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Azerbaijan, which is set to host this year’s UN climate summit in November, has “critically insufficient” climate plans, according to an assessment from the Climate Action Tracker. The petrostate—the third…

In a statement on the sidelines of the World Utilities Congress 2024 this week, Awaidha Murshed Al Marar, Chairman of the Department of Energy (DoE), announced that the department will…

As summer in the northern hemisphere draws to a close, hundreds of temperature records have been broken, and there is a roughly 95% chance that 2024 will beat 2023 as the hottest year since…

Most climate policies fail to deliver impact, according to a new report, which calls for a global gear change. The study, which assessed 1,500 policies implemented between 1998 and 2022…

This week, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued a global SOS, Save Our Seas, on rising sea levels. Visiting Tonga for the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting, Guterres said that small islands…

Climate reporting standards are “insufficient” and require an overhaul, according to a new report from researchers at Oxford University’s Smith School and the Exponential Roadmap Initiative.  The report, published in…

Almost one in four US members of Congress are climate change deniers, all of whom are Republicans, according to research from The Center for American Progress (CAP). Against a backdrop…

At the recently concluded Plenary of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Sofia, Bulgaria, delegates failed to finalise a schedule for the upcoming seventh assessment report (AR7) cycle.…

Recent election victories for leftist parties in France and the United Kingdom may herald a new era of climate policymaking in Europe. Britain’s new Labour government has ambitious plans to expand renewable-energy…