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UN Report Sounds the Alarm Before COP30: Record CO₂ Levels Push the Planet Toward Climate Crossroads

octobre 17, 2025 Aucun commentaire

Geneva — A new United Nations report released this week has delivered a stark warning: Earth’s atmosphere is trapping more heat than ever before. According to the World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin, global carbon dioxide levels rose by the largest margin ever recorded last year, reaching concentrations

UNEP Launches $100 Million Programme to Accelerate Climate and Nature Action

octobre 17, 2025 Aucun commentaire

WASHINGTON — The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has launched a major new initiative to bridge the divide between global climate and biodiversity goals. The Net-Zero Nature-Positive Accelerator Integrated Programme, unveiled alongside the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF), and the Asian Development Bank (ADB),

U.S. Regulators Withdraw Climate-Related Risk Rules for Major Banks

octobre 17, 2025 Aucun commentaire

WASHINGTON — In a fresh reversal of post-Paris financial policy, U.S. banking regulators have withdrawn landmark guidance on climate-related financial risks, erasing a federal framework that had directed the largest banks to account for climate exposure in governance and risk management. The Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and

When Hotel Prices Threaten a Climate Summit: The Hidden Barrier to COP30

octobre 14, 2025 Aucun commentaire

Belem, Brazil — As world leaders and climate negotiators prepare to gather in the Amazonian city of Belem this November for COP30, an unexpected obstacle is overshadowing the climate agenda: soaring hotel prices. Many delegations are warning that accommodation costs have become so high that some countries may be forced

America’s Renewable Race Against the Clock

octobre 14, 2025 Aucun commentaire

Developers rush to build solar, wind, and battery projects before federal incentives vanish WASHINGTON — Across the United States, a quiet race is unfolding in the deserts of Nevada, the plains of Texas, and the coastlines of New England. Solar panels are rising, wind turbines are spinning, and massive batteries

Scientists Confirm Earth’s First Climate Tipping Point: Coral Reefs in Irreversible Collapse

octobre 14, 2025 Aucun commentaire

Global Report Confirms Planetary Threshold Crossed In a landmark assessment released this week, an international coalition of scientists declared that the world’s coral reefs have officially crossed a climate tipping point—becoming the first major Earth system to enter irreversible decline. The findings, published in the Global Tipping Points Report 2025,

Trump Administration Halts One of the World’s Largest Solar Projects

octobre 10, 2025 Aucun commentaire

WASHINGTON — The Trump Administration has canceled a massive solar energy project in Nevada that was expected to power nearly two million homes, a move that underscores the White House’s escalating campaign to slow the expansion of renewable energy across the United States. The project, known as Esmeralda 7, was

Climate-Displaced Islanders Call for Humanitarian Visas as the Seas Rise

Climate-Displaced Pacific Islanders Call for Humanitarian Visas as the Seas Rise

octobre 10, 2025 Aucun commentaire

A New Reality in the Pacific In the low-lying islands of the Pacific, the ocean has become both a giver of life and a harbinger of exile. Rising tides now lap at homes that once stood firm for generations. Families from places like Tuvalu, Kiribati, and Tokelau speak of nights

The Sahel’s Silent Exodus: A Crisis of Climate, Conflict, and Survival

octobre 10, 2025 Aucun commentaire

The Sahel stretches across the spine of Africa like a fragile thread, a vast semi-arid belt where the desert meets the savannah and where, today, the future of millions hangs in the balance. The UN warned on Friday that nearly four million people have been uprooted across the region, forced

U.S. Refuses to Back World Bank Climate Statement, Deepening Rift Over Global Green Finance

octobre 10, 2025 Aucun commentaire

WASHINGTON — Fault lines in global climate finance deepened this week when the United States stood apart from nearly every other major shareholder, refusing to sign a World Bank joint statement calling for a stronger climate mandate. The statement, backed by 19 of the Bank’s 25 executive directors, urged that