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Food and plants dumped into US landfills are rotting and warming the planet but “weak” regulations have not been improved
The post Biden misses chance to tackle “huge” US landfill emissions appeared first on Climate Home News.
The Biden administration is freezing approvals of new LNG export permits as climate considerations take centre stage.
The post US government pauses new gas export terminals in ‘historic win’ for climate appeared first on Climate Home News.
In the first story of our Clean Energy Frontier series, we go to Zimbabwe, which is betting on the booming lithium industry to spur economic growth
The post Zimbabwe looks to China to secure a place in the EV battery supply chain appeared first on Climate Home News.
A group celebrating the sabotage said they opposed the pipeline out of solidarity with marginalised people in the USA
The post After gas pipeline sabotage, German activists claim solidarity against US gas export terminals appeared first on Climate Home News.
Azerbaijan’s state oil and gas firm promises a green push but a lack of climate policies and plans to expand gas production are causing scepticism
The post Cop29 host Azerbaijan launches green energy unit to sceptical response appeared first on Climate Home News.
The $1.8 million Centre for International Police Cooperation will be built in the Brazilian Amazon city of Manaus and funded by the Norwegian-backed Amazon Fund
The post Amazon nations to tackle rainforest crime together in donor-funded new office appeared first on Climate Home News.
Saudi, India and China led opposition against a proposal to link the IPCC’s assessment cycle with the global stocktake, sources told Climate Home.
The post Governments fail to agree timeline for climate science reports in fraught IPCC talks appeared first on Climate Home News.
Azerbaijan appointed 28 men and zero women to a key group tasked with organising the upcoming climate summit in the country
The post The all-male Cop29 committee is a big step backwards for climate appeared first on Climate Home News.
Renewable energy schemes make up four-fifths of Kyoto-era projects hoping to keep selling offsets under Article 6, sparking concerns over the credibility of the new market.
The post Junk offset sellers push to enter new UN carbon market appeared first on Climate Home News.
For a quarter-century, fossil fuels were absent from Cop climate agreements – so how had they become so ubiquitous at Cop28?
The post How fossil fuels went from sidelines to headlines in climate talks appeared first on Climate Home News.
The all-male group in charge of the climate summit organisation includes oil and gas executives and controversial government officials
The post Azerbaijan appoints fossil fuel execs and scandal-hit officials to all-male Cop29 committee appeared first on Climate Home News.
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.