Climate Action

Companies Are Finding New Ways to Use Waste and Fight Climate Change (Angela Isabella Scafidi and Audrey Denvir – World Resources Institute)

Not long ago, the idea of harvesting almond shells and sewage sludge to lock away climate-harming emissions might have sounded like something out of...

Land Use Changed the Climate. Now Climate’s Changing the Land (Matt Hansen and Craig Hanson – World Resources Institute)

Land-use change has long been recognized as a major contributor to global warming. Deforestation and agriculture alone account for nearly 25% of human-caused greenhouse...

Land Restoration From Planting to Proof: A Guide to Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (World Resources Institute)

Small-scale, local land restoration brings numerous benefits to people, nature, and climate, but monitoring these projects at scale has been limited by a lack...

Global warming reaches 1.4C after third-hottest year on record (Politico)

The world is rapidly closing in on the 1.5 degrees Celsius warming limit that serves as a threshold for ever more dangerous climate change,...

A New Era of US Mineral Mining Must Put Communities First (Danielle Riedl, Devashree Saha and Luke Balleny – World Resources Institute)

The area around California's Salton Sea is incredibly rich in lithium — enough to support over 375 million electric vehicle batteries. A new mine,...

How Indonesia can avoid the carbon credits gimmick (Mohd. Yunus – Lowy The Interpreter)

At the COP30 climate summit in Brazil in November 2025, Indonesia arrived with a pipeline of around 90 million tonnes of potential carbon credits,...

COP30: Mixed Outcomes and BRICS-Led Climate Momentum (Sandra Thachirickal Prathap – Observer Research Foundation)

The 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) in Belém unfolded amidst shifting geopolitical currents. With Western climate leadership fragmented, Europe recalibrating its ambitions, and...

The water footprints of global food and agriculture trade (Richard King – Chatham House)

When food and agricultural products are traded internationally, the direct and indirect water use associated with that trade results in a ‘water footprint’ –...

The Climate Briefing: Positive and negative tipping points (Chatham House)

In the final episode of the year, Anna speaks to Professor Tim Lenton (Chair in Climate Change and Earth System Science at the University...

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