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With two weeks of talks on global climate finance scheduled to end on Friday in Baku, Azerbaijan, many developing countries are left frustrated at what they believed was a lack of progress in the first week. Poorer countries want at least $1tn a year to help them cut greenhouse gas emissions and cope with the impacts of extreme weather.

Policymakers are not holding back their feelings that, more than any other issue, the production of plastic has divided INC participants. Some argue that no government will attack the profitable hyper-consumption paradigm fueled by the pivot from petroleum as fuel to petroleum as a source for raw materials for plastic product manufacturing (plastics is the solid form of petroleum), and a lot of compromise will have to be made to come out with a treaty.

A groundbreaking report by Oxfam International, " Carbon Inequality Kills, " shows that the high carbon emissions of the world’s 50 richest people are worsening hunger, poverty, and deaths.

The latest report from the United Nations’ Global E-waste Monitor (GEM) reveals a startling trend: electronic waste generation is increasing five times faster than recycling efforts. In 2022 alone, the world produced a staggering 62 million tonnes of e-waste.

A new study finds that temporarily exceeding the global temperature rise of 1.5°C is likely to have long-term consequences. The research, by 30 scientists published on October 9, 2024, in Nature, found that such an overshoot has irreversible consequences and that rapid near-term emission reductions are essential to reducing climate risks.