Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva pledged to end deforestation in Amazon after winning Brazil’s election on Sunday.
Celebrating his victory over far-right incumbent Jair Bolsanaro, Lula promised bolder environmental action in the next four years.
“Let’s fight for zero deforestation,” he said in his victory speech.
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Greta Thunberg is not going to COP27.
The Swedish climate activist has, in recent years, become one of the most famous faces at the UN’s annual climate summit.
She has been to every COP since the school strikes she started aged 15 in 2018 catapulted her to the top of the youth activist climate movement.
Glaciers in a third of World Heritage Sites are on course to melt away by 2050, according to new research.
A major global study has found that climate change is causing the collapse of these giant flows of ice. But, even if we were to curb emissions now, iconic glaciers from the Dolomites to Yosemite are still set to disappear due to the volume of greenhouse gases humans have released.
Climate compensation is shaping up to be the defining issue of this year’s UN climate change conference in Egypt.
For more than 30 years, developing countries have been calling for specific funding – known as ‘loss and damage’ – to cope with the disasters that developed countries’ high emissions are wreaking.
Now loss and damage has finally made it onto the agenda at this COP27, in a significant early victory for climate vulnerable nations.
Dozens of towns and cities in Britain are at risk of disappearing into the sea within 80 years, new maps predict.
The maps, published by news organisation Climate Central, present a sobering image of the disastrous effects of climate change on the UK.
Climate Central has predicted that much of London could be underwater by 2100.
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It’s become all too clear how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine caused natural gas prices to jump, leaving millions of Europeans struggling with sky-high energy bills and further pressuring governments to help out and support alternative sources of power.
Nine months into the war, there is a silver lining to the crisis when it comes to the continent’s energy future.
People across the UK have honoured the nation’s war dead on what may be the warmest Armistice Day ever.
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If you visited Sylvia Kuria’s farm in central Kenya right now, you’d find sweet potatoes, cassava and sorghum grain growing – despite the drought.“Now we’re really praying for the rains, because we’ve had four failed seasons,” the smallholder farmer and businesswoman tells. “Four times farmers have planted and four times it has failed.” With arid and semi-arid lands spanning 89 per cent of the country and contrasting ways of working them, not everyone has the same experience of Kenya’s climate-driven drought. But Sylvia has found that an ecological approach is vital. And it is a perspective she is bringing to COP27 in Egypt next month. Continue reading “The first ‘food COP’: Why agriculture is finally on the table at the UN climate summit”
It’s a brand new week in Egypt with delegates returning to COP27after a much-needed break on Sunday.With most big names now gone, we move into the second half of the conference, during which the nitty gritty of deals will be hashed out. Negotiators, delegates and officials will be looking to put together a text that will become the final agreement of this UN climate conference. So what happened at COP27 today as we moved into day eight? Continue reading “What happened on day eight of COP27? 5 Key takeaways as climate talks continue”