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Fuelling destruction: A protest at COP28 in the United Arab Emirates. Photo: Dominika Zarzycka/Getty Images

People power needed to boot the fox out of the henhouse

The influence of proponents of fossil fuels at the COP28 climate conference represents a dangerous conflict of interests

Al Gore, environmentalist and former vice president of the United States, presents the Climate TRACE global greenhouse gases emissions database on day four of the UNFCCC COP28 Climate Conference on December 03, 2023 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

At COP28, Al Gore takes aim at host UAE’s emissions

Speaking in the main plenary room of the COP28 site, Gore pointed to huge monitors showing satellite images of the major emitting sites in the UAE

A wound that has yet to heal: Haroon Gunn-Salie’s Senzenina is showing at a gallery in New York

An inconvenient review of An Inconvenient Sequel

"How poetic, how meta, how annoyingly terrific. As a young filmmaker myself, I may be having an existential crisis. Staving off the jealousy".

Can you dig it? When climate change naysayers are as powerful as the president-elect of the United States

Wintertime and the livin’ is easy

Britain, Europe and the US are snuggling up to their carbon-emitting coal fires

Former US vice-president Al Gore.

Al Gore speaks on drastic climate change at SA talk

At a climate training conference in Johannesburg, former US vice-president Al Gore has given an overview of how humans are driving climate change.

Al Gore sex case reopened by police

The former US vice-president Al Gore faces a reopened police investigation into allegations that he groped a massage therapist in hotel.

Al Gore takes aim at climate-change sceptics

Former United States vice-president Al Gore has taken aim at sceptics who doubt the reality of human-caused climate change.

‘Significant change in US policy on climate crisis’

Barack Obama is leading a ”significant” change in US policy towards global warming, Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore says.

US climate Bill a good start, says Al Gore

A Bill to fight climate change currently before the US Congress ”is a good start”, Nobel laureate and environment champion Al Gore said on Friday.

After lull, war on climate change faces crunch year

After a year in which it nearly lost its compass, the campaign against climate change heads into 2009 needing top-level political commitment.

UN climate talks progress on poor nation aid

A UN conference made progress on Friday towards agreeing a fund to help poor nations cope with the impacts of climate change.

Barack Obama goes on the attack

The financial crisis ended the Palin circus but the Democratic presidential candidate must buck up his ideas to exploit McCain’s weak point.

The world votes Obama

An America that disdains Obama for his global support risks turning current anti-Bush feeling into something far worse.

The all-American family

It is clear that speech-making abilities in the Obama family are not restricted to Barack Obama.

Obama must win on his own terms

With startling chutzpah, Republicans are again casting the opponent as out of touch. Democrats shouldn’t play the game.

Al Gore throws weight behind Obama

Former United States vice-president Al Gore pledged on Monday to do all he could to help Barack Obama win the White House.

Obama hunts for knock-out as fight turns ugly

It looked like yet another jubilant Barack Obama rally. The cavernous Indiana University sports hall in Bloomington jammed with thousands of supporters who stood in their seats…

It’s no beauty pageant

Funny, isn’t it, how we have come this far in the United States election campaign, reaching the milestone of results from 24 states in the early hours of Wednesday morning, and…

Fresh 72-hour marathon faces Clinton and Obama

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will have no time to pause after yesterday’s Super Tuesday performances before they head off into a fresh 72-hour marathon of coast-to-coast…