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Slow start for Indonesia’s much-hyped carbon market

Since President Widodo launched Indonesia’s exchange two months ago, there’s been barely any trading of carbon credits

Last month, a government-owned electricity company deliberately spilled water from its dam, displacing tens of thousands

Khalil was a researcher who drew attention to the impacts of climate change on the Gaza Strip before being killed by Israel’s bombs

To build the East African Crude Oil Pipeline, Total is moving over 2,000 graves in Uganda and Tanzania, with no respect for local customs

Backed by the EU, Namibia has a $20 billion plan to export green hydrogen. A secretive tender process raises concerns for nature and citizens.

Australia has offered visas and climate finance to Tuvalu in a security pact to counter China’s influence in the Pacific region

Experts said that China didn’t want to shut down coal mines and was likely under-counting its coal mine methane emissions

Even though we now have the Paris agreement, cooperation between the world’s two biggest emitters, US and China, is still crucial

Tricky politics have hampered renewable growth and plans to stop oil and gas exploration have sparked economic fears

A nature conservation foundation has accused Argentine scientists of slander after criticism of their rewilding methods

Export credit agencies are still backing oil and gas projects – this week’s OECD meeting is a chance to change that

The climate minister of Pacific Island Vanuatu says those choosing the Cop31 host should examine Australia’s gas expansion plans

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

The technically complex contract was won by Alfajiri, which is based in a residential property in Canada and has only existed a few months

The G7 has offered to mobilise $15.5 billion to get Vietnam from coal to clean energy but just 2% of this is grants

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

Climate disasters cascade across continents and oceans – countries must tackle them together

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

While small islands still say the Green Climate Fund is better than the rest, they are facing problems getting money from it

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