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FILE PHOTO: IATA Director General Willie Walsh looks on during an interview with Reuters in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, June 2, 2024. REUTERS/Amr Alfiky/File Photo
AviationBiofuelsLegislationNewsSustainable Aviation FuelTransport

Global airlines could miss sustainable fuel targets, IATA’s Walsh says

The aviation industry isn't moving fast enough to reach its targets for producing and using sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).

FILE PHOTO: Barges make their way down the Mississippi River, where the water levels have reached historically record lows in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. October 23, 2022.  REUTERS/Karen Pulfer Focht/File Photo
EnvironmentNewsWeather

Global river flows hit all-time lows in 2023, UN says

Prolonged droughts cut river flows in the Americas, with record lows in the Mississippi and Amazon in 2023.

FILE PHOTO: Steam rises from the cooling tower of the nuclear power plant KKW Leibstadt of Swiss energy company Kernkraftwerk Leibstadt AG behind the hydropower plant Eglisau of Swiss Axpo enrergy company and the Rhine river in Rheinsfelden, Switzerland September 20, 2022. REUTERS/Arnd WIegmann/File Photo
ElectricityNewsNuclear PowerPoliticsRegulations

New Swiss nuclear dawn seen decades away at best

Bringing Swiss nuclear power stations online could take decades due to political and financial hurdles, energy experts and politicians say

FILE PHOTO: Employees work on the production line at a Baowu Group steel mill in Ezhou, Hubei province, China June 21, 2023. REUTERS/Amy Lv/File Photo
AutomotiveBusinessEconomyElectric Vehicles (EVs)FinanceNewsPoliticsRegulationsTradeTransport

China’s industrial support programmes lack transparency: WTO

The WTO said on Wednesday that it was unable to get a clear picture of China's financial support for key industry, such as...

FILE PHOTO: Siofra O'Leary, ECHR Court President, speaks during the verdict on three climate cases, where applicants have argued that government inaction on climate change violates human rights, case Duarte Agostinho and Others v. Portugal and 32 Other States, case Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland, and case Careme v France, at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, France, April 9, 2024. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann/File Photo
ClimateCourtsEmissionsEnvironmentNewsPolitics

Why does Switzerland’s rebuff of European climate ruling matter?

Switzerland's lower house parliament has voted to reject a landmark court ruling ordering the country to do more to combat global warming

FILE PHOTO: Supporters and members of the association Senior Women for Climate Protection hold banners as they arrive for the ruling in the climate case Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland, at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, France, April 9, 2024. The slogan reads "Climate justice". REUTERS/Christian Hartmann/File Photo
ClimateCourtsEmissionsEnvironmentNewsPolitics

Swiss parliament considers snubbing European court climate ruling

The lower house of the Swiss parliament voted on Wednesday to reject a ruling ordering Switzerland to do more to combat global warming

FILE PHOTO: A Malawian subsistence farmer carries a bag of fertilizer near the capital Lilongwe, Malawi February 1, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings/File Photo
AnalysisClimateLabourNewsPoliticsWeather

World’s workers increasingly at risk as climate changes: ILO report

More than 70% of the global workforce is exposed to risks linked to climate change that cause hundreds of thousands of deaths each...

AnalysisIn-Depth

How three European human rights cases could shape climate litigation

Does government inaction on climate change violate human rights?

AnalysisBusinessEnvironmentIn-DepthTrade

Analysis: Climate change confined to mere annex in draft WTO deal

Across 56 pages of rules for global commerce, just one paragraph concerns the environment – and even then it notes "deep divergences" among...

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