#climate change

By Gavin Jones Climate campaigners voiced frustration a meeting of ministers from the world’s richest countries failed to deliver a deal to phase out coal, but said pledges in ...

By Andrea Januta Cyprus. Cuba. Turkey. Canada. Northern Ireland. Antarctica. All recorded their hottest-ever temperatures in the last two years, and according to a new study, more such extremes are ...

By Isla Binnie The European Union’s huge policy package to make good on a pledge to reduce net greenhouse emissions by 55 per cent from 1990 levels by 2030 has stirred opposition ...

By Kate Abnett and James Mackenzie The catastrophic floods that swept northwest Europe last week were a stark warning that stronger dams, dykes and drainage systems are as urgent as ...

Cyprus’ path to recovery “must and will” be aligned to sustainable development goals` Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides has said. Speaking at the virtual UN High-Level Political Forum to present Cyprus’ ...

European Union policymakers on Wednesday unveiled their most ambitious plan yet to tackle climate change, aiming to turn green goals into concrete action this decade and set an example for ...

By Beh Lih Yi and Michael Taylor The G7 wealthy nations failed to go far enough at their weekend summit to halt the use of coal, but a pledge to ...

The Cyprus Institute (CyI) will hold its second International Conference on Climate Change in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East on October 13 and 14 just ahead of the next global climate ...

By Alexandros Charalambides Over the past five years, there has been significant growth in entrepreneurship activities in Cyprus with networking events, entrepreneurship competitions, startup accelerators and angel financings forming the ...

By Shadia Nasralla and Tom Hals A Dutch court’s decision to force Royal Dutch Shell to make deeper, faster cuts to its climate warming emissions on the basis of ...

By Kate Abnett and Sabine Siebold A meeting of European Union leaders on Tuesday could end without a declaration on how to meet the bloc’s new goal to cut ...

In the lead up to the parliamentary elections on May 30, the Cyprus Mail’s weekly environment section has asked the main political parties for their policies on a wide range ...

By Guy Faulconbridge G7 countries should invest $10 trillion to stoke an investment-driven recovery that puts Covid-19 vaccines in arms and triggers a sweeping energy transformation to slow climate change, according ...

Top quality honey is not easy to produce, especially in the face of local pesticide and antibiotic use and climate change By Annette Chrysostomou Projects such as the Achna bee ...

Cyprus has come in 51st out of 115 countries on the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Energy Transition Index (ETI) 2021, showing slow and erratic movement since 2012. The island sits at 60 points ...

By Jan Strupczewski Years from now, 2021 may be seen as the moment the European Union took a leap forward from its post-World War Two birth as a coal and steel ...

You can tuck your head between your knees and kiss your target of ‘not-more-than-1.5-degrees-Celsius-warming’ goodbye. Trump is out and Biden is in, and you will hear a lot of ...

Despite increasing momentum the danger is that aspirations could end up being more dramatic than real outcomes By Dr Charles Ellinas As a show of global solidarity to tackle climate ...

By Laurie Goering China, which long targeted rapid industrial growth despite its environmental consequences, now aims to become the global leader in “low-carbon tech for a carbon-constrained world” as it ...