Almost none of the world’s most powerful leaders will be showing up in Baku — by contrast, more than 1700 fossil fuel lobbyists are mobbing the conference halls, official passes dangling from their necks.

“How are you coping?” Your answers feel even more on point with Donald Trump headed back to the White House, and you are certainly not alone if you’re feeling dread or even despair this week. I wish you could see my inbox — you would quickly be disabused of the notion that no one wants to talk about it.

While the media narrative would have readers believe that sales are stalling, recent numbers show that EVs are still setting records in both the U.S. and Canada.

While it will take some time to figure out what’s happening at the global level this year, the numbers for 2023 are not good. Worldwide, forests, plants and soils released almost as much carbon as they absorbed, according to an international team of sixteen researchers.

Conspiracy theories after disasters are not new, of course, but they have surged to record levels following Helene and Milton. “It is absolutely the worst I have ever seen,” says FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell.

The sheer volume of water dumped by Hurricane Helene was beyond comprehension — something like 42 trillion gallons of water fell from the sky.

A remarkable force in global campaigns for human rights and environmental sanity, Kumi Naidoo is the new president of the Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative.

During a recent televised speech to his MPs, Poilievre spat out the carbon word more than twice per minute.

Heat records were shattered again this summer. Yet even though concern about inflation has declined somewhat, climate change has not rebounded as a public priority.

The sadness for Jasper is twinned with foreboding. Fires will keep getting worse until we eliminate climate pollution. The laws of physics are unmoved by the excuses of lobbyists and lawmakers.