As countries come under growing pressure to tackle planet-heating methane emissions from the fossil fuel sector, oil and gas producers in COP host nations Brazil and Azerbaijan are struggling to prevent large leaks of methane, data shared with Climate Home News shows. Satellite observations detected “super-emitting” methane plumes in the two countries this year that […]
Verra has used nearly a million “hot air” carbon credits to compensate for bogus offsets generated by rice-paddy projects backed by energy giant Shell in China, Climate Home News can reveal. In a case described as “shocking” and “deeply alarming” by experts, the leading carbon registry replaced 960,000 credits issued for rice-field methane reduction activities […]
Despite multi-billion-dollar energy transition deals agreed with wealthy nations and development banks in 2022, coal use in Indonesia and Vietnam will continue to grow until at least 2030, the International Energy Agency (IEA) forecasts. In its annual coal report, the Paris-based agency estimates that coal use will rise 4.5% a year between 2025 and 2030 […]
Evans Njewa of Malawi is chair of the Least Developed Countries (LDC) group at UN climate talks. At COP30 in Belém, the world took a long-awaited step forward. Countries agreed to triple international finance for adaptation by 2035. Using the current goal as a starting point, as proposed by the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), the […]
Resource-rich African nations risk missing out on the investment needed to extract and refine their mineral wealth into high-value products for the clean energy transition because they lack accurate information on what they have, experts are warning. African countries have attracted huge interest as the world scrambles to access the minerals and metals needed for […]
Tiago Pitta e Cunha is chief executive of the Oceano Azul Foundation. The recent COP30 in Belém, Brazil, brought nations together to confront the escalating climate crisis. But amid their discussions, there was a paradox: while a growing number of countries see the ocean as essential to climate action, there is still no institutional mechanism […]
The UN Environment Assembly on Friday approved its first-ever resolution to address the environmental aspects of Artificial Intelligence (AI), but it did not include a provision to monitor AI systems across their lifecycle. Experts say this approach is essential to understand AI’s water, power and critical minerals consumption. The resolution proposed by Kenya aims to […]
Countries gathered at the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA) this week failed to back a proposal to establish a panel of experts to look at ways to limit the environmental harm caused by mining, agreeing instead to hold more talks on tackling the issue. A draft resolution proposed by Colombia and Oman had sought to make […]
Ten years after the adoption of the Paris Agreement, as geopolitical tensions slow climate action, leading experts have urged ambitious countries to forge new coalitions that can drive forward efforts to limit global warming without waiting for consensus. As the implementation of the landmark Paris accord enters a “more difficult phase”, French economist Laurence Tubiana, […]
Piers Forster is Professor of Physical Climate Change and founding Director of the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures at the University of Leeds. Today marks the 10th anniversary of the landmark Paris Agreement, which has become a key compass in policymaking over the past years, preventing us from reaching a world with 4°C of warming. […]
