A landmark conference hosted by Colombia and the Netherlands will aim to lay the foundations for renewed talks on transitioning away from fossil fuels at COP31, though organisers say it remains unclear what concrete outcomes it will deliver. The First Conference on the Transition Away from Fossil Fuels will take place in April in the […]
Nick Dearden is the director of Global Justice Now. The US push for nations to join a club that would coordinate the trade of critical minerals outside China signals a giant shift in Washington’s vision for how to govern the global economy. But it will, unfortunately, also hinder the clean energy transition. Critical minerals such […]
Osprey Orielle Lake is founder and executive director of The Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) and a steering committee member of the Fossil Fuel Treaty. Around the world, women are leading some of the most powerful efforts to stop fossil fuel expansion and implement the just transition the climate crisis demands. In the […]
Officials from about 20 countries met informally in Japan this week in a bid to bridge major differences in talks on a global treaty to curb plastic pollution, eight months after the last round of negotiations collapsed without agreement. A participant told Climate Home News the closed-door meeting, hosted by Japan’s Environment Ministry, had been […]
Flora Vano is country manager at ActionAid Vanuatu. We are living at a time when women and girls are experiencing significant rollbacks of their rights across the board, in health, climate action, education, politics; you name it, it’s happening all around us. As the world’s attention is fixed on the geopolitical issues dominating news headlines, important decisions […]
The backers of a rare earths mining project in the arid plains of western South Africa say they have the answer to challenging China’s dominance in global supply chains – a by-product that is also crucial to the clean energy transition. Producing rare earths used to make permanent magnets for wind turbines and electric vehicles […]
China has slightly weakened its headline climate target for the next five years, potentially allowing its emissions to rise until 2030, though persistent renewable energy growth could drive reductions faster than official goals suggest, analysts say. In its five-year plan released on Thursday, the Chinese government pledges to cut carbon emissions per unit of gross […]
As well as claiming more than 550 lives, the war between the United States and Israel and Iran threatens to inflict severe economic damage across the world, by pushing up the oil, gas and energy prices. About a fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) passes on ships through the Strait of Hormuz, […]
The United States is set to quit the world’s landmark climate convention next February, after the Trump administration formally notified the UN of its previously announced decision to withdraw. UN Secretary-General António Guterres communicated last Friday that the UN treaty depository had received Washington’s formal notice to leave the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change […]
Lidy Nacpil is the coordinator of the Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD). The escalating instability in the Middle East has sent shockwaves through global energy markets, forcing Southeast Asian nations into a precarious position. While the region has made significant pledges to transition toward renewables, the threat of interrupted gas supplies and […]
