Ukraine and Covid leave aid agencies struggling to respond to Bangladesh floods
Aid agencies are struggling to respond to deadly flooding in Bangladesh and India after wealthy governments diverted aid funding to the Covid-19 crisis and...
Japanese and Korean industry push gas on Vietnam amid campaigner crackdown
Business interests in Japan and South Korea are pushing Vietnam to embrace gas as a core part of its energy mix amid a relentless...
Ibrahim Thiaw appointed interim UN Climate Change head
Mauritanian diplomat and head of the UN body to combat desertification Ibrahim Thiaw has been appointed interim executive secretary of UN Climate Change.
Thiaw will...
It’s time to put Indigenous Peoples first at the UN biodiversity talks
The world is waking up to a tragic fact, year on year: deforestation is happening on a scale and at a rate that amounts...
Colombia’s new president Gustavo Petro pledges to keep fossil fuels in the ground
Colombia has elected its first left-wing president, setting the Latin American nation on a path to wind down its fossil fuel production.
Leftist Gustavo Petro...
Urgency fizzles out in Bonn – Climate Weekly
The sense of urgency that emanated from Cop26 continued to fizzle out this week, as the climate diplomacy hardcore gathered in Germany for the...
Data exclusive: The ‘junk’ carbon offsets revived by the Glasgow Pact
On 9 June 2011, fighting broke out at the Dapein hydropower plant in the northernmost state of Myanmar between the Kachin Independence Organisation’s military...
Patricia Espinosa: Some rich nations felt demands on finance were ‘too strong’
Some rich nations felt outgoing UN Climate Change head Patricia Espinosa’s repeated calls for more cash for vulnerable countries was “too strong,” she told...
EU blocks bespoke fund for climate victims as rich nations moot alternatives
The EU has blocked developing countries’ call for a facility to distribute money to victims of climate disasters, despite finally recognising the need for...
China rejects ‘major emitter’ label in talks to step up climate action
China is opposing any references to “major emitters” in discussions about how to scale-up carbon cutting efforts this decade at interim climate talks in...