Chloé Farand
Chloé Farand is Climate Home News’ senior reporter. Her work has appeared in national publications including the Guardian, the Independent, the i paper and the BBC. Before joining Climate Home News, she worked for the investigative environmental outlet DeSmog UK and contributed to Business Green.
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Leaks reveal how McKinsey drives African climate agenda
Whistleblowers raise alarm over American consultancy’s growing influence in pushing carbon markets and developing energy transition plans
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Gas lock-in: Debt-laden Ghana gambles on LNG imports
The West African nation is preparing to import LNG under a long-term agreement with Shell which critics say Ghana doesn’t need and can’t afford.
The Overshoot Commission is talking about solar geoengineering. Not everyone thinks it should
Commission members, scientists and youth advisors are concerned the body is justifying techno-fixes to the climate crisis
Carbon capture gets its day – Climate Weekly
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US pledges $1 billion to Green Climate Fund amid call to keep 1.5C in reach
Joe Biden urged leaders of major emitting economies to step up efforts to roll out zero-emission vehicles, cut methane emissions and deploy carbon capture technologies
Nature’s stewards under attack – Climate Weekly
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Green Climate Fund credibility hangs over response to violence in Nicaragua project
Indigenous people in Nicaragua have accused a Green Climate Fund project of exacerbating violence with settlers invading their land
Loss and damage committee ready to start talks following Asian nominations
Six Asian countries will share two seats on the committee due to start work on establishing a fund for climate victims
Mafalda Duarte named as next chief of UN climate fund
The CEO of the Climate Investment Funds has been picked to head the Green Climate Fund as its board faces its first complaint case
It’s high time for the high seas – Climate Weekly
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EU agrees diplomatic push for fossil fuel phase out ahead of Cop28
The bloc has made achieving a global phase out of coal, oil and gas “well ahead of 2050” a priority of its climate diplomacy
Vulnerable nations set up alliance to prepare loss and damage action plans
Researchers are working with eight developing countries to pool resources and respond to climate disasters with local solutions
France seeks EU loophole for French Guiana to power space sector with biofuels
Campaigners have warned the exemption risks setting an incentive for increased logging in Europe’s corner of the Amazon forest.
AIIB finds gas plant in Bangladesh compatible with Paris goals
AIIB’s fast-tracking of a 600MW LNG plant could set a precedent for more development finance to fossil gas projects, campaigners warn
Germany considers €1 billion in support for 10 fossil fuel projects overseas
German support for any of the projects would breach a pledge made last year to stop funding coal, oil and gas projects overseas from 1 January
UAE plans to have it both ways as Cop28 climate summit host
The Gulf oil and gas exporter is going big on renewable energy investment and food security, while expanding hydrocarbon production
‘Don’t fail us’ – Climate Weekly
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Vanuatu publishes draft resolution seeking climate justice at UN court
The Pacific island nation says 100 countries back its call for the International Court of Justice to advise on states’ climate obligations