Megan Rowling

Barcelona

Editor at Climate Home News @ClimateHome. Journalist dedicated to covering climate change, the green transition and inequity in all its many forms.

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Articles

On May Day, workers are calling

1 week ago | climatechangenews.com | Anabella Rosemberg |Megan Rowling

Anabella Rosemberg is senior advisor on Just Transition at Climate Action Network International (CAN-I). This May Day, the battle lines are clear: workers’ rights and climate justice must stand together – or we will all fall together. Jobs or the environment? For too long, politicians and corporations have framed the conversation as a false choice.
Individual action won't save the climate – unless governments and businesses back it

2 weeks ago | climatechangenews.com | Mindy Hernandez |Megan Rowling

Mindy Hernandez is director of the Living Lab for Equitable Climate Action at the World Resources Institute. We’ve all heard it: Eat less beef. Fly less. Buy secondhand. Track your carbon footprint. But what’s less known is that the very idea of a ‘personal carbon footprint’ was popularized by oil giant BP, which, in a 2004 campaign, encouraged people to measure their own emissions – diverting attention from the fossil fuel industry and toward individual consumers.
Teens' mental health suffers on Africa's climate frontlines

1 month ago | climatechangenews.com | Paula Dupraz-Dobias |Megan Rowling

Teaching climate-resilient farming to young people in rural Global South communities and encouraging them to stay in school could help ward off mental health problems triggered by worsening climate change impacts, according to new research in Africa.
Why accusations of Brazilian hypocrisy on climate are ill-judged

1 month ago | climatechangenews.com | Ana Yang |Megan Rowling

Ana Yang is Director of the Environment and Society Centre at Chatham House. In recent months, Brazil has been portrayed by the media, activists and other commentators as either angel or devil. On the one hand, the country that houses 60% of the Amazon rainforest and an enormous wealth of biodiversity is touted as a climate champion, progressive host of the next UN climate talks, the potential saviour of multilateralism.
UN, Germany say tackling climate crisis leads to economic and national security

1 month ago | climatechangenews.com | Megan Rowling

The United Nations, Germany and Brazil joined diplomatic forces this week to convince the world of the national and economic security benefits of pursuing ambitious climate action in challenging geopolitical times on a fast-warming planet.
Global tax on shipping emissions at risk despite growing support

2 months ago | climatechangenews.com | Chloe Farand |Chloé Farand |Megan Rowling

The push for a global levy on international shipping emissions won additional support from another dozen countries during talks in London this week, but it is still opposed by a group of large emerging economies including Brazil, China and Saudi Arabia. The negotiations made little concrete progress, leaving much work ahead of a crunch meeting in April, according to observers.
Green Climate Fund looks at capital-market borrowing to meet COP29 goal

Jan 20, 2025 | climatechangenews.com | Joe Lo |Megan Rowling

The UN’s Green Climate Fund (GCF) is considering borrowing money from banks and other investors in order to meet a goal set by governments at COP29 in November to increase spending by a group of funds that support developing countries. At the talks in Baku, under pressure from small island nations and the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), all governments agreed to “pursue efforts to at least triple annual outflows” between 2022 and 2030 from UN climate funds like the GCF.
What does a Trump second term mean for climate action?

Jan 15, 2025 | climatechangenews.com | Matteo Civillini |Megan Rowling |Joe Lo

With Donald Trump, a notorious climate change sceptic, poised to enter the White House for a second term, the climate world – from officials to campaigners and business executives – is bracing for the impact of his presidency. Trump, a Republican business mogul who has called climate change a “scam”, has made no secret about his intentions.
2024 was hottest year on record and first to exceed 1.5C warming

Jan 10, 2025 | climatechangenews.com | Megan Rowling

Europe’s climate service said on Friday that 2024 was the hottest calendar year on record and the first in which average temperatures exceeded the key limit of 1.5C above pre-industrial times, raising the importance of efforts to protect people from dangerous impacts.
2024: A year of extreme heat and growing climate danger

Dec 27, 2024 | climatechangenews.com | Megan Rowling

At the end of the first year in which global average temperatures are almost certain to top the key threshold of 1.5C above pre-industrial times, scientists have sounded the alarm about the extremes of climate and weather we’re already experiencing – and are warning things could get even more serious.