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Exclusive: UAE’s fossil fuel boss will be the president of Cop28, making a mockery of the summit, say campaigners The United Arab Emirates, which is hosting this year’s UN climate summit, has the third biggest net zero-busting plans for oil and gas expansion in the world, the Guardian can reveal. Its plans are surpassed only

CPTPP membership will result in more deforestation and endanger animal welfare, say campaigners The UK’s membership of a Pacific trade agreement will result in more deforestation overseas, endanger animal welfare and “make a mockery” of the government’s environmental commitments, campaigners have said. Ministers signed an agreement late last week for the UK to become a

Footage captured the moment climate activists poured a black liquid into a 17th-century fountain in Rome, Italy. Standing inside the Fontana della Barcaccia, activists poured a black vegetable-based liquid into the water, before they were removed by police. The group said they had chosen a fountain in order to highlight the dangers that global warming

Campaigners say Rosebank, with a potential yield of 500m barrels, would seriously undermine legal commitment to net zero A single new oil and gas field in the North Sea would be enough to exceed the UK’s carbon budgets from its operations alone, analysis has shown, as the government considers fossil fuel expansion despite the legally

Synthesis ABSTRACT Land degradation adversely affects the well-being of approximately 3.2 billion people worldwide and results in a loss of about 10% of annual gross domestic product. Degradation dynamics are often creeping and non-linear, hence the adverse consequences are often not immediately perceived. In consequence, methods for assessing future risks of land degradation and risk

Resolution hailed as ‘win for climate justice of epic proportions’ should make it easier to hold countries accountable for failures A UN resolution was adopted on Wednesday that should make it easier to hold polluting countries legally accountable for failing to tackle the climate emergency, in a vote which was hailed as a historic victory

Publication date: July 2023 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 209 Author(s): Sophus O.S.E. zu Ermgassen, Michal P. Drewniok, Joseph W. Bull, Christine M. Corlet Walker, Mattia Mancini, Josh Ryan-Collins, André Cabrera Serrenho