Features

Visiting Paris from Gambia, Saiba Suso explains the politics and euphemisms that climate negotiators use and that conceal how the talks impact lives.

What makes a climate leader? For all of us gathered here at COP21, it becomes increasingly evident with every passing day, writes Morgan Curtis.

Yet another draft Paris agreement was released Wednesday, and was immediately renounced by civil society, Adam Greenberg reports.

The ‘high ambition coalition’ is really about undermining developing world groups, argues Nick Dearden.

Developed countries are determined to undermine any remnant commitment to justice in this process. Morgan Curtis reports for New Internationalist.

Justin Kenrick meets with Sengwer community's Yator Kiptum and Milka Chepkorir about the meaning of climate justice.

Last week, the sterile hallways at COP21 rang with the chants ‘1.5 to stay alive!' Morgan Curtis reports from Paris as climate talks enter their final week.

Malawian environmental journalist Charles Mkoka reports on how communities are already adapting to the ever-changing climate around them.

The oil producing giant blocked efforts in Paris to limit global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, Kyla Mandel and Brendan Montague report.

Following the British parliamentary vote to bomb Syria, Iraq War veteran and peace activist Shawna Foster explains how these kinds of military interventions are linked to fossil fuels and climate change.

It’s conscious and active young people who will be holding our governments to account, Rachel Lees writes.

A new global youth action network – the Climate Strike – was born in Paris this week. Marienna Pope-Weidemann and Samir Dathi were there to hear their plans.

Women are rising up across the globe to say, ‘we are not just victims, we are the solution!’, writes Osprey Orielle Lake.

A poetic and heartfelt plea to restore a wounded planet. By Suprabha Seshan.

Dinyar Godrej explains why we need to find another way, fast.

We need debt management not reduction, says Dinyar Godrej.

David Ransom argues that the opposite is actually true.

Why should financial markets be accountable only to themselves? asks David Ransom.

Not if you look at the environmental costs, says Dinyar Godrej.

There is no evidence of greater efficiency, explains Dinyar Godrej.