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World Bank adaptation funds slept through Pakistan’s record flooding

A $100 million project was meant to protect Karachi slumdwellers from flooding, but instead made many homeless before work stalled

The German government agreed that utility RWE could expand the Luetzerath coal mine in exchange for a faster national coal phase-out

As the world’s political and corporate leaders gather in Switzerland, activists and analysts are downbeat about the possibility of climate action

The government ignored warnings that building large hydropower projects in the Himalayas was unsafe. Now Josimath town is falling apart

The city is at the mouth of the Amazon river and is the second-biggest city in the Amazon region after Manaus

Outgoing chief Andre De Ruyter survived an attempt on his life last month, as coal-friendly minister Gwede Mantashe took control of Eskom

Hurricane Ian in Florida caused a big chunk of the financial losses while floods in Pakistan, Nigeria and South Africa killed the most people

At a Geneva summit, multilateral development banks committed the vast majority of funds, with smaller contributions from governments

Meetings of the World Bank, IMF, International Maritime Organization and Cop28 will shape climate action, plus elections and China’s reopening

In a pivot away from Russian gas, Germany cut energy consumption to its lowest level since the Berlin Wall fell – but increased coal burning

On his first day in office as Brazil’s president, Lula da Silva signed a package of seven executive orders to protect the environment

After an avalanche of climate pledges last year, 2022 was when governments and corporations started to grapple with implementation

Nestlé, Coca Cola and Pepsi are among the buyers from Nanglamal Sugar Complex, which smallholders say gives no help with climate resilience

Women and girls in India’s sugar fields are exposed to sexual harassment, backbreaking work and inadequate healthcare

Mexico, a country of 130 million, is one of only two G20 countries not to have set net zero emission targets

Millions of people migrate each year to work in India’s sugar fields under extreme heat, harsh conditions and debt bondage

In India more intense droughts and floods are destroying sugarcane crops and plunging millions of farmers and their families into debt

The hype machine behind a $70,000 carbon credit, fossil fuel fights in Sharm el-Sheikh and other essential journalism

Brazil’s outgoing president Jair Bolsonaro has presided over four years of destruction of the Amazon rainforest and the Cerrado grasslands

The world-first scheme will protect European industries from being undercut by polluting competitors, but angers emerging economies