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
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
Brazil’s outgoing president Jair Bolsonaro has presided over four years of destruction of the Amazon rainforest and the Cerrado grasslands
The deal will help Vietnam to peak its greenhouse gas emissions five years earlier than planned and scale up renewable energy generation
The world-first scheme will protect European industries from being undercut by polluting competitors, but angers emerging economies
Negotiators at the Cop15 biodiversity summit in Montreal have until Friday to agree a “nature pact” that can get rid of harmful subsidies
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 EU deforestation law aims to stop imports of products if their producers have cut down trees to grow them
The Gulf oil and gas exporter is going big on renewable energy investment and food security, while expanding hydrocarbon production
Ursula von der Leyen is mooting increased public support for EU cleantech industries, in response to the US’ Inflation Reduction Act
Marina Silva, tipped as the next environment minister, tweeted that the planned infrastructure would cost the country $22bn over four years