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Carbon & Climate
Australian insurers declare catastrophe as Victoria bushfire losses mount, climate risks intensify
Claims surge as insurers warn extreme fires highlight escalating climate risk. More than 400,000 hectares of bushland and farmland have burned – more than five times the size of Singapore.
New agreements update 2014 environment pact and expand collaboration to carbon markets, digital technology and supply chains.
Carbon & Climate
As wildfires mount, so do efforts to use less plastic
Plastic used in building construction burns hotter than traditional materials and produces toxic smoke and runoff.
Ahead of COP30 climate summit, UN chief heat officer Eleni Myrivili urges radical rethink on how we design our cities.
Food & Agriculture
Brazil's Indigenous battle with a dry Amazon rainforest
Policy & Finance
At COP30, focus on wildfire prevention amid record destruction
Carbon & Climate
‘Climate whiplash’: Asia’s worst extreme weather events of 2025
#wildfires Opinion
Carbon & Climate
The climate crisis is fuelling extreme fires across the planet
If global greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, more severe heatwaves and droughts will make landscape fires more frequent and intense worldwide.
Carbon & Climate
Why the climate crisis must reshape how we think about war
As global temperatures breach 1.5°C – and conflicts persist in Ukraine, Gaza and Sudan – the climate crisis is reshaping how wars are fought, understood and responded to.
Carbon & Climate
In defence of science: Let’s tell the truth on climate and health
We must accelerate decisive action on climate change that protects health because the climate crisis is a health crisis.
Policy & Finance
Fossil fuel adverts are today’s tobacco. Cities must ban them
The promotion of oil, coal and gas is poisoning our environment, driving climate change and slowing the clean energy transition.
Policy & Finance
Getting green investment where it’s needed most
Cities
The climate policy pendulum
Carbon & Climate
Climate change poses dire health and human rights risks
#wildfires Press Releases
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Slow climate adaptation threatening lives and economies
Greenpeace Southeast Asia
Renewed calls for Asean to prioritise and protect citizens’ rights to clean air from transboundary haze
