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30 Aug 19
EU finance ministers will meet to discuss energy taxes and other moves to try to fight the threat of climate change next month.
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27 Aug 19
Brazil has rejected the G7’s offer of $22m of aid to help fight fires in the Amazon – at least until French President Emmanuel Macron withdraws his “insults” to Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro.
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23 Aug 19
Activists have blamed Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro for the fires raging in the Amazon rainforest.
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2 Aug 19
The European Investment Bank looks likely to make a “game-changing” move and stop funding fossil fuels by the end of 2020.
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31 Jul 19
More than 350 million trees have been planted in Ethiopia in a single day, according to officials.
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25 Jul 19
Between 2010 and 2017 60% - £4.6bn - of the UK’s support for energy in developing countries went towards fossil fuel sources, according to analysis by the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development....
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12 Jul 19
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is undermining its own climate ambitions by prioritising fossil fuel projects over renewable energy schemes, campaigners claim.
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5 Jul 19
Climate change lawsuits have been launched in at least 28 countries around the world, say academics.
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5 Jul 19
Lack of political leadership has been cited by accountants as a major obstacle to meeting infrastructure needs around the world.
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2 Jul 19
Indonesia’s economy has been praised by the World Bank for shaking off unusually damaging natural disasters and global volatility.
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27 Jun 19
Governments of G20 countries gathering in Japan for a summit this week have more than doubled the subsidies they provide to coal power plants in just three years.
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27 Jun 19
The government of The Netherlands has issued one of the largest green bonds to date worth nearly €6bn ($6.8n) to protect against floods and rising sea-levels.
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26 Jun 19
Economic leaders at this year’s G20 Summit must support investment in using nature to tackle issues such as climate change, say conservation finance experts Margaret Kuhlow and Andrew Deutz....
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20 Jun 19
Canada has become the latest country to declare a national ‘climate emergency’ after parliament pledged to stand by promises to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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18 Jun 19
Ireland has become the latest European country to put forward ambitious proposals to tackle climate change.
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3 Jun 19
Subsidising fossil fuels does not improve people’s lives and will ultimately prove more costly to economies, says the WWF’s Vanessa Perez Cirera.
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10 May 19
Global subsidies for fossil fuels remained a staggering $5.2 trillion in 2017 despite growing pressure worldwide to reduce them.
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9 May 19
The international development select committee has urged the government to put climate change at the heart of UK aid strategy.
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23 Apr 19
If permafrost in the Arctic melts this could add up to $70 trillion (£54tn) to the world’s climate bill, researchers are warning.
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28 Feb 19
Countries in central Asia should work together to minimise the impact natural disasters have on their budgets and finances, a forum has heard.
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26 Feb 19
Brussels will pump €10bn into low-carbon technologies to make Europe a leader in climate action.
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29 Jan 19
A lack of political will on climate change poses a “systemic threat” to the global economy, the head of the United Nations has warned.
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22 Jan 19
The World Bank will ramp up its climate financing to $50bn over the next five years, which will be more than double the grants and loans it has given annually since 2015.
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11 Dec 18
The European Commission has approved €350m in public funding to help shift German freight traffic from road to rail to reduce congestion and fuel emissions.
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3 Dec 18
International aid earmarked for climate projects increased by 17% to $56.7bn in 2017, continuing a trend of rising funding for this area, OECD data showed.
30 Aug 19EU finance ministers will meet to discuss energy taxes and other moves to try to fight the threat of climate change next month.
27 Aug 19Brazil has rejected the G7’s offer of $22m of aid to help fight fires in the Amazon – at least until French President Emmanuel Macron withdraws his “insults” to Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro.
23 Aug 19Activists have blamed Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro for the fires raging in the Amazon rainforest.
2 Aug 19The European Investment Bank looks likely to make a “game-changing” move and stop funding fossil fuels by the end of 2020.
31 Jul 19More than 350 million trees have been planted in Ethiopia in a single day, according to officials.
25 Jul 19Between 2010 and 2017 60% - £4.6bn - of the UK’s support for energy in developing countries went towards fossil fuel sources, according to analysis by the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development....
12 Jul 19The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is undermining its own climate ambitions by prioritising fossil fuel projects over renewable energy schemes, campaigners claim.
5 Jul 19Climate change lawsuits have been launched in at least 28 countries around the world, say academics.
5 Jul 19Lack of political leadership has been cited by accountants as a major obstacle to meeting infrastructure needs around the world.
2 Jul 19Indonesia’s economy has been praised by the World Bank for shaking off unusually damaging natural disasters and global volatility.
27 Jun 19Governments of G20 countries gathering in Japan for a summit this week have more than doubled the subsidies they provide to coal power plants in just three years.
27 Jun 19The government of The Netherlands has issued one of the largest green bonds to date worth nearly €6bn ($6.8n) to protect against floods and rising sea-levels.
26 Jun 19Economic leaders at this year’s G20 Summit must support investment in using nature to tackle issues such as climate change, say conservation finance experts Margaret Kuhlow and Andrew Deutz....
20 Jun 19Canada has become the latest country to declare a national ‘climate emergency’ after parliament pledged to stand by promises to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
18 Jun 19Ireland has become the latest European country to put forward ambitious proposals to tackle climate change.
9 May 19The international development select committee has urged the government to put climate change at the heart of UK aid strategy.
23 Apr 19If permafrost in the Arctic melts this could add up to $70 trillion (£54tn) to the world’s climate bill, researchers are warning.
28 Feb 19Countries in central Asia should work together to minimise the impact natural disasters have on their budgets and finances, a forum has heard.
26 Feb 19Brussels will pump €10bn into low-carbon technologies to make Europe a leader in climate action.
29 Jan 19A lack of political will on climate change poses a “systemic threat” to the global economy, the head of the United Nations has warned.
11 Dec 18The European Commission has approved €350m in public funding to help shift German freight traffic from road to rail to reduce congestion and fuel emissions.
