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An employee walks past stockpiled of coal for shipping at the Richard’s Bay coal terminal, in Richard’s Bay. (Dean Hutton/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
CANCELCOAL

The post-COP26 state of coal

Environmental organisations say that COP26 ended with ​​90 new coal power projects, worth a total of 88GW, are likely to be cancelled

  • Tunicia Phillips
5 min read
10 December 2019, Spain, Madrid: Greta Thunberg, Swedish climate activist, speaks at an event at the UN Climate Change Conference, holding a microphone in her hand. Photo: Clara Margais/dpa (Photo by Clara Margais/picture alliance via Getty Images)
ANN SKELTON

Countries bear cross-border responsibility for harmful effects of climate change, rules UN child rights committee

The UN committee has been accused of ‘turning its back’ on the children who filed a groundbreaking legal complaint with it against five countries

  • Sheree Bega
7 min read
16 November 2020. Residents of Steenbokpan Village have to fill reserve containers with water as municipal tap water supply has become limited and erratic. The proposed water pipeline to the area will not improve their situation as it will be supplying the mines and power stations almost exclusively. Photograph: James Puttick.
BARBARA CREECY

‘We struggle for water, but power stations and coal mines don’t’

A proposed pipeline will bring water polluted with Gauteng’s sewage to the Waterberg in Limpopo to boost the coal industry during the climate crisis

  • Sheree Bega
14 min read