Outside a Commonwealth summit in London, islanders demand their Antiguan prime minister, who called them ‘imbeciles’, reveal how aid money has been spent
Britain will legislate new emissions targets and order a review on bringing them in line with the Paris Agreement, minister Claire Perry announced
The UK emits as much as 18 of its former colonies, a report finds, and, along with Australia and Canada, isn’t doing its fair share to cut carbon
As a tough year of talks begins, the EU is searching for allies in a fight with China over the rules of the Paris Agreement, but Africa’s help will come at a cost
New offices required to house mega-department, but will climate change survive as a priority after being shifted out of the powerful development commission?
The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office is urging Congress to make coal mining companies pay for environmental clean-up and reduce the risk to taxpayers
A major oil spill in the region would have covered up to 750km of beaches and disrupted whale migration, reveal government documents BP tried to suppress
The $1 trillion investor is raising deforestation concerns with a number of beef companies but not the Amazon’s biggest cattle buyer, despite evidence against it
Carlos Alvarado Quesada is promising to replace petrol and diesel in the transport system with clean energy, comparing the task to abolishing the army
The pioneering piece of legislation has helped bring emissions down, but the challenges of the Paris Agreement require more ambition from the government
When Donald Trump became US president, there were fears for public information on climate science. So what happened?
Drought, desertification, land degradation and food insecurity are driving conflict in the Horn of African country, says security council
Across Europe a wave of gigafactories are coming online, ready to meet the battery demands of a continent-wide switch to electric cars
Financial regulators drew parliamentarians’ ire after failing to meet their demands to voluntarily report their climate adaptation plans
Companies owned by WV governor exploited a supposedly temporary status to defer environmental clean up and leave miners in limbo, in some cases for decades
Wells Griffith, who worked on the Trump campaign, has spent the last year negotiating exports deals for the US energy industry
Across the country, mining land has been reclaimed at low cost, leaving communities with few alternatives to rebuild their economies
Campaigners welcome move to update low-carbon emissions roadmap, saying it sends an important political signal
‘I’m not in favour of showing any softness to those who decide to break those rules,’ the French president said about the deal struck in his capital in 2015
Dodgy credits allow exporters to ship the valuable timber overseas, to unsuspecting consumers who are unaware the timber may be illegal