Saunders says ‘it is the right time for me to take a step back and focus on my family and myself’, week after state Nationals dump net zero commitment Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The New South Wales Nationals leader, Dugald Saunders, has stepped down from the role ahead of a party room meeting, citing family reasons. It comes as the state Coalition faces similar turmoil to its federal counterpart over climate policy. The NSW Nationals voted last week to abandon a net zero emissions target by 2050. Continue reading...
The report, by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) suggests that 'eco-fear' could lead to drug abuse, as people try to manage their emotions around climate change.
Marina Silva says contentious plan would be ‘ethical answer’ to climate crisis but does not commit Brazil to it Brazil’s environment minister, Marina Silva, has urged all countries to have the courage to address the need for a fossil fuel phaseout, calling the drawing up of a roadmap for it an “ethical” response to the climate crisis. She emphasised, however, that the process would be voluntary for those governments that wished to participate, and “self-determined”. Continue reading...
Ending use of coal, oil and gas is essential in tackling climate crisis – but even talking about it is controversial Continue reading...
ATHENS - Ukraine signed a deal with Greece on Sunday for winter deliveries of American liquefied natural gas to Kyiv, as Ukrainian energy infrastructure is battered by Russian strikes.
There are a lot of solar power companies out there, and not all of them are worth doing business with. Take extra care when approaching these three.
Saudi Arabia's Mohammed bin Salman will visit Trump in Washington on November 18 for their first direct talks since the Gaza ceasefire. The meeting is expected to center on defense, nuclear power, technology, and Israel.
Nationals and Liberals agree on new emissions plan after joint party room as opposition leader promises new immigration policy within weeks Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast A future Coalition government would strip emissions reductions from the objectives of the electricity market operator, focusing instead on lowering consumer power prices, and track cuts achieved by similar nations to form Australia’s carbon targets. Coalition MPs endorsed the plan in a special partyroom meeting on Sunday afternoon, days after conservative Liberals engineered moves to drop net zero by 2050 policies to match their junior partner, the Nationals. Continue reading...
A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, November 9, 2025 thru Sat, November 15, 2025. Stories we promoted this week, by category: International Climate Conferences and Agreements (11 articles) Landmark Paris Agreement set a path to slow warming. The world hasn't stayed on it The world has seen faster climate change than expected since the Paris Agreement a decade ago The Independent News, Seth Borenstein, Nov 09, 2025. Amid squabbles, bombast and competing interests, what can Cop30 achieve? Climate summit in Brazil needs to find way to stop global heating accelerating amid stark divisions The Guardian, Fiona Harvey, Nov 09, 2025. Climate conference's webpages emit 10 times more carbon...
The Coalition's decision to abandon net zero would do little to shift public opinion, according to Labor frontbencher Penny Wong.
As Liberals join Nationals in abandoning a 2050 emissions target, we unpick some of the opposition’s talking points Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here Are you trying to make sense of some of the big claims made by Liberal and National party MPs for abandoning their support for Australia reaching net zero emissions by 2050? We’re here to help. Continue reading...
Demonstrators marched through Glasgow city centre on a day of global action to coincide with the COP30 climate talks in Brazil.
Despite US objections, India continues to be a major buyer of Russian crude oil, ranking second globally in October with $2.5 billion in purchases. This trend persists as Western nations urge limitations on imports financing Russia's war in Ukraine. China remains the top buyer of Russian fossil fuels overall.
Illegal logging, gold mining, and drug trafficking: Organized crime in Brazil is sabotaging efforts to combat global warming. This issue has long been overlooked at climate conferences. Is that finally about to change?
Embattled Hungarian leader says he won an indefinite reprieve from sanctions on oil and gas from Russia, but the US has since disputed this As Viktor Orbán would tell it, he had the perfect meeting with Donald Trump. After visiting the White House last week, the embattled Hungarian prime minister quickly declared victory, saying he had secured an indefinite exemption from US sanctions on oil and gas imported from Russia . The deal would shield Hungarians from skyrocketing energy prices ahead of parliamentary elections next year and potentially boost Orbán’s chances of extending his 15-year rule. Continue reading...
Traffic Sign Recognition (TSR) systems are reading speed limit signs incorrectly and telling drivers the speed limit is up to 100mph, with some models accelerating on their own.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed climate change is a fallacy, criticizing California's environmental policies as a "Green New Scam." Her remarks contradict the scientific consensus on global warming. The article also briefly mentions the release of Jeffrey Epstein's emails and social media reactions to climate change denial.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce urged the Supreme Court to block new California laws that will require thousands of companies to disclose their emissions and their impacts on climate change.
Activists hail from various parts of the world, yet they consistently convey the same message: the foundation of a just transition cannot be based on lies and false solutions.
Calgary-based pipeline operator Enbridge has announced a US$1.4 billion expansion of its Mainline and Flanagan South pipelines used to ship oil sands crude to markets in the U.S.
The Paulatuk Energy Working Group has a goal of becoming carbon neutral. But everyone – from residents to those leading the project – agree making sure homes don’t waste that energy is a critical part of the target.
Dozens of Indigenous activists blocked the entrance of the Cop30 summit venue on Friday, demanding that the Brazilian government halt all development projects in the Amazon, including mining, logging, oil drilling and the building of a new railway for transporting mining and agricultural products. The protesters staged a sit-in creating long queues and forcing delegates to use a side entrance to resume their negotiations on tackling the climate crisis Cop30 – latest updates Continue reading...
If we do not have our land and healthy territory, we do not have healthy food, and without food we do not survive. Food must become a centerpiece in the global climate discourse, and it is not just about any food, but healthy food that aligns with our ancestry and local traditions and spirituality. —Juliana Kerexu Mirim Mariano, activist
Astronomers are tracking interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS after JWST and NASA missions detected an extreme CO₂ outburst that challenges current theories about how comets form and evolve beyond our solar system.
They plug into a standard outlet, hang on the sill, and slash climate-warming pollution. The post New window-mounted heat pumps make ditching fossil fuels easier appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
A scandal, involving kickbacks at Ukraine’s state nuclear power company, has revived concerns about European money being siphoned off by graft instead of helping fight Russia.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Kenya and the European Union on Thursday signed four major financing agreements worth Sh4.8 billion to support the country's green transition, strengthen climate resilience, and accelerate the shift toward a circular economy.
My dog contributes to climate change. I love him anyway.
The COP30 Special report on health and climate change: delivering the Belém Health Action Plan, notes that rising temperatures and collapsing health systems are claiming more lives, and calls for immediate and coordinated action to protect health in a rapidly warming world. It follows the launch of the Belém Health Action Plan, a flagship initiative of Brazil’s COP 30 Presidency, unveiled on the dedicated Health Day of COP30 – 13 November 2025.
Spectating from afar during the Cop30 UN climate summit in Belem on the edge of Brazil’s Amazon forests, it is easy to despair. Despite 30 years of concerted global diplomacy and exhaustive scientific evidence of the gravity of global warming, carbon dioxide emissions continue to rise, as do global temperatures. Brazil’s rainforest continues to burn. Global oil and gas production remains robust. Governments procrastinate and funding promises still fail to materialise. Worst of all, the world’s...
With COP30 underway, the climate crisis is in the spotlight. Here are the key facts about how rising temperatures are disrupting our planet.
Oil industry attorneys have sought to move lawsuits against fossil fuel companies to federal court, where they believe they're more likely to win.
BELEM, Brazil - Two years after nations agreed to transition away from fossil fuels, dozens are pushing to go even further at the COP30 climate summit, setting up a showdown with oil powers.
Center-right legislators also agreed to scrap a binding target to cut emissions by 43 percent of 2005 levels by 2030 if they return to power.
The urgency of linking climate action with social and wider environmental priorities is clear. Climate change, environmental degradation and violent conflict are often deeply connected and even mutually reinforcing. At the same time, climate action can either support or undermine efforts to improve social justice and halt environmental degradation. These connections are nowhere more visible […]
[AI London] First-of-its-kind mapping with multi-country research reveals depth and scale of fossil fuel industry's potential harm
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out Cop30: click here for full Guardian coverage of climate talks in Brazil More than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists have been granted access to the Cop30 climate negotiations in Belém, significantly outnumbering every single country’s delegation apart from the host Brazil, new analysis has found. One in every 25 participants at this year’s UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to the analysis by the Kick Big Polluters Out (KBPO) coalition, raising serious questions about the corporate capture and credibility of the annual Cop negotiations. Continue reading...
From Taradell to Galicia, cooperatives are supplying cheap, clean electricity to homes and helping tackle fuel poverty It began in the small Catalan town of Taradell as a plan to provide local people with allotments where they could grow their own food. Four activists came together with the aim of promoting good environmental practices in local agriculture and business, as well as supplying renewable energy. The project, however, was about much more than growing vegetables. Continue reading...
[The Conversation Africa] Picture an electric car that could go 600, 700 or even 1,000 miles on a single charge. That's much farther than the longest-range electric vehicles on the U.S. market, according to Car and Driver magazine - and twice as far the official rating for the long-range, rear-wheel-drive Tesla Model 3, which has a maximum rated range of 363 miles.
A pair of NASA spacecraft ultimately destined for Mars will study how its magnetic environment is impacted by the Sun. The mission also will help the agency prepare for future human exploration of Mars. NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) spacecraft launched at 3:55 p.m. EST, Thursday, aboard a Blue Origin New […]
Baroness Brown of Cambridge said that if water companies started charging more per litre for water, they could help stop taps running dry in the coming decades.
California has now reached 16,942 megawatts of available battery storage — about one-third of the estimated capacity needed to reach the state's goal of 100% clean energy by 2045.
How to Get Finance Flowing to Climate Adaptation margaret.overh… Thu, 11/13/2025 - 15:58 From floods and droughts to economic shocks and displacement, the costs of climate change are rising rapidly. Climate-related disasters caused an estimated $417 billion in economic losses in 2024 alone. Without urgent investment in resilience, global GDP could shrink by up to 10% by 2050 . Many developing countries will face even steeper drops. Yet finance to adapt to these threats remains scarce, fragmented and difficult to access — particularly for the poorest and most vulnerable. Developing countries (excluding China) need $400 billion annually by 2035 to address adaptation and resilience finance requirements. Present flows remain far from that level: According to CPI...
The United States is largely absent from the United Nations climate negations in Brazil. So who is stepping up?
[Daily Trust] Oil prices have climbed as fresh U.S. sanctions targeting Russia's energy exports tightened global supply, lifting Brent crude futures to their highest level in weeks.
At the UN Climate Conference venue in Belém, young activist João Victor da Costa da Silva is trying to make his case heard by negotiators. The 16-year-old Da Silva has a specific request for the parties: the needs of young people with disabilities should be addressed through the lens of climate justice. Belém native Da […]
Climate change crisis offers us a real chance to bring a new vision, one that's rooted in fairness, dignity and harmony with nature. The global community here has the ability and opportunity to balance people, profit, and planet in a way that has not been achieved in the past. —Binaifer Nowrojee, human rights lawyer and president of the Open Society Foundations (OSF)
Lawmakers approved proposals to slightly weaken EU carbon emissions targets for 2040. Another vote on corporate supply chain standards was even more contentious as it required populist support to pass.
On the campaign trail in 2024, President Donald Trump promised to halve Americans’ energy bills by January 2026. After his win, his administration pushed policies that undoubtedly contributed to their rise. They tried to squash cheap, local energy from renewable sources while bankrolling the dying coal industry. They put tariffs on materials needed to keep […]
Climate Action Tracker report finds pledges made in past year have not cut the forecast for global heating More than half of all delegation members at Cop30 have withheld or obscured details of their affiliations , potentially concealing conflicts of interest and undermining trust in the Cop process, warns Transparency International. According to the campaign group’s examination of the UNFCCC’s official list of registered participants, 54% of participants in national delegations either did not disclose the type of affiliation they have or selected a vague category such as “Guest” or “Other”. Yet, at Cop30, thousands of delegates still do not share enough information, most from within national delegations. If Cop30 is indeed the Cop of truth, the lresidency and the UNFCCC Secretariat should...
As the COP30 climate conference gets underway in Brazil, the world’s attention is once again drawn to the plight of the Amazon – the planet’s largest and most vital rainforest. With the European Space Agency’s Earth Explorer Biomass satellite now in orbit, ESA is helping Brazil prepare to transform this new mission’s groundbreaking data into actionable knowledge for protecting the rainforest and confronting climate change.
One email, released by Democrats on House oversight committee, says Trump ‘spent hours’ with one trafficking victim. Plus, Al Gore wonders if ‘bullying’ Trump prompted Bill Gates to backtrack on climate Don’t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here Good morning. Newly released emails suggest Donald Trump knew about the conduct of the late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including one memo in which Epstein said “of course [Trump] knew about the girls” he trafficked, and another that said Trump had “spent hours” with one victim at Epstein’s house. What do the emails say? One message from Epstein to his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, sent in April 2011, mentions Trump by name, saying: “I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump.. [victim’s...
A West Virginia coal miner was found dead Thursday after being trapped in a flooded mine for more than a week. He helped save fellow miners.
The target would allow controversial use of overseas carbon offsets to help meet a 90 percent reduction.
Warning comes as scenario in which global demand continues to grow until 2050 is included in IEA outlook report The world is producing more oil than it needs and by next year there could be a glut of 4m excess barrels a day entering the market, according to the global energy watchdog. The International Energy Agency said the surplus in 2026 was likely to be larger than previously forecast, despite a decision from the biggest oil producers to pause their plan to increase crude exports. Continue reading...
Decades after his initial climate warning, NASA scientist James Hansen now highlights an alarming acceleration in climate shifts. His team's research points to a potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) within 20-30 years, a critical system regulating global temperatures. This could trigger catastrophic weather changes, but solutions like carbon fees and public awareness offer hope.
A week after China commissioned its third aircraft carrier, the Fujian, newly leaked images, including satellite imagery and other photos, suggest that the fourth might be nuclear powered. US military website The War Zone reported on Wednesday that China’s new Type 004 aircraft carrier, which is under construction at the Dalian shipyard in the northeastern province of Liaoning, showed a hull structure apparently similar to that of American nuclear-powered supercarriers. Citing social media posts...
[ENA] Addis Ababa -- Ethiopia reaffirmed its steadfast climate leadership on the sideline of COP30 high-level event titled "From Baku to Belém: Ethiopia's Progress on Climate Resilience and Green Growth (Stocktake)," co-organized by the Government of Ethiopia and UNDP at the Ethiopian Pavilion in Brazil.
The International Energy Agency pointed to President Donald Trump’s fossil fuel policies as one reason for an extended run for oil, gas and coal.
The project is part of the company's plans to power AI with a suite of natural gas plants in oil fields like the Permian Basin.
World oil output exceeded demand by 500,000 barrels a day during the period, according to a report.
The Oscar-winning actor, who had just returned from the COP30 conference on climate change in Brazil, got to know Goodall through his own environmental conservation work.
[FrontPageAfrica] As the world turns its eyes toward COP30 the pivotal United Nations Climate Change Conference currently ongoing in Belém, Brazil, Liberia's presence and visibility carry immense significance. For a country endowed with vast natural resources yet burdened by economic vulnerabilities, Liberia's active participation at another global climate summit represents not just a diplomatic milestone but a transformative opportunity to shape its future within the global climate agenda.
[Afrobarometer] From household practices to policy priorities, climate change is impacting life across Africa.
Carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels are forecast to reach a new high in 2025 but could soon peak.
Michael Miller tells Senate misinformation inquiry platforming climate deniers and net zero critics part of ‘great democracy and healthy debate’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free weekly media newsletter here A senior News Corp Australia executive has defended the company’s platforming of climate science deniers, saying its news outlets were not part of a “denial machine” spreading misinformation. News Corp Australia’s executive chair, Michael Miller, told a Senate inquiry into climate and energy misinformation there was no coordination across the organisation’s news outlets to feature voices sceptical of climate action or Australia’s current goal to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions. Sign up to get Guardian Australia’s...
Global emissions from fossil fuels are expected to hit another record high in 2025, but China’s carbon emissions appear to be reaching a peak
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating The world is still on track for a catastrophic 2.6C increase in temperature as countries have not made sufficiently strong climate pledges, while emissions from fossil fuels have hit a record high, two major reports have found. Despite their promises, governments’ new emission-cutting plans submitted for the Cop30 climate talks taking place in Brazil have done little to avert dangerous global heating for the fourth consecutive year, according to the Climate Action Tracker update . Continue reading...
Shadow cabinet will hear the proposals at 9am before Sussan Ley makes a public announcement. Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Teal independent MP Sophie Scamps said the Coalition’s position on net zero policies signals the “death knell” of the Liberal party as Sussan Ley appears poised to dump emissions targets . Scamps appears on the Today Show this morning, where she was asked about apparent wins yesterday in Canberra by conservatives looking to dump the net zero targets. I think it signals the death knell of the Liberal party. They’ve been led around by the nose by the likes of Barnaby Joyce and Gina Rinehart for way too long. We have been facing climate change, which is the issue of our era, and the Liberal party...
Exclusive interview with ex-US vice-president at Cop30 also reveals his hope around much-maligned climate summit Fear of being bullied by Donald Trump may have prompted Bill Gates to row back on the climate crisis , Al Gore has speculated, as he slammed the billionaire’s new position as “silly”, and the US president for his anti-climate stance. Trump, “the most corrupt president in American history”, was “badly damaging the US economy” by pulling away from renewable energy and promoting fossil fuels, the former US vice-president warned. Continue reading...
A nationwide alert system for PM2.5 fine dust pollution, including real-time updates through the cell broadcast system, is in the works as air quality in Bangkok is worsening to the “orange” level with the onset of the cool season.
Former US vice-president also critical of Donald Trump and Bill Gates as negotiations begin in earnest Hello comrades, this is Nina Lakhani in chilly New York City taking over the blog for the next few hours. Thanks very much to my colleague Matt Taylor in London Town who will be back in the hot seat on Friday morning. Leading climate activists and influencers have signed a letter criticising PR firm Edelman over its role at the Cop30 summit in Brazil. Continue reading...
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink There are a lot of things I agree with in Bill Gates’ new memo on climate change. The recent cutbacks on international spending on vaccination, malaria control, feeding the hungry, and poverty alleviation by many of the richest countries (driven in part by a desire for more military spending) is a catastrophe that will cost thousands if not millions of lives. Adaptation is a critically important part of addressing climate change, and a world with more prosperity and less inequality is one where we can better deal with the impacts of climate change – at least up to a point. But in other areas I feel that it needlessly sets up a conflict between laudable goals: we can both mitigate emissions and alleviate poverty...
STATEMENT: COP30 Elevates Major Efforts to Unite Local, Regional and National Governments on Climate Action nate.shelter@wri.org Wed, 11/12/2025 - 11:51 Belém, Brazil (November 12, 2025) — As part of the COP30 Action Agenda, Brazil announced a suite of efforts to accelerate climate action across all levels of government, from local to regional to national. The Government of Brazil launched the Multilevel Governance Solutions Acceleration Plan on November 11, and Brazil and Germany were announced as the first co-chairs of the Coalition for High Ambition Multilevel Partnerships (CHAMP), marking the start of the global coalition’s implementation beyond COP30. The COP30 Presidency and UNEP Cool Coalition also launched the Beat the Heat initiative , with 185 cities...
[Independent (Kampala)] São Paulo -- With the United Nations Climate Conference (COP30) in Belém, Brazil, underway, it is clear that the world's widely shared commitment to a just energy transition is falling by the wayside. In the year since governments signed on to the agreement at COP29 to scale up climate finance - with a goal of mobilizing $1.3 trillion annually by 2035 - wealthy countries have been retreating from their financial pledges. Worse, these signs of bad faith are coming just as the costs of climate adaptation and
STATEMENT: COP30 Action Agenda Accelerates Transition Across Major Sectors nate.shelter@wri.org Wed, 11/12/2025 - 09:27 Belém, Brazil (November 12, 2025) — The COP30 Presidency and High-Level Climate Champions released the COP30 Action Agenda , which unites commitments from civil society, businesses, investors, cities, states and countries into a coherent framework tied to the Paris Agreement goals. The Action Agenda features six key axes guided by the Global Stocktake findings, including energy, industry, and transports; forests, ocean and biodiversity; agriculture and food systems; resilient cities, infrastructure and water; human and social development; and enabling issues of finance, technology and capacity-building. Following is a statement from Ani Dasgupta...
The party’s imminent move to abandon the 2050 climate goal makes the environment the loser and Labor the biggest winner Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Fronting the media after a marathon party room meeting on Wednesday, shadow energy minister Dan Tehan said the Liberals’ imminent move to dump net zero policies was built on two foundational principles. The first was that Australia must have a stable and reliable energy grid with affordable power for households and business. The second required emissions to be reduced in a responsible and transparent way that “ensures Australia does its fair share”. Continue reading...
The aurora borealis is usually seen near the Arctic, but solar winds and magnetic turbulence are sparking some of the best light shows in centuries throughout the US.
These books and reports will bring you up to speed on the latest climate developments, from emissions gaps to climate justice. The post Must-reads to mark the start of COP30 in Belém, Brazil appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
India should push for the rollback of 25% tariffs on Russian crude oil before finalizing a trade deal with the US, according to GTRI founder Ajay Srivastava. This move, coupled with India's reduced Russian oil imports, could enhance market access and boost competitiveness in key sectors.
Security has been tightened at the COP30 climate summit in Brazil after Indigenous activists and other protesters burst through barriers at the venue on Tuesday night. Indigenous groups from across Latin America sent representatives with demands for an end to logging, mining, farming and fossil fuel extraction in the Amazon.
[This Day] InfraCredit, has announced its credit enhancement of CEESOLAR Energy Limited's local currency debt issue under a co-financing arrangement with the Climate Finance Blending Facility (CFBF).
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE04804D, Paper Chunlin Xie, Shengfang Liu, Jin Wang, Xianghui Meng, Shuyi Yu, Jiaming Zhang, Haijun Peng, Dan Sun, Yougen Tang, Hai-Yan Wang Anode-free sodium batteries (AFSBs) offer superior cost, energy density, and manufacturing advantages over sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) by eliminating the conventional anode. However, their development is fundamentally hindered by dead sodium... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
[Premium Times] Nigeria's small-scale fishers and women traders face twin threats of piracy and climate change - and a government with no clear plan to help.
Global emissions continue to rise a decade after the Paris Agreement. However, solar, wind and EV growth demonstrate that climate action can work. Here's what has been achieved and what remains urgent.
Senior Liberal sources say 28 speakers wanted to jettison the 2050 net zero emissions target entirely, 17 expressed desire to retain it in some form, while four were on the fence Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The Liberal party is poised to abandon a net zero emissions target after senior MPs advocated dumping the climate goal at a marathon meeting in Canberra on Wednesday. The Liberal shadow ministry will gather at 9am on Thursday to resolve a position after an almost five-hour meeting in Parliament House confirmed a majority of MPs wanted Sussan Ley to follow the Nationals in walking away from the commitment. Continue reading...
Scientists say "many lines of evidence" convey the dangers of extreme weather. But too much information risks muddling the public's perception about the effects of climate change, some researchers say.
The International Energy Agency warns that the world will exceed the 1.5-degree warming threshold in all scenarios.
The hurricane's Caribbean rampage spotlights a contentious issue of how much industrialized nations should pay to help developing countries adapt to climate change.
Dozens of people at EPA and state hearings have given nearly identical comments: They got help from the American Petroleum Institute.
Turkey is the third-largest buyer of Russian oil after China and India.
[Premium Times] Cooling demand set to triple by 2050, driving climate change and overloading power grid.
The International Energy Agency once projected that oil and gas demand could level off by 2030. Now it’s backing off, sort of.
With US President Donald Trump skipping the UN’s climate summit in the Amazon, California Governor Gavin Newsom grabbed the spotlight on Tuesday and unleashed a barrage of attacks on the fossil fuel agenda of his political nemesis. The well-coiffed Democrat - seen as a potential 2028 presidential candidate - blasted Trump for twice leaving the Paris climate accord and for “doubling down on stupid” through his support of Big Oil. Newsom said a future Democratic administration would rejoin the...
For a Coalition desperate to prove it can govern again, ignoring millennials and gen Z is a curious kind of strategy The 2025 election defeat should have been a wake-up call for the Liberal party on the issue of climate and young people, yet it it seems like the message is still not getting across. As it meets today to determine the future of its net zero policy, the party seems hellbent on accelerating itself further towards irrelevance among the growing cohort of voters demanding stronger action on climate change. Continue reading...
An oil trade group said drilling off Southern California was of interest. But the environmental pushback would be considerable.
The most powerful solar flare of 2025 has launched a ball of energy toward Earth that could trigger widespread auroras across the United States tonight.
SA’s Leah Blyth says Australia ‘can’t afford’ net zero target. Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Removing CO 2 from atmosphere vital to avoid catastrophic tipping points, leading scientist says Removing carbon from the atmosphere will be necessary to avoid catastrophic tipping points, one of the world’s leading scientists has warned, as even in the best-case scenario the world will heat by about 1.7C. Continue reading...
Plan, which Gavin Newsom, the governor, has said would be ‘dead on arrival’, will allow six lease sales from 2027 to 2030 The Trump administration is planning to allow oil and gas drilling off the California coast for the first time in decades, according to a draft plan shared with the Washington Post. The move is guaranteed to set up a battle with the state’s governor, Gavin Newsom , a staunch opponent of offshore drilling. Continue reading...
But the Foreign Minister also warned that Moscow would resume nuclear testing if another nuclear power did so first.
As climate leaders gather in the Amazon, the world’s green transformation is speaking with a southern accent—powered by markets, technology, and a new economic logic.
‘It’s not only our traditional knowledge that can help mitigate climate change—we can also influence scientific knowledge,’ says Indigenous leader Elcio Severino da Silva Manchineri at COP30.
[Daily News] Belem -- November 10th, 2025: As the UN Climate Conference (COP30) also knows as the "implementation COP" and the "COP of Truth" opens in Belém, AGRA is calling for a decisive shift from talk to action with ambition and urgency, urging a farmer-first breakthrough that puts soils, youth, and food systems at the center of global climate action.
Tuesday’s thematic day covers a gamut of topics ranging from adaptation and the bioeconomy to cities and infrastructure. But for the bigger topics of emissions and finance, nations are still setting out their positions. China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months, analysis reveals, adding evidence to the hope that the world’s biggest polluter has managed to hit its target of peak CO 2 emissions well ahead of schedule. Rapid increases in the deployment of solar and wind power generation – which grew by 46% and 11% respectively in the third quarter of this year – meant the country’s energy sector emissions remained flat, even as the demand for electricity increased. Continue reading...
Donald Trump has granted Hungary a one-year exemption from US sanctions for buying Russian oil and gas, a White House official told CNN Friday, after Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán met the US President in Washington. For months, Trump has berated European Union countries for continuing to buy oil and gas from Russia, saying this … The post Trump grants Hungary one-year exemption from Russian energy sanctions appeared first on Egypt Independent.
[Nile Post] Global greenhouse gas emissions could drop by about 12% by 2035 compared to 2019 levels if all current national climate pledges are fully implemented, according to a new update from the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat (UNFCCC).
[Capital FM] Belém, Brazil -- The East African Community (EAC) is presenting a united regional front at the 30th UN Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Brazil, advocating for expanded access to climate finance for Least Developed Countries and vulnerable communities.
China has unveiled new measures designed to channel private capital into traditionally state-funded infrastructure projects, as Beijing steps up efforts to reduce investment restrictions and bolster the private economy. The 13-point document released on Monday by China’s cabinet, the State Council, includes measures to encourage private investment in major projects in a range of sectors – from power generation to transport. Any project in areas including rail, nuclear power, hydropower, oil and...
I have been working on climate policy since the late 1990s. I was in the room when Europe’s early carbon market discussions were shaping the architecture that would eventually underpin the Kyoto Protocol. That framework—built around international cooperation and market-based mechanisms—was born at a time when climate change was understood as a global problem requiring […]
President Trump stated India has reduced Russian oil imports and indicated tariffs on New Delhi will be lowered. This follows earlier claims by Trump that Prime Minister Modi pledged to wind down Russian oil purchases, though India has denied awareness of such a call.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Kenya has urged the international community to step up support for climate-resilient urban development, emphasizing the need to reach the most vulnerable communities.
The administration heralded the agreement with Baker Hughes as “an important step forward” for the large liquefied natural gas project.
The move comes amid speculation that DOE is preparing to issue emergency orders directing some retiring coal plants to stay open.
This video includes personal musings and conclusions of the creator climate scientist Dr. Adam Levy . It is presented to our readers as an informed perspective. Please see video description for references (if any). Video description Bill Gates just published a climate think piece that has taken the internet by storm. While conservatives are claiming he's backtracked on climate change, the truth is much more subtle. So what does the Microsoft founder, Gates, get right and wrong about climate change? And why might he be downplaying the risks at a crucial moment for our planet's climate? Support ClimateAdam on patreon: https://patreon.com/climateadam
[UN News] COP30 opened in Belém on Monday with a clear message: the era of half-measures is over. Climate change is here, devastating communities and driving up costs, but solutions are within reach. Clean energy is surging, resilience saves lives, and cooperation can still bend the curve further.
Both climate activists and skeptics have slammed the destruction of miles of the Amazon rainforest in order to build a road for a two-week climate change summit.
A draft five-year plan for offshore oil development proposes selling leases on the West Coast, Gulf of Mexico and Alaska.
As COP30 gets underway, Brazil's president calls for urgent climate action. UN analysis shows global emissions will only decline 12% by 2035, well short of the target for limiting warming.
Marcus Decker was served with deportation order while in prison for unveiling Just Stop Oil banner over Dartford Crossing A climate activist who served one of the longest prison sentences in modern British history for a peaceful protest has won his appeal against deportation . Marcus Decker was jailed for two years and seven months for a protest in which he climbed the Queen Elizabeth Bridge over the Dartford Crossing and unveiled a Just Stop Oil banner in October 2022. He was served with an automatic deportation order while in prison. Continue reading...
U.N. climate negotiations began Monday on the edge of the Brazilian Amazon as leaders pushed for accelerating efforts to curb global warming by drastically reducing the carbon pollution that causes it. But top U.S. negotiators were absent.
Ministers and high-ranking officials from nearly 200 countries have gathered in the Amazonian city of Belem, with Brazil insisting this will be “the Cop of implementation”. Hundreds lined up for Cop30 on opening morning, with some in Indigenous headdresses and others in trouser suits , writes Dharna Noor, fossil fuels and climate reporter for the Guardian US. The conference is being held in a massive temporary building in Belem’s Parque da Cidade area. It was still under construction just days ago, but now seems to be ready to use. Continue reading...
Faltering governments will be blamed for famine and conflict abroad, and face stagnation and inflation at home, says climate chief at start of Cop30 Governments failing to shift to a low-carbon economy will be blamed for famine and conflict abroad, and will face stagnation and rising inflation at home, the UN’s climate chief warned on Monday at the start of the Cop30 climate talks. Simon Stiell, the executive secretary of the UN framework convention on climate change, addressed the gathering of ministers and high-ranking officials from nearly 200 countries , in a stark portrayal of the price of failure on the climate crisis. Continue reading...
The cold air will reach the Great Plains on Monday, bringing gusty wind and red flag warnings in the region, according to forecasters.
Marcus Decker is supported by climate experts, religious leaders and celebrities as he fights being first person in UK to be ‘deported for peaceful protest’ A climate activist who is appealing against his deportation after serving one of the longest prison sentences in modern British history for peaceful protest has criticised his “crazy double punishment”. Marcus Decker was jailed for two years and seven months for a protest in which he climbed the Queen Elizabeth Bridge over the Dartford Crossing and unveiled a Just Stop Oil banner in October 2022. Continue reading...
As energy prices climb, tenants’ associations have reported a surge in residents seeking advice on saving money on heating costs. Meanwhile Germany's Environment Minister confirmed that subsidies for climate-friendly heating systems will stay.
Installing a dedicated charger is good option – so too is switching to an EV tariff and charging at night or smartly Could leasing a used electric car help you afford one? When you buy an electric vehicle you need to think about how you will charge it at home. The two main things you will need are a charger and a smart meter. Continue reading...
They were cowboys amid the mesas in a corner of New Mexico. For years they coexisted with an oil company — until one day they couldn’t. The post The David vs. Goliath story of a ranching family and an oil giant appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
[Liberian Observer] As world leaders gather in Brazil for the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP29) to reinforce global action on climate change, Liberia's credibility as a forest conservation champion is coming under severe strain. In the Southeastern region of the country, especially Grand Gedeh County, thousands of hectares of pristine forest are being razed to make way for cocoa cultivation -- a trend that environmentalists warn could erase decades of progress in forest protection and climate resilience.
After bully-like behavior last month over a small emissions levy, diplomats will be relieved if the US stays away from climate talks For years, countries around the world pressed the US to engage with them in addressing the climate crisis and to show it was serious about taking action. Now, with key United Nations climate talks under way in Brazil this week, other nations have been quietly hoping the US stays well away. Under Donald Trump , who has called the climate crisis “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world”, the US has not only pulled back from climate action but openly agitated for greater global fossil fuel use and for other countries to tear down their own climate policies. Continue reading...
At COP30, the international community again will try to agree on targets to limit catastrophic global temperature rise. But many barriers remain before steep greenhouse gas cuts are realized.
The Congo Basin, a region of tropical forest larger than India, is at a point where further damage may rob the world of a crucial bulwark against climate change. That was the conclusion of the first comprehensive scientific report about the state of the environment in a region that stretches from Cross River in Nigeria to the Rift Valley in East Africa. An executive summary of the 800-page report, authored by 177 experts from across the basin and beyond, was released on Monday for the Cop30...
[UN Women] As global leaders gather in Belém, Brazil, for the thirtieth UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) Conference of the Parties (COP30), UN Women is calling for the adoption of a transformative, well-funded, and accountable Gender Action Plan (GAP), a framework that ensures climate policies and actions take gender equality into account. Its adoption at COP30 will shape the next decade of global climate action and determine whether gender
Scientists from leading institutions offered evidence of worsening impacts as leaders meet for the COP30 climate summit.
[New Times] The African Development Bank (AfDB)has approved a grant of $9.4 million (approx. Rwf13.7 billion) to Rwanda to finance the Nature-Based Flood Adaptation Project, aimed at strengthening the climate resilience of communities and water infrastructure in the western districts of Karongi and Rusizi.
[Premium Times] On the sidelines of the summit, Mr Shettima held bilateral meetings on carbon market cooperation, aimed at unlocking between $2.5 billion and $3 billion annually in carbon finance for Nigeria
[Shabelle] Belem, Brazil -- Somalia's Deputy Prime Minister Salah Ahmed Jama said that climate financing should be viewed as a global partnership for sustainable transformation, not as an act of charity.
[New Times] Once plagued by frequent droughts and low yields, farmers in Ngoma, Kirehe, Kayonza, and other districts in Eastern Province are embracing climate-smart agriculture (CSA) to boost productivity, conserve soil, and build resilience to climate shocks.
[Shabelle] Belem, Brazil -- Somalia's Deputy Prime Minister Salah Ahmed Jama on Friday attended the COP30 climate summit in Belem, Brazil, urging swift global action to curb the worsening impacts of climate change.
In Oiapoque, Brazil, hopes that oil will transform the economy hangs in air, after the government granted state-owned company Petrobras an exploratory license off the remote Amazonian city's coast. At the same time, on the same coast, Brazilian president is hosting the world's annual climate talks.
At Cop30, the first UN climate summit held in the heart of the Amazon, the stage is set for a fundamental reframing of climate diplomacy. For too long, the Global South has been cast as a passive aid recipient, a problem to be managed rather than a partner in solutions. But as delegates gather in Brazil’s gateway to the world’s largest rainforest, they will confront a different reality: a tropical belt that holds the keys to our climate future and a generation of evidence showing that South-led...
BELEM, Brazil - Every year, the UN climate conference conjures hundreds of headlines on global efforts to spare the world from climate catastrophe. This year's begins on Monday in the Brazilian rainforest city of Belem.
The world has changed dramatically in the decade since leaders celebrated a historic climate agreement in Paris a decade ago, but not quite in ways they expected or wanted.
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As Kristen Moreland waited for the livestream to buffer, her thoughts drifted to the years she’d devoted to defending Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the northeastern sweep of Alaska where the mountains give way to the coastal plain. On screen, the chatter […]
After a century of oil extraction in the Baldwin Hills, pressure is mounting to free the 1,000-acre oil field for a better use. But long-held plans for a park may now face competition from the need for housing.
With the pace of climate change speeding up, extreme weather and other impacts are taking an increasing toll on populations and environments across the globe. Here are some of the developments this year in climate science. Warmer, faster Global temperatures are not just climbing, they are now climbing faster than before, with records logged for 2023 and 2024, and at points in 2025. That finding was part of a key study in June that updated baseline data used in the science reports done every few...
Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites Drax power plant has continued to burn 250-year-old trees sourced from some of Canada’s oldest forests despite growing scrutiny of its sustainability claims, forestry experts say. A new report suggests it is “highly likely” that Britain’s biggest power plant sourced some wood from ecologically valuable forests as recently as this summer. Drax, Britain’s single biggest source of carbon emissions, has received billions of pounds in subsidies from burning biomass derived largely from wood . Continue reading...
Andrew Bragg says he can’t imagine Liberals leaving Paris climate agreement and threatens to quit frontbench if party drops net zero emissions by 2050 target Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The Liberal frontbencher Andrew Bragg says any “fatwa” waged against the words net zero is “ridiculous”, as the moderate senator threatened to quit the frontbench if the party dumps the target and withdraws from the Paris climate agreement. Bragg’s ultimatum piles further pressure on the opposition leader, Sussan Ley, ahead of a series of high-stakes meetings this week to settle the Coalition’s position on net zero emissions. Continue reading...
Winter's chill can quietly ruin your DeWalt batteries - a few simple precautions can keep them ready when you need them most.
WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump has granted Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban a one-year exemption from sanctions for buying Russian oil and gas after the close right-wing allies held a chummy White House meeting on Friday.
U.S. President Donald Trump exempted Hungary from sanctions over the nation's purchase of Russian gas and oil after meeting with Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
Thousands of diplomats and climate experts are heading to Belém, in Brazil’s Amazon, for COP30 – the latest round of UN climate talks. Their task couldn’t be clearer: turn promises into action and agree on tougher plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Rooftop solar is spreading fast in Jamaica, and people with panels got their power back almost immediately. The ‘entire neighborhood benefits,’ one resident said.
Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook Let’s begin with the fundamental problem: Bill Gates is a politics denier. Though he came to it late, he now accepts the realities of climate science . But he lives in flat, embarrassing denial about political realities . His latest essay on climate, published last week, treats the issue as if it existed in a political vacuum. He writes as if there were no such thing as political power, and no such thing as billionaires. His main contention is that funds are very limited, so the delegates at this month’s climate summit in Brazil should direct money away from “near-term emissions goals” towards climate “adaptation” and spending on poverty and disease...
A massive Russian attack hit Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, killing one person and prompting power cuts in several regions, Kyiv authorities said on Saturday. Moscow has in recent months escalated its attacks on energy infrastructure in Ukraine, damaging natural gas facilities which produce the main fuel for heating in the country. Experts have said Ukraine risks heating outages ahead of the winter months. “The enemy is massively attacking Ukraine’s energy infrastructure again. Because of...
Energy firms and charities urge chancellor to avoid short-term fix that could also harm low-income households Rachel Reeves has been told that cutting funding for home insulation at the budget would risk the UK’s climate goals and hurt low-income households in a joint intervention by energy firms, fuel poverty charities and environmental groups. In a letter to the chancellor, more than 60 groups and companies urged Reeves not to take such a damaging “short-term fix” to slash funding for more energy-efficient homes to pay for a reduction in energy bills. Continue reading...
A bold new plan to protect tropical forests, which aims to raise $125 billion US and directly pay developing countries to halt deforestation, is taking shape at the COP30 UN climate conference in Brazil this week.
UN chief Antonio Guterres said renewables attracted $3.6 trillion in investment this year.
Trump has recently increased pressure on US allies to curb their spending on Russian oil.
STATEMENT: Brazil Announces Pledge to Quadruple ‘Sustainable Fuels’ nate.shelter@wri.org Fri, 11/07/2025 - 15:20 Belém, Brazil (November 7, 2025) — At the COP30 Leaders’ Summit, Brazil announced the Belém 4X Pledge on Sustainable Fuels, a commitment to quadruple production and use of ‘sustainable fuels’ by 2035, along with Japan, Italy, India and others. The fuels mentioned in the pledge include hydrogen, biogases, biofuels, and e-fuels. The pledge cites a new report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) that envisions a quadrupling of these fuels by 2035, including a doubling of biofuel production. Following is a statement from Janet Ranganathan, Managing Director of Strategy, Learning and Results, World Resources Institute: “While countries are right to...
US President Donald Trump handed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban an exemption from sanctions to keep buying Russian oil on Friday, as the right-wing allies held a chummy White House meeting. As Orban and Trump heaped praise on each other, the Hungarian nationalist said it would take a “miracle” for Ukraine to beat Moscow, underscoring the gulf between him and other European leaders on the war. Trump, meanwhile, wholeheartedly backed Orban on the touchstone issue of migration, saying that...
Bloomberg said it was a “pivot” from months of messaging by Orbán and MOL that Hungary’s refineries were fully dependent on Russian crude.
Exclusive: Environment secretary says global tipping points are possible as he rejects far-right climate ‘defeatism’ Tackling the climate emergency is one of the key issues that could turn the tide against hard-right populists across the world, the UK’s energy secretary has said. Speaking on the eve of the UN’s climate summit, Ed Miliband said it was the cause progressives could rally around, because most people recognise populist parties have got it wrong. Continue reading...
Workers need to meet 124.7kg limit by next November, which trade body says is required to ensure safety Thousands of North Sea oil and gas workers risk losing their jobs on offshore rigs unless they lose weight within the next year. Workers who weigh more than 124.7kg (19.5 st) fully clothed will need to shed some pounds by next November or risk being barred from working offshore, according to the industry’s trade body. Continue reading...
Damage from Typhoon Halong underscored the vulnerability of villages in western Alaska to climate crisis Darrel John watched the final evacuees depart his village on the western coast of Alaska in helicopters and small planes and walked home, avoiding the debris piled on the boardwalks over the swampy land. He is one of seven residents who chose to remain in Kwigillingok after the remnants of Typhoon Halong devastated the village last month, uprooting homes and floating many of them miles away, some with residents inside. One person was killed and two remain missing. Continue reading...
Advancing Local Climate Action for Ambitious NDCs 3.0 margaret.overh… Fri, 11/07/2025 - 11:14 Nations around the world are ushering in a new decade of climate action through revised nationally determined contributions (NDCs), due this year. The urgency for climate action has never been greater, especially with 2024 marking the warmest year on record globally. While the urban content of NDCs is improving, it remains insufficient and doesn't reflect the increasingly urban world we live in. UN-Habitat analysis showed that only 27% of the last round of pledges under the Paris Agreement included strong urban content. Through the Coalition for High Ambition Multilevel Partnerships (CHAMP) for Climate Action , launched at COP28, WRI has worked to advance the subnational...
[Daily Maverick] The greedy people who destroyed the environment and spent billions on climate misinformation will fix it for us again, as long as we shake and dilute them a bit with public funds.
[Daily Maverick] Eskom's proposed transmission line in Limpopo illustrates the cruel paradox of South Africa's energy dilemma: a coal-dependent grid already fuelling climate change is now being expanded in ways that further destroy biodiversity.
Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration issued state permits for a pipeline to bring more gas into New York City despite environmental concerns about the project.
[263Chat] Less than 3% of global climate finance is supporting approaches that protect workers, women, and communities during the shift to greener economies, according to a new report by ActionAid.
Rogan exposes millions to climate denial. Let’s break down his tactics. The post Five ways Joe Rogan misleads listeners about climate change appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
A major investment in power infrastructure is planned for Northeast Iceland in the coming years, aimed at boosting regional development following the shutdown of PCC’s silicon plant at Bakki, as well as facilitating new energy production, including wind power. Electricity supply capacity will also be greatly increased at Þórshöfn, improving both capacity and reliability.
Image: Ahead of the 30th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP30) taking place in Belém, Brazil, from 10-21 November, this IRIDE image shows the Branco River and its surrounding forests in the Brazilian state of Roraima.
[263Chat] Tafara 5 Council Primary School in Mabvuku became the latest hub for the Green the Ghetto urban greening movement after hosting a lively tree-planting event and the official launch of the Mabvuku Chapter yesterday.
Last month, the Trump administration levied sanctions on Russian state-affiliated energy giants Lukoil and Rosneft that could expose their foreign buyers to secondary sanctions.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) and the World Resources Institute (WRI) have unveiled two Mitigation Action Facility-funded projects to advance Kenya's climate targets and sustainable development agenda: a nationwide rollout of solar-powered cold storage and an initiative to electrify two- and three-wheelers.
“Has the world given up fighting climate change?” was a rhetorical question posed recently by the New York Times, perhaps with a degree of sarcasm. It might look that way, says Christiana Figueres, a founding partner of the nongovernmental organization Global Optimism, “as US president Donald Trump blusters about fossil fuel, Bill Gates prioritizes children’s […]
[Leadership] Nigeria's Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima, has charged world leaders to move beyond pledging to performance, and from dialogue to taking reasonable action in tackling climate change and its attendant natural disasters that have claimed innocent lives and rendered many homeless across the globe.
A North Sea oil and gas heavyweight is eyeing acquisitions in the area as the chancellor Rachel Reeves faces pressure to cut the windfall tax in the Budget.
OAK HILL, W.Va. (AP) — Deep in the hills of West Virginia, coal mining and the dangers that come with it have been a part of families' lives for generations. Death and tragedy are woven into history, but there's also a fierce legacy of miners fighting for — and winning — protections that have benefitted workers nationwide.
James Marape skipped the meeting last year in protest but will attend Cop30 due to ‘encouraging signs’ on climate finance Papua New Guinea’s prime minister, James Marape, has criticised Cop climate summits as “long on talk and short on action” but will attend the upcoming meeting of world leaders in Brazil, after pulling out last year in frustration with big emitters. The leader of the Pacific nation of about 10 million people skipped the meeting in 2024 in “protest at the big nations” for failing to support to the victims of climate change. Marape will take part in the annual UN climate summit, which officially beings in Belém, Brazil on 10 November, due to “encouraging signs” emerging from developed nations on climate finance. Continue reading...
World leaders at a climate summit in Brazil launched the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) on Thursday, securing over $5 billion in initial pledges to reward tropical countries for preserving their forests. Brazil aims to build a $125 billion fund to provide a sustainable revenue stream, an alternative to deforestation for economic gain.
STATEMENT: Brazil Rallies Global Action on Wildfire Resilience at COP30 nate.shelter@wri.org Thu, 11/06/2025 - 17:43 Belém, Brazil (November 6, 2025) — Today at the COP30 Leaders’ Summit, Brazil and a group of countries committed to a voluntary Call to Action on Integrated Fire Management and Wildfire Resilience . It includes a framework to boost wildfire resilience through science, policy and traditional and Indigenous knowledge. This Call to Action comes as fires drove record-breaking forest loss last year, according to Global Forest Watch analysis . Following is a statement by Rod Taylor, Global Director for the Forest Program, World Resources Institute: “We’re entering an alarming new era as fires became the leading cause of tropical primary forest loss...
Thousands of North Sea oil workers will be deemed too heavy to work offshore under new regulations planned for next year.
World leaders address COP30 climate summit in Belém and take aim at Trump record on climate change.
A major solar storm has been pummeling Earth's magnetic field Thursday, raising the risk of power grid problems and satellite glitches.
Climate groups have criticised the Scottish Government’s long-awaited draft Climate Change Plan as full of "missed opportunities"
The issue of how motoring taxes should change as we decarbonise the economy has been dodged for too long. Car salesmen need to get real If you want a document to give you sleepless nights, the Office for Budget Responsibility’s biennial Fiscal Risks and Sustainability report is a go-to publication. This is the one that looks to the horizon and covers everything from demographic trends to state pension promises to the climate crisis. The headline finding in this July’s version was a true jaw-dropper. The UK’s public finances are on an unsustainable long-term trajectory because government debt would rise to a remarkable 270% of GDP by the early 2070s – up from almost 100% today – if current policies were left unchanged. Continue reading...
World’s Informal Housing Crisis Demands a Climate Response shannon.paton@… Thu, 11/06/2025 - 11:00 When floods hit my hometown in Kenya last year, it was the poorest communities who suffered most. In Nairobi, where more than 3 million people live in vulnerable homes made of wood, sheet metal and concrete — many in low-lying flood plains — the waters faced little resistance. Entire homes were swept away as people slept. The world’s housing and climate crises are deeply intertwined, wreaking havoc and reshaping life in cities around the world — from tragic flooding in Mexico to record-breaking heat waves in India. Urban communities are on the frontlines of climate extremes, bearing the brunt of escalating impacts. And while they have long been hubs of innovation...
It's all thanks to China's energy policy, Nvidia's Jensen Huang claims.
Earth may be on the verge of crossing several climate change tipping points that could have irreversible and devastating consequences. Here's everything you need to know about these "points of no return."
UN secretary general António Guterres urges opening session in Brazil to bring about a ‘fundamental paradigm shift’ The failure to limit global heating to 1.5C is a “moral failure and deadly negligence”, the UN secretary general has said at the opening session of the Cop30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém. António Guterres said even a temporary overshoot could “unleash far greater destruction and costs for every nation. It could push ecosystems past catastrophic and irreversible tipping points, expose billions to unliveable conditions, and amplify threats to peace and security”. Continue reading...
New data show resilience among the rainforest’s giants, though scientists warn that nutrient limits and rising heat could end the trend.
The approval is the latest sign of the agency blazing forward with Trump administration priorities during the government shutdown.
This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. US Rep. Mikie Sherrill won the governor’s race in New Jersey on Tuesday, running on a platform of keeping electricity prices down. Environmental groups see Sherrill’s election as a triumph for the Garden State’s struggling offshore wind sector. Sherrill, a four-term Democrat […]
Organizers are hoping this year's COP30 will yield action to advance the many unmet promises laid out at previous such meetings.
[allAfrica] Africa stands at a pivotal juncture, urged to decarbonise for the planet's sake even as it struggles to power its own growth. With 600 million people still lacking access to electricity, and coal providing cheap, reliable energy, the continent faces a significant paradox: the green transition is critical to global climate goals, but for Africa, it could come at a substantial cost.
Global crude oil and gas prices are expected to keep falling next year, easing the financial burden of the debt-ridden Oil Fuel Fund, says the Oil Fuel Fund Office (Offo).
American Samoa faces a triple threat of climate change, industrial fishing and a rising push for deep-sea mining -- forces that threaten to reshape its future.
Tuesday's election results suggest energy costs may be moving the political needle in ways that other issues, like climate change, have not.
Ahead of the UN climate conference in Brazil, international leaders including Germany's Merz and Brazil's Lula are meeting to discuss climate action. Experts say they should reaffirm their ambition to curb emissions.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum are taking their energy dominance message to a summit in Greece.
Abu Dhabi National Oil is tapping new sources of natural gas in its deserts and coastal waters to meet local demand and supply an export terminal that’s under construction.
Pulling out of the Paris climate agreement was not enough, an ex-aide to the U.S. president says on the eve of a summit in Brazil: "You have to potentially destroy it."
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has urged major greenhouse gas emitters to make stronger commitments in a meeting with Chinese Vice-Premier Ding Xuexiang ahead of this year’s Cop30 climate talks. Beijing has been trying to maintain a prominent role in global efforts to fight climate change. A source familiar with the discussions said the talks had been “brief and cordial”, with the Brazilian president using the occasion to thank Beijing for its diplomatic support over hosting the...
Climate change enabled the storm to churn faster and grow more quickly, a rapid analysis found.
An analysis of the storm found “all aspects of this event were amplified by climate change, and that we'll see more of the same.”
[UN News] Decades of progress in protecting the planet's carbon dioxide-busting forests are at risk as the climate crisis continues to accelerate, UN forestry experts said on Wednesday.
World leaders meet Thursday in the Brazilian Amazon in an effort to show that climate change remains a top global priority despite broken promises and the United States shunning the gathering. In a sobering reminder of the task at hand, a closely watched vote last month to reduce pollution from global shipping was rejected under intense pressure from the United States.
Japan's military has been deployed in northern regions to combat a surge in deadly bear attacks. Authorities suspect climate change is disrupting food sources, forcing bears into populated areas. Over 100 attacks and a record 12 fatalities have been reported, prompting unusual measures like military assistance and relaxed gun laws to manage the growing human-wildlife conflict.
Meanwhile Murray Watt says Coalition chaos ‘an opportunity for the Greens’. Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Jane Hume plays down divisions in the Liberal party The Liberal party is in damage control, trying to hold itself together as it forms a position on energy and net zero. The Nationals have a position and the Liberal party will develop its position and we’ll announce it soon. The most important thing soon is that as a coalition, we then come up with a joint policy we can take to the next election … We need to make sure we protect our natural environment and by that I also mean our regional and rural communities who at the moment are being blanketed with renewable energy projects. Absolutely. Sussan is the leader and...
The 2025 federal budget has signalled a shift in tone on the oil and gas sector, but experts say there's still a lot of unknowns in how that will actually play out.
Scotland is speeding towards an 'oil and gas emergency' as North Sea jobs are wiped out by 'Net Zero fanaticism', Kemi Badenoch warned yesterday.
PM defies critics calling for a slowdown as he flies to Brazil, where he may have frosty reception after opting out of tropical forest fund UK opts out of flagship fund to protect Amazon and other threatened tropical forests The UK will lead on tackling the climate crisis, the prime minister vowed on Wednesday, despite critics calling for a slowdown, because shifting to a low-carbon economy will cut bills, boost economic growth and bring national renewal. But his words risked being overshadowed by a bitter row over funding for tropical forest preservation at the UN Cop30 climate conference. Continue reading...
The Education Secretary was savaged in the House of Commons today after announcing all primary school children will get 'citizenship' classes.
Small Wind Can Bring Big Benefits to Communities in Need alicia.cypress… Wed, 11/05/2025 - 12:15 Much of the conversation around wind power often focuses on large-scale utility wind farms that provide energy to power grids deployed across cities, regions and even countries. Yet, smaller wind solutions can play a very important role in the clean energy transition. In places where solar and other renewable technologies are not technically or economically feasible, small wind projects are a cost-effective option that can help power individual homes, schools and health facilities, or provide reliable and affordable electricity to entire communities. They can also support water pumping for irrigation, telecommunications and small businesses. For example, two small wind...
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered his top officials to draft proposals for a possible test of nuclear weapons, something Moscow has not done since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. Defence Minister Andrei Belousov told Putin that recent remarks and actions by the United States meant that it was “advisable to prepare for full-scale nuclear tests” immediately. Belousov said Russia’s Arctic testing site at Novaya Zemlya could host such tests at short notice. Putin said: “I...
The postings stress that reservists will not be sent to fight in Ukraine but will remain in their home regions to guard energy infrastructure and intercept drones.
The UNEP's 2025 Emissions Gap report has found that global average temperatures will exceed 1.5 C (2.7 F) before 2035 — and this just days before the COP30 climate summit kicks off in Brazil.
The region is home to several oil product pumping stations owned by pipeline giant Transneft.
[The Conversation Africa] Children and young adults are very much involved in campaigning against the climate change that older generations have caused. The global youth climate justice movement uses protests, strikes and court cases to block fossil fuel expansion. But do they have any say in what their governments do to address climate change, or a voice at the annual COP climate change conferences, where the world's leaders make important climate decisions? Research by Florencia Paz Landeira, Alicia O'Sullivan, Aoife Daly and
The company has suffered a series of setbacks in trying to get permission to transport its offshore oil to shore.
Local councils are giving the green light to large-scale pig and poultry farms with patchy or non-existent climate data Plans for intensive livestock “megafarms” are omitting crucial climate impacts, it can be revealed. Campaigners last year celebrated a “beginning of the end” to polluting factory farming, after the landmark Finch supreme court ruling on a Surrey oil well confirmed that applications for major developments should consider all significant direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions. Continue reading...
University of California, San Diego, requires all students to learn about climate change, while other schools have added environmental sustainability requirements.
STATEMENT: Baku to Belém Roadmap Lays Out Pathway to Scale Climate Finance darla.vanhoorn… Wed, 11/05/2025 - 04:02 BELÉM (November 5, 2025) —Today, the COP presidencies of Azerbaijan and Brazil published the Baku to Belém Roadmap to $1.3T. This report represents a key output agreed to at COP29, detailing how to deliver $1.3 trillion annually for developing countries from all international sources by 2035. The Baku to Belém Roadmap presents numerous options for increasing investment in climate to reach this scale. Delivering on this will be critical for COP30’s focus on moving from commitments to action. Following is a statement from Melanie Robinson, Global Director of Climate, Economics and Finance at World Resources Institute: ...
An international student has been fined A$35,000 (US$22,700) after he was caught trying to smuggle 125 spiders and insects out of Australia, as the country continues to crack down on a growing illegal wildlife trade with links to organised crime. Australian Border Force officers detained Zhang Qiran, a 22-year-old Chinese national, at Sydney International Airport on January 26 after they found 34 packages hidden inside his checked-in and carry-on luggage, the Department of Climate Change,...
The former vice president, who died Monday, shaped U.S. energy policy from Washington and the boardroom.
Lawyers call for clarity over law as six are found guilty while being stopped from using defence used by fellow activists Six environmental protesters were convicted after they were denied the ability to put a “reasonable excuse” defence or climate facts before the jury, despite these being afforded to other activists acquitted for taking part in the same demonstration. After an eight-day trial at Southwark crown court in London, the six Just Stop Oil (JSO) activists were found guilty of public nuisance , which carries a maximum 10-year sentence, for climbing gantries on the M25 in 2022 to demand an end to new fossil fuel projects. They will be sentenced next month. Continue reading...
One of the state's power providers said Tuesday that it expected Energy Secretary Chris Wright to try and prevent the retirement of one of its coal units.
A Royal Society report outlines the state of the science but makes no concrete policy recommendations.
Three decades after the first Climate COP, the multilateral climate process – which was intended to serve as an instrument of justice and a guardian of the planet’s atmosphere – has fallen far short of its goals. Over the past 30 years, climate change has arrived and intensified, while the COP process has become a […]
A massive rooftop solar power initiative is being developed at two industrial estates in Vietnam through a new collaboration between two Thai firms in a bid to support the host nation's net-zero campaign.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — When summer heat comes to the Arara neighborhood in northern Rio, it lingers, baking the red brick and concrete that make up many of the buildings long after the sun has gone down. Luis Cassiano, who's lived here more than 30 years, says he's getting worried as heat waves become more frequent and fierce.
[Leadership] Vice President Kashim Shettima has arrived in Belem, Brazil, to represent President Bola Tinubu at the 30th session of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 30), which is hosted in the capital city of Pará state, located in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon.
Even if you accept the science and want to insure against climate risks, the pathway to cutting emissions appears to be both messy and costly.
Video: 00:01:48 The Copernicus Sentinel-1D satellite has joined the Sentinel-1 mission in orbit. Launch took place on 4 November 2025 at 22:02 CET (18:02 local time) on board an Ariane 6 launcher from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.The Sentinel-1 mission delivers high-resolution radar images of Earth’s surface, performing in all weathers, day-and-night. This service is used by disaster response teams, environmental agencies, maritime authorities and climate scientists, who depend on frequent updates of critical data.Sentinel-1D will work in tandem with Sentinel-1C, flying in the same orbit but 180° apart, to optimise global coverage and data delivery. Both satellites have a C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) instrument on board, which captures high-resolution imagery of Earth’s...
Blocking the sun may reduce global heating – but ‘rogue actor’ could cause drought or more hurricanes, report finds Solar geoengineering could increase the ferocity of North Atlantic hurricanes, cause the Amazon rainforest to die back and cause drought in parts of Africa if deployed above only some parts of the planet by rogue actors, a report has warned. However, if technology to block the sun was used globally and in a coordinated way for a long period – decades or even centuries – there is strong evidence that it would lower the global temperature, the review from the UK’s Royal Society concluded. Continue reading...
Video: 00:03:11 The Copernicus Sentinel-1D satellite has joined the Sentinel-1 mission in orbit. Launch took place on 4 November 2025 at 22:03 CET (18:03 local time) on board an Ariane 6 launcher from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.The Sentinel-1 mission delivers high-resolution radar images of Earth’s surface, performing in all weathers, day-and-night. This service is used by disaster response teams, environmental agencies, maritime authorities and climate scientists, who depend on frequent updates of critical data.Sentinel-1D will work in tandem with Sentinel-1C, flying in the same orbit but 180° apart, to optimise global coverage and data delivery. Both satellites have a C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) instrument on board, which captures high-resolution imagery of Earth’s...
PARIS - Existing national commitments to slash heat-trapping pollution would limit global warming to 2.5 degrees Celsius in this century — nowhere near enough to avoid devastating climate impacts despite a sweep of new pledges, the United Nations warned on Tuesday.
Building Better Climate Initiatives: 7 Essential Ingredients for Effective Intergovernmental Cooperation margaret.overh… Tue, 11/04/2025 - 15:56 The number of cooperative initiatives aimed at combating climate change has ballooned over the past decade. Since the Paris Agreement, governments have launched hundreds of pledges and coalitions to tackle everything from renewable energy , zero-emissions transport and methane , to forests , food systems and adaptation . As the number of joint announcements and initiatives grows , so too do expectations that these efforts can close the ambition and implementation gaps left by slower-moving formal negotiations. Cooperative initiatives are critical because they bring together "coalitions of the willing" to tackle specific...
Scotland's green energy industry has joined oil and gas firms to issue a plea for action to prevent mass job losses in the North Sea.
Apparently, there can be too much of a good thing when it comes to renewable energy sources.
In this excerpt from "Sink or Swim," author Susannah Fisher explores the future of human migration, and what that will look like based on the difficult choices we make in the coming years.
It is the latest in a series of oil spills in the Black Sea in recent months.
Countries have submitted their most recent round of promises and plans to fight climate change, and the UN has tallied them up in a new report. Here is its latest projection for how much the Earth is now expected to warm by the end of the century, and how Canada and the U.S. are contributing.
We checked the Nationals’ claim that Australia is reducing emissions much faster than its peers.
Skeptical Science is partnering with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. You can submit claims you think need checking via the tipline . Does cold weather disprove human-caused climate change The planet continues to warm due to human activity; bouts of cold weather don’t change this. Satellites around the world measure temperatures at different places throughout the year. These are averaged to calculate annual global temperatures. The past ten years (2015-2024) have been the ten hottest since modern record-keeping began in 1850, and 2024 was the all-time hottest. The last time Earth had a colder-than-average year was 1976. Weather refers to meteorological conditions — heat, humidity, precipitation...
PARIS - This year's United Nations (UN) climate summit promises to be symbolic, marking a decade since the Paris Agreement and taking place in the environmentally vulnerable Amazon. But what is actually on the agenda?
Hurricane Ida revealed a fragile insurance industry ill-prepared for the consequences of climate change. More than four years later, what's changed?
Resources for the Future examined how the Lone Star State and other oil and gas states tax producers and save what they collect.
Since taking office in 2022, the Albanese government has approved 32 coal, oil and gas developments – six of them since the 2025 election.
The rift between two provinces at odds over a proposed pipeline is straining Canada's unity as it seeks to become an energy superpower.
President to overhaul state energy firms after $100m kickback scheme alleged by anti-corruption investigators Volodymyr Zelenskyy has announced a plan to clean up Ukraine’s energy sector after an $100m (£76bn) kickback scheme was alleged by anti-corruption investigators, in the worst scandal of his presidency. Over the weekend, the Ukrainian president announced an overhaul of key state energy companies including a complete change of management at Energoatom, the nuclear power operator at the centre of the alleged criminal scheme. Continue reading...
An agreement to supply Ukraine with US liquefied natural gas (LNG) was signed in Athens on Sunday during the official visit of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to Greece. Zelensky and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis attended the signing of the deal between Greece’s gas supplier DEPA and Ukraine’s Naftogas, as did the US ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle. The gas will be supplied via pipelines from the northern Greek port of Alexandroupolis to the Ukrainian port of Odesa....
Zelenskyy says Nataliia Khodemchuk is victim of ‘new tragedy caused by Kremlin’, four decades after disaster The widow of the first Soviet engineer to die in the Chornobyl nuclear power plant explosion was killed on Friday in Russia’s massive drone and missile attack on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. Volodymyr Zelenskyy described Nataliia Khodemchuk as the victim of a “new tragedy caused by the Kremlin”, nearly four decades after her husband, Valerii, was killed inside Chornobyl’s nuclear reactor number four. Continue reading...
A climate scientist with decades of experience has joined the growing opposition to what critics of climate change alarmism call nonsense science.
In Florida, a new pilot program teaches doulas how to prepare pregnant people for hurricanes, flooding, and extreme heat — addressing a growing climate and maternal health crisis.
The Coalition has revealed the power policy it will take to the next election that will rely on fossil fuels.
Prime minister and Victorian premier announced services would begin from 30 November, more than a week early. Follow the day’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Total fire ban in parts of New South Wales While a storm system continues to affect parts of New South Wales’ east, the state’s west faces extreme fire danger. I expect it will be pretty much what the Nationals have wanted all along because it’s been really clear that they have set the agenda in terms of the energy and climate policy of the Liberal Party. I’m genuinely concerned and genuinely disappointed that this has happened because we do need to take action on climate change. I think my a lot of my community will be going ‘Why on earth has the Coalition done this if they are...
Demonstrators marched through the city centre on a day of global action to coincide with the COP30 climate talks in Brazil.
In this post-truth environment, the interests of coal and gas are somehow able to win the hearts and minds of voters Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast During the last parliament I negotiated an amendment to the Climate Change Act to lock in Australia’s carbon emissions target as a floor – not a ceiling. I did it to promote government ambition to exceed the target and, having covered the first Trump administration ’s withdrawal from the Paris agreement, to provide a legislative buffer against backsliding by a future Australian government. Continue reading...
Opposition parties rounded on the government over the numbers sent to South America and the size of the entourage, which will create an estimated 500 tonnes of CO2.
Thousands of people marched through the streets of Belem on Saturday to press for action from negotiators holding tough talks at the United Nations’ Cop30 climate conference in the Amazonian city. Under a baking sun, indigenous people mixed with activists gathered in a festive atmosphere, blasting music from speakers, carrying a giant beach ball of Earth and holding a flag of Brazil emblazoned with the words “Protected Amazon”. It was the first major protest outside the annual climate talks...
Protesters in Pokemon costumes stomped around the United Nations climate conference on Friday to send a message to Japan: end financing of coal and natural gas projects across Southeast Asia and other regions of the Global South. The Stop Japan’s Dirty Energy Plans protest aligned with the first of two thematic days with a focus on energy during the annual climate conference known as Cop30, held this year in Belem on the edge of the Brazilian Amazon. Organisers of the protest said the...
The NSW Land and Environment Court invalidated the approval for the Ulan coal mine expansion near Mudgee, based on a precedent set in July.
For four long months and counting, the residents of Bang Ban, a low-lying district in Thailand’s ancient city of Ayutthaya, have lived their lives under water. Elderly residents must be ferried to safety by raft, schools stand closed and under the muddy surface, ruined rice fields rot. Even Ayutthaya’s 700-year-old stupas have been submerged, their crumbling towers jutting through a murky brown deluge that shows no sign of retreat. Annual floods are not unusual here. Each monsoon season, the...
Tripling the Adaptation Finance Goal Is Possible — Here’s What It Takes alicia.cypress… Fri, 11/14/2025 - 17:22 Accelerating adaptation finance is an increasingly urgent priority for global climate action, particularly for developing countries and communities facing the brunt of climate impacts. At this year’s UN Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Belém, Brazil, there’s an opportunity for negotiators to adopt a new adaptation finance goal. There are different views of what such a goal could look like. Some developing nations have emphasized that any goal would likely not meet adaptation needs. Meanwhile, many developed nations have resisted a new goal, pointing to last year’s agreement on a new goal of at least $300 billion for all climate finance (known...
The fossil-fuel era is drawing to a close, but at a pace far too slow for the planet’s good or a fair transition to a clean energy future The weather in Belém, wrote the Guardian’s environment editor, offers a convenient metaphor for the UN climate talks being held in the Brazilian city. Sunny mornings begin in blazing optimism before the Amazon’s clouds gather and the deluge begins. Cop30 has followed the same pattern. It opened with sunshine – an agenda agreed on day one. The storms were deferred for later “consultations” on climate finance, carbon border tariffs and the question of how to close the yawning gap between national climate pledges and the Paris agreement’s safe pathway. These await Cop30’s second week. They are likely to be more than mere squalls. The International Energy...
Dozens of nations are pushing for a roadmap to phase out oil, coal and gas at the UN climate summit in Brazil. But a bloc of powerful oil-producing countries and industry lobbyists are putting up a fight.
Reliance Industries is set to establish a 1 GW AI-focused data centre in Andhra Pradesh, complementing Google's earlier investment. This move aligns with the state's ambition to become a major data centre hub, aiming for 6 GW capacity. The agreement also includes a 6 GW solar power project and an integrated food park.
Bob’s Blog: NASA’s latest mission, designed to study the effects of the solar wind on the atmosphere of Mars, was ironically delayed on the launch pad due to a solar storm affecting conditions here on Earth.
Senate inquiry hears how ‘propagandised misinformation’ is drowning out legitimate concerns in Australia’s regions over renewable energy Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Plans for a community battery in Narrabri had been going well – there was a $500,000 federal government grant, the shire council had agreed on a site and it had the necessary approvals to start building. The battery project – in a council car park – was proposed by local not-for-profit Geni.Energy, with the idea to soak up solar energy during the day for use later. Continue reading...
Hungary remains heavily dependent on Russian fossil fuels and has sought exemptions and threatened to veto EU sanctions since Moscow's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Disease outbreaks from South America to Europe have been worsened by rising global temperatures, experts say Surging cases of yellow fever and dengue in South America highlight the growing assault on people’s health from the climate crisis, with infectious diseases spread by mosquitoes and deadly heat also now pushing into temperate regions such as Europe, experts have warned at the Cop30 climate summit. There have been 356 cases of yellow fever in South America and 152 deaths so far this year, largely in the Amazon region, according to Pan American Health Organization figures . Apart from a large spike in 2017 and 2018, this is the largest number of yellow fever cases for any year in the continent, bar one, since 1960. Continue reading...
[Leadership] The House of Representatives has agreed to investigate the non-reporting and non-remittance of Equity Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) to Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL).
The end of the agreement means the building formerly called the Woodside Building will again be known as Building 94.
Hwang Seong-yeol stood at the edge of a golden field, watching nervously as a combine harvester crawled through his rice, churning up mud and stalks. Its steady hum filled the damp autumn air as grain poured into a truck waiting at the other end of the muddy paddy. It was the final day of what Hwang said was one of his toughest seasons in three decades of farming. He and other farmers feel helpless against increasingly erratic weather that they link to climate change and damage to their crops....
South Korea's major refiners, including SK Innovation and S-Oil, got back on track during the third quarter after a streak of losses in early in 2025
Dozens of Indigenous protesters blocked the front of the COP30 summit venue in Belem, Brazil, on Friday morning, staging a sit-in that forced delegates to use a side entrance to resume their negotiations on tackling climate change.
Explore the true EV environmental impact by comparing carbon emissions of electric vs gasoline vehicles and their role in advancing green transportation.
Investigation by Guardian and Carbon Brief finds just a fifth of funds to fight global heating went to poorest 44 countries Cop30: click here for full Guardian coverage of climate talks in Brazil China and wealthy petrostates including Saudi Arabia and UAE are among countries receiving large sums of climate finance, according to an analysis. The Guardian and Carbon Brief analysed previously unreported submissions to the UN, along with data from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), that show how billions of dollars of public money is being committed to the fight against global heating. Continue reading...
Enbridge is seeking to place part of the Line 5 oil pipeline in an underground tunnel, which is the subject of an ongoing legal fight.
[Global Witness] With one in every 25 COP30 attendees a fossil fuel lobbyist, massive industry presence intensifies calls to protect climate negotiations from corporate capture
[SNA] Ankara, Nov. 13, 2025 (SUNA) - The Sudanese Embassy in Ankara arranged meetings for the State Minister at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning with major Turkish companies active in infrastructure, renewable energy, and waste management.
[Global Witness] Campaigners are hailing today's COP30 launch of a new global initiative aimed at advancing the recognition, protection, and participation of environmental defenders in climate decision and policy-making.
From deforestation to emissions trading, vital policies are being watered down in the name of ‘competitiveness’. But Europe is shooting itself in the foot Climate action has long been a flagship European policy. As negotiators gather in Brazil for Cop30 , however, Europe’s leadership risks faltering. Things were very different a decade ago in Paris, when a landmark deal to limit global heating to 1.5C was achieved at Cop21. That agreement relied on an understanding between the US and China – one that would be difficult to replicate today. Its ambition was elevated by Europe acting in concert with a broad coalition of global south countries. The Paris climate agreement paved the way for the European Green Deal in 2019, which enshrined into law the ambition of climate neutrality in the...
[Afreximbank] Belem, Brazil, 13 November 2025 -- At the ongoing 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Belem, Brazil, African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) is strategically advocating for a climate agenda that aligns with Africa's sustainable development and industrialisation ambitions as outlined by its President, Dr. George Elombi.
Climate advocates fear the project, proposed by Japanese oil and gas giant Inpex, would turn the area into the ‘world’s largest carbon dumping ground’ Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here Oil and gas giant Inpex has proposed Australia’s largest carbon capture facility in waters off the Northern Territory, which climate advocates have warned could turn Darwin into a carbon dumping ground. The Bonaparte carbon capture and storage (CCS) project proposes to pipe and store 8m to 10m tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) into an underground aquifer located about 250km offshore west of Darwin, according to documents lodged with the federal environment department. Continue reading...
China has successfully deployed the world’s largest power-generating kite, capable of harnessing the potential of energy-dense, high-altitude winds to provide cheaper power than traditional surface turbines. The 5,000 square-metre (53,820 square-foot) high-altitude wind power capture kite was unfurled at a test site at Alxa Left Banner in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region on Wednesday, according to state broadcaster CCTV. Resembling a parachute, the power-generating kite was developed by the...
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 14 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02493-wAnthropogenic climate change is exacerbating soil moisture droughts globally, but most studies only consider surface layers. Now, a study reveals that global soil moisture droughts are often also found in deeper layers, and that in a warming climate deep soil moisture droughts are projected to become longer lasting and more severe.
If the government cuts a deal with them, it risks repeating the mistakes of the Abbott era, sacrificing progress for politics This week the National Liberal Coalition has rewound the clock a decade. When Tony Abbott’s government abolished the Climate Commission in 2013, I knew it was a political act of climate vandalism. Abbott simply didn’t want to hear the facts: that pollution from coal, oil and gas were cooking our planet . For a decade after, denial evolved: from shouting that global heating wasn’t real, to claiming it could be solved later. Continue reading...
Scotland needs 'at least one million more' immigrants to 'work the land' and tackle climate change , a Green MSP has claimed.
The government has announced that three 'small modular reactors' (SMRs) will be built at a new power station in Wylfa, on the coast of Anglesey in North Wales.
Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave discuss new findings about the ocean of Saturn's moon Enceladus, the secrets behind chameleons' eye movements and the energy use behind AI computing.
Open access notables Robust increase in observed heat storage by the global subsurface , Cuesta-Valero et al., Science Advances Changes in heat storage within the different components of the climate system alter physical and biogeochemical phenomena relevant for human societies and ecosystems. Among such processes, permafrost thawing, soil carbon storage, and surface energy exchanges depend on the persistent heat gain by the continental subsurface. Nevertheless, there are not enough data to estimate ground heat storage at the global scale after the year 2000. We solve this problem by expanding the database of geothermal data with remote sensing observations from satellite platforms. Estimates from satellite data show a heat gain between 16.4 ± 3.4...
Figures show none of US ‘big four’ – CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox – appear to have sent teams to cover summit in Belém Thousands of media professionals are at the United Nations climate talks in Brazil. Almost none of them appear to be from the four major US broadcasters. Nearly 4,000 members of the media registered to attend the global climate conference, known as Cop30, according to a preliminary list released by the United Nations climate body on Tuesday. But none of the “big four” US broadcasters – CBS, NBC, ABC, and Fox – appear to currently have teams present at the talks. Continue reading...
Mining crew had hit unknown pocket of water last Saturday about three-quarters of a mile into the mine Crews have found the body of the coal miner missing since a West Virginia mine flooded on Saturday, said the state’s governor, Patrick Morrisey, on Thursday. Crews found the body inside Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc’s Rolling Thunder Mine near Belva, about 50 miles east of the state capital of Charleston. Continue reading...
Shadow Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction Dan Tehan has been called out for failing to answer key questions about his party's new stance on emissions.
Electric cars will get a 25% discount and electric vans and HGVs 50% in changes to be introduced in January London’s congestion charge will rise by 20% in January to £18 and electric vehicle drivers will be liable to pay to enter the heart of the capital for the first time. EVs will no longer be exempt from the levy, Transport for London said, but will pay a lower rate. Electric car drivers will get a 25% discount, while electric vans and HGVs will pay 50% of the full charge. Continue reading...
The International Energy Agency, once known for an anti-renewables bias, now says a more ambitious transition will lower prices Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here Just as the Liberal party walked away from a firm net zero emissions target , the International Energy Agency report told the world that a more ambitious clean energy transition means lower household power bills. The timing is exquisite. Continue reading...
Funding cuts are hitting scientists researching geoengineering like solar radiation modification and carbon dioxide removal
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, has said Donald Trump is an “invasive species” whose dismissal of the climate crisis is an “abomination,” in a fiery attack at the UN climate talks in Brazil—from which Trump and his administration have been completely absent. Newsom […]
[The Conversation Africa] Rising temperatures, changing rainfall patterns and extreme weather events create ideal conditions for pathogens and their vectors - such as mosquitoes, midges and ticks - to thrive.
[This Day] In a major push for environmental sustainability, the Association of Licensed Telecom Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) and the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Limited (NLNG) are set to collaborate with ITREALMS Media on the 2025 ITREALMS E-Waste Dialogue.
Australia and New Zealand witnessed a spectacular aurora australis, a 'cannibal' solar storm causing vibrant pink, violet, and green lights. This G4 geomagnetic storm, one of the strongest, was caused by colliding solar energy bursts. Another viewing opportunity is expected tonight, though geomagnetic activity is declining.
Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband said he made 'no apologies' for choosing a UK firm to build the country's first small reactor on the site instead.
Climate groups call backflip a ‘disaster’ while moderate Liberals worry about impact on winning back urban electorates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The former Liberal prime minister Malcolm Turnbull says his party’s decision to dump a net zero emissions target shows it “does not take climate change seriously”, accusing the opposition of “a Trumpian campaign against renewables”. But while moderate sources are alarmed about the impact on winning back or retaining urban electorates, and climate groups called the backflip a “disaster”, the Liberal decision to scrap its own 2050 target and unwind Labor’s 2035 and renewable energy pledges has been praised by conservative MPs and campaigners. Continue reading...
Starmer's £2.5B Rolls-Royce SMR gamble at Wylfa promises nuclear jobs and energy security—while the US slams the 'disappointing' snub. Explore the global fallout from Britain's bold nuclear pivot.
The department outlined ConocoPhillips’ test wells and seismic studies while saying it won't plan environmental analyses on numerous U.S. onshore oil and gas lease sales.
Three small modular reactors are confirmed for the site, with the potential for up to eight.
[Nile Post] The 2026 election campaigns have placed environmental survival at the heart of political discourse in the Elgon region.
[ENA] Addis Ababa -- Ethiopia has achieved a significant diplomatic success, securing the official endorsement of the Africa Group of Negotiators (AGN) to host the 32nd UN Climate Change Conference (COP32) in Addis Ababa in 2027.
[The Conversation Africa] Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania is sold to the world as frozen romance and pure nature. But the real story today is at its feet, not its peak.
The Liberal Party has opted to ditch its commitment to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050, but will stick with a key climate change treaty.
The geomagnetic storm, caused by powerful bursts of energy from the sun, also postponed the launch of two Mars-bound Nasa spacecraft in the US Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Skywatchers enjoyed a stunning treat on Wednesday night, with the southern lights visible across large parts of Australia and New Zealand. The aurora australis that lit up the sky resulted from what has been dubbed a “cannibal” solar storm. Continue reading...
Emission-rate increases will accelerate in the U.S. and E.U. but will slow in China and India, according to a report published Wednesday.
Preliminary data on this year’s carbon emissions reinforces the fact that we need to act as fast as possible to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
The Liberals will finally lock in a formal position on climate change and energy policy after a protracted party room meeting in the nation's capital.
The Liberals are preparing to unveil their new climate change and energy policy after a marathon meeting of MPs and senators in the nation's capital.
The fossil fuel industry has polluted our art, and now it’s polluting our information. So, we clearly say: stop the lies. —Brazilian political scientist Rayana Burgos
STATEMENT: IEA Releases Its World Energy Outlook 2025 darla.vanhoorn… Wed, 11/12/2025 - 14:30 Paris (November 12, 2025) – Today, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its flagship World Energy Outlook report, projecting that global electricity demand will outpace previous growth expectations. This surge is being driven by transport and industrial electrification, heating, cooling, data centers, and rising demand in emerging economies. The report shows both the opportunities presented by the global energy transition as well as the risks of inaction. Following is a statement from Taryn Fransen, Director of Global Research and Data, WRI Polsky Center for the Global Energy Transition: “ A clean, reliable...
The world’s leading energy agency has declared that the age of electricity has begun, with surging renewables set to displace coal, oil and then gas.
Global oil and gas demand could grow until 2050, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Wednesday, in a dramatic departure from its previous forecast of a speedy transition to cleaner fuels that would result in oil demand peaking before 2030.
[Premium Times] "This is why, at COP30, we hope to demonstrate that Africa can lead in Carbon capture..."
[Liberian Investigator] Liberia has launched a new €5 million agricultural initiative aimed at restoring degraded soils, boosting climate resilience, and enhancing the livelihoods of thousands of smallholder farmers. The 2025-2029 STAR-P/ILSA Project, co-financed by the European Union through the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), was officially unveiled by the Ministry of Agriculture in Monrovia.
COP30 Brazil, though shadowed by the absence of many world leaders, remains a pivotal milestone in the global fight against climate change, tasked with building on the Paris Agreement’s momentum. Yet the glaring lack of commitment, coupled with withdrawals from the accord casts a grim shadow over the future. The planet continues to warm, and […]
German Galushchenko said he supported the move while the investigation was underway. A new board for the department governing nuclear energy will also be named.
[Independent (Kampala)] Kampala, Uganda -- Uganda Development Bank Limited (UDB) has announced its role as the lead sponsor of the Ugandan Pavilion at the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30), set to take place from November 10 to 21 in Belém, Brazil. The pavilion will serve as the central hub for all of Uganda's engagements during the global climate summit.
Global oil and gas demand could grow until 2050, the International Energy Agency said on Wednesday, departing from previous expectations of a speedy transition to cleaner fuels following U.S. criticism about its climate focus.
Gov. Gavin Newsom made green energy a priority. But as President Donald Trump makes oil the focus of U.S. energy policy, even California considers “Drill, baby, drill.”
Daniel Pullen offers beautifully composed and striking images of the destruction that climate change has brought to his lifelong home.
COP30 in Brazil commenced amidst heavy rain and flooding that disrupted venues and press conferences, drawing ironic commentary. The opening day also saw activists clash with security, resulting in minor injuries and highlighting concerns over Indigenous participation and resource allocation for the event.
Australia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart has previously donated to Institute of Public Affairs but thinktank won’t say if she remains a donor Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast A thinktank known for its rejection of the climate crisis and a conservation group that has opposed renewable energy projects refused to identify their funders during a fiery Senate inquiry into climate and energy misinformation on Wednesday. Chair of the committee, Greens senator Peter Whish-Wilson, asked Rainforest Reserves Australia’s vice-president, Steven Nowakowski, who had funded nine full-page newspaper advertisements promoting an open letter attacking a shift to renewable energy and promoting nuclear. Continue reading...
[Leadership] The Regional Climate-Resilient Rice Production Project (RICOWAS) has intensified efforts to strengthen climate change resilience and boost rice productivity among smallholder farmers across Nigeria's northern states.
[DW] Belem, Brazil -- Young African activists at COP30 in Brazil are calling for climate funding, political inclusion, and justice for communities hit hardest by the climate crisis.
Exclusive: ‘Deep-rooted injustices’ affect billions of people due to location of wells, pipelines and other infrastructure A quarter of the world’s population lives within three miles (5km) of operational fossil fuel projects, potentially threatening the health of more than 2 billion people as well as critical ecosystems, according to first-of-its-kind research. A damning new report by Amnesty International, shared exclusively with the Guardian, found that more than 18,300 oil , gas and coal sites are currently distributed across 170 countries worldwide, occupying a vast area of the Earth’s surface. Continue reading...
The demonstrators waved yellow flags protesting oil drilling in the Amazon.
The climate will suffer under proposal to let nations avoid some emissions cuts by instead funding climate projects elsewhere, experts say.
The climate crisis is getting worse and requires fundamental changes to societies, economies, and our global financial architecture in response. While extreme economic inequality is on the rise – the world’s billionaires now hold more wealth in the world than every country except the U.S. and China – the impacts of climate change are also […]
Alistair Carmichael has warned that the windfall tax on North sea oil and gas risks thousands of high quality jobs.
[Shabelle] Mogadishu, Somalia -- Somalia's Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Major General Bashir Mohamed Jama, has called for strengthened implementation of the country's Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) in a speech at a high-level climate meeting organized in cooperation with the United Nations.
Watchdog’s flagship report says rise in low-carbon electricity will make transition ‘inevitable’, despite Trump’s calls to carry on drilling Renewables will grow faster than any major energy source in the next decade, according to the world’s energy watchdog, making the transition away from fossil fuels “inevitable”, despite a green backlash in the US and parts of Europe. The world is expected to build more renewable energy projects in the next five years than has been rolled out over the last 40, according to the flagship annual report from the International Energy Agency (IEA). Continue reading...
The California governor painted the president as a threat to American competitiveness by letting China dominate the renewable energy industry.
On October 26, East Timor officially acceded to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) at the opening of the annual summit, as the 11th member of the regional bloc. Known officially as Timor-Leste, the country gained full independence on May 20, 2002, after a United Nations-supervised referendum in 1999. With a population of 1.4 million and its capital in Dili, East Timor is rich in oil and natural gas reserves located in the Timor Sea. The country also exports coffee, vanilla and...
Gavin Newsom is most senior US politician at annual talks, heading alternate delegation in Trump’s absence California governor Gavin Newsom has said Donald Trump is an “invasive species” whose dismissal of the climate crisis is an “abomination”, in a fiery attack at the UN climate talks in Brazil – from which Trump and his administration have been completely absent. Newsom is the most senior American politician at the Cop30 summit in Belém, after Trump took the unprecedented step of not sending a delegation to the talks. Newsom sought to fill the notable void of official US activity by lambasting the president for tearing up climate policies and pushing for burning more of the fossil fuels that have caused dangerous global heating. Continue reading...
A future Democratic administration would rejoin the Paris Agreement 'without hesitation'.
Land Use Changed the Climate. Now Climate’s Changing the Land shannon.paton@… Tue, 11/11/2025 - 16:34 Land-use change has long been recognized as a major contributor to global warming. Deforestation and agriculture alone account for nearly 25% of human-caused greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions . One might think this effect is uni-directional: Cutting down trees, plowing up grasslands and draining wetlands release GHGs that fuel climate change. But satellite monitoring shows that this relationship is a two-way street. Climate change itself is increasingly leading to the loss and degradation of forests, grasslands, wetlands, rivers and even farms, creating a dangerous feedback loop. Hotter, Drier Conditions Accelerate Forest Fires Let’s look at wildfires. As the graphic...
Putting Nature on a Balance Sheet: What It Is and Why It Matters alicia.cypress… Tue, 11/11/2025 - 16:00 We face a paradox: Nature underpins the global economy — providing clean air, water regulation, flood protection, and pollination — yet remains largely invisible in most economic and financial decisions. This is not because its value is insignificant, but because nature is not seen as a critical asset that’s necessary for the economy. The failure to fully recognize and embed nature’s value in economic and financial decisions has contributed to rapid ecosystem degradation and climate instability that now threatens economic resilience, food security, human health and quality of life. According to the International Monetary Fund , nature loss is financially...
The move would set up a clash with Gov. Gavin Newsom, a chief critic of the president and an opponent of oil exploration in the Pacific.
NY Times: India can now get half its electricity demand from wind, solar, and hydropower.
Europe's space agency is pioneering a groundbreaking project, HOBI-WAN, to generate protein from gases like hydrogen and carbon dioxide in space. This innovative technology, developed with Solar Foods, could provide astronauts with a sustainable food source, reducing reliance on Earth resupply missions for long-duration Moon and Mars journeys. The experiment aims to prove the viability of gas-based fermentation in microgravity.
RELEASE: New Coalition Launches at COP30 to Accelerate Clean Energy Growth in Latin America sophie.brady@wri.org Tue, 11/11/2025 - 09:42 Launched by the WRI Polsky Center for the Global Energy Transition and partners, the initiative will help companies scale clean energy solutions, decarbonize sectors and generate green jobs across the region. (Belém, BRASIL) November 11, 2025 — At COP30 in Belém, Brazil, the WRI Polsky Center for the Global Energy Transition – in partnership with Global Renewables Alliance (GRA), Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) and Climate Group’s RE100 initiative – today launched the Latin America Clean Energy Coalition (LACEC), a major initiative to rapidly scale corporate clean energy adoption and accelerate Latin America's transition to...
It was the fifth reported attack on the Saratov Oil Refinery this fall and the seventh so far in 2025.
The Science Advisory Board could influence the Trump administration's plans to revisit a host of regulations.
[Namibian] Namibia has secured US$3 million (N$51.8 million) from the Green Climate Fund to develop national adaptation plans (NAPs), engaging young people in climate resilience, entrepreneurship, and environmental stewardship.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2025, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE05276A, Paper Mingqiang Cheng, Juanjian Ru, Shukai Miao, Yixin Hua, Qibo Zhang, Cunying Xu, Zhipeng Zhou, Ding WANG, Wenchao Zhang, Jiexi Wang, Zaiping Guo The selective recovery of metals from spent lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), particularly from Ni-based ternary (NCM) cathode materials, is a significant challenge due to their complex elemental composition. Herein, we present... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
[Premium Times] He highlighted Nigeria's vulnerability to climate change, noting that its impacts exacerbated existing health challenges, strain infrastructure, and increased the burden of diseases in rural and urban communities alike.
The House returns to vote on a bipartisan bill that could end the government shutdown. And, at the COP30, data show the world is still far from meeting its climate goals.
Resistance from landowners is visible across the country as companies pursue new oil, gas and carbon projects.
The decision to skip further environmental reviews applies to offshore oil and gas lease sales mandated by the Republican-backed law.
Democratic election wins last week reignited arguments on how — or if — candidates should discuss climate change on the campaign trail.
[This Day] Abuja -- Professor Emeritus of Petroleum Economics, Wumi Iledare, has aligned with the recent view by the Chairman of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Board of Governors, Ademola Adeyemi-Bero, that Nigeria should end the wholesale export of its crude oil.
Nations have begun climate negotiations at the COP30 summit in Brazil. Studies show the world is not on track to avoid the most damaging impacts of climate change.
COP30 in Brazil has commenced with a primary focus on mobilizing $1.3 trillion annually for developing countries by 2035 to combat the climate crisis. Discussions on the inaugural day centered on setting key agenda points, including climate finance, response to new climate action pledges, and trade measures like the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism.
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months, analysis reveals, adding evidence to the hope that the world’s biggest polluter has managed to hit its target of peak CO 2 emissions well ahead of schedule. Rapid increases in the deployment of solar and wind power generation – which grew by 46% and 11% respectively in the third quarter of this year – meant the country’s energy sector emissions remained flat, even as the demand for electricity increased. Continue reading...
The Energy Secretary has returned to the UK after his initial trip to the Cop30 summit last week and will fly out for the next stage which starts on Saturday.
Residents of Banff were busy cleaning up Monday morning after a strong wind storm toppled trees and blocked roads overnight in the mountain town.
Anti-corruption agency says state nuclear power operator Energoatom taking illicit payments of 10-15% Ukraine’s anti-corruption bureau said on Monday that it was conducting a large-scale investigation into the country’s energy sector, alleging kickbacks in transactions involving the state nuclear power operator, Energoatom. The bureau, which operates independently of the government, alleged that several senior figures were involved. Ukrainian media identified one of them as Timur Mindich , a businessman and associate of Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Continue reading...
At this year’s climate summit, the United States is out and Europe is struggling. But emerging countries are embracing renewable energy thanks to a glut of cheap equipment.
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections Joe Rogan has one of the most popular podcasts on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and a combined 50 million followers on YouTube, Spotify, and Instagram. And like nearly all of today’s most popular online shows , Rogan’s spreads climate misinformation. In an October episode of his podcast, Rogan interviewed two octogenarian fringe climate contrarians, Richard Lindzen and William Happer, who together have been spreading climate misinformation since at least 2012 . For over two hours, the trio discussed climate myths and conspiracy theories, many of them identical to the misinformation Lindzen and Happer were peddling well over a decade ago. ( See here for a brief debunking...
The United States has put more heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the air from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas than any other country.
[Namibian] The Prospect of of Namibia becoming an oil-producing nation remains a well-covered topic from the country's cafés to its boardrooms.
This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As President Donald Trump sees it, environmental regulations that attempt to improve efficiency and address climate change only make products more expensive and perform worse. He has long blamed efficiency regulations for his frustrations with things like toilets and showerheads. He began his second […]
In 1995, as one of the Ogoni Nine, he was hanged after protesting against Shell’s oil pollution. With education and a move towards renewable energy, we can honour his legacy Earlier this year, my father, Ken Saro-Wiwa , and his eight colleagues, known collectively as the Ogoni Nine , were pardoned for a crime they never committed. After peacefully campaigning against environmental degradation of Ogoniland in Nigeria at the hands of the oil industry, they were imprisoned by the military dictatorship on false charges of treason and incitement to murder, following a trial condemned by the international community as a sham. On 10 November 1995, the men were executed by hanging. Continue reading...
The electric cars of the Formula E racing championship can accelerate faster than Formula 1 cars and their top speeds are catching up – but battery capacity would let them down in a head-to-head
A Washington Post analysis of Democratic lawmakers’ appearances and social media posts show they are going quiet on climate.
Politicians, oil giants and climate activists hang on his every word. The Trump administration has blasted him. How did Fatih Birol get so big?
Talking about climate change may be politically radioactive, but adjusting to its effects is no longer optional.
Scotland’s first commercial wind farm is to deliver five times more energy following a number of upgrades.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is proceeding with leasing in the Gulf of Mexico and Cook Inlet despite environmental questions.
Oil companies are once again pushing the Supreme Court to stop a flood of cases that could force them to pay billions.
Battered by declining production and the departure of Western partners, Chad’s oil industry is betting its future on Beijing. In a high-stakes diplomatic pivot, the landlocked central African country has aimed to double its current output of 150,000 barrels per day, relying on China and allies like the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to revive its energy sector. Leading the massive effort is the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), which according to Chadian officials, is set to expand its...
[AIM] Maputo -- Belem, (Brazil), 9 Nov (AIM) - Mozambican President Daniel Chapo on Friday called for "climate justice resting on predictable and accessible financing', for the construction of resilient infrastructures and the promotion of climate adaptation projects in vulnerable countries such as Mozambique.
[This Day] Abuja -- Vice President Kashim Shettima has reiterated Nigeria's determination to continue to use its influence to lead the way in seeking solutions to climate change matters in Africa and beyond.
[AI London] Marking 30 years since the Nigerian government's brutal execution of nine leading environmental activists - the Ogoni Nine - for fighting to protect the Niger Delta from oil giant Shell, Amnesty International is calling for their full exoneration. The anniversary coincides with the start of the UN climate talks (COP 30) in Brazil.
Brazil’s André Corrêa do Lago says countries should follow China’s lead on clean energy as conference begins Cop30: what are the main issues? Net zero to NDCs: your Cop30 jargon buster Rich countries have lost enthusiasm for combating the climate crisis while China is surging ahead in producing and using clean energy equipment, the president of the UN climate talks has said. More countries should follow China’s lead instead of complaining about being outcompeted, said André Corrêa do Lago, the Brazilian diplomat in charge of the Cop30 conference , which begins on Monday. Continue reading...
[The Conversation Africa] When BP and Shell sold the South African Petroleum Refinery (Sapref) in 2024 to the Central Energy Fund, a government entity, for R1 (or six US cents), environmental advocates warned that Sapref had not taken any steps to clean up pollution. Neither had it made reparations for harm inflicted on the health of nearby residents from over six decades of crude oil processing. The refinery is in the port city of Durban, on South Africa's east coast.
Oil stains on your car's seats are unsightly and can devalue your car, so it's important to take care of them as soon as possible. Here's what to do.
New York Times: People with panels got power back almost immediately after the storm.
If you live in a region where you need to store your bike for the winter, you may wonder if you need to change the oil first. Here's what you need to know.
Research which polled a representative sample of 2,000 people also found over a third of Coalition voters believed the climate would not change at all Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast About 40% of Australian women without kids say they are hesitant to have children because of climate change, a new survey suggests. The survey, on attitudes about the impacts of global heating, also found that half of Australians were very or extremely concerned about climate change and two in five believed the climate would be “much hotter” in 2050. Continue reading...
Exclusive: David Bailey plays down concerns after HSBC and Barclays quit UN-backed Net Zero Banking Alliance A Bank of England executive has insisted that UK banks are still showing a “vibrant” commitment to climate goals despite the recent demise of a global net zero target-setting group. David Bailey, the executive director of prudential policy at the Bank’s regulatory arm, the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), played down concerns surrounding the fact that significant lenders including HSBC and Barclays had followed their US peers in dropping membership of the UN-backed Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA). Those exits led to the closure of the once-lauded NZBA last month. Continue reading...
A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, November 2, 2025 thru Sat, November 8, 2025. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (6 articles) Revisiting The Category 6 Conversation After Hurricane Melissa Forbes, Marshall Shepherd, Nov 1, 2025. Insurer calls for climate action as severe weather drives premiums up A major insurer is warning Australians to expect rising home insurance premiums, in part due to increasingly frequent and damaging weather events. Australian Broadcasting Corp., Samuel Yang and Yiying Li, Nov 03, 2025. The ground is swallowing homes in this Native village in Alaska. Residents have no choice but to move The climate crisis is causing...
Minister of Local Development and Acting Minister of Environment Manal Awad asserted Egypt’s significant steps toward diversifying its energy mix, aiming for 42 percent clean electricity by 2030. She highlighted Egypt’s leading projects in solar, wind, and green hydrogen—along with investments in energy efficiency, infrastructure upgrades, and green ammonia—as key pillars of a low-emission energy … The post Egypt aims for 42 percent clean energy share by 2030 appeared first on Egypt Independent.
Australia stopped buying fuel directly from Russia after its invasion of Ukraine but has imported more than 3m tonnes of its oil products since 2023 Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Millions of tonnes of Russian oil have been traded through a port part-owned by Macquarie Bank and potentially sold on to Australian businesses, new data shows. The identification of a new link between Australia and the trade in Russian-origin products exposes further gaps in government sanctions, as Australia lags Europe and UK in tightening import rules. Continue reading...
An influx of high-class sex workers have checked into hotels for the jamboree which will begin in earnest on Monday with more than 50,000 delegates expected to attend the two-week junket.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 130, Issue 21, 16 November 2025.
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Tuesday was a great day at the ballot box for the planet, with climate-friendly initiatives and candidates winning nationwide. In races from New York to Georgia to Washington, voters backed funding renewables, reining in energy costs, and building out mass […]
The world's eyes will be on the Amazon in coming weeks as Brazil hosts the UN climate summit. With the country's mixed environmental record, can Brazil's government help push through vital climate action?
Exclusive: Just Stop Oil activist was banned from attending gatherings, including meeting a friend in a cafe, without permission Environmental protesters are being given licence conditions on release from jail that are supposed to be limited to extremism cases. Ella Ward, 22, was banned from going to any meetings or gatherings, except for worship, without permission from her probation officer, although the Ministry of Justice dropped the condition after she brought a legal challenge. Continue reading...
The United States has granted Hungary a one-year exemption from its sanctions on Russian oil and gas following a personal appeal from Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to President Donald Trump. Trump cited Hungary's landlocked status and lack of ports as reasons for the exemption, while Orbán warned of severe economic consequences.
With more secondhand cars available and salary sacrifice schemes offering extra savings, the lease option is taking off When Anthony Santos was looking for a car to replace his Audi Q3, a diesel SUV, he felt reluctant about making the switch to an electric car. “I was considering it, but I probably wouldn’t have,” says Santos, a sales manager at RWinvest, a property investment company in Liverpool. But when he started looking at his options the ability to lease a used electric vehicle (EV) caught his eye. Continue reading...
US president also praises Hungarian leader’s hardline stance on immigration during friendly White House summit The US has granted Hungary a one-year exemption from US sanctions on importing oil and gas from Russia, according to a White House official, after Viktor Orbán pressed his case for a reprieve during a meeting with Donald Trump in Washington. Last month, Trump imposed Ukraine-related sanctions on Russian oil companies Lukoil and Rosneft that carried the threat of further sanctions on entities in countries buying oil from them. Continue reading...
WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump said he would consider giving Hungary a carve-out from sanctions on Russian oil, as Prime Minister Viktor Orban sought to cozy up to his right-wing ally at the White House on Friday.
Viktor Orbán had a friendly meeting with Donald Trump on Friday to press his case for a reprieve The United States has granted Hungary a one-year exemption from US sanctions for using Russian oil and gas, a White House official said on Friday, after Viktor Orbán pressed his case for a reprieve during a friendly meeting with Donald Trump in Washington. Last month, Trump imposed Ukraine-related sanctions on Russian oil companies Lukoil and Rosneft that carried the threat of further sanctions on entities in countries that buy oil from those firms. Continue reading...
Hungary has remained a defiant outlier as much of Europe has stopped purchasing Russian oil since its 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
STATEMENT: COP30 Leaders' Summit Concludes with Major Pledges for Climate, Nature and People nate.shelter@wri.org Fri, 11/07/2025 - 15:09 Belém, Brazil (November 7, 2025) — The COP30 Leaders’ Summit concluded today with major announcements and pledges from world leaders, as well as political calls to action ahead of the formal negotiations beginning on November 10. New initiatives and commitments included the Tropical Forest Forever Facility, a major finance mechanism to protect forests; pledges for Indigenous Peoples and local communities’ finance and land rights; a pledge to quadruple 'sustainable fuels'; a Call to Action on Wildfire Resilience; and the Belém Declaration on Hunger, Poverty and Human-Centered Climate Action. Following is a statement from...
“All we have to do is look outside,” one delegate said. “The sea rises, the coral dies.”
The increasing ferocity and frequency of tropical storms imposes an unbearable burden on countries including Jamaica The geographically uneven risks from increasingly extreme and dangerous weather grow ever starker. As Jamaica and other Caribbean countries clear up after Hurricane Melissa , and Typhoon Kalmaegi heads west after killing nearly 200 people in the Philippines and Vietnam, the case for more international support to countries facing the most destructive impacts from global heating has never been stronger. Last week’s five-day rainfall in Jamaica was made twice as likely by higher temperatures, according to initial findings from climate attribution studies . The current death toll across the Caribbean is at least 75. The economic and social costs are hard to quantify in a region...
Colleagues of an oil worker who died after suffering a medical incident while driving are receiving support as they deal with the tragedy.
Video: 00:03:39 The Copernicus Sentinel-1D satellite has joined the Sentinel-1 mission in orbit. Launch took place on 4 November 2025 at 22:02 CET (18:02 local time) on board an Ariane 6 launcher from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.The Sentinel-1 mission delivers high-resolution radar images of Earth’s surface, performing in all weathers, day-and-night. This service is used by disaster response teams, environmental agencies, maritime authorities and climate scientists, who depend on frequent updates of critical data.Sentinel-1D will work in tandem with Sentinel-1C, flying in the same orbit but 180° apart, to optimise global coverage and data delivery. Both satellites have a C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) instrument on board, which captures high-resolution imagery of Earth’s...
Trump hammered Hochul this week on his Truth Social platform for stalled pipeline projects he claimed would help "OUT OF CONTROL" energy prices.
[Daily Maverick] As our planet burns, the race to 'net zero emissions' is on to save the planet. And this path begins with underground ore.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Near the end of his first term, President Donald Trump signed into law a bill that aimed to reduce harmful, planet-warming pollutants emitted by refrigerators and air conditioners. The bipartisan measure brought environmentalists and major business groups into rare alignment on the contentious issue of climate change and won praise across the political spectrum.
The petitions from eight refineries sought exemptions from biofuel-blending obligations for the 2021 through 2024 compliance years.
This story was originally published by Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Last Tuesday, as the strongest Atlantic storm in 90 years slammed the western coast of Jamaica with 185-mph winds, Bill Gates was downplaying climate change. In a lengthy blog post published on his personal website, Gates purported to offer some […]
Exclusive: Research shows oil, gas and coal firms’ unprecedented access to Cop26-29, blocking urgent climate action More than 5,000 fossil fuel lobbyists were given access to the UN climate summits over the past four years, a period marked by a rise in catastrophic extreme weather, inadequate climate action and record oil and gas expansion, new research reveals. Lobbyists representing the interests of the oil, gas and coal industries – which are mostly responsible for climate breakdown – have been allowed to participate in the annual climate negotiations where states are meant to come in good faith and commit to ambitious policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Continue reading...
As the United Nations COP30 climate change conference convenes in Belém, Brazil, the world's attention will turn to the heart of the Amazon rainforest – a region that symbolises both hope and concern in the fight against climate change.Once considered one of Earth's most vital carbon sinks, the Amazon is now showing troubling signs – satellite observations reveal that parts of this vast ecosystem are no longer absorbing carbon dioxide as they once did. In some areas, the forest has even become a net source of carbon emissions.
[Namibian] Fishing activity taking place on the coastline near the proposed TotalEnergies oil production site at Lüderitz will barely be affected by oil activities.
A $150 million “catastrophe bond” will help with hurricane recovery, but experts hope financial markets will invest more in adaptation.
US President Donald Trump indicated positive trade talks with India and a potential visit next year, praising Prime Minister Modi. While negotiations for a Bilateral Trade Agreement continue, addressing significant tariffs on Indian goods and Russian oil imports remains a key focus for both nations aiming to boost trade.
The market lets countries fund climate projects and could trigger billions of dollars in investments for cutting emissions.
President Prabowo Subianto welcomed his counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil to Jakarta recently to strengthen ties between the fast-growing economies. The timing is significant. The meeting was just weeks before Brazil hosts the COP30 climate change talks in Belém, a bustling port city at the mouth of the Amazon River. Like Brazil, […]
Hungary’s prime minister also seeking an exemption on US sanctions on Russian oil after Trump’s Kremlin frustrations Viktor Orbán will visit the White House on Friday as Hungary’s far-right prime minister tries to broker another summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin that Orbán’s advisers claim could help end the war between Russia and Ukraine. Orbán, who has proposed hosting the summit in Budapest, will also seek an exemption from US sanctions against Russian energy in what will be a major test of Trump’s tougher line on the Kremlin after he accused Putin of slow-rolling negotiations to end the conflict. Continue reading...
[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambican Agriculture Minister Roberto Albino believes that the most polluting economies should formally be pressured to increase funding and technical support for the most vulnerable countries in matters of climate change.
[Daily News] Geita -- THE government, through the Tanzania Electric Supply Company (TANESCO), has reaffirmed its commitment to investing in diverse sources of electricity, including solar power farms, to ensure a stable and reliable energy generation and supply.
OAK HILL, W.Va. (AP) — Lisa Emery loves to talk about her "boys." With each word, the respiratory therapist's face softens and shines with pride. But keep her talking, and it doesn't take long for that passion to switch to hurt. She knows the names, ages, families and the intimate stories of each one's scarred lungs. She worries about a whole community of West Virginia coal miners — including a growing number in their 30s and 40s — who come to her for help while getting sicker and sicker from what used to be considered an old-timer's disease: black lung.
A report from one of Australia's largest energy providers has revealed how much it costs to generate renewables compared to coal.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 130, Issue 11, November 2025.
With this year’s global climate summit opening in Brazil, we offer a glimpse of how the Trump administration sometimes operates behind closed doors.
5 Ways COP30 Can Make Progress Where Countries’ Climate Plans Fall Short alicia.cypress… Thu, 11/06/2025 - 14:15 Amid record heat and worsening climate impacts on people’s lives, 2025 is a turning point for global climate action, as countries renew their climate commitments — known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) — under the international Paris Agreement. This process reveals whether global ambition to tackle climate change is rising fast enough to meet the crisis head on. Over the past decade, the Paris Agreement has delivered meaningful progress. Prior to the agreement, the world was hurtling toward 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming by the end of the century. Ten years after the agreement’s adoption, the latest NDCs and current...
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva kicked off the Cop30 climate summit on Thursday, urging leaders to turn promises into action while highlighting his country’s work within the Brics group to reaffirm the importance of climate finance, capacity building and technology transfer in global cooperation. The meeting comes amid the notable absence by the United States. President Donald Trump, who ordered the country’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement in January, declined an invitation...
In a speech to the global gathering in Belem, Brazil , the Prime Minister vowed the UK under his Government would be 'doubling down' on its climate commitments.
SNP ministers have been warned a new climate strategy risks setting back Scotland's net zero ambitions.
MIT’s Living Climate Futures Lab takes a human-centered approach to investigating a global challenge.
Climate change is the result of the same dynamics that, over centuries, have broken our societies and split our societies between rich and poor and split the world between developed countries and developing countries— President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Scheme aims to raise $125bn to invest in bonds, with returns used to reward tropical countries for conservation As a battle-scarred veteran of the war against nature, Garo Batmanian has spent 45 years trying to defend the Amazon rainforest. For most of that time, the resistance he leads has been outfunded and outgunned by those who profit from destruction. The most Batmanian felt he could achieve was to slow the advance of the chainsaws and tractors. But the director-general of Brazil’s forest service feels there could be a chance at the Cop30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, next week, not just of an even fight, but perhaps a victory. There is one condition: world governments must rally behind an initiative being launched by the host nation – the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF)...
As a majority of global citizens call for bold climate change policies, a new push for information integrity aims to neutralize the climate denial that has thwarted ambitious action.
Experts say 2023, 2024 and 2025 the three hottest years in 176 years of records, with 1.5C Paris agreement target now ‘virtually impossible’ A triple-whammy of hottest years ever recorded threatens “irreversible damage”, the UN has warned as the world’s nations prepare to meet at the Cop30 climate summit in Brazil. This year is on course to be the second or third hottest ever, in records that stretch back 176 years, the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said. It means 2023, 2024 and 2025 will be the three hottest on record, demonstrating that the world is now deep into the climate crisis. Continue reading...
The Trump administration has released a final list of critical minerals that responds to the president's push to boost the coal, nuclear and copper sectors. Critics say the list is flawed.
Tech billionaire relying on ‘false binary’ with call to focus less on emissions and more on aid for poor, experts say A new memo on the climate crisis from Bill Gates relies on “straw man” arguments about the threat to humanity and “false dichotomies” between spending on climate or aid for the poor, some climate scientists say. Published last week, the tech billionaire’s 17-page missive called for a “strategic pivot” away from focusing on slashing emissions and towards preventing poverty and suffering. It was quickly picked up by some on the right, including Donald Trump, who hailed it as a much-needed backpedaling on climate efforts. Continue reading...
Report says proven technology could benefit thousands in poor quality housing and help UK meet carbon reduction targets Flooded disused coalmines could be a significant source of energy and provide cheap heat to thousands of homes, a new report argues. Mine water geothermal heat (MWGH) systems use the water in flooded coalmines, which is warmed by natural processes, to supply low-carbon heat. Heat exchangers and pumps recover the heat, which is distributed via district heating networks to homes and buildings, providing low-cost, long-term, stable energy. Continue reading...
Keir Starmer enjoyed a black tie bash last night after making the emissions-heavy 12,000-mile round trip to the Amazon to reiterate his commitment to Net Zero.
World leaders, gathering in Brazil, will try to agree on new, more ambitious plans to cut greenhouse gases.
In ancient China, a special method of divine judgment known as the “oil-scooping ritual” served to make final rulings in cases of theft or debt disputes. The unusual legal tool was used when evidence was insufficient or inconclusive. At the time, forensic science was underdeveloped and people lacked the knowledge to uncover the truth, often appealing to the gods to distinguish right from wrong. One such practice was the “Boiling Scoop Judgement”, known in Chinese as Lao You Guo. This was...
BELéM (BRAZIL) - World leaders meet Thursday in the Brazilian Amazon in an effort to show that climate change remains a top global priority despite broken promises and the United States shunning the gathering.
Climate change–related natural disasters such as floods, fires, and storms devastate communities, and their massive costs continue to grow. But as climate risks increase, financial risk management infrastructure is not keeping pace. Analytical tools on ...
As world leaders prepare to gather in Brazil for COP30 next week, they will convene in the heart of the Amazon — a fitting location for what must become a turning point in how the world addresses the intertwined crises of climate change and biodiversity loss. Around the world, Indigenous Peoples and local communities’ leadership […]
The oil and gas industry has relied on horizontal wells to boost output even as they yield steep production declines.
A slew of changes to federal health care policies are stressing cash-strapped rural hospitals as climate change spurs extreme weather threats.
The head of a carbon removal startup explains why Trump climate policy has created a “golden opportunity” for Canada.
Fallout from lethal police raids in Rio de Janeiro and mounting regional fears about US military intervention in Venezuela are threatening to overshadow the major United Nations climate summit set to begin in Brazil. The Cop30 gathering in the northern city of Belem was supposed to provide President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva a chance to showcase the environmental challenges facing the Amazon rainforest while spurring an aggressive response to climate change. Instead, the pair of crises sparked...
[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican Ministry of Public Works has called for integrated and strengthened measures to manage river basins in order to address effectively drought, climate change and pollution.
This is our message to world leaders: make this the ‘Cop of truth’, before people lose faith Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is the president of Brazil Today, in the Brazilian Amazon, the Belém summit opens ahead of the 30th United Nations climate change conference (Cop30). I have convened world leaders in the days leading up to the conference so that we can all commit to acting with the urgency the climate crisis demands. If we fail to move beyond speeches into real action, our societies will lose faith – not only in the Cops, but in multilateralism and international politics more broadly. That is why I have summoned leaders to the Amazon: to make this the “Cop of truth”, the moment we demonstrate the seriousness of our shared commitment to the planet. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is the president...
Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates has been in the news of late, with claims that he has changed his stance on climate change, following a memo he posted on his website. But is that really the case?
President names Steve Pearce to lead agency that manages a quarter-billion acres, about 10% of land in US Donald Trump nominated a former lawmaker from New Mexico on Wednesday to oversee the management of vast public lands that are playing a central role in Republican attempts to ramp up fossil fuel production. The nominee for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), former representative Steve Pearce of New Mexico, must be confirmed by the Senate. The agency manages a quarter-billion acres – about 10% of land in the US. It’s also responsible for 700m acres of underground minerals, including major reserves of oil, natural gas and coal. Continue reading...
Report calls for scaling-up of renewable energy and electrification of key sectors to limit peak of global heating There is still a chance for the world to avoid the worst ravages of climate breakdown and return to the goal of 1.5C if governments take concerted action on greenhouse gas emissions, a new assessment argues. The Climate Analytics report says governments’ goals are inadequate and need to be rapidly revised, and calls for the rapid scaling-up of the use of renewable energy and electrification of key sectors including transport, heating and industry. Continue reading...
London mayor Sir Sadiq Khan and West Yorkshire counterpart Tracy Brabin were also flying to Rio de Janeiro for local leader summits. Officials would not say how many civil servants were attending.
Bill C-48 bans ships that hold more than12,500 metric tons of oil from waters off the north of B.C.’s coast — from the northernmost point of Vancouver Island to the Alaskan border.
In the first election of Donald Trump's second term, voters make clear that they're unhappy with his energy policies — and they still care about climate action.
Report by consultants Deloitte undermines Labor’s public claims that WA’s gas exports help reduce emissions overseas Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Exports of Australian gas carry “substantial risks” of slowing the move to cleaner energy in Asian countries, according to a confidential report for the Western Australian government that undermines the government’s own narrative that the industry helps cut global emissions. The warning in the 2024 report by consultants Deloitte challenges the claim made by the Western Australian premier, Roger Cook, in 2023 that his state’s increased greenhouse pollution, largely driven by the vast amount of gas burnt to liquefy gas for export, is justified because...
Bill Gates, in a talk at Caltech on Monday night, defended his stance on shifting funds away from climate change mitigation and toward global human health efforts.
New York Times: They include seizing control of the country’s oil fields.
The former New Mexico congressman most recently served as chair of the New Mexico Republican Party.
New US sanctions on Russian crude oil firms are causing major purchasers in China, India, and Turkey to distance themselves, leading to a significant decline in seaborne exports. Refiners are hesitant to accept Russian crude, resulting in increased oil volumes idling at sea and a drop in Moscow's oil revenue.
Energy and Commerce leaders requested new information about the Biden-era Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Texas’ independent grid is meeting a large portion of the state’s rising electricity demand through its growing fleet of solar facilities, wind power generators and batteries, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). In the first nine […]
The effort puts a spotlight on Trump administration attacks on federal datasets that don’t align with its priorities, including data dealing with gender identity; diversity, equity and inclusion; and climate change.
Showing intellectual responsibility, Bill Gates admirably adjusts his stance on climate change.
[Vanguard] As Nigeria grapples with food insecurity, declining soil fertility, and the mounting impact of climate change, a new wave of sustainable agriculture practices is emerging through public-private collaboration. One example is MAGGI's Regenerative Agriculture (RegenAg) initiative, which is supporting thousands of local soybean farmers to adopt climate-smart practices and improve productivity.
The state legislature passed a bill that will add a surcharge for customers in the short term, but should pay it back more than 10-fold over the next 20 years.
Exclusive: Jason Falinski says cutting net zero would tell young Australians ‘we have given up’ and could have negative impact at next election Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The Liberal party ran as “Nationals-lite” last election and would be “rewarding standover tactics” from its junior Coalition partner if it caves to dropping a net zero emissions commitment, says former party president and MP Jason Falinski, as moderate and conservative forces continue warring over climate policy. The Liberals are poised to ditch their net zero pledge after conservative powerbrokers urged Sussan Ley to follow the Nationals in dumping the target. With a special meeting to be convened in the coming fortnight to resolve a position, moderate Liberals are fighting...
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- A new UN Environment Programme (UNEP) assessment warns that the world is still far from meeting the Paris Agreement goals, with global warming projections showing only marginal improvement despite new national pledges -- leaving the planet on course for a dangerous escalation in climate risks.
The bureau plans to auction more than 4,000 acres of public lands for oil and gas leasing.
Ten years after nations adopted the Paris Agreement, its objectives are in jeopardy amid rising climate pollution and a political backlash against clean energy.
Stardust Solutions is hunting government investments in its technologies that aim to cool the planet by deflecting heat from the sun.
U.S. withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement would erase another 0.1 C of progress.
At COP15, the developing countries were calling for the temperature to not rise above 1.5 degrees and they ignored the Copenhagen Accord which agreed to 2.0 degrees Then at COP21, while the developing countries were still calling for the temperature to not arise above 1.5, they were ignored again. And then, the developing countries praised […]
Researchers behind report cited by some in the Coalition say their work is based on various assumptions – largely involving cost to overseas customers, not Australians Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here University energy researchers say their modelling of the economics of Australia reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions – used by the Nationals and some Liberal MPs as part of a justification to drop the goal – has been misrepresented. The Nationals leader, David Littleproud, has repeatedly claimed that reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions would “cost Australians $9tn”, pointing to the work of Net Zero Australia (NZA). Continue reading...
[This Day] Vice President Kashim Shettima on Tuesday departed the nation's capital, Abuja, for Brazil to represent President Bola Tinubu at the 30th session of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, tagged COP 30, holding in the South American country.
China’s energy industry has passed a new milestone, with the expansion of the Yangtze River Delta’s Beilun Power Station making it the largest thermal power station in the country by installed capacity. The plant’s one gigawatt coal-fired Unit Nine has commenced operation after a 168-hour full-load trial, state-owned China Energy Investment Corporation announced on Monday. That raised the total installed capacity of the power station, in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, to 7.34GW – surpassing the...
The Labour mayor has jetted off to Poland, Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, France and Brazil over the last year, racking up thousands of air miles and costing the tax payer tens of thousands in costs.
Video: 00:30:00 The Copernicus Sentinel-1D satellite has joined the Sentinel-1 mission in orbit. Launch took place on 4 November 2025 at 22:02 CET (18:02 local time) on board an Ariane 6 launcher from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.The Sentinel-1 mission delivers high-resolution radar images of Earth’s surface, performing in all weathers, day-and-night. This service is used by disaster response teams, environmental agencies, maritime authorities and climate scientists, who depend on frequent updates of critical data.Sentinel-1D will work in tandem with Sentinel-1C, flying in the same orbit but 180° apart, to optimise global coverage and data delivery. Both satellites have a C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) instrument on board, which captures high-resolution imagery of Earth’s...
Video: 01:17:22 The Copernicus Sentinel-1D satellite has joined the Sentinel-1 mission in orbit. Launch took place on 4 November 2025 at 22:03 CET (18:03 local time) on board an Ariane 6 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. The Sentinel-1 mission delivers high-resolution radar images of Earth’s surface, performing in all weathers, day-and-night. This service is used by disaster response teams, environmental agencies, maritime authorities and climate scientists, who depend on frequent updates of critical data.The Sentinel-1D satellite will work in tandem with Sentinel-1C, flying in the same orbit but 180° apart, to optimise global coverage and data delivery. Both satellites have a C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) instrument on board, which captures high-resolution imagery...
Learn how early hominins crafted the same sharp-edged Oldowan tools through 300,000 years of climate change, revealing one of the longest-lasting technologies in human history.
Reform's Richard Tice has branded the long-established policy of the state pension triple lock, which guarantees pensioners' incomes rise in real terms each year, 'unsustainable'.
US technology company’s engineers want to exploit solar power and the falling cost of rocket launches Google is hatching plans to put artificial intelligence datacentres into space, with its first trial equipment sent into orbit in early 2027. Its scientists and engineers believe tightly packed constellations of about 80 solar-powered satellites could be arranged in orbit about 400 miles above the Earth’s surface equipped with the powerful processors required to meet rising demand for AI. Continue reading...
The chancellor appears to believe voters will forgive a broken promise in return for meaningful investment Chancellor considers cut to green levies in effort to reduce cost of energy bills In April 1975, the Labour chancellor Denis Healey sought to grip the UK’s runaway inflation and rising unemployment rates – an economic crisis triggered by the shock rise in global oil prices – by raising the basic rate of income tax . Now Rachel Reeves , faced with her own set of difficult economic circumstances, including a multi-billion-pound budget shortfall, is contemplating the same remedy – breaking a 50-year taboo by becoming the first chancellor since Healey to hike the basic rate of income tax. Continue reading...
BELEM, Brazil (AP) — For 30 years, world leaders and diplomats have gathered at United Nations negotiating sessions to try to curb climate change, but Earth's temperature continues to rise and extreme weather worsens.
A new UN report shows that global temperatures continue to rise despite a slight slowdown in emissions. It reiterates the call for countries to be more ambitious on climate action.
As vice president, he shaped President George W. Bush's climate and energy policies.
On a reporting trip in July 2023, science journalist Elizabeth Kolbert had an “amazing” stroke of luck. It was her last day in Dominica, in the Caribbean, where she’d been shadowing a group of scientists attempting to translate sperm whale vocalizations with the help of artificial intelligence. While out at sea, she and the research […]
The number of EV charging points is growing in Germany, but availability varies considerably. Where can electric car drivers charge most easily – and where there is still room for improvement?
Australian households will be able to access three hours a day of free solar power under an energy-saving programme that the government unveiled on Tuesday and will begin next year. “We want to see the benefits of renewable energy flow to all,” Energy Minister Chris Bowen told national broadcaster ABC. In a statement, he said that the Solar Sharer scheme will be rolled out from next year in some jurisdictions, including New South Wales and South Australia, before a possible expansion. “It’s not...
Oil and gas company says it will review its portfolio and push to sell off assets faster Business live – latest updates BP has said it will ramp up efforts to hive off parts of the business, as the energy company reported a drop in profits in its latest quarter. The company reported an underlying profit of $2.2bn (£1.7bn) in the three months ended in September. It marked a slowdown against its previous quarter, when it made a profit of $2.4bn, but beat analyst expectations of $1.98bn. Continue reading...
In 2015, nearly 200 countries adopted the Paris Agreement, the first global pact to fight climate change. Here's a comparison of then and now — in terms of the state of the climate, the way we live and our technologies, our laws and where we're putting our money.
The Tallgrass pipeline has started moving emissions from 11 ethanol plants in Nebraska and one in Iowa to a site in southeast Wyoming.