Matteo Civillini

Forests, methane, finance: Where are the Cop26 pledges now?

Climate Home analysed how highly-publicised commitments are faring two years on from their announcement

After its pleas for grants not loans fell mostly on deaf ears, Indonesia has watered down its plans to shut coal power plants early

China opposed six Green Climate Fund projects because the proposals flagged the risk of forced labour in the manufacturing of solar panels.

Betts was the EU’s chief negotiator when the Paris Agreement was signed. He has died a year after being diagnosed with cancer.

Clean energy is a priority as China promises $100 billion of development funding – but don’t call it climate finance

While technical tweaks should make the World Bank’s capital go further, their impact depends on shareholders injecting fresh funds

Major oil and gas producers hit back at World Bank reforms that aim to channel more money into clean energy

The UN’s flagship climate finance initiative can barely sustain its existing portfolio after a lackluster fundraising conference on Thursday

Project owners in Cambodia and Brazil are selling carbon offsets to Uber, Marathon and ArcelorMittal despite an uptick in deforestation

Sultan Al Jaber urged governments to update their national climate targets by September. Not one heeded the call

Five environmentalists have been jailed in the last two years, while the government works on a clean energy partnership with rich nations

The International Energy Agency calls on countries to bring forward net zero targets and rely less on fossil fuel technofixes

On the sidelines of the UN general assembly, rich and poor countries were divided on how to deliver funds to victims of the climate crisis

While “ambitious” countries made few new announcements, the US, China, India and the UK had not offered enough to even sit in the room

In a relatively low powered year for climate leadership, a handful of government, climate finance and corporate initiatives are worth noting

Nineteen countries signed up to an India-led alliance this month to boost production of biofuels, but experts raise sustainability concerns

Brazil will go back to the climate targets it drew up in 2015 while it works on new and improved ones

Dimming the sun could “complement” emissions cuts, says panel of leaders, while acknowledging concerns about the risks

The world’s largest economies agreed to push for a tripling of renewable energy capacity by 2030, but made no progress on oil and gas phaseout

The US, Germany and Italy have been accused of backsliding on a Glasgow promise to end public subsidies to fossil fuel projects overseas