Brazil’s Temer extends amnesty to Amazon land-grabbers
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Norway, France urged to block DR Congo forestry project
International and Congolese NGOs are calling for a sustainable forestry project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to be withdrawn, warning it will lead...
Climate Weekly: China spreading coal in Africa
It’s easy to get carried away with the idea that China and the EU are going to bite their thumbs at Donald Trump’s US and...
Scientists say east Africa will get wetter, so why is it drying out?
The long rains, one of two wet seasons that quench the thirst of the East African region, failed this year for the second time...
China signed African coal deal days before Xi low emissions pledge at G20
Chinese president Xi Jinping endorsed a G20 plan calling on development banks to support poor countries to lower their emissions, just days after his own development bank...
UN climate fund criticised for accrediting growing list of private banks
Civil society organisations warn that the Green Climate Fund’s (GCF) decision this week to accredit more private banks will disadvantage poor countries. Speaking to...
Hope and anger in Bangladesh as Unesco reverses coal plant opposition
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This G20 will be remembered for division, not unity
The G20 meeting in Hamburg saw grave risks to the momentum of global climate action, posed by the withdrawal of the US from the Paris...
Who checks corporate claims of climate leadership?
Private sector firms claim to be leading the fight against climate change, harvesting public approval and the moral high ground. But beyond self-reported, voluntary measures,...
Finland’s plan to increase logging is a danger to the climate
Plans to increase logging in Finnish forests will have dire impacts on the climate; yet the Finnish government is ignoring evidence and denigrating scientists.Meanwhile,...
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