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Le rapport de la Convention-cadre des Nations unies sur les changements climatiques intitulé Climate Damages Tax, publié lundi 29 avril, calcule qu’une taxe supplémentaire sur les grandes entreprises de combustibles fossiles basées dans les pays les plus riches de l’Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques (OCDE) pourrait rapporter 720 milliards de dollars d’ici la fin de la décennie.

UK has led the way, with countries across the continent making mass arrests, passing draconian new laws and labelling activists as eco-terrorists

Guardian investigation finds 98% of Europeans breathing highly damaging polluted air linked to 400,000 deaths a year

Research allays fears that rapid scaling back of production would hit people’s savings and pensions hard

Researchers call for recognition of latest online strategies used to derail climate action

The world’s leading energy economist has warned against investing in large new oil and gas developments, which would have little impact on the current energy crisis and soaring fuel prices but spell devastation to the planet.

Oil and gas majors are planning scores of vast projects that threaten to shatter the 1.5C climate goal. If governments do not act, these firms will continue to cash in as the world burns

Climate scientists have said nowhere is safe from the kind of extreme heat events that have hit the western US and Canada in recent days and urged governments to dramatically ramp up their efforts to tackle the escalating climate emergency.

Tens of thousands of African elephants are under threat from plans for a massive new oilfield in one of the continent’s last great wildernesses, experts have warned.