Brazil confident new rainforest fund will reach $10bn donor milestone
Brazil’s environment minister said the Tropical Forest Forever Facility has raised billions in record time – which he hopes will convince more investors
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COP31 must aim higher to cut emissions from the use of materials
November’s climate summit is an opportunity to connect material circularity with stronger carbon-cutting pathways but Türkiye’s proposed goals need to be a lot more ambitious
Nepal’s disaster has laid bare the world’s adaptation accountability gap
Knowledge about accelerating climate risks and how to adapt to them has grown over the past two decades – but it hasn’t been put into practice fast enough to protect communities
As El Niño intensifies, we should be investing more in the world’s farmers
Finance to help agriculture adapt to a hotter world and more extreme weather is vital for food security – but new data shows it’s on a downward trend
COP31 attendees told not to interfere in Türkiye’s “internal affairs”
Amnesty International says the provision in the hosting agreement could have a “chilling effect” on free expression in Antalya
Threatened by rising seas, small islands secure right to keep their statehood
Efforts to protect marine ecosystems and coastal communities have risen up the political agenda at the UN General Assembly in New York
Push for cooking to be part of COP31’s electrification agenda
Kenya’s president and Britain’s climate envoy said Africa should use the global electrification push to roll out clean cooking
Germany unveils plan to end use of fossil fuels in energy sector by 2045
Germany became the third country to publish a roadmap to phase out fossil fuels after France and the Netherlands, as the UN chief calls on all governments to follow
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COP31 must aim higher to cut emissions from the use of materials
November’s climate summit is an opportunity to connect material circularity with stronger carbon-cutting pathways but Türkiye’s proposed goals need to be a lot more ambitious
As El Niño intensifies, we should be investing more in the world’s farmers
Finance to help agriculture adapt to a hotter world and more extreme weather is vital for food security – but new data shows it’s on a downward trend
The response to Nepal’s disaster is a test for global climate institutions
Nepal’s recent flash flood represents a shared emergency the world over, as more and more communities become victims to a climate crisis they did not create
Women are on deck – it’s time they steered
The climate crisis is also a governance crisis – one with a persistent blindspot for women’s leadership, ingenuity and readiness to take decisions for stronger action
After Hormuz, Nepal and wildfires, people want action to make polluters pay
If governments are serious about boosting resilience and energy security, they must make the companies profiting from the fossil-fuel economy help foot the bill
Why the global electrification agenda misses the point on Africa’s energy crisis
With hundreds of millions of Africans still lacking electricity access, global electrification goals must reflect the continent’s realities and deliver development alongside connections
Human security relies on adapting to the world’s new climate reality
Adaptation is an investment in the stability and prosperity of the world, and it’s time to finance it accordingly
Framing the climate science debate as a binary battle isn’t just wrong – it’s dangerous
Achieving the Paris Agreement goals requires robust science that fully integrates the experiences, economic realities and academic contributions of the Global South
With multilateralism in crisis, what’s next for climate philanthropy?
Climate philanthropy must do more than fill the gaps left by retreating governments and find new ways to support climate action in a fragmented global landscape
The world doesn’t need a Paris Agreement for plastics
As governments prepare for new talks, ambitious countries must reject a framework that locks in the wrong response to the plastic crisis, before the crisis outpaces diplomacy
UK’s budget juggling trick with rainforest loan for bus-fare cap needs transparency
A recent announcement by Britain’s new government raises questions about the impact on climate aid of swapping grants for loans
Keeping to 1.5C of warming is no longer possible – but we must still limit the overshoot
We need a strategy for navigating the huge risks to ecosystems and societies
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Industry and NGOs lobby to weaken UN carbon credit rules in “coordinated” push
In copycat submissions and a private briefing to government officials, the groups have opposed a proposal to tighten safeguards for emissions offsets
Most “zombie credits” locked out of new UN carbon market after China and India snub
Fears of a flood of environmentally-dubious carbon credits have faded, with most old projects not able to transition to new UN market
UN’s first Paris Agreement carbon credits face human rights and climate concerns
Civil society groups allege the cookstove project in Myanmar exaggerated its climate impact while maintaining ties with military junta
EU carbon tax risks penalising efficient producers over data gaps
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Will the EU finally make waste pay for its growing carbon footprint?
A decision by Brussels to bring refuse incineration into the EU Emissions Trading System would restore a basic principle: the polluter pays
EU carbon credits could supercharge world’s clean cooking push, France says
The country’s top climate envoy says he discussed using cookstove carbon credits with TotalEnergies, which is working to expand the use of LPG cooking in Africa
UN’s new carbon market delivers first credits through Myanmar cookstove project
A decade after Paris Agreement established the mechanism, its first set of credits has been approved – but concerns over legacy projects persist
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“House of cards”: Verra used junk carbon credits to fix Shell’s offsetting scandal
The registry used nearly one million bogus carbon credits to compensate for failed Shell-linked China rice offsets, raising concerns over its rules
Carbon market supporters risk cheating the nature they wish to protect
Efforts to dilute Article 6 rules risk turning the new UN carbon market mechanism into a false climate solution that harms both nature and global climate action
