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Nations need to do more to defend Indigenous rights, UN report says
The U.N. also calls for stronger safeguards against exploitative green transition projects.
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Better late than never: Wealthy nations finally meet $100 billion climate aid goal
But developing countries need trillions more.
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![A resident of the borough of Benito Juarez in Mexico City rests after receiving drinking water. Many residents of the city have been affected by the contamination of groundwater wells amid a severe drought.]()
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As reservoirs go dry, Mexico City and Bogotá are staring down ‘Day Zero’
Cape Town, which beat a water crisis in 2018, holds lessons for cities grappling with an El Niño-fueled drought.
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Billions of people cook over open fires. Are gas stoves the solution?
Last week in Paris, dozens of countries agreed to tackle harmful cooking methods — but sidestepped the controversial question of how to replace them.
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Small island nations get big climate victory in international maritime court
Advocates say the ruling makes clear that complying with the Paris Agreement is not enough.
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![This is an aerial shot of a flooded city neighborhood. The street is lined with white high-rise apartment buildings and the road is submerged in brown floodwater.]()
In Brazil, unprecedented flooding may force a political reckoning
“This is going to shake the mindsets of voters."
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The world’s garment workers are on the front lines of climate impacts
Fast fashion is one of the world’s most polluting industries. Its global workforce is paying the price.
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UN plastics treaty inches closer to reality as lobbyists tout plastics’ ‘massive societal benefits’
A deal to stop plastic pollution is moving forward, but negotiators can’t agree on whether to produce less of the stuff.
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The world agreed to create a climate reparations fund. Now comes the hard part.
A 26-member board is finally beginning work on the U.N.’s new loss and damage fund.
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From Australia to the Arctic, young Indigenous changemakers speak out
"When we listen to the land, the land will listen to us. It's a language. Climate change is creating a language barrier."
