Climate Cases
A Landmark Court Ruling Looms Over U.S. Absence at COP30
The historic climate change advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice suggests the United States is violating international law on climate, legal experts say. By Dana Drugmand – https://insideclimatenews.org/ Una May Gordon, Jamaica’s former principal director of climate change, noted on opening day of the United Nations climate summit last week in Brazil that […]
Climate Spotlight StaffClimate Science
Global emissions could fall 12% by 2035 – New UN climate report finds
By Marco Lopez Released on the opening day of COP30, an update to the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) Synthesis Report was issued today by the UNFCCC Secretariat, Simon Stiell, including additional data on NDCs submitted up to November 9, 2025. Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) are the climate action plans submitted by countries or Parties under […]
Climate Spotlight Staff Caribbean
Hurricane Melissa Shows Why Everyday Caribbean Workers Need Financial Protection
By: Chalsey Gill Anthony, Environmental Communicator, on behalf of Caribbean Policy Development Centre (CPDC) When Hurricane Melissa ripped across the Caribbean just a few days ago, it damaged roads and power lines and disrupted the way thousands of people earn a living. In Jamaica, entire sections of St. Elizabeth, the country’s “breadbasket”, were flooded, threatening […]
Climate Spotlight Staff Caribbean
Hurricane Melissa, now a Category 5, inches toward Jamaica
By Marco Lopez Hurricane Melissa grew from a tropical storm to a powerful Category 5 hurricane over the weekend. The country has been experiencing impacts from the outer bands since Sunday night. Hurricane Melissa continues its path toward Jamaica, moving slowly west at about 6 km/h (3 mph). It is expected to make landfall on […]
Climate Spotlight Staff Carbon Market
Carbon offset system is broken, new analysis warns
By Marco Lopez A new study has found that carbon offset programs have largely failed to deliver real greenhouse gas reductions — and may be hindering the rapid phase-out of fossil fuels needed to meet Paris Agreement climate targets. Climate-vulnerable countries host the majority of offset projects but benefit the least, while rich emitters use […]
Climate Spotlight Staff Energy Transition
Global momentum builds for fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty
By Climate Spotlight Over 1,400 governmental and civil conservation organizations are rallying their members to ramp up efforts toward a global Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) last Thursday adopted a motion expressing deep concern over governments’ plans to extract more than double the amount of fossil fuels compatible […]
Climate Spotlight Staff Carbon Market
USA blocks adoption of first global carbon tax
Negotiations at the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) extraordinary meetings were adjourned without a decision on the shipping industry’s Net-Zero Framework. By Climate Spotlight Threats levied by the Trump Administration, along with the US State Department, on member nations of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) derailed a vote to pass the first-ever global carbon tax during […]
Climate Spotlight Staff Climate and Health
Over 70% of Gaza’s population trapped in high-risk climate zones
The forced displacement of over 1.9 million people in Gaza confines them to areas with extreme exposure to climate hazards. By Marco Lopez There is no safe ground in Gaza. This is according to a report published earlier this month by SARI Global, a climate think tank that provides real-time climate risk analysis. Its report […]
Climate Spotlight Staff Flood
Lack of early warnings exacerbates impact of central Mexico floods
By Climate Spotlight As of Wednesday, at least 66 fatalities and 75 missing persons are reported linked to the floods that inundated central and eastern Mexico last week. Almost 200 communities in the Hidalgo central mountainous region remain isolated. A week after the floods, the stench of uncollected decaying bodies begins to fill the air […]
Climate Spotlight Staff 1.5 To Stay Alive
Planet’s first climate tipping point reached, scientists say
“The first tipping of widespread dieback of warm-water coral reefs is already underway,” said Prof. Tim Lenton from the University of Exeter’s Global Systems Institute, one of the authors of the report. By Marco Lopez Warm-water coral across the world is facing long-term decline as the fourth global coral bleaching event persists. The Global Tipping […]
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