Climate Change News

Donors pledge over $8bn to rebuild Pakistan after floods – official

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

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

A draft document suggests the bank will broaden its “twin goals” of boosting prosperity and ending extreme poverty to encompass climate action

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

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

Nigeria, Chile and Vietnam are among countries now backing a stronger climate goal for international shipping, but cost concerns remain

Countries committed to mobilise $200 billion “from all sources” to protect 30% of the world’s land and water ecosystems by 2030

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

The Chinese presidency gavelled through a biodiversity pact in Montreal, overriding the funding concerns of some African delegates

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

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

Tensions are running high at the Cop15 biodiversity summit over a finance gap estimated at $700 billion per year

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