Solar Energy Brings Water to Iconic Salvadoran Village of...
The worst massacre of civilians in Latin America occurred in the Salvadoran village of El Mozote, where environmental projects are beginning to emerge, slowl...

Hundreds of Cholera Cases Are Declared Per Day in Sudan
A particularly virulent outbreak of cholera was detected in the Khartoum State of Sudan and is a direct result of the Sudanese Civil War, warns the United Na...

In a Changing World, Protecting Nature is Protecting Our ...
In a world marked by armed conflict, threats to democracy, technological disruptions, and geopolitical tensions, many people are asking: Why should we priori...

Abundance of Renewable Energy Attracts Major Data Centers...
Brazil hopes to soon reap benefits of its largely renewable energy matrix. Data centers, whose demand is growing with the strides made by artificial intellig...

Energy Storage Has Yet to Take Off in Mexico
Researcher Edilso Reguera and his team began studying electric battery manufacturing in 2016, but in 2023, they ramped up efforts to develop a lithium-based ...

Economic Growth is the Wrong Metric for Our Time
As the United States lurches toward isolationism and authoritarianism, its political problems are now bleeding into pocketbook anxieties that Trump’s p...

UN Ocean Conference Must Inspire Global Ambition
Ambassador Peter Thomson is UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Ocean

Seafood Without Transparency is a Recipe for Disaster
Seafood is a staple in my house – fish tacos, paella, sushi. But no matter how good it tastes, I can’t help but wonder: was my fish caught responsibly? Or di...

A Shift in the Sands: The Reshaping of Global Influence i...
The Gulf’s most powerful weapon isn’t a military, a United Nations (UN) Security Council seat, or a legacy of global diplomacy. Choosing multilat...

Former Energy Ministers from Saint Lucia and Uruguay Name...
The Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), a global network that advances renewable energy through collaboration and knowledge sharing...

Transitioning to a Circular Economy: The Future We Cannot...
Marcos Neto is UN Assistant Secretary General and Director of UNDP’s Bureau for Policy and Programme Support.

Venezuela’s Oil trapped in Hurricane Trump’s Onslaught
Reduced to a marginal oil producer over the past decade, Venezuela has suffered another blow as United States president Donald Trump ordered punitive measure...

Solar-Powered Spinning Machines Help Indian Women Save Ti...
In India’s Meghalaya, silkworm rearing and weaving are common in rural areas. Ri-Bhoi district of Meghalaya is among the regions where eri culture is deeply ...

Argentina is Experiencing an Oil Boom, with Bright Spots ...
For about three years now, Argentines have been hearing almost every month that oil production is breaking new records. Looking ahead, the country is project...

Pioneering Sustainable Energy Solutions in Africa
The 12th Sankalp Africa Summit, held on Feb 26-27 in Nairobi, brought together a pivotal cohort of start-up innovators, investors, entrepreneurs and policyma...

Energy is a Catalyst for Peace Between Israel and Gaza
David L. Phillips is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and a Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Centre for European Studies.

Western Climate Hypocrisy Exposed by NATO Energy Policy
NATO geopolitical strategy has now joined the ‘coalition’ of Western geoeconomic forces accelerating planetary heating, now led again by re-elected US Presid...

Solar Energy Sustains the Development of Amazonian Commun...
Electricity is essential for the well-being and prosperity of traditional riverside communities in the Amazon, as demonstrated by the experience of the Santa...

COP 16 Conference made Key Steps Towards a More Just Tran...
With global temperatures continuing to break records and every global indicator of the health of the natural world showing decline, the need to quickly move ...

U.S. Passes on UN Ukraine Resolution amid the Humanitaria...
From late 2024 to early 2025, the humanitarian situation in Ukraine has taken a turn for the worst, with poverty, violence, displacement, and damage to criti...

Hortolandia Emerges as an Energy and Environmental City i...
Almost everything seems new or under construction in the southern Brazilian city of Hortolandia, from its wide avenues and cable-stayed bridge to its large b...

Mexican Electric Vehicles Struggle to Accelerate
Mexico has seen several attempts at assembling electric vehicles (EVs), powered by rechargeable batteries, which have faced challenges related to industrial ...

Civil Society at the Finance in Common Summit Calls for C...
As public development banks gather for the Finance in Common Summit (FiCS) in Cape Town, South Africa, civil society and community activists from across the ...

WFP, FAO Warn of the Severity of the Climate Crisis and F...
Over the past few years, climate shocks have become more frequent and have devastated economies and agriculture systems, exacerbating widespread malnutrition...

Mexico’s New Economic Plan Lacks Energy
This January, Mexico has embarked on a new industrial path for the next six years, where the viability of its energy component faces fundamental challenges t...

‘Areas Essential to the Global Climate Are Being Threaten...
CIVICUS discusses activism against oil auctions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with François Kamate, founder and coordinator of the you...

Japanese Bank Criticized for Financing Mozambique LNG Pro...
Climate and environmental activists from Japan have criticized the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) for financing the controversial Mozambique...

2024 Is The Hottest Year Ever Recorded
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warns that 2024 is on track to be the hottest year in recorded history, surpassing 2023. This can be attributed t...

Power Arrives but the River Dries Up for Brazil’s Amazoni...
The flow of the igarapé always dropped for three months every year, but now it has been dry for two years in a row, complains Maria Aparecida dos Anjos, look...

New Law in Cuba Makes Investing in Renewable Energy Sourc...
With Decree 110, published on 26 November, Cuba made it mandatory for major consumers, whether they are state or private entities, to invest in the use of re...

Solar Project Causes Social and Environmental Conflict in...
With machete in hand, Salvadoran farmer Damián Córdoba weeds the undergrowth covering the trunk of what was once a leafy tree to show the deforestation takin...

Guyana’s Dream to Be a Green Oil Producer
Long before the transformative discovery of its offshore oil in 2015, Guyana had made a strong pledge to decarbonization and climate action as set forth in i...

Blockages of Aid in Gaza Threatens Survival for 2.2 Million
Following the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) indictment of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for deliberate war crimes committed on the people ...

Brazil Vows to Make COP30 a Catalyst for Climate Action a...
As Brazil gears up to host COP30 in Belém next year, Moisés Savian, the country’s Secretary of Land Governance, Territorial and Socio Environmental Dev...

Why the world needs more oil, not less – Al Ghais
Vienna, Austria, 31 August 2023--OPEC Secretary General, HE Haitham Al Ghais, stated that the world would continue to witness rising oil demand amidst g...

OPEC Secretary General to participate in G20 meeting in I...
Vienna, Austria, 21 July 2023--OPEC Secretary General, HE Haitham Al Ghais, will participate at the G20 Energy Ministerial Meeting in Goa, India, on 22 July.

Maximum energy, minimum emissions: OPEC commentary for th...
Vienna, Austria, 17 May 2023--OPEC Secretary General, HE Haitham Al Ghais, has contributed to the publication for the G7 Summit that will take plac...

OPEC and the City of Vienna to host the Vienna Energy Sch...
Vienna, Austria, 2 May 2023--The OPEC Secretariat and the City of Vienna will host the Third Vienna Energy Scholar Programme (VESP) from 4 to 9 September 202...

OPEC to host the Fourth OPEC-OPEC Fund Annual Legal Works...
Vienna, Austria, 17 October 2022--The OPEC Secretariat will host the Fourth OPEC-OPEC Fund Annual Legal Workshop on regulatory issues related to the ene...

OPEC and the City of Vienna to host the Vienna Energy Sch...
Vienna, Austria, 8 September 2022--The OPEC Secretariat and the City of Vienna will host the Second Vienna Energy Scholar Programme (VESP) from 19 to 23 Sept...

You have indeed been a worthy ambassador of our country, ...
Abuja, Nigeria, 5 July 2022--President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday in Abuja expressed the nation’s gratitude to the outgoing Secretary General of the Organizati...

OPEC takes part in Nigeria Oil and Gas Conference and Exh...
Abuja, Nigeria, 5 July 2022--The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) participated in the 21st edition of Nigeria Oil and Gas (NOG) Confe...

OPEC Secretary General congratulates Minister Al-Rumhy on...
Vienna, Austria, 17 June 2022--OPEC Secretary General, HE Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo, congratulated HE Dr Mohammed Bin Hamad Al-Rumhy on completing his tenure ...

OPEC’s 21st Coordination Meeting on Climate Change takes ...
Vienna, Austria, 31 May 2022--The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) held the 21st Coordination Meeting on Climate Change via videoconf...

OPEC holds special workshop on climate change
Vienna, Austria, 30 May 2022--The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) hosted the Fifth Technical Workshop on Climate Change under the th...