Central bankers still fail to account for climate tipping points, experts say
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Experts say that while some financial regulators might be aware of the risk of tipping points, beyond which changes become irreversible, most climate economists are not adequately accounting for these risks.
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Leaders of world’s biggest polluters are no-shows as heads of state gather for UN climate summit
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World leaders descending on the United Nations annual climate summit in Brazil on Thursday will not need to see much more than the view from their airplane window to sense the unfathomable stakes.
Canada’s new budget has billions in fossil subsidies disguised as climate action
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Ottawa's new CCS and hydrogen credits extend to 2035, but most of the billions go to oil sands and refining, not clean industry.
EU’s new climate target lines up multibillion dollar boost for carbon markets
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Analysts estimate the EU will buy at least 50 billion euros worth of carbon credits in the 2030s to help meet its emissions-cutting goals.
‘There is no money’: As carbon markets collapse, what happens to the forests they promised to protect?
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After it was found most offsets did not represent real carbon reductions, the money dried up. But successful schemes such as Kasigau in Kenya now face a stark future.
Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels
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OPINION: History tells us that polite incrementalism and political kowtowing will prevail at Cop30 – even as catastrophe unfolds around us.
EU ministers agree to 90% emissions reduction target
Fri 7 Nov 2025
European environment ministers have reached an agreement on a contentious plan to cut the bloc's greenhouse gas emissions but with caveats.
Brazil’s Lula puts forward new vision for protecting the Amazon rainforest
Fri 7 Nov 2025
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva put forward his vision for how the Amazon rainforest should be protected, a future that didn’t depend on donations from wealthy nations and large philanthropies but instead included a major fund that paid countries to keep forests standing.
The media is complicit in the climate confusion
Fri 7 Nov 2025
The vast majority of people want their governments to take climate action – but most wrongly think they’re in the minority. The media is partly to blame.
New York climate advocates celebrate Mamdani’s victory, prepare to hold him accountable
Fri 7 Nov 2025
For the first time in years, New York’s environmental justice advocates say they’ll be working with the city’s government – rather than against it.
