Azerbaijan accuses Armenia of deforesting the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, but satellite data tells a different story
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The Green Climate Fund is making cutbacks to its project portfolio, while the US fails to deliver on a years-old funding pledge
Polling carried out before the floods showed that two-thirds of Nigerians had not heard of climate change
Cape Verde owes around $150m to the Portugese state – but Portugal says it will write off the debt if the African island nation spends the money on environmental measures
Wood Mackenzie research was used to justify UK support for a gas megaproject in Mozambique and a new coal mine, in government and in court
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Brazil’s new government is already having an impact on deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, an environmental enforcement agent claimed
The aviation industry plans to argue that banning short-haul flights is ineffective and impinges on EU citizens’ right to travel between countries
A US startup carried out a geoengineering experiment in Mexico, which the country claims was done without prior notice and consent
A $100 million project was meant to protect Karachi slumdwellers from flooding, but instead made many homeless before work stalled
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Campaigners called on Sultan Al Jaber to step down from the UAE’s state-owned oil company to avoid a conflict of interest
The city is at the mouth of the Amazon river and is the second-biggest city in the Amazon region after Manaus
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The Chinese presidency gavelled through a biodiversity pact in Montreal, overriding the funding concerns of some African delegates
Tensions are running high at the Cop15 biodiversity summit over a finance gap estimated at $700 billion per year
Poor and marginalised groups should be represented on the fund’s board, managing budgets and making decisions about their own lives
A draft document suggests the bank will broaden its “twin goals” of boosting prosperity and ending extreme poverty to encompass climate action
Countries committed to mobilise $200 billion “from all sources” to protect 30% of the world’s land and water ecosystems by 2030
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The deal will help Vietnam to peak its greenhouse gas emissions five years earlier than planned and scale up renewable energy generation
The European Union pushed to restrict loss and damage funds to “particularly vulnerable” nations, but the definition is still up for debate
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While there is a case for South Korea, UAE and Israel to join the donor pool, whichever way you measure it the US should pay more
A shortage of weather stations across Africa shouldn’t stop climate victims accessing critical funds, scientists say
The Pacific island nation says 100 countries back its call for the International Court of Justice to advise on states’ climate obligations
Debt and climate shocks, combined with political shifts, have united historically left- and rightwing countries behind common asks
Four young activists explain why loss and damage is a hot topic at Cop27 climate talks and how they are fighting for climate justice
Campaigners are hoping to use the global spotlight on Egypt to secure the release of political prisoners – but fear a backlash
If international solidarity with climate victims falls short, litigation offers a vital but imperfect avenue for compensation
Indigenous peoples and local communities receive less than 1% of all climate funding despite scoring wins for people and nature
After suffering from extreme drought, farmers have settled in timber plantations in eastern Zimbabwe, clashing with government and industry
The constitutional draft declared Chile an “ecological” state, recognised nature as a subject of rights and ordered the state to take actions against the climate crisis
In a pivot away from Russian gas, Germany cut energy consumption to its lowest level since the Berlin Wall fell – but increased coal burning
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AIIB’s fast-tracking of a 600MW LNG plant could set a precedent for more development finance to fossil gas projects, campaigners warn
German support for any of the projects would breach a pledge made last year to stop funding coal, oil and gas projects overseas from 1 January
The decision to allow a new coking coal mine goes against official climate advice and the UK’s international rhetoric on fossil fuels
The Gulf oil and gas exporter is going big on renewable energy investment and food security, while expanding hydrocarbon production
US and Saudi Arabia want a bottom-up deal focused on recycling, while a “high ambition coalition” wants top-down curbs on plastic production
From 2025, the entire country is expected to run on 100% clean electricity for hours then days at a time, raising new engineering challenges
On his first day in office as Brazil’s president, Lula da Silva signed a package of seven executive orders to protect the environment
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
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
Brazil’s outgoing president Jair Bolsonaro has presided over four years of destruction of the Amazon rainforest and the Cerrado grasslands
Cop15 biodiversity negotiations in Montreal next month will determine how the world halts and reverses nature loss
Brazil’s president-elect got a hero’s welcome at Cop27, where he met with climate envoys from the US and China
Nigeria, Chile and Vietnam are among countries now backing a stronger climate goal for international shipping, but cost concerns remain
The International Civil Aviation Organization has agreed a 2050 net zero emissions goal for aviation but its credibility is in doubt
The “jet zero” strategy relies on future technology breakthroughs and rejects options to curb demand
Schiphol airport, the third busiest in Europe, will be required to limit traffic to below its pre-pandemic peak, to reduce pollution
After a decade of talks, there is consensus at the International Maritime Organization to put a price on shipping emissions – the next question is how high
After domestic airlines threatened to ground their planes, the government agreed to cover some of their rising fuel costs
Ministers hope Turkish Airlines will make its first biofuelled flight by the end of 2022, but experts are sceptical algae can make much of a dent in aviation emissions
The salt flats of Catamarca hold rich resources for a green revolution, but the impact of mining on water sources has nearby communities worried
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Negotiators at the Cop15 biodiversity summit in Montreal have until Friday to agree a “nature pact” that can get rid of harmful subsidies
Emissions are still rising, pledges to 2030 put the world on track for 2.5C of warming but fossil fuel demand is nearing its peak
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Tense relations between the Chinese presidency and host nation Canada put a “Paris Agreement for nature” further out of reach
A team from Oxford University is trying to persuade governments to impose carbon capture and storage requirements on fossil fuel producers
Pakistan’s catastrophic flooding and soaring energy bills are shaping the UN agenda – for those leaders who show up
Presidents of Senegal, DRC and Ghana travelled to Rotterdam to talk about adapting to climate change. Only one European leader was there to meet them