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UN report: Global climate ambitions 'off target'
As global leaders head to the Brazilian city of Belem to discuss how to keep runaway global heating in check, a new report underscores the need for solid national climate commitments. Against the backdrop of rising temperatures that marked 2024 as...
Build for workplace day of action against climate chaos
Environment Energy secretary Ed Miliband is under pressure to allow fossil fuel giants to drill for oil and gas in the North Sea By Camilla Royle Downloading PDF. Please wait... Tuesday 04 November 2025 Issue With Jamaica still reeling from...
The Last Shot Gallery: Why Back Market turned climate data into dystopian art
Climate change awareness is near-universal. Behavioural change remains rare. Luke Forshaw, head of brand at Back Market, gave an insight to The Last Shot Gallery, a two-day exhibition in Fitzrovia designed to challenge consumer attitudes towards...
Mayors pledge coordinated climate action ahead of U.N. conference in Brazil
SAO PAULO — Just days ahead of the U.N. climate conference to be held in Brazil, a group of 300 mayors gathered in Rio de Janeiro to pledge coordinated climate action and address rising heat that is hurting many of their residents. The summit...
Judge: Oregon climate lawyer’s actions ‘not acceptable’
PORTLAND, Ore. - An Oregon judge described a plaintiff lawyer’s undisclosed involvement in scientific studies as a “gobsmacking failure” to reveal potentially biased evidence in a high-profile climate lawsuit. Chevron asked Judge Benjamin Souede...
Climate Activists Who Vandalized Stonehenge Acquitted And Set Free
Within a progressive controlled nation, who gets punished by the law is greatly dependent on their political and ethnic affiliations. Left leaning groups (and people like migrants who are useful to left leaning groups) enjoy a separate set of...
MDAs sideline climate expenditure in budget plans – Finance Ministry
By Christabel Danso ABEAM The Ministry of Finance has expressed concern that most ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) continue to neglect climate-related expenditure in their annual budget proposals, despite the country’s increasing...
EU ministers meet to align climate goals ahead of UN climate talks
BRUSSELS – The European Union is attempting to forge new climate goals on Tuesday before the U.N. climate talks in Brazil. Ministers from across the 27-nation bloc met in Brussels to try to get at least 15 to align their nationally determined...
COP30: Can Brazil summit get climate negotiations back on track?
A preparatory ministerial meeting in Brasilia, Brazil, ahead of COP30 Ton Molina/Bloomberg via Getty Images A decade on from the historic COP21 summit in Paris, world leaders are once again about to gather for the latest UN climate conference. But...
UN Emissions Gap Report: Despite Progress, World Still Far Behind Climate Targets
Research & Developments is a blog for brief updates that provide context for the flurry of news that impacts science and scientists today. Current emissions trajectories look set to warm the world by as much as 2.8°C (5.04°F) above preindustrial...
Are our health systems following through on their climate targets?
Kate Bowie The BMJ kbowie{at}bmj.com Many countries, including the UK and the US, have committed to climate resilient health services and cutting carbon emissions—but are they making good on their pledges? Kate Bowie reports The health sector...
Meatpacker JBS to Pay $1.1 Million to Settle New York Climate Suit
JBS SA, the world’s largest meatpacker, has agreed to pay $1.1 million to settle a lawsuit by the state of New York over allegations the company misled the public about reducing the impact of its operations on the environment. As part of the...
Austria blocks EU’s 2040 climate target, casting doubt on 90% emissions cut plan
LONDON Austria has said it cannot support the EU’s proposed 2040 climate target in its current form, throwing the fate of the landmark emissions plan into doubt ahead of a crucial vote by environment ministers. The proposal aims to cut the bloc’s...
Nickel mining industry in Caraga singled out for damaging environment, livelihoods — report
MINING in northeastern Mindanao’s Caraga region has increased the local community’s vulnerability to the climate crisis, damaged livelihoods, and increased food insecurity, according to an international climate and human rights group. In a news...
UNEP warns 1.5°C dangerously at risk, Greenpeace comment
Amsterdam, Netherlands, Greenpeace demands world leaders agree on a global response plan at COP30 as a new major UN report warned the global temperature is projected to rise to 2.3-2.5°C above pre-industrial era global temperatures, putting the...
Can the world’s climate summit deliver without America?
By Staff Writer When world leaders meet in Belém, Brazil, this November for COP30, the United States will be absent. President Donald Trump has withdrawn from the Paris Agreement and confirmed he will not attend the UN’s annual climate conference....
Microfinance Backs African Businesses Against Climate Change
Although Africa has contributed only 7% of global carbon emissions since the 19th century, it remains the most vulnerable region to the adverse effects of climate change. The International Rescue Committee (IRC) estimates that seven of the ten...
Ready for the Summit on Climate Change & Agri? Get your tickets!
South Africa’s most urgent agricultural conversation is returning to Johannesburg this month – and this year, it’s bigger, bolder, and packed with powerhouse voices redefining the future of farming. The second annual Summit on Climate Change &...
Slowing climate change by using aerosols to block sunlight? Maybe not such a good idea
Holy sun-repellant spray, Batman! Could injecting billions of kilograms of sunlight-dimming aerosols into the atmosphere save the planet from industrial climate destruction? Or is that just Joker-level insanity? A new Columbia Climate School...
Belém, the Climate Crossroads: The “A Side” of Adaptation for the Global Future
In 2008, my first Conference of the Parties (COP) on Climate Change in Poznan, Poland, revealed a world that was mobilized but focused on greenhouse gas mitigation and energy transition. Climate adaptation — humanity’s ability to adjust to...