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Nuclear expert Mycle Schneider on the COP28 pledge to triple nuclear energy production: ‘Trumpism enters energy policy’

By François Diaz-Maurin | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy

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‘Historic’ or ‘weak’? Parsing the climate agreement from COP28

By Damian Carrington | Climate Change

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At COP28, Vanuatu and Tuvalu lead the call for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty to address climate crisis

By Alex Rafalowicz | Climate Change

signs: pay up for loss and damage; show us the money; our countries are not your factories

COP28 creates fund for vulnerable countries for loss and damage from climate change—but will it reach vulnerable people?

By Zoha Shawoo, Inès Bakhtaoui, Ayesha Dinshaw | Analysis, Climate Change

The stark choice facing climate conference: A livable climate or more oil and gas?

By David Spratt | Climate Change

climate activists at cop27 holding signs that read we are watching and do something

Has the UN climate change conference gotten too big to work?

By Bob Berwyn | Climate Change

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Despite pledges to take action, almost no nations are cutting down fossil fuel production

By Damian Carrington | Climate Change