06/03/2025 We have a belated Cop16 agreement to protect biodiversity – but is it enough? Patrick Greenfield March 6 Last week, countries signed off a hard-won compromise on nature finance after marathon negotiations in Rome, finally bringing biodiversity Cop16 meetings to an end. In November, the UN nature summit was suspended in disarray after negotiatorsContinue reading “Down to Earth for March 2025”
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Abnormally warm temperatures, extreme weather events and Cop16
27/02/2025 Abandoned citizens and conspiracy theories – what I saw in hurricane-ravaged North Carolina Nina Lakhani Last August, abnormally warm temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico fuelled Hurricane Helene, before it made landfall and unleashed catastrophic winds and rainfall across the south-eastern United States. The hurricane was the third deadliest in American history, after KatrinaContinue reading “Abnormally warm temperatures, extreme weather events and Cop16”
Canadian war against plastics
Welcome to The Independent Climate Newsletter, your update from our team of correspondents around the world. Looking at: June 24, 2022 Large bundles of plastic bags, cans and milk containers await processing at a recycling centre in Canada. (Getty Images/iStockphoto) It may only be a small win in the war against plastics, but itContinue reading “Canadian war against plastics”
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