China’s ban on key high-tech materials could have broad impact on...
BANGKOK -- China has banned exports of key materials used to make a wide range of products, including smartphones, electric vehicles, radar systems and...
UNCCD COP16 Raises Hopes for Ambitious Global Land Action
Combating Desertification and Drought, Conferences, Conservation, Development & Aid, Editors' Choice, Environment, Featured, Food and Agriculture, Gender, Global, Headlines, Humanitarian Emergencies, Migration & Refugees,...
Climate Finance Not Charity, But Obligation, International Court of Justice hears
Asia-Pacific, Climate Change, Climate Change Justice, Environment, Featured, Global, Headlines, Human Rights, Humanitarian Emergencies, Least Developed Countries, Middle East & North Africa, Pacific Community...
Meet the Banks and Investors Funding the LNG ‘Carbon Bomb’
Liquefied natural gas developers have expansion plans that could release 10 additional metric gigatons of climate pollution by 2030, and major banks and investors...
Biden Administration Takes ‘Morally Bankrupt’ Climate Position at ICJ
The Biden administration faced backlash from scientists, advocacy groups, and vulnerable Pacific islands on Wednesday for arguing before the United Nations' highest court that...
In Malawi, sex and mental health can be taboo topics. Not...
The weekly radio show “Spot On: Kalikonse Tikadziwe” takes on topics that are taboo in the village of Undi and throughout Malawian society. Today’s...
Japan’s famous sake joins UNESCO’s cultural heritage list, a boost to...
LUQUE, Paraguay -- Sake is perhaps more Japanese than the world-famous sushi. It's brewed in centuries-old mountaintop warehouses, savored in the country’s pub-like izakayas,...
Conservation Agriculture Transforming Farming in Southern Africa
Africa, Climate Action, Development & Aid, Editors' Choice, Environment, Featured, Food and Agriculture, Headlines, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United Nations | Analysis Food and Agriculture ...
North Carolina Town Sues Utility Giant Over ‘Decades of Deception’ on...
The town of Carrboro, North Carolina filed a lawsuit Wednesday accusing the utility company Duke Energy of carrying out a "knowing deception campaign concerning...
Where Nazis first won office, Germans are voting for right-wing extremists
Just down a thickly forested road from the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial here in the historic city of Weimar, a young mother wrangling her...
‘Right Thing to Do’: FERC Delays Controversial LNG Export Terminal
Frontline communities along the Gulf Coast were granted a "temporary reprieve" last week when the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission moved to pause its approval...
TikTok Ad Awards Announces 2024 South African Winners
The inaugural TikTok Ad Awards 2024 ceremony has taken place in Dubai, at Upside. The event has celebrated standout brands and agencies across the...
How an App Transformed Farming for Rural Tanzanian Women
Active Citizens, Africa, Artificial Intelligence, Civil Society, Development & Aid, Editors' Choice, Environment, Featured, Food and Agriculture, Green Economy, Headlines, Sustainability, Sustainable Development Goals,...
Update on contested plan to open pharmacy in ‘much-needed’ location
Priesh Patel and his family have spent the last few months trying to set up a healthcare hub inside the High Street...
African news, analysis and opinion
On paper, Senegal has the resources to support its ambition to become the African continent’s next economic powerhouse, with its population, oil windfall and...
Absa Renews Sponsorship of the Absa RUN YOUR CITY SERIES
Absa has renewed its commitment as title sponsor of the Absa RUN YOUR CITY SERIES, a partnership that began in 2021 during the Covid-19...
Focus on Africa: IPBES Plenary Session Makes Inaugural Visit to Biodiverse...
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Springbok in Sossusvlei, Namibia. IPBES 11...
Ugandan Disability Rights Mental Health Advocate Honored
(New York) – Benon Kabale, a Ugandan disability rights advocate, is the 2024 recipient of the Human Rights Watch Marca Bristo Fellowship for Courageous Leadership...
‘The People Always Pay’: Report Details How LNG Tax Breaks Harm...
How do local communities lose out when governments invest in fossil fuel facilities instead of community needs? That's the question at the heart of...
Prominent Human Rights Lawyer Beaten in Cameroon
On November 27, gendarmes in Cameroon arrested and severely beat prominent human rights lawyer Richard Tamfu in the country’s largest city, Douala. The vicious...
Small Island States Urge International Court to Look Beyond Climate Treaties
Caribbean Climate Wire, Climate Change, Climate Change Finance, Climate Change Justice, Editors' Choice, Environment, Featured, Global, Headlines, Human Rights, Humanitarian Emergencies, International Justice, Least...
‘Monumental Victory for the Ocean’: Norway Halts Plans for Deep-Sea Mining
Environmental organizations cheered as Norway's controversial plans to move forward with deep-sea mining in the vulnerable Arctic Ocean were iced on Sunday.
The pause was...
‘Frontlines of a Crisis We Did Not Create’: Low-Lying Nations Make...
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) heard arguments Monday in the largest climate case ever brought before it as a coalition of low-lying and...
Confronting the Global Crisis of Land Degradation
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The 16th session of the...
The Biggest Delegation at Plastic Treaty Talks? Plastic Industry Lobbyists
At the fifth and final session of the United Nations Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to finalize a global plastics treaty in Busan, South Korea, one...
The COP29 is over, and so is the spotlight on Azerbaijan
Image by Arzu Geybullayeva.The 29th session of the United Nation's flagship climate summit, also known as COP (Conference of Parties), just wrapped up in...
Drought in Somalia is forcing thousands of climate refugees to Kenya’s...
A screenshot of an old woman at the Dadaab Refugee Camp from the documentary Radio Dadaab by the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF), used with...
Maine Becomes Latest State to Sue Oil Giants Over Climate Deception
Maine on Tuesday joined a group of eight other U.S. states that have sued major oil and gas companies for deceiving the public about...
Critics Call COP29 Climate Finance Draft ‘Slap in the Face’ by...
With the United Nations' annual climate summit scheduled to end Friday in Baku, Azerbaijan, green groups denounced the latest
draft finance deal, which would...
‘Unacceptable’: Campaigners Decry Climate Finance Failures as COP29 Enters Final Hours
As the clock winds down at the UN climate summit taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan, green groups are sounding the alarm Thursday following the...
Nearly 300 Green Groups Urge Biden to Block LNG Expansion Ahead...
As the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan draws to a close and the second presidency of Donald Trump approaches, nearly 300...
Big Oil Tax Could Boost Global Loss and Damage Fund by...
A modest tax on the world's seven largest oil and gas companies could generate hundreds of billions of dollars by the end of the...
Campaigners Demand ‘Biden Make a Final Stand’ for Climate Before Trump...
With the clock winding down on President Joe Biden's tenure and the dark cloud of Republican President-elect Donald Trump's imminent administration looming, activists rallied...
At COP29, Democrat Senators Vow to ‘Rise Up’ for Climate During...
A pair of Democratic U.S. senators pledged Saturday at the United Nations Climate Change Conference to keep fighting for climate action during Republican President-elect...
Thousands March in London to Demand End of Fossil Fuels and...
Thousands of climate justice advocates took to the streets of London on Saturday to demand the U.K. government "end its reliance on fossil fuels,...
Exploring Mexican identity and the human soul through Marlene Pasini’s poetry
Photo of Marlene Pasini in an illustration by Global Voices. Photo used with permission.To talk about Marlene Pasini is to talk about a Mexican...
‘We Need a Shift’: Climate Leaders Demand End of COP Dominated...
The crushing influence of petrostates and fossil fuel industry lobbyists has rendered the annual United Nations climate conference unfit to deliver the kinds of...
Trump Picks Big Oil Ally and Drilling Enthusiast Doug Burgum for...
President-elect Donald Trump announced Thursday that he has chosen billionaire North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, a close ally of the fossil fuel industry and...
US Plastics Industry Dumps Almost Half a Billion Gallons of Wastewater...
Amid fears over President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, a government watchdog on Thursday called out the EPA for letting...
As Planet Heads Toward 2.7°C Rise, Tracker Warns Global Climate Action...
Existing policies and actions taken by world governments put the world on track for a median estimate of 2.7°C of warming by the end...
Newly Unearthed Docs Show Big Oil Knew of Climate Dangers as...
Documents uncovered from several academic and news archives shed light on what one climate disinformation expert on Tuesday called "one of the earliest and...
Critics Warn Trump EPA Pick Zeldin ‘Will Make Our Air and...
As U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet
continued to take shape on Tuesday, climate and environmental campaigners expressed deep concerns about his pick to lead...
UN Climate Chief Warns Inaction on Emissions Will Deliver ‘Inflation on...
As he addressed world leaders at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan on Tuesday, U.N. climate chief Simon Stiell made the...
‘We Don’t Give Up’: Climate Groups Resolute as Shell Wins Appeal...
Climate campaigners didn't sugarcoat their reactions to a Dutch court decision on Tuesday that overturned a landmark 2021 ruling ordering the oil behemoth Shell...
As Biden Adviser Speaks at COP29, Green Groups Say Act Before...
As the U.S. senior adviser to the president for international climate policy addressed the United Nations summit in Azerbaijan on Monday, green groups urged...
Climate Campaigners Demand COP29 Free of ‘False’ Finance Solutions
The 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference has been called the "climate finance" conference, with participants expected to establish a new annual target for...
‘Ready to Fight’ for Climate, Students Walk Out Over Trump
Students with the youth-led Sunrise Movement walked out of over 30 high schools and universities across the United States on Friday to stand against...
Advocates Urge Biden to ‘Secure His Climate Legacy’ by Acting on...
With just 75 days left before climate-denying Republican President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House to pursue his "Drill, Baby, Drill" energy agenda,...
2024 ‘Virtually Certain’ to Be Hottest Year on Record: EU Climate...
A day after U.S. voters elected climate-denying Republican Donald Trump in the presidential race, soon ushering in an administration that is sure to expand...
Greta Thunberg Won’t Attend UN Climate Talks in ‘Yet Another Authoritarian...
When national delegates and civil society representatives gather in Baku, Azerbaijan next week for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, one prominent climate voice...
Who Should Pay for Climate Damage? Majority of the World Agrees:...
A multinational survey commissioned by Greenpeace International and published Monday revealed that a majority of respondents favor making fossil fuel companies pay for...
‘Unacceptable,’ Advocates Say as COP16 Ends Without Biodiversity Fund Deal
Officials at the international biodiversity conference that began in October were forced on Saturday to suspend talks without reaching an agreement on a key...
Company That Tracks Methane Leaks Says Crisis Worse ‘Than Ever Before’
The number of methane "super-emitters" detected by a satellite company has surged by approximately one-third over the past year, despite pledges from fossil fuel...
G20 commits to fighting the inequalities driving AIDS and other pandemics....
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL, 1 November 2024 — Ministers at the G20 Ministerial in Rio De Janeiro have made new commitments to tackle AIDS...
Transforming trauma into art through smoke and spirit: Congolese artist Géraldine...
Portrait of Géraldine Tobe ©Studio Vanssay. Photo courtesy of AFIKARIS Gallery, Paris.
“I needed to go beyond brushes and traditional painting. Smoke is unpredictable, creating...
‘The Window Is Closing’: Fears Grow That World Leaders Will Fail...
As a major international biodiversity summit approaches its Friday conclusion, environmental advocates fear that world leaders will not make the conservation and financial commitments...
Report Details Record-Breaking Health Threats of Climate Crisis, Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Over $1 trillion spent each year on subsidizing fossil fuel production must be redirected to public health efforts, said the experts behind a new...
‘This Is Climate Change’: Devastating Flooding Kills More Than 70 in...
Spain's deadliest flooding in 30 years killed at least 72 people as torrential rain slammed the eastern region of Valencia on Tuesday, with some...
140 Groups Urge Biodiversity Summit Attendees to Halt New Oil and...
With just a few more days of the United Nations biodiversity summit in Cali, Colombia, 140 organizations collectively
called on government representatives to pursue...
‘Frightening’: Over 1 in 3 of World’s Tree Species Face Extinction
More than one-third of Earth's tree species are at risk of extinction, with logging, forest destruction for agriculture and urban development, and human-caused global...
‘Words Fail’: WMO Report Finds CO2 Accumulating at Record Levels
Climate-heating carbon dioxide is accumulating in the atmosphere more rapidly than at any time since humans evolved.
That's just one of the alarming findings from...
Experts back G20 action to tackle pandemics by addressing the inequalities...
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL, 29 October 2024—Today, at a special event organized for the G20 Joint Finance and Health Ministerial, the Brazilian government and...
Billionaires Spew More CO2 Pollution in 90 Minutes Than Average Person...
With the world
on track for 3.1°C of warming this century, Oxfam International on Monday blamed global billionaires who—with their superyachts, private jets, and...
Climate Groups Warn Third-Party Vote ‘Could Hand Our Planet’s Future Over...
A coalition of leading U.S. environmental groups warned Thursday that a third-party vote in next month's election could help usher in climate disaster by...
‘We’re Playing With Fire’: World on Track for ‘Catastrophic’ 3.1°C of...
The world's nations must commit to dramatically slashing greenhouse gas emissions in the near future or risk a "catastrophic" rise in global average temperatures,...
COP29 Host’s State Oil Company ‘Aggressively’ Ramping Up Fossil Fuel Production:...
In less than a month, Azerbaijan will host the United Nations' 29th Climate Change Conference, or COP29. But a new report on its state...
World Bank Leads Development Giants in Investing $2.27 Billion in Factory...
The Green Climate Fund and 11 of the 15 multilateral development banks together invested at least $2.27 billion in factory farming in 2023, undercutting...
UNAIDS calls for global solidarity to strengthen Madagascar’s HIV response to...
GENEVA, 21 October 2024—The Executive Director of UNAIDS Winnie Byanyima is calling for accelerated global solidarity to strengthen Madagascar’s response to HIV, including preventing new...
‘Terrifying’: Leak Shows Industry Plot to Worsen Methane Emissions—If Trump Wins
A key oil and gas industry group has devised a plan to dismantle Biden-era climate regulations, including on methane emissions, according to an investigation...
‘The Law Is Clear’: NY Officials Back Memo Outlining Criminal Charges...
Several New York City and state elected officials endorsed a memo published Thursday outlining how New York City prosecutors could charge major fossil fuel...
‘Sigh of Relief’ as Supreme Court Gives EPA Another Temporary Win
The climate movement on Wednesday welcomed a victory at the U.S. Supreme Court, the third temporary win for the Biden administration's environmental policies this...
IEA Report Underscores Urgency of Fossil Fuel Phaseout as Electricity Demand...
The International Energy Agency on Wednesday released a major report showing that the world's nations are not on track to reduce greenhouse gas emissions...
‘Stop Funding Environmental Racism’: Groups Demand Banks Divest From Petrochemicals
Environmental and policy groups on Tuesday called for financial institutions to stop funding the U.S. petrochemical industry.
Break Free from Plastic, Friends of the Earth,...