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Kumi Naidoo, a leading voice for climate justice advocating for a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty and fair finance, has been calling for governments to act on the ‘moral failure’ of continued fossil fuel expansion (Photo supplied)

South African climate activist makes a desperate plea for urgent action, kneeling in a protest

Kumi Naidoo, a leading voice for climate justice advocating for a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty and fair finance, has been calling for governments to act on the ‘moral…

With COP30 closing this week, one truth has come sharply into focus: climate extremes are natural, but disasters are not. (Flickr)

COP30 launches global forest finance facility amid indigenous rights concerns

Indigenous groups and NGOs caution that the facility risks becoming another top-down market mechanism that benefits investors more than the forests themselves

The Congo Basin faces growing pressures from logging, mining, oil and gas development, agriculture, infrastructure and urban expansion, compounded by climate change and governance challenges.

Congo Basin under-researched and ‘chronically underinvested’, new report says

Deforestation, weak governance and extractive pressures also threaten this vital ecosystem, scientists said in the landmark COP30 report

Europe’s unusually warm and humid summer in 2025 contributed to 718 human cases of West Nile virus and 49 deaths in Italy alone.

Climate change is spreading dengue, chikungunya and West Nile virus worldwide

A new COP30 report finds that rising temperatures, extreme weather, evolving pathogens and climate-driven migration are reshaping disease patterns

COP30 got underway in Brazil on Monday. (@antonioguterres/X)

Africa’s COP30 priorities: Finance, adaptation, technology and fair trade

Power Shift Africa is urging the summit to move from promises to delivery, highlighting Africa’s vulnerabilities and climate finance needs

TotalEnergies (formerly known as Elf, and then Total) was, in 1971, aware of the harmful effects of global warming caused by burning fossil fuels. (Photo by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Countdown for Mozambique mega gas project quickens

TotalEnergies is preparing for the resumption in early 2024 of its stalled $23 billion liquified natural gas project

A medical health worker injects the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine to a woman as they visit door-to-door to deliver the vaccines to people who live far from health facilities in Siaya, Kenya, on May 18, 2021. (Photo by Brian ONGORO / AFP)

The climate crisis is also a health crisis

The interplay between climate change and the spread of pathogens means health systems must be ready for future crises and ensure equitable access to treatment

Firefighters monitor a backfire they lit to stop the spread of the catastrophic Dixie fire in California, United States.  (Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images)

An antidote to climate despair

Dire predictions about the impending collapse of civilisation have become almost commonplace. Okay, doomers – enough

A Climate activist lies on the ground as he takes part in a protest against fossil fuels during the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference COP27. Photo: Getty Images

Dread or hope at COP27?

Rather than be complacent or despairing, world leaders must critically examine what needs to change and what it will take to cross the essential tipping points

Ambition: A wind farm in Egypt. The country wants 42% of its energy to be from renewable resources by 2035. Photo: Khaled Desouki/AFP

The COP of no return: Climate change conference in Egypt gives hope

The world must use the United Nations Climate Change Conference to inspire an approach to mitigation and adaptation that is based on trust, justice and equity

Climate action is a legal duty, say groups to world’s governments ahead of COP27. (Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

COP27: It’s Africa’s turn to take centre stage

The climate conference must show how the world will benefit if Africa achieves its green development goals – bypassing fossil fuel where possible and moving straight to renewables

Pay up: Activists dressed as debt collectors hold cutouts of the leaders of Italy, the UK, the US, Australia and Canada during a protest in front of the IMF headquarters to ask rich nations to keep their promise to support developing countries to tackle climate change. Photo: Pedro Ugarte/AFP

Private climate funding is the next finance bubble

Evidence suggests that green lending to reduce developing countries’ CO2 emissions displays all the pathologies associated with financial manias.

Complex transition: A man fishes across from the Wujing coal power station in Shanghai, China and electrical workers in a boat check solar panels at a photovoltaic power station built in a fishpond in Haian, China. Mzukisi Qobo writes that China calibrates its pragmatic use of coal with increasing investments in renewable energy rather than basing its future decisions purely on idealism. Photos: Johannes Eisele/AFP & AFP

South Africa must approach its energy transition pragmatically

A sensible climate policy must balance the imperative of decarbonisation, socioeconomic policy and security of supply considerations