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Installation of solar panels.

Renewables won’t save us from climate catastrophe, experts warn; what will?

Gerry McGovern, Sue Branford 17 Dec 2024

COP16: ‘A fund unlike any other’ will pay tropical nations to save forests

Justin Catanoso 30 Oct 2024

Global biodiversity financiers strategize at COP16 to end ‘perverse subsidies’

Justin Catanoso 28 Oct 2024
A fisherman casts his net at a beach in Chennai, India.

WTO negotiations flounder — again — over banning unsustainable fishing subsidies

Elizabeth Fitt 31 Jul 2024

Indonesia must integrate marine protection with fisheries subsidies, study says

Basten Gokkon 29 Jun 2024
Fisher working with net of trawling vessel.

Stalemate: WTO talks again fail to end overfishing subsidies

Elizabeth Fitt 5 Mar 2024
A coral reef and its residents in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Image ©Greg Asner/divephoto.org.

2023’s top ocean news stories (commentary)

Ana Spalding, David Obura, Diva Amon, Minna Epps, Rhett Bennett, U. Rashid Sumaila 16 Jan 2024
Fishers in Siompu, Southeast Sulawesi with their daily catch. September 2019. Photo credit: Rare.

WTO ban on ‘harmful’ subsidies won’t impact small-scale fishers, Indonesia says

Basten Gokkon 29 Jun 2022

WTO finally nets deal curbing fisheries subsidies, but tables key bits for later

Elizabeth Fitt 17 Jun 2022

Latest delay casts pall over WTO bid to end harmful fishing subsidies

Elizabeth Fitt 2 Dec 2021

Billions in fishing subsidies finance social, ecological harm, report finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 7 Jul 2021

Recognizing the true guardians of the forest: Q&A with David Kaimowitz

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Apr 2021

First female leader signals new day for WTO (commentary)

Isabel Jarrett 10 Mar 2021

To fund biodiversity conservation, redirect subsidies from these three industries (commentary)

Michelle Chong 17 Dec 2020

Rangers protecting Philippine tamaraws go hungry as pandemic bites

Mavic Conde 20 Aug 2020

Indonesia lavishes $195m subsidy on palm biodiesel producers over smallholders

Hans Nicholas Jong 1 Jul 2020

Companies use COVID-19 to weaken standards, secure subsidies: Report

Mongabay.com 23 Apr 2020

Coconut farmers in Southeast Asia struggle as palm oil muscles in on them

Nithin Coca 30 Mar 2020

COP25: EU officials say biomass burning policy to come under critical review

Justin Catanoso 16 Dec 2019

Graft and government policy align to keep Indonesia burning coal

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Aug 2018

Government subsidies serving to prop up destructive high-seas fishing: study

Basten Gokkon 8 Jun 2018

The dark side of China’s foreign fishing boom

Cory Rogers 2 Jun 2016

Massive profiteering uncovered in Indonesian fertilizer distribution

Mongabay.com 25 Feb 2016

UN study warns agricultural subsidies are threatening forests and conservation programs

John Cannon 24 Sep 2015

Indonesia, Brazil subsidizing forest loss far more than REDD+ slows it

Mongabay.com 1 Apr 2015

Indonesia to squander fuel savings on biofuel subsidies that may drive deforestation, say groups

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Feb 2015

Wealthy nations’ fossil fuel subsidies dwarf climate financing

Jeremy Hance 5 Dec 2012

Cowards at Rio?: organizations decry ‘pathetic’ agreement

Jeremy Hance 20 Jun 2012

WWF: biggest villain at Rio+20 is Canada

Jeremy Hance 18 Jun 2012

World failing to meet promises on the oceans

Jeremy Hance 14 Jun 2012

Fossil fuel subsidies going in the wrong direction?

Jeremy Hance 5 Oct 2011

2% GDP could turn global economy green

Jeremy Hance 21 Feb 2011

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