80% of post-Paris emissions
8 Apr 2024
Just 57 fossil fuel and cement producers are linked to 80% of global fossil fuel carbon dioxide emissions since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015, a new report finds.
US carbon emissions reduction rate doubles after passing the Inflation Reduction Act
8 Apr 2024
The rate of carbon emissions cuts has doubled since the passage of President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), according to a new report by Clean Investment Monitor.
Do carbon prizes work?
8 Apr 2024
On Earth Day next year, expert judges will decide who should get the biggest incentive prize in history—$80 million for removing at least 1,000 tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Big oil is racing to scale up carbon capture but the challenges are immense
8 Apr 2024
A paper mill in a small Mississippi town could help demonstrate whether capturing carbon dioxide emissions and storing it deep underground is a viable path to fight climate change.
Clouds look different these days. It's not suspicious — it's climate change
8 Apr 2024
Have you noticed that clouds are looking a bit different than you remember them when you were younger? Less fluffy and more wispy?
The plastics industry’s carbon footprint has doubled in the past few decades
5 Apr 2024
Plastics production contributes to 4.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
Renewables growth still lags climate targets, think tank says
5 Apr 2024
The world added less than half of the new renewable energy capacity needed to meet its climate goals last year, a leading think tank said.
Scientists warn Australians to prepare for megadroughts lasting more than 20 years
5 Apr 2024
New research shows megadroughts lasting up to 20 years or more have occurred in Australia in the past and could happen again.
Climate NGO claims major shippers profit from EU ETS
5 Apr 2024
Shipping giants make profit from the EU’s carbon market (EU ETS), a new Transport & Environment (T&E) study claims.
Meet the Nigerian women spearheading solar projects
5 Apr 2024
The African country has the lowest access to electricity in the world. Women and girls are bearing the brunt of energy poverty.
A guide to electric car misinformation
5 Apr 2024
The truth is, when it comes to the environment, there really is no such thing as a “good” car.
‘Nature has rights’: Aruba could become second country to recognise nature in constitution
4 Apr 2024
Aruba has drafted a constitutional amendment that would make it the second country in the world to recognise that nature has inherent rights.
Germany's national postal carrier stops using domestic flights to send letters
4 Apr 2024
Deutsche Post says it will no longer use domestic flights to transport letters, in a bid to improve its climate footprint.
A first step toward a global price on carbon
4 Apr 2024
A tax on ship emissions could have an impact on almost everything we buy.
Why some countries are aiming for ‘net-negative’ emissions
4 Apr 2024
Last month, Germany became the first major economy to announce that it intends to introduce a target to reach “net-negative” emissions later this century.
Stop saying climate change will destroy the world: The truth is far scarier
4 Apr 2024
OPINION: Climate activists tend to use apocalyptic language when describing the future. But they’re getting the framing all wrong.
Commonwealth carbon tax model law aims to help nations price pollution
4 Apr 2024
Despite examples of political opposition, carbon pricing is an increasing global trend.
Can we engineer our way out of the climate crisis?
3 Apr 2024
An international team of engineers and executives is powering up an innovative machine designed to alter the very composition of Earth’s atmosphere.
New electrochemical technology could de-acidify the oceans – and even remove carbon dioxide
3 Apr 2024
We must accelerate carbon emissions reduction efforts and rapidly scale strategies to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and the oceans.
How the the African Forest Restoration Initiative threatens savannas and grasslands
3 Apr 2024
A recent paper published in Science warns that “Across Africa, vast areas of nonforest are threatened by inappropriate restoration in the form of tree planting.”
British Columbia's carbon tax goes up
3 Apr 2024
British Columbia's carbon tax is meant to encourage companies and consumers to shift from fossil fuels to greener forms of energy, and is intended to be returned to taxpayers in the form of a rebate.
Cancellation of UN climate weeks removes platform for worst-hit communities
3 Apr 2024
The UNFCCC has said it will not hold regional climate weeks in 2024 due to a funding shortfall – which means less inclusion for developing-country voices.
Indigenous peoples’ climate labor benefits everyone. Should it be paid?
3 Apr 2024
“I don’t think money is going to solve it. But I also feel like we do have a responsibility to ensure that we are taking care of the people who are working for all of us.”
International court issues first-ever decision enforcing the right to a healthy environment
2 Apr 2024
The landmark ruling from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights will have far reaching implications for communities affected by extreme pollution.
Specialised paint coatings help cities feel as much as 1.5°c cooler, study finds
2 Apr 2024
A new study by researchers at NTU Singapore has demonstrated that the use of particular paint coatings in urban settings can help city dwellers feel as much as 1.5 degrees Celsius cooler.
Scientists are sweating over freakishly high marine heat
2 Apr 2024
While some experts believe global temperature anomalies adhere to climate crisis predictions, others are alarmed by the speed of change.
Macron and Lula launch green investment plan for Amazon
2 Apr 2024
The plan is part of an international roadmap the two leaders intend to promote in the run-up to the COP30 environmental summit which will be held in Belem in northern Brazil in 2025.
A major European nature protection plan stumbles at the final hurdle
2 Apr 2024
A major EU plan to better protect nature and fight climate change was indefinitely postponed, underscoring how farmers’ protests sweeping the continent have had a deep influence on politics.
The complex climate truth about home-grown tomatoes
2 Apr 2024
A recent study suggests urban agriculture in the US and Europe is on average six times as polluting in terms of carbon emissions as conventional commercial agriculture - but it's complicated.
Australia’s carbon credits system a failure on global scale, study finds
28 Mar 2024
Researchers find carbon offsets approach, which is supposed to regenerate scrubby outback forests, was not reducing emissions as promised.
Coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel, prepares for a long goodbye
28 Mar 2024
More than two years after climate negotiators first attempted to consign coal to history, the dirtiest fossil fuel is having a moment.
A coal billionaire is building the world’s biggest clean energy plant
28 Mar 2024
Five times the size of Paris. Visible from space. The world’s biggest energy plant. Enough electricity to power Switzerland.
How a novel X-ray could help farmers lock up more soil carbon
28 Mar 2024
Matching chemical traces in crop leaves and soil can determine the extent of a plant's roots—with exciting consequences for plant breeding and climate change.
Trudeau pledges $8.4 million to study 'democratic decline'
28 Mar 2024
Initiative will research how climate change 'interacts with democratic decline' and help protect the human rights of environmental defenders.
How AI is improving climate forecasts
28 Mar 2024
Researchers are using various machine-learning strategies to speed up climate modelling, reduce its energy costs and hopefully improve accuracy.
EU climate envoys plan joint trip to China
27 Mar 2024
The EU’s efforts to broaden its discussions with the world’s biggest polluter come as US-China climate talks face uncertainty.
The era of "climateflation" is here
27 Mar 2024
It may be time to add human-caused climate change to the list of factors likely to worsen inflation, a new study finds.
Expectations mount as loss and damage fund staggers to its feet
27 Mar 2024
Demand for finance to pay for the aftermath of climate impacts is rocketing – but progress on getting a new UN loss and damage fund up and running is slow.
At COP29, Azerbaijan must be the anchor for 1.5ºC
27 Mar 2024
OPINION: This week, representatives of Azerbaijan, Brazil and the United Arab Emirates will gather in Copenhagen for the first key meeting of climate ministers since Cop28 in Dubai.
A Spanish energy is suing another energy company for alleged greenwashing
27 Mar 2024
Spanish utility Iberdrola has filed a lawsuit against energy company Repsol for alleged greenwashing and unfair competition practices.
Australia's New Vehicle Efficiency Standard weakened
27 Mar 2024
The Australian government will loosen fuel economy standards for utes and vans in its proposed climate laws for cars.
The cost of climate change: why saving our planet now is cheaper
26 Mar 2024
At a time when the consequences of climate change are increasingly impossible to ignore, an important question is often asked in the media: What is the cost of averting the climate crisis?
Challenges to US climate rules sent to conservative-leaning appeals court
26 Mar 2024
A US judicial panel consolidated at least nine lawsuits challenging the US Securities and Exchange Commission's new rules requiring public companies to report climate-related risks in a venue favoured by Republican-led states and a business group.
What do Schwarzenegger, Fonda and Newsom have in common? They’re fighting oil drilling
26 Mar 2024
As the oil industry wages a multimillion-dollar campaign to repeal California drilling restrictions, the campaign to defend the state’s environmental protections is starting to resemble a Hollywood blockbuster.
"The water is eating the island"
26 Mar 2024
Villagers hang onto the last patch of Sierra Leone’s Nyangai Island, knowing that their home may soon disappear.
Climate-conscious investors put nuclear dead last on list of desirable Australian ventures
26 Mar 2024
Nuclear energy ranks last on the list of climate technologies that big institutional investors want exposure to, according to a survey of climate conscious investors with $37tn under management.
More than 100 NGOs urge US special envoy to oppose carbon offsetting under Article 6
25 Mar 2024
More than 100 environmental, human rights, and frontline organisations have written to Joe Biden’s new special envoy for climate, John Podesta.
Making polluters pay could fix Australia’s climate problem – and its budget
Wed 4 Feb 2026
A new report shows how making polluters pay will not only diminish the threat from climate change, but it can also help restore the budget and the economy.
U.S. could issue general license for oil companies to produce in Venezuela this week
Today 11:45am
The Trump administration could issue a general license as soon as this week for companies to produce oil and gas in Venezuela, a person familiar with the plan told CNBC on Tuesday.
‘Rush’ for new coal in China hits record high in 2025 as climate deadline looms
Wed 4 Feb 2026
Proposals to build coal-fired plants in China reached a record high in 2025, finds a new study.
EU adopts first-ever standard for carbon removal projects
Wed 4 Feb 2026
The European Commission announced the adoption of its first set of voluntary certification methodologies for permanent carbon removals, aimed at providing clear standards for carbon removal technologies, to enable certification and investment in projects that permanently remove CO2 from the atmosphere.
A UK climate security report backed by the intelligence services was quietly buried – a pattern we’ve seen many times before
Today 11:45am
Last autumn, a UK government report warned that climate-driven ecosystem collapse could lead to food shortages, mass migration, political extremism and even nuclear conflict. The report was never officially launched.
The climate and energy implication hidden in Mark Carney’s Davos speech
26 Jan 2026
In a speech bound for the history books, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney described a “rupture” in the world order and called for middle powers like Canada to stand up to bullies.
Declared a terrorist for bringing renewable power to Philippine communities
Mon 2 Feb 2026
Accusing activists of having links to terrorism has led to non-profit funds being frozen and local climate projects being delayed or scrapped.
Pacific fisheries summit gives a boost to albacore and seabirds
19 Dec 2025
Much of the world’s albacore tuna catch, which usually ends up in a can, comes from the southwestern Pacific Ocean, where fishery managers just passed a new set of conservation rules.
Arctic endured year of record heat as climate scientists warn of ‘winter being redefined’
18 Dec 2025
Region known as ‘world’s refrigerator’ is heating up as much as four times as quickly as global average, Noaa experts say.
Climate change could lead to 500,000 ‘additional’ malaria deaths in Africa by 2050
Fri 30 Jan 2026
Climate change could lead to half a million more deaths from malaria in Africa over the next 25 years, according to new research.
Argentina fires ravage pristine Patagonia forests, fueling criticism of Milei’s austerity
Wed 4 Feb 2026
The wildfires, among the worst to hit the drought-stricken Patagonia region in decades, have devastated more than 45,000 hectares (174 square miles) of Argentina’s forests in the last month and a half, forcing the evacuation of thousands of residents and tourists.
UN risks 'imminent financial collapse', secretary general warns
Tue 3 Feb 2026
The United Nations is at risk of "imminent financial collapse" due to member states not paying their fees, the body's head has warned.
