‘We haven’t known a world without climate change’: school strikers demand safe future

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Germany ready to join global coal phase-out alliance: environment minister

Now its coal commission has recommended a 2038 exit date, Germany can join a global alliance to end coal burning, Svenja Schulze tells Taz...

Chile warns of 3-hour commutes, split venue at December climate talks

This year's UN summit comes at a "highly congested" period in Santiago, the hosts say, but a plea to move it to January was...

UK Conservative politicians back ‘inspirational’ school climate strikers

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US and Saudi Arabia block geoengineering governance push

Countries failed to agree on a Swiss resolution to consider regulating technologies that aim to cool the planet, at the UN Environment Assembly in...

Energy and oil majors turn to rural Africa in grab for world’s next billion...

Once basic energy is established in disconnected regions, the companies that supply it hope to cash in on demand for a slew of new...

School climate strikes go global, with actions planned in 92 countries

Young people are preparing for a mass walkout of classes on Friday, to demand swift action from governments to safeguard their futures The post School...

Capitalism can deliver the transformation the climate school strike demands

A letter to 16-year-old Greta Thunberg: 'I'm a good-old institutionalised man... my generation can’t speak to power the way yours can' The post Capitalism can...

Environment community mourns victims of Ethiopian Airlines plane crash

UN staff and delegates to the UN Environment Assembly, which opened in Nairobi on Monday, were among 157 to die on the way from...

Climate Weekly: Norway divests (a bit)

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