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The COP30 climate summit has brought these minerals, and China’s central role, to the fore of just transition debates.

US foreign aid more than halved in 2025, leaving millions at risk of losing their lives to malaria, malnutrition and HIV.

The latest Global Environment Outlook report emphasised the need to invest against the trillion-dollar losses from climate change, biodiversity loss and land degradation. This includes overhauling fossil fuel subsidies and pricing in pollution.

Indigenous Peoples at COP30 closing plenary

Climate justice groups celebrated the establishment of a just transition mechanism in Belém, where the COP30 presidency engaged heavily with Indigenous Peoples. Can upcoming hosts Turkey, Australia and Ethiopia take this further?

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The very richest people are amassing fortunes while ordinary people’s lives stagnate. But there are policies that can reduce growing inequality. By Joseph E. Stiglitz, Imraan Valodia

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Major activists from Ecuador's Amazon rainforest, Chad and Indonesia demand a larger role at the UN summit in Belém, Brazil. By Nemonte Nenquimo, Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim and Rukka Sombolinggi

While much of the AI debate focuses on its economic potential, its expanding physical footprint tells a different story. The machines driving this revolution depend on a resource far older – and far more contested – than data or electricity. By Friederike Rohde and Paz Peña

An ageing agricultural workforce bodes ill for our ability to feed the world. To entice young people to work in food systems, policymakers should demonstrate the industry’s breadth, while providing them with the resources and skills to modernise farming and build sustainable, innovative agribusinesses. By Maximo Torero

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By Morgan Gillespy and Afshan Khan

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Dr Jane Goodall, known for her pioneering study of chimpanzees nearly 60 years ago in Tanzania, continues her work to conserve nature in Africa by joining an expedition to protect the continent’s highest peak.

A freezer running on electricity generated by an off-grid solar system

EB Studio In line with the Sustainable Development Goals' aim to eradicate poverty, a Japanese multinational electronics firm is providing power supply stations, solar storage and products to countries with little or no access to electricity.

Yolk Station, a South Korean solar energy company, has installed a renewable energy solution in a remote Kenyan town that can also tackle the problem of child labour.

Particularly for women, access to clean water creates education and economic opportunities.

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With clear climate policies and actions, nations across Asia, Africa and Latin America are filling the vacuum left by the United States. This article features the second half of a conversation with two veteran attendees of the climate COPs.

"We are already at 1.1°C of warming – a matter of life and death for the Global South", says Professor Winston Chow, the recently appointed co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's working group on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability.

The Singapore scientist, recently elected to the UN's top climate body, tells the Eco-Business Podcast about the precarious state of climate adaptation in developing Asia. The region is not well-prepared to manage the cascading risks of extreme climate events, he says.

Green School students visit a school in Bali, Indonesia

Most schools only teach the science of climate change. Green School gives the skills needed to live in a warming world. Eco-Business asked Green School's Leslie Medema how to be real with children about climate change without scaring them.

The clean energy sector’s poor human rights performance places its legitimacy at risk. Jessie Cato of the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre sheds light on how the industry can avoid labour abuse, land grabs and other violations.

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