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Peru drug traffickers ramp up violence against indigenous groups
Brazil's biodiversity under threat as global warming limit looms
In Ecuador's Amazon, solar panels bring 'fire canoe' dream to life
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In Ecuador's Amazon, indigenous forest defense gains legal ground
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Solar energy
Watered-down G7 climate commitments dismay activists
Climate change is driving 2022 extreme heat and flooding
Bangladesh disaster response neglects trans community
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Green groups fear failure on biodiversity pact after slow talks
Amid electric vehicle boom, US seeks to flood 'charging deserts'
Indigenous Ecuadoreans fight back as metal mining eats into Amazon
Indigenous peoples warn of global delay on forest protection push
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Why climate groups want Europe to quit obscure energy treaty
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India's mining hubs need more green cash to curb coal
analysis
Is green hydrogen a 'game changer' in clean energy transition?
How to fight cost of living and climate crises? Save energy
Brazil's Lula sets out 'net zero deforestation' election aim
analysis
UN talks face pressure to land global nature pact in 2022
Can ethical investment help protect the Amazon rainforest?
U.N. nature summit set for Montreal as COVID-hit China steps aside
Biden says major economies must speed up climate change efforts
Early summer heatwave in Western Europe compounds climate fears
Disappointing UN climate talks leave 'huge task' for COP27 summit
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Hit by heatwaves, cities test fresh ways to cool residents
'Love Island' dumps fast fashion for second-hand eBay partnership
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Insect muffins? Africa's bio-economies boost food, energy security
Net-zero Picasso: Art museums reimagine exhibitions to go greener
Women-led startups help family farmers feed Latin America
Uganda chiefs fight to save 'sacred' shea trees felled for fuel
analysis
Missing Amazon expert sought mission outside Brazil's watchdog
explainer
Are we making real progress towards 'net zero' emissions?
As taps run dry, Mexican drought fuels anger over water inequality
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What can we learn from the women leading India's EV revolution?
analysis
Climate-battered nations hunt elusive cash to adapt at U.N. talks
UK's first net zero city? Nottingham eyes carbon neutral switch
analysis
Russia gas crisis highlights Europe's green energy storage problem
From Dhaka to Freetown, climate migration puts cities on alert
Indian workers suffer as heat waves turn factories into 'furnaces'
At-risk nations seek cash for climate losses, fear UN 'talk shop'
U.S. renewables 'frenzy' puts land conflicts on corporate radar
Bangladesh's historic coastal mosques feel climate change's bite
Indian weddings go green with new tree-planting traditions
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Watchdog chief says high prices can support greener palm oil
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COVID-19 and Ukraine war threaten clean energy gains for poorest
New global fund invests in nature to shore up climate fight
First Bangladesh city climate plan targets industrial pollution
Climate lawsuit breaks ground as German judges visit Peru glacier
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About our Climate coverage

We focus on the human and development impacts of climate change.

Opinion

Jennifer Corpuz and Lucy ...

To succeed, global nature pact must enshrine indigenous rights

In Tanzania, Maasai people are being evicted from their ancestral lands in the name of conservation and economic need - something a new global nature accord cannot allow
Saleemul Huq and Iskander Erzini... International Centre for Climate Change and Development

The G7 should keep its word on trillions for developing countries

G7 progress on mobilising trillions needed in clean infrastructure investment for developing countries appears largely rhetorical
Gerry Arances

Confronting the new carbon bomb in Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia has chosen its path away from coal but that was not the end of the story
Carter Ingram

Putting nature on the balance sheet benefits firms, biodiversity

There is a growing awareness of the value of nature for businesses and the risk that biodiversity loss poses to economic growth and stability globally

In Depth

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Vanished Amazon expert Pereira sought mission outside Brazil's weakened watchdog
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As conflict and climate change bite, are high food prices here to stay?
Climate disasters drive Bangladesh children from classrooms to work
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U.S. firefighters on climate frontlines sound alarm over staffing

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Forests or business - who wins when companies pay to protect trees?
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Hit by heatwaves, cities test fresh ways to cool residents
Net-zero Picasso: Museums rethink art shows to cut climate impact
Uganda chiefs fight to save 'sacred' shea trees felled for fuel