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The government’s priorities are shifting towards adaptation to protect communities, jobs and industries. But the longer we wait to cut emissions, the more the costs of climate change will compound.
A passenger airliner flies past clouds and a rainbow in the sky over Beijing, in May 2024.
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The governance of solar radiation modification technologies is hampered by a lack of consensus on whether and how to explore such technologies. Only honest dialogue can hope to break this impasse.
A vendor prepares his umbrella as hot days continue in Manila, Philippines in April 2024. Sizzling heat across Asia and the Middle East will worsen because of human-caused climate change.
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Climate change poses clear risks to human rights around the world. It is essential that people hold governments and decision-makers to account.
Girls carry a dying sheep in the Cconchaccota community of the Apurimac region of Peru as more than 3,000 communities in the central and southern Andes experience its driest period in half a century in November 2022.
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Girls bear the brunt of the climate crisis. It’s time we bring them to the centre of international climate policy.
Expo City Dubai, the venue for the COP28 climate summit.
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COP28 had almost 100,000 delegates, most of whom weren’t involved in the negotiations.
Technicians installing panels in one of East Africa’s largest solar farms, Rwamagana District, Rwanda.
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Climate finance can help developing countries adapt to climate change and phase out their emissions.
Protesters were seen but not heard.
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An expert in climate justice reports from Sharm El Sheikh.
Anya Waite (second from left) highlights the critical role of the ocean in regulating our climate, and the need to invest in observing oceans that store more than 90 per cent of all carbon, at COP27’s Earth Information Day event.
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COP27’s agreement on observing the oceans sets a strong foundation for policymakers to invest in internationally linked observation that will help countries better monitor these carbon sinks.
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Stronger pledges, more climate finance, and payments for loss and damage.
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Fossil fuels were named as the problem at COP26. We’re no closer to eliminating them a year on.
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A key issue for African countries is: how to contribute towards averting a climate disaster without compromising economic growth and development.
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Remember hearing about COP26 in Glasgow last year? There’s a lot at stake in this year’s climate summit, so here’s your essential guide to prepare.
Germany, heavily reliant on natural gas from Russia, has seen a fast expansion in solar power since Russia attacked Ukraine.
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War, famine and an energy crunch are affecting the world’s response to climate change, but there are reasons for optimism.
The global issue of plastic pollution has been has been worsening every year, disrupting the entire ecosystem.
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A global treaty on plastic pollution must incentivize a take-make-reuse waste management system and include quantitative targets based on geography-specific emissions.
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Strengthen commitments to reduce emissions by 2030, redouble efforts to raise climate finance and junk fossil fuel subsidies.
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Loss and damage – the three words which define the Glasgow summit’s disappointing outcome.
John Kerry and other delegates in discussions on the final day of COP26.
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COP26 saw incremental progress but not the breakthrough moment needed.
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Uncertainty about carbon market rules will be problematic for New Zealand, given its reliance on overseas carbon trading to meet its new climate pledge.
COP26 president Alok Sharma.
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In Paris, the French drafted ambitious texts and dared the biggest emitters to oppose it. In Glasgow, it’s the least developed countries which will have to do the most work.
African countries have faced dangerous droughts, storms and heat waves while contributing little to climate change.
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Climate justice is about both where emissions come from and who suffers the consequences.