India has unveiled long-awaited climate goals that aim to cut the carbon intensity of its economy, plant trees and expand clean electricity capacity. The targets, approved by India’s government on Wednesday, will form the basis of the country’s nationally determined contribution (NDC), which it failed to submit by last year’s deadline. The headline target to […]
The global energy shock triggered by the Iran war could give countries the chance to build a “new geopolitical balance” by forging a coalition committed to phasing out fossil fuels, Colombian Environment Minister Irene Vélez Torres said. Delegates from about 45 nations are set to meet next month in Colombia’s Caribbean city of Santa Marta […]
The new head of the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) faces a formidable task: raise urgent funding to get the organisation back on track following damaging revelations about its former management, just as tight budgets prompt many donors to rethink their climate spending. Rindra Rabarinirinarison, who served as Madagascar’s economy and finance minister from 2021-2025, […]
In recent years, the monsoon season in Pakistan has taken a new and dangerous turn. July and August typically bring high levels of rainfall across the country, and while flooding isn’t uncommon, the extent and severity could be readily predicted. These patterns have now changed. In 2022, extreme rainfall swept through Pakistan and huge swathes […]
The world’s largest producer of renewable fuel for planes, Neste, is sourcing key ingredients for its “green” fuel from an opaque supply chain that enables fresh palm oil to be passed off as waste, highlighting a global problem facing the aviation industry. Many governments and airlines are pinning their hopes for more climate-friendly flying on […]
The Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) – a major new rainforest protection fund launched by Brazil at COP30 – is unlikely to make payments to rainforest countries until at least 2028, experts said, while it raises funds in financial markets. The proposed new mechanism aims to pay rainforest countries for achieving low deforestation rates. Rather […]
Lena Luig is the head of the International Agricultural Policy Division at the Heinrich Böll Foundation, a member of the Global Alliance for the Future of Food. Anna Lappé is the Executive Director of the Global Alliance for the Future of Food. As toxic clouds loom over Tehran and Beirut from the US and Israel’s bombardment […]
The UK will cut overseas climate spending by more than 10% to fund higher defence budgets, despite agreeing to a global pledge to triple climate finance for developing countries by 2035. Foreign secretary Yvette Cooper told the British parliament on Thursday that the UK will “aim to spend around £6 billion ($8bn)” on international climate […]
Janek Vahk is a circular economy and sustainability expert working to accelerate Europe’s transition to a zero-waste society. He is the zero-pollution policy manager at Zero Waste Europe. By the end of July, the European Commission must decide whether to include municipal waste incineration in the EU Emissions Trading System. It may sound technical, but […]
Rudecindo Espíndola’s family has been growing corn, figs and other crops for generations in the Soncor Valley in northern Chile, an oasis of green orchards in one of the driest places on Earth – the Atacama desert. Perched nearly 2,500 metres above sea level, his village, Toconao, means “lost corner” in the Kunza language of […]
