Transparency is essential to make aviation climate deal work
Last October, many rejoiced when 190 governments reached agreement on a climate deal for international aviation, but it’s not time to sit back and...
Trump administration sued over climate change ‘censorship’
The Centre for Biological Diversity (CBD) filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against four US federal agencies over what it called “censorship” of climate change...
Kenya signs China deal for coal plant beside Unesco site
A Kenyan delegation has inked a $2bn deal with Chinese company Power Global to finance a new coal plant adjacent to a Unesco world heritage site.The deal...
G20 must support good jobs in the low carbon transition
Donald Trump won the US presidency railing against “job-killing regulation” and promising to put coal miners back to work.Delivering against this promise is proving...
Small-scale renewables cheapest for rural Africa, says Dutch report
In the race to electrify Africa, wealthy governments and donors are ignoring the cheapest ways to reach the continent’s most remote communities, according to a...
France lobbied EU to cut forests without counting climate impact
France has partially succeeded in watering down EU carbon accounting rules to give countries a free pass on depleting forests, leaked documents show.Ahead of...
US manufacturers offshore pollution to developing countries
On April 22, as protesters swelled Earth Day rallies in US cities and around the world, president Donald Trump tweeted that he was “committed to...
Brazil’s pro-beef president Temer, betrayed by the industry he courted
In his one year in power, Brazilian president Michel Temer has tried hard to please the beef caucus.Among his many concessions, he made one of...
Weekly wrap: Looking east from Bonn climate talks
There were fears of an upset at the past fortnight’s climate talks in Bonn, the first test of Donald Trump’s approach to international climate...
Climate talks end in call for solidarity, but real test is to come
Fiji’s prime minister Frank Bainimarama, the incoming president of the next major climate meeting in November, closed talks in Bonn on Thursday with a call...









