Like many Yemeni farmers, Salem Abdallah first bought solar panels to power a well pump to irrigate his fruit and vegetable crops. Now, he has a new use for the surplus electricity they generate – a Chinese-made electric pickup truck. “The roads between villages are rough and my farms aren’t all in one place, so […]
New data on international climate finance for 2023 and 2024 suggests that wealthy countries are highly unlikely to have met their pledge to double funding for adaptation in developing nations to around $40 billion a year by 2025 amid cuts to their overseas aid budgets. At the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow in 2021, all […]
The UN General Assembly on Wednesday adopted a “historic” resolution calling on countries to comply with their climate obligations, as outlined in a landmark advisory opinion issued last year by the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Last July, in the opinion first requested by the Pacific island state of Vanuatu, the world’s top court ruled […]
The Turkish and Australian COP31 host governments and the International Renewable Energy Agency have called for a stronger global push to run vehicles, industry and buildings on electricity rather than fossil fuels, ahead of this year’s COP31 climate talks. COP31 President Murat Kurum told the Copenhagen Climate Ministerial on Wednesday that governments should be “decarbonising […]
Nearly 30% of cars sold this year are set to be electric as the war in Iran has sent petrol and diesel prices soaring and drivers in many parts of the world look to electric vehicles as a cheaper alternative. The analysis, released on Wednesday by the International Energy Agency (IEA), shows that in March, […]
Informing people about the health risks linked to climate change is twice as likely to spur public support for government-led climate action than messages focused on economic or environmental impacts, an international study has found. Based on a survey of around 30,000 respondents in Brazil, India, Japan and South Africa carried out in late 2025, […]
Kate Williamson is a research associate focused on climate change adaptation at the Oxford Centre of the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and was seconded to the UK Climate Change Committee in 2025. Magnus Benzie is a UK-based affiliated researcher with SEI. Travel and health services have been upended in the UK as high temperatures lead […]
War-torn Ukraine can aid the European Union in securing the battery materials it needs to accelerate the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy systems, researchers say. The eastern European country holds deposits of 25 of the EU’s 34 minerals listed as “critical” to its economy. This includes Europe’s largest reserves of graphite and manganese, […]
The British government has notified the UN’s Green Climate Fund (GCF) that it will cut the contribution it pledged for 2024-2027 in half, a GCF spokesperson told Climate Home News. The reduction, which is part of a wider UK shift from development aid to military spending, will restrict the GCF’s ability to fund projects that […]
The Santa Marta summit moved beyond the blockages in the UN climate process, building a coalition of around 60 countries that want to tackle a shift away from fossil fuels. The host countries said the outcomes would feed into the voluntary roadmap on the energy transition being put together by COP30 hosts Brazil, which is […]
