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Who should pay for the new climate finance goal? The world’s super-rich, says a new study

As talks over a new climate finance target are set to dominate the United Nations (UN) COP29 summit later this year, London-based Tax Justice Network has found that a modest wealth tax on the world’s ...

19 Aug 2024

Who should pay for the new climate finance goal? The world’s super-rich, says a new study

News / Energy

Do you believe in life after oil?

...Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative, during a webinar on COP28 earlier this month. The challenge, she explained, is the simultaneous need to gradually wind down fossil fuel use and ramp up investments...

13 Dec 2023

Do you believe in life after oil?

News / Waste

A difficult road ahead for treaty to end plastic pollution

...carbon and other chemicals from plastic waste through a series of reactions. At one side event, company lobbyists gave away Rubik’s cubes and frisbees printed with depictions of chemical-recycling met...

17 Jan 2024

A difficult road ahead for treaty to end plastic pollution

News / Policy & Finance

Standard Chartered to set absolute reduction targets for oil and gas lending in coming AGM: CSO

...carbon emitting industries in its portfolio “have to have a credible transition plan” so that the carbon emissions from the bank’s financing reduce over time. On StanChart’s continued partnership with...

9 Mar 2023

Standard Chartered to set absolute reduction targets for oil and gas lending in coming AGM: CSO

Opinion / Energy

Unpacking Indonesia’s fossil fuel subsidy dilemma

Global fossil fuel subsidies, towering at US$7 trillion, have overshadowed climate finance flows of US$1.27 trillion in the last two years. Indonesia, the world’s top coal exporter, must urgently tran...

6 May 2024

Unpacking Indonesia’s fossil fuel subsidy dilemma

Press Releases / Mastercard

Mastercard to eliminate first-use PVC plastics from payment cards by 2028

...Carbon Calculator. Available to all issuers globally for any Mastercard card, the easily integrated API helps consumers to understand the estimated carbon footprint of their purchases via their bankin...

2 May 2023

Mastercard to eliminate first-use PVC plastics from payment cards by 2028

News / Carbon & Climate

Managing Asia's climate risks

[KAS report in shorthand]

19 May 2023

Managing Asia's climate risks

News / Carbon & Climate

In pictures: COP28

...carbon pricing and reaffirmed their commitment to collective action. The country also launched a new blended finance initiative at COP28, which aims to mobilise up to US$5 billion for green and transi...

13 Dec 2023

In pictures: COP28

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate disasters are destroying Pakistan’s mountain languages

The 2010 floods in northern Pakistan are still a fresh and painful memory for Inam Torwali, a Torwali-Kohistani lexicographer. One of the worst humanitarian disasters in Pakistan’s history, the floods...

25 Jul 2024

Climate disasters are destroying Pakistan’s mountain languages

News / Transport

‘Explosive’ growth means one in three new cars will be electric by 2030, IEA says

...Carbon Brief using Highcharts. Besides governments, car manufacturers have also been announcing their own targets for electric vehicle sales. The chart below shows how the goals set by these original...

27 Apr 2023

‘Explosive’ growth means one in three new cars will be electric by 2030, IEA says

News / Food & Agriculture

In rural India, climate migrants 'have hysterectomies to survive'

Drought is driving poor Indian women into exploitative sugarcane work in the central state of Maharashtra, with many of the migrant labourers opting to undergo unnecessary hysterectomies to work even...

7 Mar 2024

In rural India, climate migrants 'have hysterectomies to survive'

News / Food & Agriculture

Revitalising coconut farming in Southeast Asia

...Carbon, a project led by Murray’s Coconut Knowledge Center, is aiming to tap into another revenue source in the future: carbon offset credits. “Coconut is a perennial tree, and they are great at remov...

24 Jul 2023

Revitalising coconut farming in Southeast Asia

Fisherman work the Bhavani river in Tamil Nadhu.

Opinion / Water

Drought in India: Can businesses play a role in collective action for water security?

...carbon- and water-intensive sectors contribute to pollution and scarcity in specific watersheds and climate change on a planetary scale. It is critical that this sector gets involved and actively enga...

24 Nov 2023

Drought in India: Can businesses play a role in collective action for water security?

News / Water

Bangladeshi fish farms ‘need climate data support’

Bangladesh’s aquaculture sector lost US$140 million in a decade due to climate change, reveals new analysis, highlighting the need for better climate data services. Bangladesh is highly vulnerable to ...

19 Feb 2024

Bangladeshi fish farms ‘need climate data support’

News / Policy & Finance

Explainer: What is cryptocurrency mining and how does it hurt the environment?

...carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year. This is comparable to the emissions of Peru, making crypto a significant air polluter. Using the social cost of carbon, a common metric to gauge the fina...

18 May 2023

Explainer: What is cryptocurrency mining and how does it hurt the environment?

The ruling means farmers have a right not to be impacted by changing weather patterns.

News / Carbon & Climate

India gives people legal protection against climate change, but will big polluters be held to account?

The Indian Supreme Court recently issued a landmark judgement on human rights and climate change, which could redefine the legal landscape for how the government and corporations are held to account f...

1 Jun 2024

India gives people legal protection against climate change, but will big polluters be held to account?

News / Cities

Malaria cases in Indian forests feared to rise due to climate change

In 1994, Manvati Nag, an Indigenous woman from Bijapur district in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, married and relocated to the village of Halbaras in forested Dantewada district in the east...

9 Sep 2024

Malaria cases in Indian forests feared to rise due to climate change

Press Releases / UN Environment Programme

UN-convened panel to address equity, sustainability and human rights across value chains of critical energy transition minerals

...carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. Developing countries with large reserves of critical energy transition minerals have an opportunity to transform and diversify their economies, create green jobs, an...

4 May 2024

UN-convened panel to address equity, sustainability and human rights across value chains of critical energy transition minerals

Press Releases / SIG

SIG leads industry with 100 per cent ASI-certified aluminium sourcing for aseptic carton packs

...carbon aluminium production, supporting reductions in the carbon footprint for SIG and its customers. “SIG was one of the first companies in the world to achieve certification to ASI’s Ch...

7 Mar 2023

SIG leads industry with 100 per cent ASI-certified aluminium sourcing for aseptic carton packs

Opinion / Cities

Dealing a knockout blow to dengue

Dengue fever continues to kill people across the world and climate change is making it worse. The World Health Organization reported more than five million dengue cases and more than 5,000 deaths in...

3 May 2024

Dealing a knockout blow to dengue

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