Switzerland and Canada propose ways to expand climate finance donors

An activists holds a placard during a climate strike in September 2023, in Edmonton, Canada. Photo: Artur Widak/NurPhoto

Heat inequality ‘causing thousands of unreported deaths in poor countries’

Refugees, cycle couriers, construction workers and street cleaners are among those who suffer with extreme heat. Illustration: Guardian Design

‘He was choking on his own tongue’: animals suffer as heatwaves increase

Solly the sheep, who died at a Mallorcan animal sanctuary after contracting a mosquito-borne disease. Photograph: Ana Palacios

China adds new clean power equivalent to UK’s entire electricity output

China added as much new clean energy generation in the first half of this year as the UK produced from all sources in the same period last year, data shows, as wind and solar power generation continued to surge in the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases.

Chair of Nuclear for Australia denies that calling CO2 ‘plant food’ means he is a climate denier

Dr Adi Paterson, pictured when chief executive of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, accused Nasa of ‘confusing public understanding by publishing ground surface temperatures’. Photograph: AAP

Climate activists in frame for £1m costs of protest bans run up by UK’s biggest law firm

Banners at Euston station in London during a protest against HS2 in 2021. Photograph: Henry Nicholls/Reuters Britain’s biggest law firm has sought more than £1m from climate protesters to cover the cost of court orders banning them from protesting, an investigation has found.

Tax credits in Biden’s landmark climate law disproportionately benefit well-off

Workers lift a solar panel on to a roof during a residential solar installation in Scripps Ranch, San Diego, California. Photograph: Mike Blake/Reuters

SOUTH SUDAN: $46 million from the AfDB to improve food security in 4 states

Despite their country's agricultural potential, 7 million South Sudanese are food insecure.

TOGO: hydrogeological studies underway to assess Lomé’s aquifers

In Togo, the government is launching hydrogeological studies to assess groundwater resources in Greater Lomé, ahead of the launch of the Urban Water Security Project in Togo (PaSH-MUT).

‘The new reality’: Athens wildfire victims vow to adapt and stay put

Dimitris Petrou and his dog Mallou on the veranda of his burned-out home in Nea Penteli, Athens. Photograph: Helena Smith/The Guardian

Affluent Norway has third highest per-capita domestic flight emissions

Less than 10% of the world’s population take a plane in any one year. Photograph: Gary Stedman/Alamy

‘Now you can have rest in your home’: the mirror roofs cooling homes in Freetown

In 1990, Freetown was home to 529,000 people but its population has since swelled to about 1.3 million.

Himalayan village in Nepal hit by icy floods

A Sherpa village in Nepal’s Everest region has been engulfed by icy flood waters, officials say.

Climate Q&A: Population, volcanoes and electric cars

How has the Ukraine war affected efforts to tackle climate change? First

Decolonise to decarbonise

The Reverend Dr Martin Luther King Jr once said, in the context of the civil rights movement in the US, “I have no time for the tranquillising drug of gradualism”.

UN chief: there is no way to keep 1.5C alive without a fossil fuels phase-out – video

‘A crisis entirely of humanity’s making’: UN chief issues climate SOS on trip to Pacific

Sea-surface temperatures in the south-west Pacific have risen three times faster than the global average since 1980. Photograph: Christopher Malili/The Guardian

UN chief to push for more climate change action at Pacific leaders’ summit

United Nations secretary general António Guterres is expected to address the impacts of climate change and sea level rise on the Pacific region at the Pacific Islands Forum in Tonga. Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Police acting as ‘private security’ for Drax power station, say climate activists

The climate protest group Reclaim the Power had planned to hold a camp near Drax power station in North Yorkshire. Photograph: Gary Calton/The Observer

‘Huge benefits’ in greater debt relief for lower income countries, study finds

Debt for Climate activists block an entrance to the German finance ministry during the 2022 G7 summit in Berlin. Photograph: Christian Mang/Reuters