A UN-led panel of nearly 100 countries is to draw up new guidelines to prevent some of the environmental damage and human rights abuses associated…
View More UN-led panel aims to tackle abuses linked to mining for ‘critical minerals’Tag: Climate crisis
New EU nature law will fail without farmers, scientists warn
The EU’s nature restoration law will only work if it is enacted in partnership with farmers, a group of leading scientists has said, after months…
View More New EU nature law will fail without farmers, scientists warnMosquito-borne diseases spreading in Europe due to climate crisis, says expert
Mosquito-borne diseases are spreading across the globe, and particularly in Europe, due to climate breakdown, an expert has said. The insects spread illnesses such as…
View More Mosquito-borne diseases spreading in Europe due to climate crisis, says expertDoctors condemn suspension of retired GP over UK climate protests
Doctors groups are calling for urgent consideration of the rules for medical professionals who take peaceful direct action on the climate crisis, which they say…
View More Doctors condemn suspension of retired GP over UK climate protests‘I felt this was an abuse of power’: Trudi Warner’s climate fight with the UK government
Two days before Trudi Warner faced court under threat of a contempt of court prosecution, she fell off her bike and ruptured the tendons in…
View More ‘I felt this was an abuse of power’: Trudi Warner’s climate fight with the UK government‘Children won’t be able to survive’: inter-American court to hear from climate victims
Julian Medina comes from a long line of fishers in the north of Colombia’s Gulf of Morrosquillo who use small-scale and often traditional methods to…
View More ‘Children won’t be able to survive’: inter-American court to hear from climate victimsJudge throws out case against UK climate activist who held sign on jurors’ rights
A high court judge has thrown out an attempt by the government’s most senior law officer to prosecute a woman for holding a placard on…
View More Judge throws out case against UK climate activist who held sign on jurors’ rightsSunak has ‘set Britain back’ on net zero, says UK’s climate adviser
Rishi Sunak has given up Britain’s reputation as a world leader in the fight against the climate crisis and has “set us back” by failing…
View More Sunak has ‘set Britain back’ on net zero, says UK’s climate adviserUN livestock emissions report seriously distorted our work, say experts
A flagship UN report on livestock emissions is facing calls for retraction from two key experts it cited who say that the paper “seriously distorted”…
View More UN livestock emissions report seriously distorted our work, say experts‘Reprehensible retreat’: fury as Scottish ministers scrap carbon emissions pledge
Climate campaigners have accused Scottish ministers of being “inept” and “short-termist” after they scrapped Scotland’s target to cut carbon emissions by 75% by 2030. Màiri…
View More ‘Reprehensible retreat’: fury as Scottish ministers scrap carbon emissions pledge