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Fossil fuel lobbyists account for more delegates at COP27 than those from any country in the world, aside from the United Arab Emirates.

“It would be nice to say that my passion for rivers has a romantic origin story, with my father or grandfather taking me out into nature, but this isn’t the case. My passion and commitment have grown out of studying”. Olsi Nika is always in a hurry, much like Tirana, the Albanian city where he lives when he’s not working on some demonstration along the course of the Vjosë River. The latest of these protest initiatives involved all major cities in Albania and many other large cities around the world. The “Vjosa National Park Now” slogan was written in huge letters at many signif...

It’s the autumn of 2015, and vast swathes of  Indonesia are shrouded in a toxic ink-black haze. Hospitals are full of patients struggling with respiratory issues, orangutans are fleeing from trees where they have spent their entire lives. This is the devastating impact of the wildfires that, for over two months, swallowed up millions of hectares of forest. In April 2021, the World Resources Institute published Global Forest Review, an atlas of the state of forests around the world. In it, there’s great praise for Indonesia, hailed as a role model thanks to its brilliant achievements in...

Furthermore, the European Parliament has asked every member state to introduce minimum binding objectives on green procurement, to ensure that public bodies acquire goods and services with a reduced environmental impact. “Otherwise, we’re asking countries to recycle but nothing really gets moving because there’s no market for secondary raw materials,” Bonafé explains. There are  seven value chains on which institutional efforts will focus. Last December, the Commission took steps to update legislation on batteries and vehicles, an increasingly urgent issue after the landmark of on...

What 2020 taught us about the climate crisis Editorial What 2020 taught us about the climate crisis An Extinction Rebellion installation in London to raise awareness about the climate crisis © Ollie Millington/Getty Images 25 january 2021,  We must take advantage of opportunities for change to stop the climate crisis from becoming so serious that it drives us towards collective erasure. Last April, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicted that there was a 75 per cent probability of 2020 being a “historic” year for the climate crisis. These forecasts have n...