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Climate

Tracking global efforts to curb carbon emissions and adapt to climate change impacts and extreme weather

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Negotiations

COP29: Hostile climate talks end with a new finance target – and fury
Delayed talks bring USD 300 billion pledge to support developing countries’ climate action, but critics scorn deal as an ‘optical illusion’ made in ‘bad faith’
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Carbon emissions

Ending high-emission coal is key to China’s methane reduction
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Climate adaptation

Uruguay elections: What environmental issues face its next president?
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Negotiations

Will China assume more responsibility for global climate finance?
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Climate diplomacy

Manuel Pulgar-Vidal: ‘The climate debate is at a pandemic moment’
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Blue economy

COP29 must offer lifeline for ‘blue foods’ amid climate storm
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Energy transition

COP29: Countries still miles apart on climate finance at tense UN summit
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Air pollution

Global South can tackle air pollution, climate change with new approaches and solidarity
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Loss and damage

We need radical action on climate finance at COP29

In focus

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Elections

Roundtable: What does the second Trump presidency mean for global climate action?
Climate experts from China, India, Kenya, South Africa, Colombia and Mexico react to the US presidential election results
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Negotiations

Imbalance of power: Women at international climate negotiations
Women’s representation at UN climate conferences has barely improved in 30 years, particularly women from South Asia
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Carbon emissions

Interactive: Can CCS help Asia reach its climate goals?
Deploying CCS without ramping up renewables could compromise the ‘just transition’ of Southeast Asian countries
Opinion
Negotiations

Riding the 2024 COPs wave: Ocean issues connect everything
Ocean issues cut across all three major UN conferences taking place at the end of 2024, says Felipe Cárcamo Moreno
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Government

Can Kashmir’s new government tackle environmental issues?
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Climate impacts

Analysis: Pakistan’s COP29 priorities
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Climate impacts

How climate change is impacting sports in Africa
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Carbon emissions

The challenges of carbon neutrality labelling in China
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US-China

Four lessons from 30 years of US-China climate cooperation
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Biodiversity

‘You can’t grow forever on a finite planet’
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Energy transition

Can Latin America deliver on its energy transition promises by 2030?
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Loss and damage

Opinion: Harmonising loss and damage finance will be key to COP29
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Finance

Green bonds, red flags: Cambodia’s microfinance crisis deepens amid sustainability push
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Climate diplomacy

Political tension in West Africa puts vital climate action at risk
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Loss and damage

What is loss and damage, and what does it mean for South Asia?
Women collect their belongings from their destroyed homes after the floods Article
Climate adaptation

Diary: Disaster, Indigeneity and climate adaptation in Kathmandu

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