Climate & Environment
Smoke, Soot and Toxic Fumes: Nigerian Families Live in Shadow of Burning Oil Well Six Years After Blowout
Dr Bieye Briggs, an environmental health expert, argues that the presence of pollutants is only part of the concern. “What is truly worrying is the…
Methane: The Climate Battle the World Can Actually Win
Methane is invisible and odourless. It is the primary component of natural gas. And it is responsible for nearly a third of current global warming.…
Climate Crisis: UN Chief Lays Out Solutions Blueprint for Clean Energy Transition
The Secretary-General set out a structured plan. Emissions must peak immediately and fall steeply this decade, reaching net zero by 2050. The G20, responsible for…
Why the Ocean’s Future Is Humanity’s Future
The World Ocean Assessment, a 1,600-page document compiled over nearly five years by some 550 experts from 86 countries, represents the most comprehensive scientific reckoning…
El Niño Returns
WMO stressed that while there is no evidence that climate change increases the frequency or intensity of El Niño events, a warmer ocean and atmosphere…
The Court Has Spoken, and the Assembly Has Answered
On Wednesday, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution affirming the International Court of Justice’s landmark July 2025 advisory opinion, which found that states…
The Heat Is On
In 2025, heatwaves pushed temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius across large parts of the region, including a record 52.7 degrees in Mexico. Brazil and Paraguay…
Financing Climate Action: Justice and the Defossilisation Imperative
Fair, defossilised finance frameworks will be essential to deliver an equitable transition and protect economic and social rights worldwide.
South Africa’s Energy Shift Is as Much About Inequality as It Is About Emissions
Progress is being made. The Commission’s Just Transition Framework is guiding a decentralisation of the energy system, a scaling-up of renewables, vocational preparation of workers…
Gas Or Firewood/Poverty in Rohingya Camps
American funding cuts, accelerating through 2025 and deepening in 2026, have reversed much of that progress. UNHCR’s $255 million appeal for the Rohingya response is…
The Human Rights Case for a Fair Energy Transition
Amnesty International tells COP30 that the moral weight of the climate crisis cannot be separated from who caused it and who is suffering from it.
Oil and the Rule of Law
The Inter‑American Court found that extraction in adjacent blocks increases risks of contact, disease, displacement, and cultural extinction for the Tagaeri and Taromenane, and it…
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