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Indonesia to build coal plants despite $20b deal on clean energy transition

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Nov 2022

COP27 long on pledges, short on funds for forests — Congo Basin at risk

Alec Luhn 18 Nov 2022

COP27: ‘Brazil is back’ to fight deforestation, Lula says, but hurdles await

Alec Luhn 17 Nov 2022

Indonesia seals $20 billion deal with G7 to speed up clean energy transition

Hans Nicholas Jong 16 Nov 2022

COP27: Climate Loss & Damage talks now on agenda, but U.S. resistance feared

Rachel Donald 8 Nov 2022
Members of an Indigenous community in Guangaje, Ecuador after the blessing of a water spring. Image by Azzedine Rouichi via Unsplash (Public domain).

Small share of land rights pledge went to Indigenous groups: Progress report

John Cannon 7 Nov 2022
Person holding cardboard sign saying Stop EACOP", concealing lower half of their face. Photothèque AT via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

As banks fund oil pipeline, campaigners question their environmental pledges

Thomas Lewton 1 Nov 2022
Rainbow over Jambi, Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett Ayers Butler / Mongabay

In new climate deal, Norway will pay Indonesia $56 million for drop in deforestation, emissions

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Nov 2022

Early retirement for Indonesian coal plants could cut CO2, boost jobs, analysis says

Hans Nicholas Jong 20 Oct 2022
The Suralaya coal-fired power plant in Indonesia

Indonesian banks prop up coal industry increasingly shunned by outside lenders

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Oct 2022

Africa wants its climate money. Will rich countries pay?

Ashoka Mukpo 27 Sep 2022

Planned coal plants fizzle as Japan ends financing in Indonesia, Bangladesh

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Jun 2022
Gold mine in South Kivu, Congo. Image courtesy of the Sasha Lezhnev Enough Project.

Results of mining tax for reforestation in the DRC leave more questions than answers

Didier Makal 19 May 2022
Coal mining in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Banks bet big on coal in Indonesia, bucking global shift away from fossil fuel

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 May 2022

Funding, titling project for Indigenous-led organizations launched

Laurel Sutherland 25 Apr 2022

International funding nowhere near enough for Indonesia to cut emissions: Study

Basten Gokkon 15 Apr 2022

IPCC report calls for ‘immediate and deep’ carbon cuts to slow climate change

John Cannon 5 Apr 2022

NGOs alert U.N. to furtive 2-million-hectare carbon deal in Malaysian Borneo

John Cannon 17 Mar 2022

Climate-positive, high-tech metals are polluting Earth, but solutions await

Claire Asher 15 Mar 2022
The Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Moore Foundation pledges extra $300m to boost conservation of Amazon

Laurel Sutherland 10 Mar 2022

Banning high-deforestation palm oil has limited impact on saving forests: Study

Loren Bell 3 Mar 2022

COP27 must deliver climate finance where it is needed most (commentary)

Jack Stuart, Sally Yozell, Valentine Ochanda 20 Jan 2022

Indonesia’s clean energy transition must start with clean rivers (commentary)

Warief Djajanto Basorie 11 Jan 2022
Indigenous protest

Mongabay’s Top 10 Indigenous News Stories of 2021

Latoya Abulu 30 Dec 2021
Embera woman within the forest

Conservation projects in Mesoamerica make the case for Indigenous climate funding

Dimitri Selibas 16 Dec 2021

$1.5 billion Congo Basin pledge a good start but not enough, experts say

Jim Tan 3 Dec 2021

Conflict and climate change are big barriers for Africa’s Great Green Wall

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Nov 2021

Questions over who gets the billions pledged to Indigenous causes at COP26

Latoya Abulu 23 Nov 2021

Indigenous people get less than 1% of climate funding? It’s actually worse (commentary)

Torbjørn Gjefsen 19 Nov 2021

‘Standing with your feet in the water’: COP26 struggles to succeed

Justin Catanoso 12 Nov 2021
Indigenous family in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

New global partnership aims to remove barriers to Indigenous climate finance

Laurel Sutherland 9 Nov 2021
primary forest in Danum Valley Conservation Area, Sabah, by John C. Cannon/Mongabay

Bornean communities locked into 2-million-hectare carbon deal they don’t know about

John Cannon 9 Nov 2021

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