The COVID-19 pandemic is exposing the risks of allowing Africa’s swelling ranks of city dwellers to crowd into slums without proper access to water, sewers, transport and other public services, urban experts have warned.

Cities under lockdown to stop the spread of the coronavirus are making more room on their streets for pedestrians, fulfilling a long-standing demand by residents for more walkability that could be hard to reverse, urban experts said.

From Italy to India, Vietnam to Kenya, countries around the world are reeling from a double whammy of erratic weather – in many cases linked to climate change – and a deadly pandemic, both of which threaten lives and jobs.

April 2 (WNM/Reuters/Kate Abnett) – The EU executive kick-started its plan to set a tougher 2030 emissions target, a move that could help maintain the bloc’s focus on climate change despite pressure to soften its green ambitions in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The European Commission began a public consultation to gather views until June […]

Mass disinfections have become a common sight. But the visually-impressive measures taken to contain the fast-spreading virus have been criticised by disease specialists as a health hazard as well as a waste of time and resources.

Air pollution has decreased in urban areas across Europe during lockdowns to combat the coronavirus, new satellite images showed, but campaigners warned city-dwellers were still more vulnerable to the epidemic.

The number of people worldwide struggling with extreme heat and humidity by the end of the century could be more than four times as many as today if planet-warming emissions continue to rise, hiking economic losses and health costs, scientists have warned.

European airlines crippled by the coronavirus have demanded lasting relief from environmental taxes – in a move that pits their immediate survival against longer-term emissions goals.

Poland, which relies heavily on coal-fired power stations, will find it even more difficult to achieve the European Union’s climate goals because of the impact of the coronavirus epidemic on the economy and companies, the government said.

For European governments battling to brace economies pummelled by the coronavirus, there might be no better time to go green.