Trillions of dollars could be gained every year and millions of lives saved from protecting the climate and environment, according to the UN. DW speaks to Inger Andersen about what might help us get there.
Politics
The European Commission has drafted proposals to cut back more EU environment laws, targeting requirements for industries to report on their pollution and waste, a draft EU document seen by Reuters showed.
The United Nations says the world needs a new way of thinking about environmental crises threatening the health of people and the planet.
The president ordered a stop to permits for all wind farms on federal lands and waters. A judge called that “capricious.”
The effort is drawing bipartisan support and is expected to come up again next year as officials grapple with the artificial intelligence boom’s side effects.
Jani Silva is a renowned environmental activist in Colombia’s Amazon, but she has been unable to live in her house for nearly a decade.
Officials warn that if regional Integrated Ocean Observing System readings go dark, coastal forecasts will become less precise, endangering commercial fishermen, cargo ships and coastal communities.

EU to ‘push back petrol car sales ban to 2040’
08 December
The European Union is set to push back its ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by five years to 2040, piling pressure on the UK to rethink the automotive sector’s net-zero commitments.
Scientists fear warming is driving a collapse in the ocean currents that shape climate far and wide. The ice-choked waters off Greenland might hold the key.
Since the early 1930s, the state has lost about 2,000 square miles of land for a variety of reasons that range from groundwater pumping to building levees along the Misssisippi River that have stopped the natural dumping of sediment.
Up to 6,500 people are at risk of being displaced amid a global race to secure supplies of copper, cobalt and other “critical minerals”.
An Apache girl comes of age in a traditional ceremony, possibly the last at Oak Flat before copper mining threatens to transform the sacred site in Arizona.
Developers of Project Jupiter are seeking state approval for emissions that could surpass the combined greenhouse gases of Albuquerque and Las Cruces, while advocates warn the split-permit approach skirts regulations meant to limit major air pollution sources.
A new episode of Stories From The States examines how the Trump administration’s abrupt halt of the nearly finished Revolution Wind project rattled union workers along the New England coast and threatened Rhode Island and Connecticut’s decarbonization plans.
Major U.S. fossil fuel companies, working through PR firm Teneo, coordinated an aggressive campaign to dilute the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive by aligning decision makers with far-right factions and leveraging U.S.–EU trade tensions.

Al Gore's case for optimism
05 December
Gore talks to HEATED about COP30, the Gates memo, and why he thinks billionaires should face far more scrutiny in the climate fight.
Both Alaska senators are lobbying the Interior Department to limit new offshore drilling in the Arctic.
Tariffs, extreme weather events and the president’s funding cuts are contributing to increasing home insurance rates, sometimes by double digits.
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