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COP28: North Macedonia launches just energy transition platform to mobilise €3bn

4 December 2023

Goal is to expedite energy transition and facilitate the deployment of 1.7 GW of new renewable energy capacity by 2030.

Russian oligarch to revive woolly mammoths in a real life Jurassic Park to stop Siberian permafrost melting

4 December 2023

Russian billionaire chemicals oligarch Andrey Melnichenko has a plan to resuscitate prehistoric woolly mammoths to the frozen wastes of Siberia and Yakutia to stop the permafrost melting, which would be a climate catastrophe.

COP28 talks to save the planet could fall at first fence as oil producers and some rich countries call only for “phase down” of fossil fuels.

2 December 2023

The COP28 talks in Dubai to save the planet from a climate catastrophe look like they are going to fall at the first fence as the oil lobby and some big economies push for a “phasing down” of fossil fuels, rather than the “phasing out”.

IMF: World needs more policy ambition, private funds, and innovation to meet climate goals

2 December 2023

International cooperation is more important than ever because no country can address climate change by itself.

COP28: Turkmenistan joins Global Methane Pledge

1 December 2023

Country’s president announces in Dubai that Turkmens will join world effort to seal “super-emitter” sites. Planet-heating gas pours out of remote Central Asian nation at alarming rate.

ING: Consumer not ready to change what they eat to help the environment

1 December 2023

By wasting less food and eating less meat and dairy, consumers can help to slow down climate change. However, consumers in the EU have barely changed their diets.

South Africa’s bid to tackle energy crisis starts bearing fruit, senior emerging markets economist says

1 December 2023

The intensification of load shedding has brought growth in South Africa’s economy to a halt in 2023, but there finally appears to be some light at the end of the tunnel, says Jason Tuvey of Capital Economics.

Global climate plans still fall short

1 December 2023

Ahead of the Cop28 climate summit beginning on November 30 in Dubai, Sultan Al Jaber, the Cop28 president-designate has said that he believes an "unprecedented outcome" is still on the cards – keeping alive hopes something will happen.

COP28: Cities in the face of the rising tide

1 December 2023

By 2050 an estimated 1bn people globally will be living in coastal areas, which are already threatened by rising tides.