Offset giant ditches flagship project as countries gear up for carbon markets at COP28
The world’s leading seller of carbon offsets has ditched its flagship project. On Friday October 27, carbon offset company South ...
Tag: UN
Companies and countries fail to exit carbon-intensive and climate-wrecking coal projects
Since the Paris Agreement, companies have expanded coal plant capacity by an amount greater than the entire operating coal fleets ...
Politicians marked World Food Day – but ignored Israel starving Palestinians as they spoke
On Monday 16 October, the United Nations (UN) Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) hosted its annual 'World Food Day' event. ...
Scientists launch climate crisis ‘countdown clock’ report series to take governments to task
Top scientists have launched a yearly report series to plug knowledge gaps ahead of COP28 crunch climate talks in the ...
COP28 host announces fossil fuel industry emissions pledge, while scaling up carbon capture technology
As the United Arab Emirates (UAE) COP28 host has tried to burnish its green image, its state fossil fuel company ...
Tory Illegal Migration Act will ramp up asylum hellscape in the UK, according to new research
Braverman’s recent rhetoric around the Refugee Convention has been abhorrent - and the Conservative policies it underpins are about to ...
‘A cemetery for children and their future’: number of refugees thought dead in Mediterranean triples
The number of Europe-bound refugees who died or went missing in the Mediterranean this summer has tripled since last year, ...
Green groups call out new nature disclosure framework as another exercise in corporate greenwashing
A coalition of rights groups and environmental non-profits named the Forests & Finance Coalition have called out the “corporate greenwashing” ...
Sunak proves why the UN was right to snub the UK PM for its Climate Ambition Summit
On 20 September, world leaders met in New York for the UN Climate Ambition Summit. In a novel move before ...
An anthropologist predicted the current failings of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals – spoiler, it’s all capitalism
In part one of this two-part article, we took a look at the UN's latest Sustainable Development Goals report, and ...
New UN sustainable development report finds world failing on multiple global crises
A new United Nations (UN) report has found that nations are way off course in tackling multiple major global crises. ...
Small island states call out rich nations’ climate responsibility in historic ocean tribunal hearing
Leaders of nine small island states turned to the UN maritime court on Monday 11 September. They're seeking an end ...
G20 coal emissions continue to rise despite climate pledges
New research has shown that G20 per capita coal emissions are continuing to rise. These coal-based emissions are increasing despite ...
UN calls out fossil fuel major Saudi Aramco’s climate crisis-related human rights violations
The world's most prolific fossil fuel major is guilty of human rights violations along with its crimes against the climate. ...
Youth climate activists inspire UN committee to declare child climate rights
Young people have been leading the way in the fight against climate breakdown - and now, a United Nations committee ...
People ask #WheresTom after a Tory minister no-shows a UN meeting on disabled people’s rights
The Tory government failed to attend a meeting of the United Nations (UN) regarding its treatment of chronically ill, deaf, ...
Tories have backed out of a UN meeting on their breaches of human rights
The United Nations (UN) is once again investigating the UK government over its treatment of chronically ill and disabled people. ...
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