Xie Zhenhua has stepped down and John Kerry has announced he will do the same in a few months time
The minister Jean-Pierre Bemba bribed witnesses in his war crimes trial and holds power over the environment minister Eve Bazaiba
The Brazilian government wants to tap forest protection funds to pave a major highway. Western donors say that goes against the fund’s rules.
Abdulaziz bin Salman’s interpretation of the agreement was slammed as “incredibly misleading” as the text “calls on” all governments to transition from fossil fuels
As Switzerland buys the first ever bilateral offsets, civil society’s analysis suggests the claimed emissions reductions from Thai buses would have happened anyway
Gwede Mantashe’s ministry argues for cutting ambition on renewables and investing more in gas. also plugging so-called “clean coal”
Mukhtar Babayev spent 26 years at Azerbaijan’s state-owned oil and gas company Socar, where he tried to limit the company’s environmental damage.
The government will consider incentives to charge electric vehicles at off-peak hours and to let vehicles sell their electricity to the grid
“Things are going downhill with the new government”, said one gold miner when detained by Brazil’s federal police
An Indonesian official said it would levy $310 million in fines on growers of palm oil on land which should be forest
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While Israel’s attack on Gaza featured prominently, Sudan’s civil war and its climate links were largely ignored at Cop28
Donations meant to preserve the Amazon rainforest may be spent paving the road, which critics say will worsen the forest’s destruction
The US and EU couldn’t agree on common rules for bilateral carbon trades in Dubai, leaving a vacuum for voluntary certifiers
With the EU ambivalent and small island states absent, Russia’s call for “transitional fuels” – read gas – made it into the Cop28 agreement
Developing nations got agreement to set targets for food and water security, but rich nations were unwilling to plug a huge funding gap
The EU and allies rejected proposed carbon trading rules that followed a “light-touch” approach favoured by the US
The final Cop28 text was regarded as historic by delegates, including the US, EU and small islands, but most agree there’s still work ahead
One day into overtime at Cop28, countries agreed to transition away from fossil fuels in energy systems: a first for the UN climate process
Azerbaijan gets two-thirds of its revenue from oil and gas, one of the highest percentages of any country in the world