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Everything you need to know about COP

The UN's COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan will focus on climate finance and raising funds for developing countries affected by the climate crisis

Crowd Control: Losing Meta’s transparency tool poses a threat to democracy

The closure of Meta’s transparency tool CrowdTangle is the latest move by social media companies to restrict access to data for researchers, journalists and policymakers.

Green ambition, questionable track records: Who are the EU's strategic partners?

The EU is signing Strategic Partnerships with mineral-rich countries to secure a supply of transition minerals. But are its green ambitions clouding its judgement?

Labour must end criminalisation of climate protesters

Five Just Stop Oil activists have been sentenced under the UK's draconian new protest laws criminalising civil disobedience. Will Labour reverse these laws?

Deforestation-free economy key to Labour's nature ambitions

Addressing the UK’s outsized contribution to the global nature emergency and deforestation must be a priority for the newly elected British government.

Transition minerals: A climate solution that could cost the earth

Renewable energy is often hailed as a panacea for the energy crisis. But without better consultation and regulation, plans to expand mining for minerals central to the energy transition could be disastrous

The climate crisis is here, but climate disinformation still isn’t a priority for tech companies

Climate disinformation is slipping through the gaps in tech companies' content moderation policies, helping to fan the flames of climate denial.

Online dangers to freedom of expression and climate communication: UNESCO World Press Freedom Day event

At UNESCO’s World Press Freedom Day conference (WPFD) in Santiago last month, the link between the state of the natural world and our digital environment was clear.

TikTok and YouTube pass new test to detect foreign election disinformation ads in UK, but questions remain about their practices elsewhere

Online reaction to first UK General Election debate makes clear: misinformation fueled climate culture war not going away

When Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak went head-to-head in the UK's first General Election debate, clashes online showed climate misinformation is still rife