1+ hour, 4+ min ago  (1683+ words) Damage from climate-driven storms, floods and heatwaves is costing communities billions worldwide. We need an EU tax on fossil fuel profits to help plug the gaps in climate finance Cars piled in a street after flash floods hit the Sedav…...

1+ hour, 12+ min ago  (553+ words) A new Global Witness study has found that emissions from EU oil firms" production are set to cause billions in damage from climate-crisis impacts like droughts, floods and heatwaves. LONDON " New Global Witness analysis, produced in partnership with US climate…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago  (374+ words) As London Climate Action Week 2026 (2028 June) approaches, Global Witness will be on the ground in London, convening experts, campaigners, policymakers and frontline leaders to drive action on the climate and nature emergency Throughout the week, Global Witness is hosting and…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (1574+ words) China's contradictory stance on the energy transition and critical mineral mining at COP30 may be more an institutional quirk than all-out rejection of global climate governance. Its new Green Mineral Initiative presents an opportunity to bring the two issues closer together…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (1233+ words) Santa Marta's first conference on the fossil fuel phaseout was a remarkable watershed moment for the energy transition. But its true test will come next, when we see how meaningful and just countries' steps to wean themselves off oil and…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1791+ words) An investigation by Global Witness has revealed that waste from a manganese mine in Ghana supplying a material critical to the latest EV technology is creating a toxic environment for local people, with its operators aware but doing little to…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1166+ words) With COP30 delivering mixed results on a fossil fuel phaseout, attention is turning to new spaces for building climate action. The Santa Marta conference, hosted by Colombia and the Netherlands, could push governments to deliver concrete plans through a just transition…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (393+ words) There is'a high risk'that Nuti Ivo " and therefore LVMH " is'purchasing'hides from cattle farms that have destroyed forests on territory belonging to the Ayoreo'Totobiegosode'Indigenous People.' The Inter-American Human Rights Commission granted this territory special protection in 2016, but deforestation on their lands…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1724+ words) As leather boss Fabrizio Nuti heads up a lobbying blitz to dismantle EU's deforestation law, a separate Paraguayan tannery he owns accepts it is likely still sourcing hides from deforested lands The European Union Deforestation Regulation (or "EUDR) will require…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (878+ words) As the energy crisis escalates, some argue for more drilling at home. But the real answer lies not in doubling down on a broken system, but in a rapid and just transition to renewables Bombs have been destroying communities and…...