Climate & Environment

While the previous Polish government tried to water down the EU’s climate action, the new one is supporting ambition

The post Poland’s green tide arrives in Brussels appeared first on Climate Home News.

Xie Zhenhua has stepped down and John Kerry has announced he will do the same in a few months time

The post Veteran US and Chinese climate envoys step down appeared first on Climate Home News.

Setting finance goals without the revenues and systems to deliver on them is a recipe for disappointment – this year it must be different.

The post High stakes for climate finance in 2024 appeared first on Climate Home News.

The minister Jean-Pierre Bemba bribed witnesses in his war crimes trial and holds power over the environment minister Eve Bazaiba

The post Witness bribing minister’s family own Congolese carbon credit company appeared first on Climate Home News.

The Brazilian government wants to tap forest protection funds to pave a major highway. Western donors say that goes against the fund’s rules.

The post Germany and US warn Brazil against using Amazon Fund to pave rainforest road appeared first on Climate Home News.

Abdulaziz bin Salman’s interpretation of the agreement was slammed as “incredibly misleading” as the text “calls on” all governments to transition from fossil fuels

The post “A la carte menu”: Saudi minister claims Cop28 fossil fuel agreement is only optional appeared first on Climate Home News.

As Switzerland buys the first ever bilateral offsets, civil society’s analysis suggests the claimed emissions reductions from Thai buses would have happened anyway

The post First ever Paris Agreement offsets face integrity questions appeared first on Climate Home News.

Gwede Mantashe’s ministry argues for cutting ambition on renewables and investing more in gas. also plugging so-called “clean coal”

The post South African ministry uses opaque modelling to argue for weakening climate ambition appeared first on Climate Home News.

Mukhtar Babayev spent 26 years at Azerbaijan’s state-owned oil and gas company Socar, where he tried to limit the company’s environmental damage.

The post Azerbaijan appoint state oil company veteran as Cop29 president appeared first on Climate Home News.

The government will consider incentives to charge electric vehicles at off-peak hours and to let vehicles sell their electricity to the grid

The post China announces plans to manage electric vehicles power demand appeared first on Climate Home News.

“Things are going downhill with the new government”, said one gold miner when detained by Brazil’s federal police

The post Brazil cracks down on illegal gold miners appeared first on Climate Home News.

The US election and negotiations on a new global finance target are the most important things for the climate in 2024

The post Ten climate questions for 2024 appeared first on Climate Home News.

Fossil fuel fights, finance struggles, a resurgent relationship, and much more. We recap the most impactful international climate developments in 2023.

The post Six takeaways from 2023’s climate change news appeared first on Climate Home News.

An Indonesian official said it would levy $310 million in fines on growers of palm oil on land which should be forest

The post Indonesia promises to fine palm oil companies operating in forests appeared first on Climate Home News.

Test your international climate news knowledge with our quiz!

The post The Climate Home News 2023 Quiz appeared first on Climate Home News.

If we want to reduce the event’s emissions and make it more inclusive, then it must be easier to navigate and network

The post We must make it easier to attend Cops virtually appeared first on Climate Home News.

While Israel’s attack on Gaza featured prominently, Sudan’s civil war and its climate links were largely ignored at Cop28

The post Sudan’s Cop28 delegates “really hurt” by silence on their civil war appeared first on Climate Home News.

Donations meant to preserve the Amazon rainforest may be spent paving the road, which critics say will worsen the forest’s destruction

The post Brazil lawmakers approve using green fund to pave road through Amazon rainforest appeared first on Climate Home News.

The US and EU couldn’t agree on common rules for bilateral carbon trades in Dubai, leaving a vacuum for voluntary certifiers

The post Countries go ahead with carbon deals despite Cop28 standoff appeared first on Climate Home News.

With the EU ambivalent and small island states absent, Russia’s call for “transitional fuels” – read gas – made it into the Cop28 agreement

The post How Russia won a ‘dangerous loophole’ for fossil gas at Cop28 appeared first on Climate Home News.