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Stay updated with the latest global news on Climate emergency, not only to highlight innovative strategies and community efforts but also provide information and context about why global and importantly community based and community led climate action are so needed. A climate emergency declaration or climate emergency plan, declaring a state of climate emergency, has been issued since 2016 by certain countries and other jurisdictions to set priorities to mitigate climate change.
2025
Trump’s anti-climate agenda could result in 1.3m more deaths globally, analysis finds, theguardian.com (Nov 19, 2025) - A Landmark Court Ruling Looms Over U.S. Absence at COP30, insideclimatenews.org (Nov 18, 2025) — 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.
- ‘The water came up to my waist but I carried on walking’. This is climate breakdown. This is Ruchira’s story, theguardian.com (Nov 14, 2025)
- World’s ‘fossil fuel obsession’ threatens billions of lives: Amnesty, aljazeera.com (Nov 12, 2025)
- ‘I would give all my life for my brother to come back for one second’ This is climate breakdown. This is Bilal’s story, theguardian.com (Nov 10, 2025)
- Climate disasters displaced 250 million people in past 10 years, UN report finds, theguardian.com (Nov 09, 2025) — Floods, storms and droughts have uprooted people across the globe as rising temperatures intensify conflict and hunger
- The Guardian view on worsening extreme weather: the injustice of the climate crisis grows ever clearer, Editorial, theguardian.com (Nov 07, 2025)
- Only 3% of international climate aid going to transitioning communities: ‘This is absurd’, theguardian.com (Nov 03, 2025) — New report on funding to slash carbon emissions finds startlingly low engagement with the people affected
- Climate Disaster Survivors in the Global South Take Legal Action Against European Carbon Majors, insideclimatenews.org (Nov 03, 2025)
- Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals, theguardian.com (Oct 29, 2025) — Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year because of failure to tackle climate crisis
- America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam, theguardian.com (Oct 29, 2025) — Exclusive: Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%
- ‘Enforced veganism’: Ofcom lets GB News flout accuracy rules, say climate campaigners, theguardian.com (Oct 25, 2025) — Exclusive: Regulator has received 1,221 complaints about UK broadcasters since 2020 but found no breaches of its code
- Renewable energy investment should come from defence budgets, say retired military leaders, theguardian.com (Oct 23, 2025) — Former European officers say spending on low-carbon power would make nations more resilient to threats from potential aggressors
- International team calls for a people-first approach to achieving humanitarian, climate, and biodiversity goals, drawdown.org (Oct 21, 2025)
- Nearly two dozen states sue to stop US president ending $7bn solar grant program, theguardian.com (Oct 16, 2025)
- Climate investment is only growth opportunity of 21st century, says leading economist, theguardian.com (Oct 13, 2025) — Lord Stern says fossil-fuelled growth is futile as the damage it causes ends in economic self-destruction
- ‘It’s a road to destruction’: climate defenders facing surge in reprisals, says UN expert, theguardian.com (Oct 13, 2025) — Mary Lawlor, UN special rapporteur for human rights defenders, accuses US, UK and other governments of paying lip service to climate goals while criminalizing activists
- ‘Planetary health diet’ could save 40,000 deaths a day, landmark report finds, theguardian.com (Oct 02, 2025) — Diet allows modest meat consumption and would also slash food-related climate emissions by half, says report by 70 leading experts from 35 countries
- In a new era of climate disaster, a tiny, resilient mountain village in New Mexico is teaching the world how to adapt, edition.cnn.com (Oct 01, 2025)
- Seven Indigenous paths to protect the Amazon, news.mongabay.com (Sep 29, 2025)
- Native forest logging must end in order to reach Labor’s emissions reduction target, expert says, theguardian.com (Sep 26, 2025)
- Human-made global warming ‘caused two in three heat deaths in Europe this summer’, theguardian.com (Sep 17, 2025) — Researchers from Imperial College London say 16,500 deaths caused by hot weather brought on by greenhouse gases
- Clearing the Air by Hannah Ritchie review – practical climate optimism, theguardian.com (Sep 12, 2025)
- ‘It’s a lot of fear’: the rise of ecoanxiety on the frontline of climate breakdown, theguardian.com (Sep 12, 2025) — As study shows 78% of UK under-12s worry about the issue, people in their 20s around world share their experiences
- Spanish schools to teach pupils how to cope with climate crisis disasters, theguardian.com (Sep 11, 2025) — Children to have lessons on wildfires and flooding
- ‘As more join, it gets less risky’: how Greta Thunberg’s lone strike turned into a movement, theguardian.com (Sep 04, 2025)
- China’s extreme weather AI tools can help countries adapt, dialogue.earth (Sep 03, 2025)
- This was the hottest summer on record. If it happens again next year, Britain’s ecosystems won’t cope, Lucy Jones, theguardian.com (Sep 03, 2025) — A future of extreme heatwaves, drought and collapsing habitats awaits if we continue to ignore the danger signs
- Climate change kills, Spanish PM tells deniers at launch of plan to tackle crisis, theguardian.com (Sep 01, 2025) — Pedro Sánchez says country’s deadly August wildfires show society needs to mobilise and take immediate action. The final two measures of the 10 point plan are to promote a “civic culture of prevention and reaction”
- ‘It happened so fast’: the shocking reality of indoor heat deaths in Arizona, theguardian.com (Aug 31, 2025)
- ‘It’s a warning, set to a dance beat’: Jon Batiste on his new song urging climate action 20 years after Katrina, theguardian.com (Aug 28, 2025)
- What is happening with Australia’s emissions? Electricity is improving. Transport is not, theguardian.com (Aug 25, 2025)
- Wildfires rage in Spain and Portugal amid searing heat, theguardian.com (Aug 18, 2025)
- The Guardian view on food and farming: climate chaos hits crops hard, Editorial, theguardian.com (Aug 18, 2025) — Ministers must throw their weight behind resilient, adaptable agriculture
- Spanish people know deadly heatwaves are now an annual event. So why are our politicians in denial? María Ramírez, theguardian.com (Aug 14, 2025)
- More than 400 people suspected to have died from extreme heat in Arizona county, theguardian.com (Aug 13, 2025)
- Risks of climate crisis to Australia’s economy and environment are ‘intense and scary’, unreleased government report says, theguardian.com (Aug 12, 2025)
- Overheated homes: why UK housing is dangerously unprepared for impact of climate crisis, theguardian.com (Aug 10, 2025)
- These students cut air pollution near their schools – by taking aim at their parents’ idling cars, theconversation.com (Aug 05, 2025)
- ‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse, theguardian.com (Aug 02, 2025) — epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished
- How flood-ravaged Boston took on the climate deniers – and won, theguardian.com (Jul 24, 2025)
- Nations who fail to curb fossil fuels could be ordered to pay reparations, top UN court rules, theguardian.com (Jul 23, 2025)
- ‘It feels cool to be a cog in change’: how doughnut economics is reshaping a Swedish town, theguardian.com (Jul 17, 2025)
- A cascade can be more positive’: social tipping points expert on fixing climate crisis, theguardian.com (Jun 28, 2025)
- Europe on alert as first major heatwave of 2025 pushes temperatures to 42C, theguardian.com (Jun 28, 2025) — Authorities in Spain, Portugal, Greece and France issue extreme heat, wildfire and health warnings
- ‘This is a fight for life’: climate expert on tipping points, doomerism and using wealth as a shield, theguardian.com (Jun 24, 2025)
- Recent Canadian wildfires are record-breaking – and will threaten US air quality for days, Eric Holthaus, theguardian.com (May 30, 2025)
- How memories of clean water, frogs and fresh air could help save Rio’s favelas from future climate disaster, theguardian.com (May 14, 2025)
- Two Britons to challenge UK’s ‘weak’ response to climate crisis in Strasbourg court, theguardian.com (May 05, 2025)
- Surviving the Thaw: Greenland’s Inuit Grapple with Their Melting World, insideclimatenews.org (Apr 19, 2025)
- All other avenues have been exhausted’: Is legal action the only way to save the planet?, theguardian.com (Apr 08, 2025)
- Labor’s home batteries policy could help people who will never take it up. Here’s how, theguardian.com (Apr 07, 2025)
- The climate movement needs lawyers. This ‘pro bono bootcamp’ helps connect the dots., grist.org (Apr 02, 2025)
- Christians worldwide urged to take legal action on climate crisis, theguardian.com (Mar 24, 2025)
- ‘Global weirding’: climate whiplash hitting world’s biggest cities, study reveals, theguardian.com (Mar 12, 2025)
- ‘We water, rest, water’: the green belt of vegetable plots cooling a city, theguardian.com (Feb 06, 2025)
- The Los Angeles wildfires are climate disasters compounded, Eric Holthaus, theguardian.com (Jan 09, 2025)
- At Extinction Rebellion, we aimed for UK net zero in 2025. That won’t happen – so here’s what to do instead, Rupert Read, theguardian.com (Jan 01, 2025) — With the climate crisis hitting Britain, we must build resilience at a local level by rewilding, saving water and fighting floods
2024
- What is the real toll of natural and climate disasters? Science has staggering new answers, Devi Sridhar, theguardian.com (Dec 06, 2024)
- Handful of countries responsible for climate crisis, top court told, theguardian.com (Dec 02, 2024)
- Spain introduces paid climate leave after deadly floods, theguardian.com (Nov 29, 2024)
- COP29: Climate change could kill millions — and world leaders must work to limit fatalities, Joshua M. Pearce, theconversation.com (Nov 26, 2024)
- Climate crisis to blame for dozens of ‘impossible’ heatwaves, studies reveal, theguardian.com (Nov 18, 2024) — Analyses are stark evidence of how global heating is already supercharging deadly weather beyond anything ever experienced by humanity
- Author Katherine Rundell donates royalties to climate charities in Trump protest, theguardian.com (Nov 13, 2024)
- The Guardian asked 380 top climate scientists what they felt about the future, theguardian.com (May 08, 2024)
2019-2022
- ‘In Delhi I can see the climate catastrophe unfolding before my eyes’, The Guardian (Nov 15, 2022)
- Barcelona students to take mandatory climate crisis module from 2024, The Guardian (Nov 12, 2022)
- How to capture satellite images in your backyard – and contribute to a snapshot of the climate crisis, The Conversation (Feb 23, 2022)
- Oxford Dictionaries declares 'climate emergency' the word of 2019, Nov 21, 2019...The Guardian
- 'The crisis is already here': young strikers facing climate apartheid, theguardian.com (Sep 19, 2019)
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