Forced Labor, Child Miners, Payment in Drugs—Clean Energy Supply Chain Has Issues
Child miners on the back of a vehicle en route to Numbi, DRC.Stephen Digges / Zuma Press This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Australian clean energy industry has warned of growing evidence linking renewable energy supply chains to modern slavery and urged companies and governments…
Cop27 Climate Summit Promises Disaster Aid to Poor Nations
The Conference in Sharm El Sheikh focuses also on the most vulnerable communities as the climate crisis hardens life conditions of those already most disadvantaged.Dominika Zarzycka / Zuma Press This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On the eve of the Cop27 climate conference that has just finished in…
UK Environment Minister Slams Conservative Attacks on Climate “Wokeness”
Zac Goldsmith in 2020.Paul Ellis/AP This story was originally published by Canada’s National Observer and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Rightwing Tory MPs should stop portraying concerns over the climate and nature as “woke”, and understand that voters are deeply concerned about the crisis, the Conservative minister Zac Goldsmith has warned. “What I’m trying to persuade…
GOP’s Weak Midterm Showing Is Great News for Biden’s Climate Plans
House Democrats celebrate their passage of the Inflation Reduction Act in August. The bill included substantial funding to help reduce carbon emissions.Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA via AP This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For weeks, some Republicans have been preparing to wield control of Congress as…
US Midterms Cast a Long Shadow Over Cop27 Climate Summit
COP 27 in Sharm el-Sheikh Egypt world cloud.Getty Images For Joe Biden, the United Nations climate summit in Egypt is the crowning stage to trumpet the US finally passing major legislation to slow dangerous global heating. But the thoughts of the US president and delegates from around the world are likely to nervously flit to events…
Planting Trees to Offset Emissions Sounds Great, but There’s a Catch
Soeren Stache/dpa/ZUMA This story was originally published by the Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Countries’ climate pledges rely on “unrealistic” and “extensive” amounts of land for carbon removal projects like tree planting schemes, a new report from the University of Melbourne said. A landmass larger than the entire United…