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

Teens' mental health suffers on Africa's climate frontlines

2 weeks 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

2 weeks 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

4 weeks 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.
Fractious COP29 lands $300bn climate finance goal, dashing hopes of the poorest

Nov 23, 2024 | climatechangenews.com | Megan Rowling |Joe Lo |Sebastián Rodríguez

Rich nations agreed to channel at least $300 billion a year by 2035 for developing countries to ramp up climate action under a new finance goal adopted at the COP29 climate summit, after bad-tempered talks in which vulnerable countries pushed for a bigger slice of the pie.
Adaptation Fund head laments "puzzling" lack of pledges at COP29

Nov 16, 2024 | climatechangenews.com | Megan Rowling

From the floods that have swept through Spain to typhoons battering the Philippines, extreme weather is hitting the world hard – but even after years of warnings about the need to adapt to the perils of a hotter world, vulnerable countries and communities are unlikely to get much immediate help from the COP29 climate summit, officials told Climate Home.