WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyeus warns that masks can create a false sense of security leading people to neglect measures such as hand hygiene and physical distancing.

The relevance of other greenhouse gases from non-fossil sources, such as agriculture, will increase in the future, as shown in a study led by a researcher from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel.

To create incentives for less car traffic, there should be road fees, for example depending on the time of day (“congestion charge”) or the pollutant emissions of the individual car (“air pollution charge”). This is the recommendation of Berlin-based climate research institute MCC.

The international balance of power in innovation is shifting. When it comes to world-class patents in important cutting-edge technologies, China is catching up fast or has already overtaken the United States in some areas thanks to its much greater dynamic.

Competitive power generation costs make investment in renewables highly attractive as countries target economic recovery from COVID-19, a new report finds.

Europe secured €60 billion in investments to produce electric vehicles and batteries last year – 19 times more than in 2018, new analysis shows.

The novel coronavirus outbreak has starkly exposed inequalities worldwide and could set back human development for the first time since 1990, the United Nations said.

The European Commission pledged to attach climate conditions to its massive funding package to save Europe’s coronavirus-battered economies, but stopped short of banning support for all fossil fuels,

The COVID-19 risk profile appears to be shifting: 15 percent of deaths in Brazil have been in patients younger than 50 years old, and nearly quarter of deaths in Mexico have been between the ages of 25 and 49 years.

Five years after first ditching some coal companies, Nordic investors are turning their focus to bigger carbon emitters in a range of industries, paving the way for other funds to follow.