Hundreds of Amazon employees Sunday openly criticised the online retail giant’s environmental record, in violation of the company’s communications policy. More than 300 signed a Medium blog post by Amazon Employees for Climate Justice (AECJ), which is pushing the company to go further in its climate change mitigation plan which was announced with great publicity […]
By sharing their ideas and knowledge, they can change the world. What’s holding them back?
The 50th meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) got under way in the ski resort with an avowed focus on climate change but with starkly different visions over global warming laid bare
It is the year of the Tokyo Olympics, and the International Olympic Committee was quickly out of the blocks with new guidelines regarding athlete protests. The IOC is worried the biggest stories of the Games will be political gestures rather than sport performances, and so have introduced specific guidelines to prevent “any political messaging, including […]
YouTube has driven millions of viewers to climate denial videos, a US activist group said on Thursday as it called for stopping “free promotion of misinformation” at the platform. New York-based Avaaz said it scrutinised results of Google-owned YouTube searches using the terms “global warming,” “climate change,” and “climate manipulation” to see what was offered […]
Ocean temperatures last year were the hottest in recorded history, driving destructive weather around the world and pushing a rise in sea levels. This is according to research — titled Record-setting Ocean Warmth Continued in 2019 — published this week by a team of scientists from China and the United States in the peer-reviewed Advances […]
The transition to a decarbonised economy based on water, wind and solar energy will save trillions, plus people’s lives and climate crisis costs
Boundaries at all levels limit the exchange of ideas necessary to resolve complex global problems
Exhausted firefighters said they had finally brought Australia’s largest “megablaze” under control Monday, as wet weather promised to deliver much-needed respite for countryside ravaged by bushfires. New South Wales firefighters said they finally had the upper hand in the fight against the vast Gospers Mountain fire on Sydney’s northwestern outskirts, which has been burning for […]
The government is reaffirming its commitment to coal. But as the crisis deepens, climate barbarism is no longer an option
The impact of climate change on agriculture and food production is clear: the sector will suffer. Here’s what needs to be done
They represent a range of views and are tasked with reaching an agreement on divisive issues
If we don’t do enough, in a decade’s time there’ll be droughts, floods, wildfires and crop failure on an apocalyptic scale
The real test will come next year in Glasgow, when countries have to make concrete commitments to reducing emissions
The bank provides vital financial backing for green initiatives
The youth are demanding that more action is taken on the climate crisis – it’s their future that’s at stake
Female bosses at the IMF, ECB and EU are putting climate at the heart of policymaking
People of all ages must challenge governments and fossil fuel industries to do more than pay lip service to the global crisis
The UNEP said that global emissions need to fall by 7.6%, each year, every year until 2030 to limit global temperature rises to 1.5°C
The record of South Africa’s banks and its top 10 carbon emitters in disclosing steps to mitigate climate-related risks is poor
The politicians pushed mass tourism at the cost of human capital, so the historic (depopulated) city wasn’t prepared for the extreme tides
The 2015 Paris Agreement calls for blocking global warming at well below 2C, and 1.5C if possible
The African Ministerial Conference on the Environment wraps up in Durban today. It will hopefully provide solutions that will have tangible effects
Saudi’s Aramco is planning an oil refinery in South Africa, but experts say the magaproject is risky
Italian Environment Minister Sergio Costa blamed climate change and the "tropicalisation" of violent rainfall and strong winds
The latest report card on how we are doing as a country to reduce emissions is in — and we’re not doing well
The sea level can be expected to rise by at least a metre by 2300 in the unlikely event greenhouse gas emissions fall to zero in the next 11 years
We must continue to hold manufacturers to account and push for better waste management
A poisonous haze envelops New Delhi every winter, caused by vehicle fumes, industrial emissions and smoke from agricultural burning
The company cannot exist in the future. But this is a country where difficult decisions are rarely taken — especially when it comes to climate crisis
A year after the UN sounded the klaxon, warning of ‘some countries becoming dysfunctional’ thanks to the climate crisis, governments aren’t responding
Crops allow the poor to provide for themselves, but they need support to do so during droughts