Terry Slavin

News earlier this year that Asian clothing factories supplying H&M and Zara were buying cotton linked to deforestation and land-grabbing in Brazil doubtless come as a shock to the two global fashion giants, who pointed to the fact that the cotton had been certified sustainable by the Better Cotton initiative.

International Women’s Day 2025 comes at a dark time in the struggle for gender equality. As we report in the latest issue of The Ethical Corporation, the new Trump administration’s unprecedented attacks on diversity and inclusion represent a huge setback for women, both in the U.S. and internationally.

Companies and major NGOs have been strangely loath to go public about how their climate and nature programmes have been affected by President Donald Trump’s evisceration of USAID and climate funding. Rainforest Alliance’s CEO, Santiago Gowland, however, is a refreshing exception.

Companies and major NGOs have been strangely loath to go public about how their climate and nature programmes have been affected by President Donald Trump’s evisceration of USAID and climate funding. Rainforest Alliance’s CEO, Santiago Gowland, however, is a refreshing exception.

In May, Europe passed a milestone in its drive to decarbonise: the opening of the world’s first commercial scale e-methanol plant, at Kasso in Denmark.

With the U.S. failing to send a single delegate to COP30, and CEOs almost as thin on the ground, the atmosphere at the year’s premiere climate event is far less electric than the high-octane events of the last few climate summits.

First came the floods, then the fire. As he officially opened COP30, Brazil’s president, Lula Inacio da Silva said that by summoning delegates from 190 countries to Belem, in the planet’s biggest rainforest, “the world will finally be able to say that it truly knows the reality of the Amazon”.

It’s been a tough year for anyone working on the climate agenda. The Trump Administration’s repeal of the endangerment finding, the legal underpinning of U.S. climate regulation, was a coup de grace, after a litany of regulatory cuts and other moves to remove any impediment to unfettered fossil fuel development in the world’s largest economy.

One of the fastest-growing users of electricity is air conditioning, which accounts for about 10% of global power use.

The AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, is the home of the Dallas Cowboys – American football royalty and five-time winners of the Super Bowl. This month, the 94,000-seat venue, described by Fifa as “a jaw-dropping example of stadium architecture”, is again holding fevered global attention as host to nine World Cup matches, including a semi-final.