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How can heating and cooling freeze the emissions trajectory?
Sponsored content: To make headway in the fight against climate change, we must decarbonise heating, ventilation and air conditioning
By greenwashing Shell, the Science Museum is failing young people
As a biology and chemistry student I love London’s Science Museum, but its acceptance of oil sponsorship for a climate change exhibition is inexcusable
“Run that dishwasher”: what net zero means for an appliance manufacturer
Sponsored content: Whirlpool will use a combination of renewable energy, efficiency improvements, and carbon removal investments to reach its target
How adaptive technology is the focus of an extended Egyptian climate project
Sponsored content: The work has seen agricultural technologies like heat tolerant wheat and intercropping make the region more resilient
Flooding and drought fuels mental health crisis in Kenya
Many Kenyans are suffering post-traumatic stress, depression and anxiety after being hit by extreme weather, but lack access to mental health services
Mapping the invisible atmospheric ‘rivers’ that bring East Africa’s rain
Sponsored content: A recently published paper shows how regional rainfall moves across the subcontinent, describing the system as “a series of invisible rivers”
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Brazil’s environment minister investigated for illegal logging cover-up
The Supreme Court authorised the federal police to investigate Ricardo Salles over suspicions of a ‘serious scheme’ to facilitate the export of illegal timber out of Brazil
With Indonesia’s answer to Elon Musk in jail, electric vehicles are going nowhere
Electric vehicle pioneer Dasep Ahmadi was imprisoned over a failed experiment, with a chilling effect on innovation
How can companies better report on environmental risks?
Sponsored content: Findings show a deep misalignment between sustainability reports and mainstream findings, indicating the need for an improved understanding of risk
Southern Madagascar at risk of famine amid worst drought in 40 years
UN agencies are urgently calling for international support as a million Madagascans go hungry, with some surviving on insects and wild roots
California is the biggest producer in the world planning to go beyond oil
Governor Gavin Newsom has ordered a plan to phase out oil and gas production in California by 2045, but the industry won’t go down without a fight
UK aid cuts hit developing cities’ plans to protect against floods and fires
The urban poor in Nairobi, Kathmandu, Quito and Istanbul will lose out from deep budget cuts to the UK-backed Tomorrow’s Cities programme
Pakistan explores debt-for-nature scheme to accelerate its 10 billion tree tsunami
Creditors could grant Pakistan debt relief in exchange for meeting nature restoration targets, under a proposed first-of-its-kind bond
Andean and African climate projects aim to reap benefits of regional collaboration
Sponsored content: Regional projects improve efficiency and create learning opportunities, say Adaptation Fund programme members
Scientists push to add “huge” fish trawling emissions to national inventories
Bottom-trawling for fish releases more carbon dioxide each year than Germany, a study has revealed, yet this is not included in national carbon accounts
Green Climate Fund whistleblowers urge US to take its money elsewhere – until ‘toxic’ workplace is fixed
As John Kerry promises to “make good” on a $2 billion pledge to the GCF, the UN’s flagship fund faces critically low confidence in its senior management
China’s dirty Covid-19 recovery leaves heavy lifting on climate to its five-year plan
Official government figures show energy, steel and cement consumption rose in 2020, pushing emissions up as Beijing is expected to reveal 2025 targets
Italy creates ecological transition ministry but campaigners warn against gas support
Physicist Roberto Cingolani, who comes from a defense and security firm to lead a new Italian green ministry, has previously praised gas as ‘the most sustainable resource’
Fatal Himalayan glacial lake outburst highlights destabilising effect of warming
More than 200 people are dead or missing after floods gushed through mountain gorges in Uttarakhand, India, in a disaster linked to climate change