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COP30_Negotiations_President

Policy & Finance

This year’s climate talks saw real progress – just not on fossil fuels

COP30 delivered gains on climate finance and forests but stalled on fossil fuel phaseout – exposing both the limits of consensus talks and the growing role of action outside negotiations.
Fossil fuel funeral

Carbon & Climate

A new opening for a fossil fuel phase out?

A decade ago, few governments could imagine a future without fossil fuels. But economic realities have changed and developing countries increasingly view the energy transition as a pathway to green growth.
COP30_Environmental_Defenders_Rights

Policy & Finance

Governments are failing environmental defenders. COP30 must act

COP30 in Belém, Brazil, must boost action on the Escazú Agreement to protect nature’s last line of defence.
COP30_Indigenouse_Women_Inclusiong_Justice

Policy & Finance

Indigenous women leaders at COP30: Listen to us as equals

Major activists from Ecuador's Amazon rainforest, Chad and Indonesia demand a larger role at the UN summit in Belém, Brazil.

All #forests Opinion

29 May 2025

geothermal plant indonesia

Energy

A call for ecological justice: Why Indonesia’s pesantrens ‘reject’ renewable energy

6 May 2025

Indigenous_Woman_Weaving_Cotabato

Policy & Finance

Indigenous forest peoples can finally control nature finance

20 February 2025

'Stop the chop': Demonstrators rally against deforestation in Sarawak, Malaysia

Carbon & Climate

How Indigenous communities in Malaysia stopped the chop

16 January 2025

Rainforest in Pesisir Barat regency, Lampung province, Indonesia

Carbon & Climate

Study shows hot leaves can’t catch carbon from the air. It’s bad news for rainforests – and Earth

21 November 2024

Samling deforestation

Food & Agriculture

Plantations are not forests

10 September 2024

AKWOA Semangat Tinak

Carbon & Climate

To ensure a just carbon market, Malaysia must strengthen Indigenous rights

1 July 2024

Sea_Turtle_Habitat_Loss_Climate_Change

Carbon & Climate

Habitat destruction hurting more than climate change

8 May 2024

Firefighter_Wildfires_Indonesia

Carbon & Climate

Many people are feeling ecological grief. How can we help those whose work puts them at risk?

12 April 2024

logging in borneo

Carbon & Climate

'Ghost roads' are cracking open pristine rainforests in Malaysia, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea

5 April 2024

Kuamut forest reserve sabah

Carbon & Climate

Malaysia's carbon credit conundrum: State governments hold key to unlocking its potential

29 January 2024

Turtle_Biodiversity

Policy & Finance

Rich countries must compensate the Global South for biodiversity loss

21 December 2023

Rubber_Tree_Indonesia

Policy & Finance

How technology can help save Indigenous forests – and our planet

30 October 2023

Peru rainforest

Carbon & Climate

The carbon-offset market’s broken promises

26 October 2023

Summer_Heatwave_India

Carbon & Climate

We need to stop gambling with our planet - and our well-being - now

24 October 2023

Nature_Positive_Trees

Carbon & Climate

Climate solutions are already in our nature

7 June 2023

Demonstrators in Hanover, Germany protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Policy & Finance

The geopolitics of nature

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