Topic: Environment
Earth’s climate more unbalanced than ever, WMO warns
Blog / 24th March 2026The world's oceans have broken heat records for nine straight years, glaciers are retreating and extreme weather is killing thousands. The only way to avoid the worst is to urgently ditch fossil fuels.
UK to cut climate aid to developing countries by 14% to £2bn a year in ‘refocus’
News / 19th March 2026Climate aid to developing countries from the UK will be cut by about 14% to roughly £2bn a year under government plans, in a move critics said would put national security and lives overseas at risk.
Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief
News / 10th February 2026The global economy must be radically transformed to stop it rewarding pollution and waste, UN secretary general António Guterres has warned.
World’s richest 1% have brown through their fair share of carbon emissions for 2026 in just 10 days
Report / 13th January 2026The world’s richest 1% have exhausted their annual carbon budget – the amount of CO2 that can be emitted while staying within 1.5 degrees of warming – only ten days into the year, according to new analysis from Oxfam.
Trump sinks to new low by announcing US withdrawal from 66 international organizations, including UNFCCC and IPCC
News / 9th January 2026Statements from the Union of Concerned Scientists denounce America's withdrawal from the global climate convention, citing the U.S. president's 'cruel indifference' to science and international law.
In search of hope after COP30
Article / 9th December 2025The continued failures of COP27 only reinforces the need for vastly scaled-up civil society movements, as STWR has advocated since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015.
Unpacking COP30’s politically charged Belém package
Article / 24th November 2025Following tense, nightlong negotiations and bitter rows between more than 190 country delegations, a “politically charged Belém package” was finally forged at COP30—so named because of the highly contentious and difficult-to-negotiate issues within the climate talks.
COP30 delivers limited but crucial wins despite the Global North obstruction and finance evasion
Article / 24th November 2025Civil society made hard-fought gains on a 'Just Transition' at COP30 in the face of the Global North’s obstruction and push for false solutions, reports the DCJ.
At COP30, progress on public finance is critical for a fair fossil fuel phaseout
Blog / 19th November 2025Nearing the final COP30 sprint, the world must move from words to action: by ending fossil fuel expansion and unlocking finance for a fair, fast and funded energy transition.
Inequity’s deadly hold at COP30
Report / 15th November 2025A new civil-society report delivers a stark verdict at COP30: governments are still protecting profits over people - shielded by elite capture and fossil-fuel disinformation.