The CAP, which represents about a third of the EU’s budget (€55 billion annually), was meant to address sustainability alongside supporting farmers. It grants financial rewards for environmentally friendly practices, like planting trees or conserving wetlands. However, these measures have largely failed to protect biodiversity.

We must hope. Hope is good. Politicians, businesspeople, and even climate activists keep hammering it home, but research shows that people who worry are more likely to take action together.

The year 2023 marked the driest year for global water resources in over three decades, according to a new report coordinated by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which signaled critical changes in water availability in an era of growing demand. 

The Living Planet Report warns that, as the Earth approaches dangerous tipping points posing grave threats to humanity, a huge collective effort will be required over the next five years to tackle the dual climate and nature crises.

IPCC reports still underestimate risk for extreme climate events because of downplaying language and choice of calculation methods.

Datacenters are notorious for their power consumption and their effect on climate change. Now, the explosive growth of AI adds an extra dimension. But there is more, like huge underreporting of emissions, and the real climate costs of LNG.

The Hague is the first city in the world to ban fossil advertising through local law (ordinance). The city council voted in favor of the initiative proposal from the Hague Party for the Animals that regulates this ban.

To sustain even a basic standard of living for everyone, we need to dramatically change our economic systems and technologies, new research reveals.

Democratic governments should stop using increasingly harsh, overly broad, and vague criminal laws against climate protesters and activists, Climate Rights International said in a new report