Leaders make final push for plastic pollution treaty at talks in S Korea | Climate Crisis News
Negotiators are gathering in Busan, South Korea, this week in a final push to forge a treaty to address the global crisis of plastic pollution.…
Can the World Unite to End the Plastic Pollution Crisis?
Breadcrumb Trail LinksPMN BusinessAs the last negotiations for a global plastic treaty begin in South Korea, countries are divided over whether to cap production of the ubiquitous material.Author of…
Poor nations say $300B pledge agreed at COP29 is way less than they need | Climate Crisis
NewsFeedDeveloping nations hit hardest by climate change say they were pressured to accept an ‘insultingly low’ deal at the UN’s COP29 summit in Azerbaijan, where…
Valencia floods: mayor pledges legal action over crisis response | Floods
Paiporta, one of the hardest-hit towns in Spain’s Valencia floods, is grappling with devastation, more than 200 deaths, and rising public anger. Accusations of political…
The IMF and the World Bank must be abolished to save the planet | Climate Crisis
As yet another United Nations Climate Change Conference fails to produce a strong commitment to urgent climate action, the climate crisis is on course to…
Lost homes and rising seas: A Nigerian coastal community fears extinction | Climate Crisis News
Lagos, Nigeria – As a child growing up in Akodo-Ise, Kadiri Malik would pass a boulevard of coconut trees on his way down to the shore…
UN climate talks in disarray as developing nations stage walkout | Climate Crisis News
Negotiators from small island states and the least-developed nations have walked out of negotiations during overtime United Nations climate talks, saying their climate finance interests…
Europe Is Already Facing Its Next Energy Crisis
Breadcrumb Trail LinksPMN BusinessWith winter still approaching, storage is being emptied faster than usual and gas prices have surged, raising echoes of the 2022 shock.Author…
Is it really a ‘natural’ disaster? | All Hail | Climate Crisis
Typhoons, floods, earthquakes – these are all hazardous natural events, but to call them “natural disasters” wouldn’t be quite accurate. It would be downplaying the…
Afghanistan: Caught between climate change and global indifference | Climate Crisis
The world is facing a climate crisis, and few nations are feeling its impact more acutely than Afghanistan. It is currently ranked seventh on the…
I’m a World Cup winner but one ball from England star turned me into a scared cardboard cut-out – I was in crisis
AUSSIE showman Glenn Maxwell has revealed how a bouncer from Mark Wood sparked a mental-health crisis that threatened his career.Maxwell descended into depression and needed a…
Eurozone sovereign debt crisis? ECB warns of fiscal and growth risks
The ECB warns of mounting eurozone sovereign debt risks in its latest review, citing high debt levels, fiscal slippage, and weak growth. ADVERTISEMENTThe European Central…
We can’t fight the climate crisis without fighting militarism | All Hail | Climate
The impact of war is so much more than just the emissions from tanks, ships and warplanes.The impact of war on the climate is much…
Access to climate education is a matter of justice | Climate Crisis
In his poem The Right to Dream (1995), Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano imagines “how the world will be in 2025”. He dreams of a better…
Delhi shuts schools, bans construction as pollution levels hit new high | Climate Crisis News
Schools go online until further notice because of worsening toxic smog, the latest bid to ease the Indian capital’s health crisis.Authorities in India’s capital have…
Biden: No reversal of US clean energy advances ahead of Trump presidency | Climate Crisis News
United States President Joe Biden has witnessed the devastation of drought up close as he became the first sitting US president to visit the Amazon…
Zambia’s Kariba Dam crisis is one of inequality | Climate Crisis
As discussions at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku over how to finance climate action remain gridlocked, Southern Africans are learning that some…
Top polluting cities revealed as activists fume at COP29 fossil fuel lobby | Climate Crisis News
Oil giants commit $500m for sustainable energy, but campaigners say lobbyists have seized control of climate talks.Cities in Asia and the United States emit the…
What action can developing nations take to tackle the climate crisis? | Climate Crisis
Financing is one of the main sticking points at the COP29 conference in Azerbaijan.Climate scientists meeting in Azerbaijan are setting new targets to cut emissions…
‘Dante’s inferno’: Wildfires scorch New York amid historic drought | Climate Crisis News
Brooklyn, New York – An incinerated, rusty microwave, the charred skeleton of a lawn chair, a pile of melted clothes, and singed scraps of the…