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Climate Change

President Joe Biden stands in front of a blue sign at COP26 in Glasgow in November 2021.

US government agencies to roll out climate change training for officials to help meet targets

The White House has issued instructions to agencies on how to achieve the federal government’s climate change goals, including through the development of sustainability-focused training programmes for departmental staff. The […]

Close-up of US vice president Kamala Harris smiling.

Biden says government is working again as US Senate passes milestone climate change bill

Senators in the US voted through the night on Sunday to push through president Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act – a major piece of legislation that allocates US$454bn to tackle […]

UK’s net zero strategy ruled ‘unlawful’ by high court

The UK high court has ruled that the government’s net zero strategy does not sufficiently detail how it will meet its emissions targets and that as such it has contravened […]

Men, one holding an umbrella, stand on steps surveying the damage caused by flooding after heavy rainfall in Australia

Australian Treasury to model climate change effects on economy

The federal Treasury is to model the economic impacts of climate change on Australia for the first time in nearly a decade. Treasurer Jim Chalmers has directed the department to […]

Australia’s new government cements more ambitious climate change targets

Australia has formally pledged to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 43% below 2005 levels by 2030 as the prime minister Anthony Albanese said the country planned to “urgently step […]

A Vietnamese man carries crops through a rice paddy, surrounded by tropical trees.

Achieving zero: how are governments to reach climate neutrality in an age of permanent crisis?

National governments are grappling to understand how net zero can be achieved, and world events are making that task harder still. During a GGF webinar, experts discussed some of the […]

Two ministers, one department: can Australia’s new environment super-department work?

Good news, Australia – the environment is back. The country’s new government has introduced a new super-department covering climate change, energy, the environment and water. But while the ministry move […]

Landscape photo of Canada's capital city, Ottawa, featuring a church spire, buildings, a river and mountains.

Greening government: how Canada plans to achieve net zero public services

Governments around the world are racing to slow climate change, setting targets to limit emissions and decarbonise economies. But as significant polluters in their own right – through their internal […]

Greenpeace campaigners stand in front of a wind turbine blade which was placed in Duthie Park, Aberdeen to campaign for a just transition for oil workers to renewable energy, part of Greenpeace UK Blade Campaign.

Saving people and planet: creating a fairer world in the move to low-carbon economies

As governments focus increasingly on the climate crisis, they must ensure that people and communities are at the centre of policy decisions. At a GGF webinar, Jack Aldane heard experts […]

COP26 president Alok Sharma

Civil service cuts ‘could cost UK its global leadership on climate change’

The UK government has been warned that plans to cut civil service staff numbers could undermine the country’s leadership role on tackling climate change. Prime minister Boris Johnson announced last […]