'Architects of desire': Can advertising agencies glamorise climate solutions?
Too often criticised for promoting excessive consumption and greenwash, ad firms could use a new emissions metric to popularise climate-smart products
As warming worsens floods, snake-like mobile dams could protect Africans
More climate finance could unlock wider use of innovative technologies like these portable dams that can be erected fast and capture water for use when floods subside
Rights groups warn COP26 rules on carbon markets leave indigenous people exposed
Paris pact rules for carbon markets, set to be decided in Glasgow lack protections to stop abuses of indigenous forest communities, human rights experts warn
AI bots to user data: Is there space for rights in the metaverse?
In a virtual world populated by digital characters, privacy and property rights face unprecedented challenges, campaigners say
Push on climate action in pandemic shows strength of Paris pact: UNDP chief
Despite the coronavirus crisis and the temporary withdrawal of the U.S. under Trump, the 2015 Paris Agreement is still driving action to limit global warming, says Achim Steiner
'People lost their homes': LGBT+ veterans seek redress for sackings
As Veterans Day and Remembrance Sunday is celebrated in the United States and Britain, LGBT+ veterans who were kicked out of the military want the benefits they were denied.
US-China climate deal buoys COP26 summit - but not a 'turning point'
Despite agreeing to cooperate, including to reduce methane emissions, protect forests and phase out coal, it's not clear whether the two big emitters will work together to make COP26 a success
Extreme heat linked to rising deaths in tropical forest communities
Heat-related deaths among rural communities living in tropical countries such as Indonesia are increasing as deforestation and climate change cause temperatures to rise
Climate-vulnerable nations demand more financial support in COP26 draft deal
As early drafts of a potential agreement emerge at the U.N. climate talks, poor countries facing losses say they need more help to deal with a problem they didn't cause
Look beyond COP26 summit to real world for climate action, says top UK scientist
Real action to stem potentially "unmanageable" climate threats is coming from outside the U.N. climate change negotiations, says David King