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Total is disrespecting graves in East Africa as it pursues pipeline

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

After talks in Sunnyland, California, the US and China agreed to revive a bilateral working group on climate change

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

After the UK cut short a £52m climate adaptation scheme in Malawi, vulnerable communities saw their livelihoods destroyed by Cyclone Freddy

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

Developing and developed countries are wrangling over whether finance should be included in an adaptation framework to be approved at Cop28

Developing countries made key concession to land a draft deal on funding for climate victims, subject to political signoff at Cop28

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

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

At the Global Partnership for Education, we paid a high price to be hosted by the World Bank. A loss and damage fund should be independent

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

Wars harm climate action because large militaries emit a lot and military spending diverts money away from tackling climate change

As Israel cuts off electricity to the Gaza Strip, rooftop solar panels help residents to survive frequent bombardment

Bangladeshi scientist and campaigner Saleemul Huq attended every UN climate summit and championed the cause of developing countries