Global World News Climate Change Could Become A Global Economic Disaster

COP30: It will take disaster in Global North to bring real climate action

Extreme weather is already killing people across Global South, but fossil fuel lobby’s influence is preventing change ... Read More

The Adaptation Finance Gap Has Become A Global Stability Risk

Adaptation finance is falling as climate shocks intensifying, putting global stability, sovereign debt, and financial systems at risk without urgent reform. Read More

Self-Determination, Not Goodwill, Will Decide the Global South’s Future

In the Global South, climate summits arrive like monsoons – heavy with promise, quick to pass. We gather each year to count pledges and repeat the same unresolved arithmetic: those who did the least ... Read More

The U.S. economy could benefit from a green exit - unless the world follows suit, report claims

A Bloomberg Economics study finds the U.S. could gain 1% GDP growth by abandoning green energy if other nations continue renewable pursuits. But if other countries follow the U.S. and pivot away from ... Read More

Climate change: 'Unprecedented' economic transformation now needed

At the U.N. COP26 climate summit last year, nations agreed to make more ambitious plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions and boost efforts to prevent the worst impacts of climate change. Read More

Leaders at the Global Climate Summit Highlight the Rising Toll of Warming

Instead, with heat-trapping emissions from the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation continuing to rise, the world is on track to warm by roughly 2.8 degrees Celsius. Scientists have said that ... Read More

How to fight climate change without the US: a guide to global action

With the US government absent from the COP30 global climate summit, it will be up to others to avert catastrophe. Read More

Renewable energy is reshaping the global economy – new report

Perhaps the most underappreciated economic benefit of renewables concerns productivity. Cheap, efficient energy is the lifeblood of industrial growth. Renewable energy is now much cheaper than fossil ... Read More

The climate action that matters is in the global south, argues an architect of the Paris agreement

Against long odds, in the Paris agreement—the negotiations for which I led as executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change—they committed to limit global heating, protect the ... Read More

How PH chose to sideline climate security

In climate risk rankings, the Philippines is ground zero. Yet, given the choice to redefine the notion of security in 2022, it chose to sideline it. THE World Risk Index 2025 indicates the disaster ... Read More

Global Business Leaders Stand Firm in the Move Toward Renewable Resources

On the heels of President Donald Trump’s U.N. General Assembly speech on Tuesday, in which he called climate change the “greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world,” global business leaders are ... Read More