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Wolverines Are Finally Listed as Threatened. Decades of Reversals May Have Caused the Protections to Come Too Late

Climate change is reducing the snowpack the mythic predators depend on for their dens, but resistance from resource extraction and recreation interests delayed Endangered Species Act protection. After decades of battles that spanned five U.S.

SOUTH AFRICA: Cape Town to create six nature reserves and renovate nine others

In South Africa, the city of Cape Town is embarking on the extension of nine nature reserves and the creation of six new ones, with the aim of enhancing their ecological functions.

MOROCCO: AFD pledges €80M to support sustainable agriculture against climate change

The development of sustainable agriculture is one of the solutions to climate change in Morocco.

BURKINA FASO: €43m from the AfDB for climate-resilient water and sanitation

The African Development Bank (AfDB) is providing around €43 million to improve access to drinking water, sanitation and hygiene in Burkina Faso.

Ivory Coast: the main points of the World Bank’s climate report

As vice-president Tiémoko Meyliet Koné represents Ivory Coast at COP28, which opened in Dubai on Thursday 30 November 2023, a World Bank report makes it clear that the West African country is not ready to face the economic consequences of climate change, despite the politi

COP28: will the loss and damage fund reach the $100 billion mark?

The fund designed to finance climate "loss and damage" in vulnerable countries was adopted on Thursday 30 November 2023, on the first day of the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai.

Vietnam charts uncertain coal path as finance falls short

When Vietnam and a group of rich countries struck up a $15.5 billion energy transition deal nearly a year ago, they set out an enti

Don’t be fooled: CCS is no solution to oil and gas emissions

The oil and gas industry wants you to believe it can capture its emissions and keep drilling as usual. That’s no way to avert climate chaos

Cop28 bulletin: Fossil fuel phaseout is on the table

In the early hours of Friday in Dubai, a city surrounded by oil and gas plants, a draft text emerged at Cop28 that opened the possibility of phasing out all fossil fuels.

COP28: UN climate talks go big on ending fossil fuels

Countries and oil companies at the UN climate talks have promised to make major progress in tackling global warming in a large new energy pledge. Around 100 countries promised to treble world renewable energy use by 2030.

Host country of COP28, UAE, to ramp up oil production, BBC learns

The country hosting COP28 climate talks aimed at cutting fossil fuel emissions is massively ramping up its own oil production, the BBC has learned.

My ultimate red lines for COP28 Open letter from the climate system to Sultan Al Jaber, President of COP28

Dear Sultan Al Jaber,

The Guardian view on a non-proliferation treaty: fossil fuels are weapons of mass destruction

The planet faces an existential threat if we do not transition from the current extractive model of growth to a low-carbon economy

Cop28 president says there is ‘no science’ behind demands for phase-out of fossil fuels

The president of Cop28, Sultan Al Jaber, has claimed there is “no science” indicating that a phase-out of fossil fuels is needed to restrict global heating to 1.5C, the Guard

Cop28: US commits to close coal-fired power plants – as it happened

Here are the key takeaways from the third day of Cop28:

Divert military spending to fund climate aid, activists urge Cop28

Wealthy nations should divert 5% of their military budgets to climate finance, advocates argue.

Extreme weather could shut down one in 12 hospitals worldwide, report warns

Total of 16,245 hospitals at high risk by end of century unless fossil fuels phased out, analysts say One in 12 hospitals worldwide are at risk of total or partial shutdown from extreme weather events without a rapid phase-out of fossil fuels, a new report warns.