climate change

The Irish parliament passed a bill yesterday to force its sovereign fund to divest from fossil fuel companies - making the Irish government the first in the world to do so. ARTHUR WYNS reports

Shell is hoping to recruit its next generation of talent at a recruitment event in Olympic Park, London. And it hopes its investment in renewable energy will justify its slick slogan Make the Future. But millennial climate activists are calling them out, reports BRENDAN MONTAGUE

Barack Obama now argues “we are speeding our car towards the cliff at a very fast rate”. Adrian Bridge, CEO of the 326yr old port company hosting the former US president adds “what we need to do is stop talking and start doing!” So what next? NICK BREEZE reports

KARIN NANSEN, chair of Friends of the Earth International, argues that a complete change to the economic system is necessary if we are ever to confront and transcend the environmental, climatic and social crises upon us

China will no longer participate in the start of the world’s first and only international deal to curb emissions from the aviation industry - but it could rejoin. EMMA HOWARD of UNEARTHED reports

JEREMY LENT argues that a change in our collective and individual thinking is necessary to avert social and environmental collapse

Campaigners assembled outside the High Court to fight an injunction sought by an oil and gas company to impose 'draconian' restrictions on protesters.

Dame Emma Thompson sends message of support to Reclaim the Power and protesters from the local community as they mark 54 hours of protest on the anniversary of the Lancashire County Council decision to turn down an application.

Eating meat might barbecue the planet. That seems to be the message from Oxford University researchers. So it it time we all turned to a plant based diet. LOUISE DAVIES from the Vegan Society gets stuck in...

The TV cameras were diligently trained on the cyclists competing in the annual Tour of Flanders. But their footage has provided *yet further* evidence that climate change is having a dramatic impact on nature. BRENDAN MONTAGUE reports

Floods in continental Europe and a record-dry May in Finland’s forests are just two of many examples of climate change in action, says Rewilding Europe. But a new project to harness the carbon sequestration potential of boreal Finland hopes to bring about positive change at a time of intense climate crisis. CATHERINE HARTE reports

The UK is not on course to meet its carbon targets and risks increasing the cost to consumers of dealing with climate change. CATHERINE EARLY reports

Climate change is upon us. The Paris Agreement is an acknowledgement of the urgency and scale of the problem. But we must accelerate change if we are to have any hope of a solution. DR SANDRA PIESIK says traditional knowledge can provide further inspiration and ideas about how exactly this can be achieved

What is to be done about reactionary localism? How can we keep fascism out of local politics? We need to foreground democracy and interdependence over local autonomy. The latest on our series on radical municipalism from the SYMBIOSIS RESEARCH COLLECTIVE

The decision by MPs to support the Conservative government in allowing the third runway to go ahead has angered and dismayed all those concerned about climate change. It follows decades of debate and campaigning. MAXINE NEWLANDS looks at why the Heathrow climate camp in 2007 was so important in the history of the UK environmental activism.

It is 30 years since global warming became front-page news. Both Republicans and Democrats took it seriously. But today, the US has pulled out of the Paris Agreement. Extreme weather fuelled by an increase in CO2 has left a trail of destruction across the globe. ROBERT BRULLE examines what went wrong

Climate change has dramatically affected sea level, and as a result, our shorelines. Creating more living shorelines could decrease the effects of climate change by helping underwater plants to thrive, writes EMILY FOLK.

Today marks the launch of World Meat Free Week where 200 million people globally will be asked to skip just one meaty meal. The impacts on climate change and the environment will be significant. And some people may even try new, delicious vegan food, writes BRENDAN MONTAGUE

A global climate movement has announced a major mobilisation effort planned for later this year. Some of the world's leading climate change organisations will take part in the Rise for Climate coordinated action to showcase what they say is real climate leadership. CATHERINE HARTE reports

Climate change, global finance, the neoliberal state: today’s crises require action on a big scale. And yet fighting for local democracy is - perhaps counter-intuitively - the best chance we've got. The next part in our series from the SYMBIOSIS RESEARCH COLLECTIVE

The impact of the meat industry on the environment is well documented. While global solutions to this problem are necessary, there is a very real, immediate and visceral change people can make right now - on World Environment Day - to turn the tide. Go vegan. GEORGE MONBIOT et al write an open letter to the movement to support the Vegan Society's Plate Up for the Planet challenge

Environmental protesters had blocked access to a controversial opencast coal mine in County Durham for over 26 hours by Sunday evening, after the site operator said it had started mining at the site. ALEXANDRA HEAL reports

Climate change negotiations in Germany earlier this month concluded with strong criticism from civil society groups for the lack of progress on regulating the influence of fossil fuel industries on international climate discussions. ANNA PEREZ CATALA from Climate Tracker reports

How do displacement and migration relate to natural disasters and climate change? Today, there is little clarity about their inter-relationship. ARTHUR WYNS debunks three common misconceptions and offers a fresh perspective to frame the subject of 'climate migration'