Yesterday, on the 16th of August, President Biden signed into law the biggest piece of climate legislation that the US has ever managed to pass. The Inflation Reduction Act was the result of years of negotiations within the Democratic party. The bill provides significant investments in climate, energy and healthcare, which are projected to help reduce the US’s CO2 emissions to 40% below their peak by 2030. So how did the bill finally pass, what is actually in it, and what effect will it have?

On 28 July 2022, by 161 votes to 0, with 8 abstentions, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution (UNGA 76/300) recognising the right to a clean, healthy, sustainable environment as a human right.

In this blog, Shreya KC, a young climate activist from Nepal, gives us a fascinating update on recent climate negotiations being held in Bonn, Germany in preparation for COP27 in Egypt later this year. Shreya was a campaign coordinator for our friends at MOCK COP and the national youth delegate from Nepal to COP26, she also delivered the opening plenary statement on behalf of YOUNGO at Bonn so is incredibly well-placed to update us on the progress in the most recent climate talks.

In Part 1 of our Hydrogen Demystified series, we look into what Hydrogen is, how we produce it now, and how we could produce it in a much cleaner way.

On 30 June 2022, the conservative majority in the U.S. Supreme Court drastically curtailed the ability and powers of the Federal Environmental Protection Agency ‘E.P.A.’ to regulate the greenhouse gas emissions of power plants under the Clean Air Act. In this blog we analyse the ruling, its impact and what it may mean for attempts to fight climate change.

COP26 and Beyond will attend Climate Innovation Forum 2022…

On 31 May 2022 we were lucky enough to be able to interview Bilal Anwar, CEO of Pakistan’s National Disaster Risk Management Fund (NDRMF), an enormously experienced ‘climate policy practitioner’ with wide responsibilities in his home country.

Prince William marked the Platinum Jubilee of HM the Queen with a speech about the environment and its heroes, and climate, and the achievements of young people, and hope.

On 21 March 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (S.E.C.) proposed rule changes which would require registered financial firms to make climate-related disclosures in their registration statements and periodic reports.

In this blog we take a look at the climate case: Duarte Agostinho and Others v. Portugal and 32 Other States. Where 6 young Portuguese claimants filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights against 33 countries.

For our team it is another milestone to have won the interest and confidence of 6,000+ followers from 150+ countries, who read the blogs on our website, social media & tune into our events.

We plan to celebrate by taking active steps to invite direct contributions on some of the key climate topics that we are looking into from those of our followers who may be directly affected.

On 4th April 2022 Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its report on Mitigation of Climate Change, part of its contribution to the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report

This article considers some of the key challenges in achieving sustainability in mining and the production and consumption of metals - and some of the key factors that may bring about changes for the better.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has caused a humanitarian crisis and has pushed already rising energy prices sky high. This has left the energy transition at a crossroads, will we double down on fossil fuel production or shift to clean energy quicker?

ClientEarth has announced that it has launched a legal challenge against the Board and individual directors of Shell, with potential important implications for future legal interpretation of directors’ “fiduciary duties” when it comes to the climate.

The Economist Leader for the 12th February 2022 edition ‘The Truth About Dirty Assets’ is a reminder of issues of fundamental importance to investment in environmental social and governance (ESG) funds.

On 28th Feb 2022 the IPCC published the second major part of their 6th Assessment Report: “Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability”

Fresh from a groundbreaking court win vs Royal Dutch Shell, Friends of the Earth Netherlands send a letter to 30 multinational companies demanding emission reduction plans for 2030.

In Nov 2021 we sat down with Kirils Holstovs, bridge engineer and one of the lead authors of the COP26 Joint Statement of International Youth Organisations, to discuss the statement and his experiences at COP26

In this blog we explore the continuing reliance on coal in both India and China, how it affected COP26 and how it continues to affect our ability to reduce emissions.