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Comment: Taiwan’s industry is responsible for more than half of its emissions but the government’s new climate policies have no specific plan to tackle them.
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After a series of multinational oil companies ruled themselves out of the controversial projects, the government pushed back bidding at the last minute
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The European Union plans to ban bottom-trawling in marine protected areas by 2030 but the fishing industry is resisting the measures
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Azerbaijan accuses Armenia of deforesting the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, but satellite data tells a different story
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The Green Climate Fund is making cutbacks to its project portfolio, while the US fails to deliver on a years-old funding pledge
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Polling carried out before the floods showed that two-thirds of Nigerians have not heard of climate change.
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Cape Verde owes around $150m to the Portugese state – but Portugal says it will write off the debt if the African island nation spends the money on environmental measures
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Wood Mackenzie research was used to justify UK support for a gas megaproject in Mozambique and a new coal mine, in government and in court
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Brazil’s new government is already having an impact on deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, an environmental enforcement agent claimed
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The aviation industry plans to argue that banning short-haul flights is ineffective and impinges on EU citizens’ right to travel between countries
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A US startup carried out a geoengineering experiment in Mexico, which the country claims was done without prior notice and consent.
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Alessandro Modiano resigned three months into a new far-right government and it is unclear if he will be replaced as climate envoy or if the position will be scrapped
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A $100 million project was meant to protect Karachi slumdwellers from flooding, but instead made many homeless before work stalled
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The German government agreed that utility RWE could expand the Luetzerath coal mine in exchange for a faster national coal phase-out
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As the world’s political and corporate leaders gather in Switzerland, activists and analysts are downbeat about the possibility of climate action
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Campaigners called on Sultan Al Jaber to step down from the UAE’s state-owned oil company to avoid a conflict of interest
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The government ignored warnings that building large hydropower projects in the Himalayas was unsafe. Now Josimath town is falling apart
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