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Despite establishing a "loss and damage" fund to help developing countries deal with the impacts of climate disasters, the negotiations at the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference in Egypt this year still failed to deliver meaningful commitments to phase out fossil fuels and combat the climate crisis.

The Climate Change Minister is accused of trying to have his cake and eat it too, by celebrating a legal victory which only occurred through neutering his greatest legislative achievement.

Australia’s latest State of the Climate Report offers grim reading. As if recent floods weren’t bad enough, the report warns of worsening fire seasons, more drought years and, when rain comes, more intense downpours. It begs the question: is it too late to avoid dangerous warming?

From loss and damage to 1.5C goal and World Bank reform, the takeaways from Sharm el-Sheikh

Tap water in more than 500 remote Indigenous communities isn’t regularly tested and often isn’t safe to drink, according to a water industry report released last week. In some communities, drinking water contained unacceptable levels of uranium, arsenic, fluoride and nitrate.

According to a projection by the United Nations, planet Earth will welcome its eight billionth inhabitant this Tuesday. While some experts worry that this is too many people, most say the bigger problem is the overconsumption of resources by the wealthiest.

Climate scientists and economists have been too conservative in their estimates of the impact of climate change, writes David Schimel.

Climate change is a significant threat to development across Africa. Important sectors, such as agriculture, health and water will feel a considerable adverse impact from 1.5⁰C-2⁰C of global warming, according to a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

While delegates at the COP27 climate conference discuss the shared problem of climate change, each country will face its own challenges and threats.

The former BBC environment analyst Roger Harrabin has spent his career talking to scientists. Now they’re telling him they’re scared of what they’re seeing

At the COP27 conference in Egypt, delegates will be relying on decades of scientific research published by the U.N. climate science agency to inform their decisions about future energy plans and warming trajectories.