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2026
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Santa Marta Process Begins: Tuvalu and Ireland to Host Second Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels in 2027 in the Pacific, fossilfueltreaty.org (Apr 29, 2026) — The First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, co-hosted by Colombia and the Netherlands, concluded today marking a historic breakthrough in building international cooperation for the phase out of coal, oil and gas extraction and production. This step fundamentally shifts power toward a growing coalition of courageous nations engaged in a new international process to manage an equitable phase out of fossil fuels- A new economic superpower could spark a global retreat from fossil fuels, theguardian.com (Apr 07, 2026)
- What are the health impacts of sea-level rise, and who should pay?, theguardian.com (Apr 07, 2026)
- US has caused $10tn worth of climate damage since 1990, research finds, theguardian.com (Mar 25, 2026)
- NSW bans new coal mines in landmark shift towards fossil fuel phase-out, thepoint.com.au (Mar 20, 2026)
- Talking about the weather - when the weather really matters - in communities and classrooms [Climate Majority Project and others], Daily Alternative (Mar 06, 2026)
- ‘They pushed so many lies about recycling’: the fight to stop big oil pumping billions more into plastics, theguardian.com (Feb 19, 2026)
- Paris Court Holds Historic Climate Trial in Case Against TotalEnergies, insideclimatenews.org (Feb 19, 2026)
- Environmental defenders labeled ‘terrorists’ for bringing renewable power to Philippine communities, globalvoices.org/ (Feb 19, 2026)
- ‘The trend is irreversible’: has Romania shattered the link between economic growth and high emissions?, theguardian.com (Feb 11, 2026)
- Amsterdam Defies Last-Minute Lobbying to Become First Capital City to Ban Fossil Fuel Ads, desmog.com (Jan 23, 2026)
- As the UN General Assembly Turns 80, Can Ordinary Citizens Change How the World Is Governed?, desmog.com (Jan 19, 2026) — Democratic innovation as a pathway for revitalising global climate action.
- ‘A silent majority’: MPs underestimate support for green policies, study reveals, theguardian.com (Jan 05, 2026)
2025
[edit | edit source]- Climate change has already made the United States poorer, pnas.org (Dec 16, 2025)
- South Sudanese community fights to save land from relentless flooding worsened by climate change, apnews.com (Dec 14, 2025)
- Shell facing first UK legal claim over climate impacts of fossil fuels, BBC News (Dec 10, 2025)
- Ecuador makes progress in legalizing indigenous lands to curb Amazon deforestation, efeverde.com (Dec 02, 2025)
- Netherlands to increase tax on private jets, reuters.com (Nov 27, 2025)
- Beth Mead: ‘If we don’t adapt to climate change, football becomes a privilege, not a right‘, theguardian.com (Nov 19, 2025)
- Lessons from Denmark – the world leader in climate action, theprogressplaybook.com (Nov 18, 2025)
- Mexico announces ambitious decarbonisation target, theprogressplaybook.com (Nov 13, 2025) — Mexico aims to more than halve emissions over the next 10 years before reaching net zero by 2050
- Youth Climate Assembly Spotlights Climate Risks, Accountability, Urges Oil and Gas Emission Cuts, theenergymix.com (Nov 11, 2025)
- ‘Politicians actually taking action’: six world mayors defying climate-sceptic populist leaders, theguardian.com (Nov 07, 2025)
- As Brazil Cracks Down on Forest Clearing, Emissions Fall, e360.yale.edu (Nov 05, 2025)
- Brazil records biggest annual fall in emissions in 15 years, notably thanks to fight against deforestation, lemonde.fr/en (Nov 04, 2025) — The gross emissions of Latin America's biggest country fell by 16.7% year-on-year, according to Brazil's Climate Observatory, a network of environmental NGOs
- Q&A: The role of soil health in food security and tackling climate change, carbonbrief.org (Oct 29, 2025)
- I am the first Indigenous journalist to exclusively interview António Guterres. How many others will listen?, theguardian.com (Oct 28, 2025) — A young journalist reflects on the UN leader’s responses, and hopes his messages – about human violence on an increasingly hostile planet – resonated before Cop30
- Thai villagers have moved four times to escape rising sea levels – life on the climate-change frontline, theconversation.com (Oct 23, 2025)
- Hamburg to set 2040 net-zero target after residents vote for stronger climate action, theprogressplaybook.com (Oct 13, 2025)
- Taking the fight to court: challenging Minister Murray Watt’s approval of the North West Shelf extension, acf.org.au (Oct 13, 2025)
- The hidden cost of ultra-processed foods on the environment: ‘The whole industry should pay’, theguardian.com (Oct 08, 2025)
- China makes landmark pledge to cut its climate emissions, BBC News (Sep 24, 2025) — China to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions across the economy by 7-10% by 2035, while "striving to do better".
- The Ganges River is drying faster than ever – here’s what it means for the region and the world, theconversation.com (Sep 24, 2025)
- Australia’s new goal for 2035 is for emissions to be 62% to 70% lower than in 2005. It’s less ambitious than the UK’s target but higher than in Japan, Canada and NZ, theguardian.com (Sep 18, 2025)
- The Pacific won a stunning climate victory at the International Court of Justice. What's next?, abc.net.au (Sep 13, 2025)
- Study links world’s top oil and gas firms to 200 ‘more intense’ heatwaves, carbonbrief.org (Sep 10, 2025)
- The Citizens' Assembly for Climate Held Its First Session in Izmir, raillynews.com (Sep 08, 2025)
- Countries must deal with imported emissions in a fair and flexible way, climatechangenews.com (Aug 27, 2025)
- Why our broken food system remains a climate disaster: ‘broiling the planet to stuff our faces’, theguardian.com (Aug 14, 2025)
- Climate polluters may be allowed to stop reporting their emissions. That doesn’t mean they can hide them, yaleclimateconnections.org (Aug 11, 2025) — Even as the EPA moves to block greenhouse gas reporting, satellites and aircraft are stepping in to expose the truth, Karin Kirk
- Future Council follows eight children fighting for the climate. But should kids be saddled with such a burden?, theguardian.com (Aug 11, 2025)
- First-of-a-kind US class-action lawsuit would force EPA to reinstate $3bn climate program, theguardian.com (Aug 05, 2025)
- Nordic countries hit by ‘truly unprecedented’ heatwave, theguardian.com (Aug 02, 2025) — weather station in the Norwegian part of the Arctic Circle records temperatures above 30C (86F) on 13 days in July
- Climate change: new method can more accurately attribute environmental harm to individual polluters, theconversation.com (Aug 01, 2025)
- Honolulu's lawsuit against fossil fuel companies leads climate change legal fight, independent.co.uk (Jul 29, 2025)
- There’s a surprising climate solution right under your feet: mycorrhizal fungi. They grab huge amounts of carbon. But they need urgent protection [Grist], Daily Alternative (Jul 26, 2025)
- ‘Significant legal breakthrough’ as NSW court blocks state’s largest coal expansion over emissions, theguardian.com (Jul 24, 2025) — “Today’s decision has broad-ranging implications for all new and expanded fossil fuel projects in NSW. No longer can the NSW government say that climate impacts felt by local communities in NSW are divorced from the continued production of coal and gas in the state,” Elaine Johnson
- Top UN court says countries can sue each other over climate change, BBC News (Jul 23, 2025)
- How young people have taken climate justice to the world’s international courts, theconversation.com (Jul 21, 2025)
- Climate anxiety meant I could no longer work as a pilot. But I love flying – and I know we can transform aviation, George Hibberd, theguardian.com (Jul 10, 2025)
- Climate breakdown tripled death toll in Europe’s June heatwave, study finds, theguardian.com (Jul 09, 2025)
- China's emissions may be falling - here's what you should know, BBC News (Jul 08, 2025)
- As nations lag on climate action, their cities are stepping up. Here’s proof [Grist], Daily Alternative (Jul 05, 2025)
- Top Latin American court upholds right to “healthy climate”, urges fossil fuel control, climatechangenews.com (Jul 04, 2025)
- In California, a Push to Decommission Gas Lines in Low-Income Neighborhoods Moves Forward, insideclimatenews.org (Jun 22, 2025)
- 'This is classic climate change': Sask. faces worst wildfire season in decades, cbc.ca (Jun 01, 2025)
- The Economic Consequences of Ignoring Climate Change, insideclimatenews.org (May 30, 2025)
- One lawsuit just helped melt the fossil fuel industry’s defence against being held accountable for climate change, theconversation.com (May 30, 2025)
- Analysis: Clean energy just put China’s CO2 emissions into reverse for first time, carbonbrief.org (May 15, 2025)
- In India, Indigenous women and their ‘dream maps’ seek to protect lands from climate change, apnews.com (May 15, 2025)
- Abandoned infrastructure one of the biggest polluters in the world, theguardian.com (May 07, 2025)
- Climate action is very popular. Even though they mistakenly assume their peers do not, 89% of people around the world want more to be done, theguardian.com (Apr 22, 2025)
- How storytelling, creativity and collaborations can inspire climate action, theconversation.com (Apr 08, 2025)
- New Documentary Explores the Natural Wonders of NYC’s Jamaica Bay Through One of Its Most-Beloved Characters, insideclimatenews.org (Apr 05, 2025)
- The climate movement needs lawyers. This ‘pro bono bootcamp’ helps connect the dots., grist.org (Apr 02, 2025)
- Tackling climate crisis will increase economic growth, OECD research finds, theguardian.com (Mar 26, 2025)
- Greenpeace’s $660m damages ruling a ‘wake-up call’ to climate movement, climatechangenews.com (Mar 21, 2025)
- ‘Global weirding’: climate whiplash hitting world’s biggest cities, study reveals, theguardian.com (Mar 12, 2025)
- Many cities are banning ads for airlines, SUVs and fossil fuels – and yours could be next, theconversation.com (Mar 10, 2025)
- Bill McKibben on Climate Activism in the Age of Trump 2.0, e360.yale.edu (Mar 03, 2025)
- How a New Global Citizens’ Assembly Can Revive Climate Action, europeandemocracyhub.epd.eu (Feb 12, 2025)
- Climate finance and care services: why public investment is necessary, theconversation.com (Jan 29, 2025) — Quezon City in Manila, the Philippines, Renca in Santiago, Chile and Barcelona are cities that are beginning to consider how care systems can be incorporated in their climate adaptation response.
- Think your efforts to help the climate don’t matter? African philosophers disagree, theconversation.com (Jan 27, 2025)
- South Africa's patchwork climate plans risk widening inequality, Kim Harrisberg, context.news (Jan 24, 2025) — "...placing communities at the heart of these plans through bringing the policies to them in local forums is key", Chantal Naidoo, Rabia Transitions, South African transitions finance research and advisory non-profit
- Oxfam: Super-rich have already burned more than their fair share of carbon for 2025, climatechangenews.com (Jan 10, 2025)
News sources
[edit | edit source]- Press releases and media information from climateoutreach.org, added 16:22, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
- The Energy Mix, community news site and e-digest on climate change, energy, and the shift off carbon, published by Energy Mix Productions Inc., a Canadian non-profit headquartered on unceded Algonquin Anishnaabe territory, also known as Ottawa. We respect the sovereignty of the many Indigenous peoples and communities on whose land our work takes place. added 10:25, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
- News from climatecentral.org, added 10:52, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
- Articles on Climate change from theconversation.com
- Covering Climate Now, added 08:43, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
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