California to pass law for 100% renewable electricity goal
California is on the brink of approving a law to target 100% renewable electricity by 2045, in defiance of the Trump administration’s hostility to...
Gender remains one of climate change’s great inequalities
Women have fewer opportunities to make decisions on how to deal with global warming – we must change this.
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Climate adaptation cash is failing to reach the poorest, here’s how to fix it
The recent rejection of two major adaptation projects by the board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) from Bangladesh and Ethiopia has caused the board...
US state department to abolish climate change envoy
Secretary of state Rex Tillerson has informed Congress that the US will no longer have a special envoy for climate change, the official that has...
Hurricane Harvey: lawyers warn of climate lawsuits over damages
Hurricane Harvey is wreaking unprecedented damage on Texas. Should city planners, government agencies and businesses have seen it coming? Could they have prevented death and disruption by...
Link between Hurricane Harvey and climate change is unclear
The unprecedented amount of rainfall accompanying Hurricane Harvey immediately raised the question whether and to what extent climate change is to blame.
In a warming...
Coal to power India for ‘decades to come’, says government planning body
Coal will maintain its dominant share of India’s electricity production for decades to come, according to a major report from the government’s planning institute.
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I was an Exxon-funded climate scientist
ExxonMobil’s deliberate attempts to sow doubt on the reality and urgency of climate change and their donations to front groups to disseminate false information about climate change have...
Climate Weekly: Farewell to a climate giant
This week we mourned Tony de Brum, tireless advocate for the Marshall Islands and a safe climate future.
The 72-year-old died at home in Majuro, surrounded...
Gas tanker crosses thawing Arctic without icebreaker for first time
A commercial ship has crossed the Arctic’s northern sea route without an icebreaker escort, in the first such voyage logged by Russian administrators.
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