Former world leaders call for fossil fuel taxes to fund global climate action
Fri 26 Sep 2025
Dozens of former world leaders, including ex-UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, have called for permanent taxes on fossil fuel profits to fund climate action.
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Chris Bowen meets Turkey’s first lady as lobbying to hold Cop31 intensifies
Fri 26 Sep 2025
Climate minister, who is trying to persuade Turkey to allow Australia to host the summit, appears with Emine Erdoğan at New York event.
Vanuatu pursues new UN resolution to turn ICJ climate opinion into action
Fri 26 Sep 2025
The Pacific island nation, which led a campaign for the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to clarify states’ climate duties, said the legal opinion must not be “left on paper”.
Familiar tensions emerge at the Pacific Islands Forum
Fri 26 Sep 2025
With China-Taiwan rivalry, China-Western competition, and big carbon emitters at odds with the islands on climate policy, there is plenty of tension to go around.
How to track the super polluters next door
Fri 26 Sep 2025
A new interactive map and groundbreaking database allows people in the world’s largest metropolitan areas to track their air pollution exposure, along with their region’s biggest sources of planet-warming pollution.
China makes landmark pledge to cut its climate emissions
Thu 25 Sep 2025
China, the world's biggest source of planet-warming gases, has for the first time committed to an absolute target to cut its emissions.
Regenerative agriculture is all over the agenda at Climate Week NYC. But what does it mean?
Thu 25 Sep 2025
Critics say the term is vague and are pushing for specific standards so consumers aren’t lured into false climate promises.
Gas makes a comeback at Climate Week
Thu 25 Sep 2025
At a number of events on Tuesday, senior officials made a case for gas as essential for energy security and a buttress to renewables
The stupidest speech in UN history
Thu 25 Sep 2025
COMMENT: Trump described climate change as not only a “hoax", but even more: “the largest con job ever perpetrated on the planet.”
EU proposes delaying anti-deforestation law, again
Thu 25 Sep 2025
The European Commission has proposed pushing back the European Union Deforestation Regulation for another year, to December 2026, citing concerns that its IT system is not yet ready to handle the demands that the regulation would place on it.
