Natalie Sauer

Jean-Claude Junker said he does not support raising the bloc’s 2030 climate goal, days before EU leaders are expected to discuss climate ambition.

Japan's climate legislation is heavy on tech, and light on any plans to tackle its coal dependency.

Confusion reigns as UN Environment publishes, then retracts, an article criticising the use of carbon credits to make up for polluting activities.

Emissions in Australia are rising, and experts warn that the current government has no policies to stop them.

Spanish utility giant Ibedrola has laid out a plan to build Europe’s largest solar power plant in the country.

Brazil is withdrawing its offer to host Latin America and Caribbean climate week - a key milestone leading up to the annual UN negotiations.

A loan from International Monetary Fund allows the African country to rebuild from climate-linked disaster – but drives the poor into debt, campaigners warn.

Chile plans to use this year’s UN climate talks to focus attention on the world’s most important carbon sponge – the oceans.

Spaniards threw their weight behind a Green New Deal programme by re-electing the pro-climate Spanish Socialist party (PSOE).

The main opposition party will treat air pollution as a national emergency and tackle climate change impacts if elected, it promises as India goes to the polls.

A top politician may have personally benefited from payments made by one of Indonesia’s biggest coal miners to an offshore firm he owned, an investigation by Global Witness alleged.

'It isn’t normal to resort to anti-terrorist units in order to pursue activists whose acts threaten neither the security nor the integrity of the state.'

Slovakia’s first female president will challenge long-standing industrial interests and the financing of coal mining.

France’s worst civil unrest in decades was sparked by an anti-pollution tax, but are the gilets jaunes fighting against climate action?

Young people are preparing for a mass walkout of classes tomorrow, to demand swift action from governments to safeguard their futures.

A proposal to add a green subsidiary to the European Investment Bank (pictured) has puzzled the bank.

A report on formally joining the climate deal is due for completion by the end of the month, while a key industry lobby has reversed its opposition.

Fatih Birol of the International Energy Agency says trucks, petrochemicals and air travel driving global oil use.

President Jair Bolsonaro says he will strike balance between environment and 'much-needed economic development.

Island leaders reacted strongly to the host country’s emphasis on workers, reminding them of their own dire predicament

Warming beyond 1.5C will unleash a frightening set of consequences and scientists say only a global transformation, beginning now, can avoid it.

The French grain-grower Paul François was the first citizen to successfully sue Monsanto over a toxic weedkiller, six years ago. There are considerable parallels between his case, and the recent ruling that RoundUp caused Dewayne Johnson’s cancer. NATALIE SAUER investigates