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Who checks corporate claims of climate leadership?
Big companies say they are leading the way to a cleaner future, but with only voluntary disclosures to keep them honest we just have to trust them
Finland’s plan to increase logging is a danger to the climate
Finland’s government has attempted to discredit scientists who criticised its increased logging programme, writes Hanna Aho from NGO Fern
May meets Trump on climate, but her Brexit will damage the Paris accord
Despite May’s G20 overture to Trump, her government is preparing a divorce from the EU that will have profound negative consequences for the climate
If US states are really ‘still in’ Paris, here’s what they need to do
The Paris accord isn’t only about cutting emissions, some states are already finding ways to meet climate finance commitments
Pacific islanders: Shipping must comply with Paris climate goals
Representatives of four Pacific island nations join today at the IMO in London to ask the shipping industry to do its part to cut carbon emissions
Even Boeing-747 tanker jets can’t win our total war on fires
The more effectively we suppress fires, the worse they become. As climate change makes the world more combustible, we need a new approach
Calling China’s carbon market ‘ambitious’ shows how low the bar has fallen
China is planning the world’s biggest carbon market, but with little detail given for its design, praise for the scheme is premature
‘Nobody wants to be part of a dying culture’: Reddit on the end of coal
Donald Trump wants to revive the coal industry. But Redditors from declining US coal towns say their families need a future rather than a return to the past
End of coal: Failure to see it coming will hurt miners most
History shows governments that don’t anticipate and make provisions for the decline of coal burden communities for generations
Australia: new climate policy, same old politics
A major review of Australian climate policy has been compromised by the malignant politics that has sent Australia to the back of the international pack
US cities and states back Paris deal but ignore climate finance
Several US states and cities have committed to cut emissions despite president Trump, but only Seattle remembered cash commitments to the developing world
FORE! Trump’s Paris speech was an awful mishit
The golf-loving president says he will pull the US from the Paris agreement. The UN’s renewable energy chief explains why that’s dumb in terms he’d understand
Where is the most vulnerable country to climate change?
Vast, dry and poor, Chad is more susceptible to climate change than any other country
Multi-faith leaders target Pruitt with G7 call to respect creation
Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus and Buddhists have issued a plea to the G7 environment ministers to act faster on climate change
Adani’s Australian mine green light can’t change economics of coal
The ‘final investment decision’ taken by Adani this week leaves many near and long term questions unanswered about the project’s viability
Trump hasn’t actually left the Paris climate deal. Not yet
Despite the headlines and Donald Trump’s rhetoric, the official US position remains unchanged and where things go from here are unclear
EU-China: New ‘climate leaders’ are also enamoured of fossil fuels
Gas imports to Europe from the US and massive future coal burning in China undermine the rhetoric of the world’s new self-proclaimed climate spearheads
EU-China climate statement is a manifesto for a new global order
The ten-page document affirms, in extraordinarily strong language, that the EU and China intend to make the US irrelevant
Environmental protections are under siege across the world
Not only in the US, the laws that safeguard the global commons are being watered down or washed away
Pope’s climate essay won’t convince Trump, it didn’t even work on Catholics
Pope’s encyclical on climate change appealed to liberals, but conservative Catholics were driven away by the values it invoked