As chair of the Group of 20 (G20) nations this year, South Africa wants to secure agreement for more local processing of the metals and minerals...
Set up in 2022, the office teamed up with federal prosecutors to coordinate work in vulnerable communities. The Trump administration shut the office and placed its...
New research shows that hotter temperatures and erratic rainfall are pressuring cocoa production in West African countries that supply around 70% of the main ingredient for...
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change. This week 1.5C looms 1.5C EXAMINED: The run of...
A massive new protected area in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) – equal to the size of France – has so far failed to include...
Extreme weather can harm food production in many different ways. Drought leaving rice fields cracked and dry. Heavy rainfall flooding orange groves. Tropical cyclones tearing down...
Ralph Regenvanu is Vanuatu’s Special Envoy for Climate Change and Environment. There are less than two months left for governments to deliver likely one the biggest...
There is a “mismatch” between the importance of peatlands and their current level of protection, a new study warns. The paper, published in Conservation Letters, combines...
Australia’s oceans are heating at an alarming rate. In 2024, sea surface temperatures reached record highs, marking the hottest year on record for our surrounding waters.1...
A “resurgence” in construction of new coal-fired power plants in China is “undermining the country’s clean-energy progress”, says a new joint report by the Centre for...