Tag: climate crisis

Meeting the upper end of the Paris climate goals to limit global warming could avert hundreds of thousands of heat-related ...

Satellite imagery showing a hole in the ozone layer caused by CFCs

CFCs in the atmosphere have hit record highs but researchers are unsure where they’re coming from

by Glen Black

Scientists said on 3 April that five man-made chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) have hit record levels in the atmosphere. The milestone comes ...

UK oil spill company Perenco endangers indigenous tribes and represses communities in the Global South

This is part two of a two-part series exploring fossil fuel company Perenco’s impact on communities and the environment across ...

Aerial view of Perenco oil spill in Poole Harbour.

Oil spill in UK natural harbour adds to fossil fuel company’s long list of international crimes against people and the planet

31 March 2023

This is the first part of a two-part series exploring fossil fuel company Perenco's impact on communities and the environment ...

UN intends to adopt climate resolution to protect Pacific islands such as Vanuatu from climate breakdown

Climate resolution calling for protection of Pacific islands to be adopted by the UN

by Glen Black

29 March 2023

The UN General Assembly on is expected on 29 March to adopt a climate resolution pushed by Vanuatu. It calls ...

Firefighters look on as wildfires burn in Spain, which the PM says is a sign of the climate emergency

Wildfires in Spain are a sign of climate emergency, says the country’s PM

by Glen Black

28 March 2023

Strong winds fanned the flames of Spain's first major wildfire of the year on 26 March. Despite milder temperatures, the ...

An oil spill has occurred in Wytch Farm, Poole Harbour. The harbour is here pictured from a plane. Perenco ran the field. Pollution.

Oil spill at largest onshore oilfield in Western Europe was a disaster waiting to happen

28 March 2023

An oil spill incident just occurred at the largest onshore oilfield in Western Europe. But it wasn't the first pollution ...

New IPCC report calls for wealthy nations to step up their climate ambitions. Climate protesters at a march. Banner reads: Walk away from fossil fuels and placard reads: Now do something about it.

Wealthy nations must step up ambition to “defuse the climate time bomb”, says UN head on new IPCC report

On Monday 20 March, the UN released a report on the climate crisis. The Synthesis Report is the sixth contribution by ...

Tory policy generator goes brrr

by Ralph Underhill

16 March 2023

IPCC prepares last-ditch warning on climate crisis, as energy giants dig their heels in

15 March 2023

The Intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC) began an important meeting on 13 March. In the week-long session, the IPCC ...

Two maps of India split by a picture of the UK and a teapot pouring tea down the centre. On the left, old colonial map of British India. On the right, the 'Wastelands Atlas of India' map and a solar panel in the bottom right corner.

British colonial ‘wastelands’ system used for solar land-grabs in India

15 March 2023

This is the fifth part of a five-part investigation into how UK government climate finance aid is grabbing land, displacing ...

Shell petrol station sign. A refinery run by the company called others to 'embrace equity' on International Women's Day this year.

‘Embracing equity’ will remain impossible in a world where fossil fuel companies exist

13 March 2023

To 'embrace equity' this International Women's Day, what we really needed was a world without fossil fuel companies. Unfortunately, they ...

Large trawler net fishing in high seas. Illegal fishing is done by large operations like the trawl fishery pictured.

A High Seas Treaty without an end to illegal fishing by the Global North will threaten marginalised communities

12 March 2023

This article was updated at 8pm on Sunday 12 March to reflect an error. It previously mentioned Mauritius, when it ...

Artwork of corporate colonialism in the Global South, depicting a wind energy land grab in Mexico. The image is split down the middle by a picture of the UK and UK bank notes flowing from it. On the left, a field of corn and a farmer walks along his crops. Trees in the distance. On the right, five wind turbines dominate the landscape. No high crops can be grown beneath them.

UK climate aid funding corporate colonialism in the Global South

8 March 2023

This is the fourth part of a five-part investigation into how UK government climate finance aid is grabbing land, displacing ...

Emissions from global food system imperil Paris climate goals, study finds

7 March 2023

The global food system's greenhouse gas emissions will add nearly 1C to Earth's surface temperatures by 2100 on current trends, ...

Offshore energy workers lay out their vision for the future in a just transition plan