Climate inaction is claiming millions of lives every year
29/10/2025: The 2025 report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change reveals that heat-related mortality has increased 23% since the 1990s, while droughts and heatwaves in 2023 are linked with an additional 124 million people facing moderate or severe food insecurity.
Source: World Health Organization
Shortfall in climate finance for adaptation threatens lives and economies
29/10/2025: Climate adaptation finance needs in developing countries are 12 times the current amount of international support, according to the latest Adaptation Gap Report from the UN Environment Programme. International public adaptation finance flows to developing countries were $26 billion in 2023: down from $28 billion the previous year.
Source: UN Environment Programme
Global inequality exposed in carbon pollution of the richest
28/10/2025: New Oxfam research finds that a person from the richest 0.1% produces more carbon pollution in a day than the poorest 50% emit all year. If everyone emitted like the richest 0.1%, the global carbon budget would be used up in less than 3 weeks.
Source: Oxfam International
Nearly 80% of the world’s poor live in regions most exposed to climate hazards
17/10/2025: Nearly 8 in 10 people living in multidimensional poverty are directly exposed to climate hazards such as extreme heat, flooding, drought, or air pollution, according to a new report by the UN Development Programme and the University of Oxford. The findings reveal that poverty is not just a socio-economic issue but one that is deeply interlinked with planetary pressures. South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa are identified as global hotspots for these compounded hardships.
Source: UN Development Programme
Two thirds of climate funding for Global South is loans
5/10/2025: New research by Oxfam and CARE Climate Justice Centre finds that nearly two thirds of climate finance was made as loans, often at standard rates of interest without concessions. Developed nations are profiting from these loans even as the impacts of fossil fuelled climate disasters on the poorest countries intensify.
Source: Oxfam International
Over 3,000 climate litigation cases are reshaping global climate policy
3/10/2025: Climate litigation is now being pursued across more countries than ever before, according to a new report. Climate litigation has evolved into a powerful global tool for advancing climate action, covering virtually all aspects of climate governance.
Source: UN Environment Programme
The Ganges River is drying faster than ever
24/9/2025: The Ganges is drying at a rate scientists say is unprecedented in recorded history. Climate change, relentless extraction and damming are pushing the mighty river towards collapse, with consequences for food, water and livelihoods for hundreds of millions across South Asia.
Source: The Conversation
Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached
24/9/2025: A new report from the Planetary Boundaries Science Lab reveals that 7 of the 9 critical Earth system boundaries have now been breached, one more than last year. For the first time, Ocean Acidification has transgressed its Planetary Boundary.
Source: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Africa asserts agency at Ethiopia climate summit
19/9/2025: The Africa Climate Summit held in Ethiopia announced a total of $150 billion in homegrown financial commitments to African climate solutions. However, the Addis Ababa Declaration on Climate Change frames the climate crisis as an issue of economic justice, in which climate finance from historical polluters is a “legal obligation and not charity”.
Source: Dialogue Earth
World’s top court endorses compensation from countries responsible for climate crisis
23/7/2025: Governments of countries that have driven global warming with their planet-heating emissions could be held legally accountable for the damage caused to other nations, after the International Court of Justice ruled that harming the climate is a breach of international law.
Source: Climate Home News