In rural Zambia, solar power has brightened lives, but communities living next to forests can only pay for it by cutting down trees, putting forests at risk.
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Welcome to the age of competitive decarbonisation.
Nearly a third of all countries worldwide have pledged to phase out their unabated coal-burning power. But China and India are still adding coal plants – for now.
The energy transition is often painted as a jobs killer, but the evidence says otherwise.
Will Brazil’s proposed scheme make a major difference for the climate, and how will it impact communities who live in forests?
From Paris in 2015 to Belem in Brazil in 2025, soil is slowly becoming part of climate policy but more can be done.
While Trump scraps US climate policies, companies still face pressure from states, other countries and their customers. That pressure trickles down supply chains.
Climate-caused heat and floods help disease-carrying insects spread to new places.
Pacific nations spend billions each year importing fossil fuels for electricity. Now the region’s leaders are aiming for energy independence.
Carbon offsets in Zimbabwe pay for new garden projects and clean energy stoves, but prevent local communities from using land that was previously communal.
New Zealand’s decision to renew oil and gas exploration could place it in breach of emerging international climate law.
The region faces some of most acute challenges, including rising temperatures, water scarcity and conflict. Yet it receives such a small share of climate finance.
Melissa was just the latest blow, following close on the heels of Beryl. Many islands today have little time to recover before the next disaster hits.
In 2015, global leaders gathered in force to get the Paris Agreement done. A decade later, shifting geopolitics makes a very different landscape for climate talks.
Many small island developing states remain just one storm away from fiscal collapse and unsustainable debt.
Cop30 will have 50,000 delegates. But bigger Cops are not better Cops.
The Tropical Forest Forever Facility is designed to reward countries for preventing deforestation. Charts show the magnitude of the problem.
Proposed changes to New Zealand’s landmark climate law amount to a “soft renege” on the Paris Agreement, with potentially significant consequences for the economy.
Teachers play a pivotal role in helping young people live with futures shaped by local and global environmental challenges.
Trump’s influence looms large at the Cop30 climate talks in Brazil.
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Professor of Environmental Studies, Political Science and International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Research Associate, Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW
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Professor of Infrastructure Engineering and International Development, UCL
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Research and Innovation Development Manager for the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures, University of Leeds
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Lecturer in International Development, UCL
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Professor, Geography Department and School of Public Policy & Global Affairs, University of British Columbia
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Principal Research Fellow, ODI Global
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Professor of Global Governance & Human Security, UMass Boston
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Professor of Physical Climate Change; Director of the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures, University of Leeds
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Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Earth System Science, UCL
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Associate Professor, Università di Foggia
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Senior Researcher, Polar Geophysics, National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics (OGS)
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Prof. Dr. | Research Director, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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PhD Candidate, Melbourne Law School, and Research fellow, Melbourne Climate Futures, The University of Melbourne