Exclusive: Experts say bank is misleading public over ‘sustainable’ financing for Eni as it vastly expands fossil fuel production Barclays is being accused by environmental groups of greenwashing after helping to arrange €4bn (£3.4bn) in financing for the Italian oil company Eni in a way that allows them to qualify towards its $1tn sustainable financing goal. Environmental groups have said the London-based bank is deliberately misleading the public by labelling the financial instruments as “sustainable” at the same time that Eni is in the midst of a multibillion-pound fossil fuel expansion drive designed to increase production. Continue reading...
BERLIN - Azerbaijan, host of this year's U.N. climate summit, will defend the right of oil and gas producing nations to invest in the sector, the country's president said on Friday, noting that despite climate targets, fossil fuel demand remains strong.
Climate change-induced flooding has devastated the lives of people living on the Indian and Nepalese sides of the Hindu Kush Himalaya. Although the floods have destroyed their lives and livelihoods, as this cross-border collaboration narrates, neither community has received any substantial compensation.
Waves of Chinese panels are pitting Americans who want cheap equipment against those who want to make it. The feud threatens Biden's climate agenda.
The court spiked Obama-era controls on power plant emissions. Biden’s rule may be next.
With rivers across the West running low, utilities must get creative if they are to meet demand without increasing emissions.
As climate change intensifies hurricanes, some scientists want a Category 6 for the biggest storms
[Greenpeace] Ottawa, Canada, 25 April 2024 - Over 195 fossil fuel and chemical industry lobbyists have gained access to the fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC4) to negotiate for a Global Plastics Treaty, according to an analysis conducted by Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL). Greenpeace Africa is very much concerned about the growing number of these lobbyists seeking to produce a treaty that works more for the fossil fuel sector than our planet.
Coal plants must cut their emissions by 90 per cent under new rules that coal executives say are impossible to meet.
The 196 fossil fuel and chemical industry lobbyists outnumber any single delegation in Ottawa.
International marques are mounting a spirited fightback, focusing on reliability and safety, and providing a mixed bag of petrol and electric cars for a new generations of local customers.
A new type of rapeseed engineered in China can improve upon yields by 50 per cent, increasing the domestic harvest of edible oil and lessening the country’s reliance on imports.
[Global Fund] Geneva -- The Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund) held its 51st meeting this week in Geneva, Switzerland. While anticipating record disbursements this year, with an unprecedented pace of investment in resilient and sustainable systems for health (RSSH) and pandemic preparedness and response (PPR), the Board repeatedly acknowledged the numerous challenges - including climate change, conflict, displacement, geopolitics, the economic situation, and in particular, the
Wealthier nations, most responsible for planet-heating emissions, have been criticised for not paying their fair share.
Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday that California continued to rapidly add the battery storage that is critical to the transition to cleaner energy, but admitted it was not enough to avoid blackouts during heat waves.
Corruption in Venezuela's oil industry is a many-headed monster that has devoured billions of dollars in taxpayers' money in the past 20 years, experts say.
Oil consumption in China’s transport sector will peak next year ‘at the latest’ as rapid adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) pulls the plug on petrol consumption, according to the nation’s largest oil and gas producer.
LONDON - The Scottish National Party (SNP) will lead a minority government in Scotland, leader Humza Yousaf said on Thursday, announcing the end of its coalition with the Green Party after a row about climate change targets.
In the short run, China and India are showing no real intention of cutting coal dependence. Instead, both are building or proposing new coal-fired capacity, never mind their climate pledges.
World Weather Attribution group says intensified El Niño effects caused torrential rain, but rules out cloud seeding as cause Fossil fuels and concrete combined to worsen the “death trap” conditions during recent record flooding in the United Arab Emirates and Oman, a study has found. Scientists from the World Weather Attribution team said downpours in El Niño years such as this one had become 10-40% heavier in the region as a result of human-cased climate disruption, while a lack of natural drainage quickly turned roads into rivers. Continue reading...
Channel Ten show’s planned use of biomethane and hydrogen in cooking challenges ‘completely out of sync’ with changing attitudes, critics say Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Environmentalists have accused the hit reality TV show MasterChef Australia of greenwashing after the Network Ten program announced sponsorship deals with gas companies. The official sponsors for MasterChef’s 16th season include the Australian Gas Network (AGN), a subsidiary of Australian Gas Infrastructure Group, which is responsible for a national fossil fuel distribution network. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading...
World wine production dropped 10 percent last year, the biggest fall in more than six decades, because of "extreme" climate changes, the body that monitors the trade said Thursday.
Fossil fuel and petrochemical campaigners at Ottawa summit outnumber scientists, EU and Indigenous delegates The number of fossil fuel and petrochemical industry lobbyists has increased by more than a third at UN talks to agree the first global treaty to cut plastic pollution, analysis shows. Most plastic is made from fossil fuels via a chemical process known as cracking, and 196 lobbyists from both industries are at the UN talks in Ottawa, Canada, where countries are attempting to come to an agreement to curb plastic production as part of a treaty to cut global plastic waste, according to analysis by the Center for International Environmental Law (Ciel). Continue reading...
The projected $860 million compliance cost over 10 years will be double the expected health and climate gains of $430 million.
Next-generation Climate Targets: A 5-Point Plan for NDCs shannon.paton@… Thu, 04/25/2024 - 08:29 By early 2025, countries are due to unveil new national climate commitments under the Paris Agreement, known as nationally determined contributions (NDCs). These commitments form the foundation of international climate action, establishing emissions-reduction targets and other measures that countries promise to implement. The Paris Agreement requires nations to put forward new NDCs every five years, with each round stronger than the last. In short, NDCs are important because they are the main vehicle for countries to collectively confront the global climate crisis. Yet NDCs to date fall well short of what’s needed to avert increasingly dangerous climate impacts and hold...
First Minister Humza Yousaf of the Scottish National Party ended the three-year power-sharing agreement with the Green Party after he abandoned a key climate change target.
Global warming caused by fossil fuel emissions "most likely" exacerbated the intense rains that lashed the UAE and Oman last week, causing deaths and widespread flooding, an expert group of scientists said Thursday.
The Biden administration has taken its most aggressive action yet on cutting greenhouse gas emissions from the private sector. That includes a strict ultimatum for coal-fired power plants.
Energy watchdog warns pace must accelerate to hit targets after new batteries increased capacity by 130% The rollout of batteries across the global electricity industry more than doubled last year but will need to be six times faster if the world hopes to meet its renewable energy targets, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). A report from the global energy watchdog found that new batteries totalling 42 gigawatts (GW) were plugged into electricity systems around the world last year, increasing total capacity by more than 130% from the year before to 85GW. Continue reading...
First minister terminates Bute House agreement ‘with immediate effect’ after government abandons emissions target UK politics – latest updates The historic power-sharing agreement between the Scottish National party and Scottish Greens is to end after a crisis over the government’s climate strategy. Scotland’s first minister, Humza Yousaf, said he had told the Scottish Green co-leaders he was terminating the Bute House agreement with immediate effect. Continue reading...
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Campus organizers at three universities filed legal complaints on Monday arguing that their schools’ investments in planet-heating fossil fuels are illegal, the Guardian has learned. The students from Columbia University, Tulane University, and the University of Virginia each wrote to the […]
The Biden administration released a major climate regulation aimed at virtually eliminating carbon emissions from coal, the dirtiest of the fossil fuels and a driver of global warming.
The Biden administration has expressed growing alarm that efforts to fight climate change could falter unless the electric grids are quickly expanded.
Scotland's Scottish Nationalist Party-led coalition fell apart Thursday after a three year-long power-sharing agreement with the Scottish Greens imploded in a row over the scrapping of carbon emissions targets.
President Joe Biden's government on Thursday finalized sweeping plans to curb planet-warming emissions from the nation's fossil fuel plants as part of the United States' efforts to confront the climate crisis.
A group of senior Swiss women recently won a powerful victory offering renewed hope for tackling climate change. Earlier this month, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the government of Switzerland is violating human rights because it isn’t doing enough to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Swiss women take the lead More than 2,000 […]
Slater and Harvie should show some leadership and demand that the SNP get serious on climate change and appoint a Green to Cabinet.
The new standards — on everything from carbon pollution to wastewater — are the last major pieces of Biden's first-term push to clean up the power sector.
The federal appeals court will now consider whether to freeze work on the SunZia line, which is designed to expand access to renewable energy.
Budget Chair Sheldon Whitehouse has scheduled a hearing on the oil industry and climate change.
Woodside Energy’s climate strategy has been criticized as too slow or unclear.
Fifteen years after the EPA said greenhouse gasses are a danger to public health, the agency finalized rules to limit climate-warming pollution from existing coal and new gas power plants.
[VOA] Geneva -- A new analysis of the state of global hunger finds conflict, climate change, and economic shocks are driving an increasing number of people into acute hunger, jeopardizing gains made over previous years in achieving the United Nations' Sustainable Development goal of ending hunger by 2030.
Illnesses such as dengue and malaria to reach unaffected parts of northern Europe, America, Asia and Australia, conference to hear Mosquito-borne diseases are spreading across the globe, and particularly in Europe, due to climate breakdown, an expert has said. The insects spread illnesses such as malaria and dengue fever, the prevalences of which have hugely increased over the past 80 years as global heating has given them the warmer, more humid conditions they thrive in. Continue reading...
Along the mighty Bay of Bengal, the forces unleashed by climate change are overwhelming lives and livelihoods.
Pope Francis spoke out against climate change deniers, calling them 'fools' in his first ever interview on American television.
Ukraine's national security service said Wednesday that it had struck two Russian state-owned oil depots in the western Russian region of Smolensk. The Reuters news agency quoted a Ukrainian intelligence official as saying the drone strike had destroyed more than 26,000 cubic meters — slightly less than 1 million cubic feet — of fuel at the depots owned by Russia's Rosneft energy corporation.Unverified videos published on social media showed huge fires and columns of thick black smoke rising from what appeared to be two oil storage tanks at one of the facilities, which are west of Moscow near the country's borders with Belarus and Ukraine. The governor of Russia's Smolensk region, Vasily Anothkin, first announced the strike early Wednesday on social media, saying his "region was again targeted...
Electric cars have the benefit of being much more quiet than their gas-powered counterparts. So why are carmakers building in fake engine noises?
Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) is gearing up to commence a new drilling initiative in June for India's first geothermal venture in Ladakh. The project aims to establish a sustainable source for emission-free electricity, space heating, and irrigation in challenging landscapes.
KYIV - Drones sent by Ukraine's SBU security service struck two Rosneft-owned oil depots in Russia's Smolensk region in an overnight attack on Wednesday, a Ukrainian intelligence source said.
Global market share for EVs jumped from 3% to 18% in 4 years; costs of solar and wind have dropped dramatically; venture funding has topped $50B for 3 years running, up from $17B in 2020.
The latest batch of e-cars to sail into the UK docked at the Port of Bristol last week. Almost 4,700 arrived on a colossal transport, the Wisdom Ace.
Industry Must Decarbonize: Cross-Sector Initiative Shows the Way in New Blueprint shannon.paton@… Wed, 04/24/2024 - 09:39 Industry is the backbone of modern daily life and the country’s economy, from manufacturing clothes, cars, phones and toothbrushes to the materials that make American buildings, roads and bridges — such as chemicals, steel, cement, paper and other essential goods that people and businesses use. The industrial sector is also a critical source of jobs in many small and medium-sized communities. The International Energy Agency has stated that to give the world a chance to be on track for meeting our global climate goals, global carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions must reach net zero by 2050. However, as global emissions continue to rise, industry —...
British Medical Association says decision to take Dr Sarah Benn off medical register for five months ‘sends worrying message’ Doctors groups are calling for urgent consideration of the rules for medical professionals who take peaceful direct action on the climate crisis, which they say is the “greatest threat to global health”, after a GP was suspended from the register for non-violent protest. Dr Sarah Benn, a GP from Birmingham, was taken off the medical register for five months on Tuesday by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS), the disciplinary arm of the General Medical Council (GMC), over her climate protests. Continue reading...
For the surprisingly affordable price, customers might wonder who actually makes Costco's Kirkland brand motor oil and whether the product is any good.
[UN News] Top UN officials launched a fresh global campaign to tackle the climate emergency on Tuesday, with social media influencers, Indigenous leaders and corporate giants showing what they've done and what's to come.
Pohokura gas field, Taranaki. PHOTO: Te Are By Jeremy Rose New Zealand is an associate member of the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance (BOGA) an international grouping committed to ending “new concessions, licensing or leasing...
High winds, rains, winter storms and tropical cyclones accounted for 80% of power interruptions over the last 20 years Power outages in the US are surging, as climate-related extreme weather strain an already burdened energy grid. Over the last decade, severe storm outages increased by 74% compared with the previous 10 years. Continue reading...
Footage published on social media showed an oil refinery in the western Smolensk region in flames.
A huge fire has broken out at a Russian oil refinery following reports of overnight drone attacks.
£2.2bn-worth of oil processed in China, India and Turkey – to whom Russia supplies crude – was imported in 2023, data shows The UK has been accused of “helping Russia pay for its war on Ukraine” by continuing to import record amounts of refined oil from countries processing Kremlin fossil fuels. Government data analysed by the environmental news site Desmog shows that imports of refined oil from India, China and Turkey amounted to £2.2bn in 2023, the same record value as the previous year, up from £434.2m in 2021. Continue reading...
"When we listen to the land, the land will listen to us. It's a language. Climate change is creating a language barrier."
Investors lodge 58% protest vote against emissions report but defiant chair Richard Goyder maintains company is part of solution to climate change Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Woodside Energy has suffered an embarrassing rebuke of its climate credentials after its emissions plan was overwhelmingly rejected by shareholders at its annual general meeting on Wednesday. Investors lodged a 58% vote against Woodside’s climate report, representing the strongest protest recorded against any of the dozens of listed companies around the world that regularly put climate-related resolutions to shareholders. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading...
A heating network using waste energy from a data centre may show a new future for warming and decarbonisng Scotland's buildings.
Rich nations’ climate hypocrisy is accelerating global heating, pushing the planet closer to irreversible catastrophe, with its worst consequences borne by the poorest, both countries and peoples. Climate injustice While official and other discourses acknowledge or even invoke the need for collective responsibility, the disparity in culpability between wealthy nations and the developing world is […]
Plaintiffs including 17-month-old boy nicknamed Woodpecker bring landmark climate litigation in South Korea, the first in Asia to get a public hearing.
[The Conversation Africa] Cities cover just 3% of the planet. But they emit 78% of all global greenhouse gas emissions, absorb 80% of final global energy (what consumers use) and consume 60% of clean drinking water.
Climate change — linked to wildfires, drought and dust — is not only worsening air quality, but also making pollution increasingly difficult to combat, experts say.
BERLIN - A German court on Tuesday handed down suspended eight-month prison sentences to three climate activists who sprayed orange paint on the columns of Berlin's landmark Brandenburg Gate last September to demand a stop to the use of fossil fuels by 2030.
The International Energy Agency is forecasting that one in five cars sold globally is set to be electric. China continues to dominate the global market.
Scientists just uncorked a very useful new material.
[Daily Trust] Nigeria grapples with a complex web of emergencies, from natural disasters from flooding to man-made ones like oil spills.
The good news is we can still avoid even worse outcomes.
AI can analyse satellite images to reveal the movements of dark ships in a shadow fleet that smuggles oil and other cargo from sanctioned countries such as Russia, Iran, Venezuela and North Korea
The dystopian picture of renewables painted by the opposition leader is full of inconsistencies, partial truths and misinformation Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast The Coalition leader, Peter Dutton, has been trying to paint a picture of what life in Australia will be like if it tries to power itself mostly with renewable energy and without his technology of choice: nuclear. Towering turbines offshore will hurt whales, dolphins and the fishing industry, factories will be forced to stop working because there’s not enough electricity and the landscape will be scoured by enough new transmission cables to stretch around the entire Australian coastline. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily...
China’s coal consumption - the world’s biggest - may see a minor uptick in the next two years.
GENEVA - Asia was the world's most disaster-hit region by climate related hazards last year, the United Nations' (UN) World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said, with floods and storms causing the highest number of casualties.
Asia remained the world’s most disaster-affected region in 2023 due to weather, climate and water-related hazards. Storms and floods have hit the hardest, a new report published by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Tuesday reveals.
It’s not too late to tackle climate change, but sometimes it sure feels that way. The post How to talk to a climate doomer (even if that doomer is you) appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Media release | Ipsos, one of the world’s leading market research companies, has released a 33-country study as part of Earth Day, looking at how attitudes to climate change are changing.
The program is designed to reduce greenhouse emissions and energy inequity.
The move will establish at least 6 gigawatts of wind power at sea in six parks by 2030, in addition to the Nordic country’s existing 2.7 GW of offshore supply, the Danish Energy Agency said.
The International Labor Organization cited the link between climate change and health threats, including cancer, cardiovascular disease and respiratory troubles.
Jobs will change, communities will be affected, but we have a shot at rising to the challenge of global heating The climate crisis has long been defined by its lies: From the original sin of science denial, to Tony Abbott’s confected carbon tax panic, to the latest yellowcake straw man. But the most damaging porky of all might be that the transition to renewable energy will be easy. Government messaging has propagated this myth, vacillating between the torpid technocracy of targets, acronyms and megawatt hours and the sunny spin that promises “a cheaper, cleaner energy future!”. Continue reading...
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Joe Biden marked Monday’s Earth Day by announcing a $7 billion investment in solar energy projects nationwide, focusing on disadvantaged communities, and unveiling a week-long series of what the White House say will be “historic climate actions.” The president was […]
These include excessive heat, UV radiation, air pollution, vector-borne diseases and agrochemicals.
Chris Stark says populist response and culture war around the term is inhibiting environmental progress The concept of “net zero” has become a political slogan used to start a “dangerous” culture war over the climate, and may be better dropped, the outgoing head of the UK’s climate watchdog has warned. Chris Stark, the chief executive of the Climate Change Committee (CCC), said sensible improvements to the economy and people’s lives were being blocked by a populist response to the net zero label, and he would be “intensely relaxed” about losing the term. Continue reading...
Travel reporter Andrea Sachs, environment reporter Kasha Patel and climate coach Michael Coren will answer questions during a live chat on Monday at 1 p.m. ET.
Organizers at Columbia, Tulane and the University of Virginia write to attorneys general arguing schools’ investments are illegal Campus organizers at three universities filed legal complaints on Monday arguing that their schools’ investments in planet-heating fossil fuels are illegal, the Guardian has learned. The students from Columbia University, Tulane University and the University of Virginia each wrote to the attorneys general of their respective states calling on them to scrutinize their universities’ investments. They accuse their universities of breaching the Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act, a law adopted by 49 states that requires non-profit institutions to consider their “charitable purposes” when investing, and exercise “prudence” and “loyalty”. Continue...
The Newtok-to-Mertarvik transformation is the most advanced of several village relocation efforts prompted by climate change.
As electricity prices go negative, the Golden State is struggling to offload a glut of solar power.
An energy startup aimed at cleaning up artificial intelligence’s massive use of electricity is getting a multi-million dollar boost from investors, including the AI industry’s top leader.Read more...
UN Live’s CEO, Katja Iversen, says the way to engage people in the environment is through popular culture—film, music, gaming, sports, food, and fashion. She is excited about the Sounds Right project, which puts the sounds of nature—bird songs, waves, wind, and rainfall—at the center of a campaign to support those involved in climate action. […]
CNN — The world’s oceans, lakes and rivers are under mounting pressure from climate change, growing demand, urbanization, and pollution, threatening their ability to sustain life. Without better data to understand the health of increasingly stressed waterways, the fight to save these most precious of resources will be ineffective, says Simeon Pieterkosky, co-founder of the … The post These supersized clownfish robots could be coming to waterways in the Middle East appeared first on Egypt Independent.
New scientific analysis details impacts of climate change in Europe, where temperatures are running at 2.3 degrees above pre-industrial levels, compared to 1.3 degrees higher globally.
The president heads to a Virginia national park Monday as the White House plans a slew of election-year climate and conservation announcements.
SINGAPORE - Oil that is more sulphurous and dense is gaining popularity in the Asian physical market in a rare shift away from the usual pattern as global crude flows change and rewards from refining move in its favour.
Climate change shocks caused record levels of disruption and misery for millions in Europe in 2023 with widespread flooding and severe heatwaves – a new normal which countries must adapt to as a priority, the UN weather agency said on Monday.
[Daily Trust] In 2023, there was an oil spill in Uzere, in Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State, which spread into farmlands and fishing ponds of Uzere.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) has urged manufacturers and industries to embrace energy efficiency and management to lessen their energy costs during operation.
Transmission Gully. PHOTO: Mark Tantrum, NZTA. Fast-Track legislation will take New Zealand further off track from meeting climate change obligations - and places the country at risk of breaching them, according to Lawyers...
Ships burn some of the dirtiest fuels and generate 3 percent of global emissions. Mechanical sails could help solve their environmental problem.
Kaveh Zahedi is the Director of the Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Funds will be targeted at disadvantaged areas to create 200,000 jobs, after last week’s oil and gas lease restrictions in Alaska Joe Biden will mark Monday’s Earth Day by announcing a $7bn investment in solar energy projects nationwide, focusing on disadvantaged communities, and unveiling a week-long series of what the White House say will be “historic climate actions”. The president is traveling to Virginia’s Prince William Forest Park to deliver a speech touting his environmental record, including measures to tackle the climate crisis and increase access to, and lower costs of, clean energy. Continue reading...
COP29 could make carbon markets permanent. Indigenous leaders are calling for a moratorium before it's too late.
The next international climate meeting could make carbon markets permanent. Indigenous leaders call for a moratorium before it’s too late. The post Indigenous people rush to stop ‘false climate solutions’ ahead of COP29 appeared first on High Country News.
The world is facing multiple crises that must be tackled quickly, with innovative approaches and brave decisions. The global financial architecture is an area that needs reform and thinking outside the box. The system created 80 years ago is not able to deal with today’s problems that range from climate change to pandemics, to increasing […]
Questions about the wording of a fire code have safety advocates calling for stricter and clearer rules on liquefied natural gas.
The National Commission on Climate and Workforce Health said companies would benefit by helping employees cope with extreme events.
by Mark Olalde, ProPublica, and Nick Bowlin, Capital & Main ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. For the first time in more than 60 years, the Bureau of Land Management will force oil and gas companies to set aside more money to guarantee they plug old wells, preventing them from leaking oil, brine and toxic or climate-warming gasses. The rule, finalized this month, comes at a critical time. Money previously...
On April 22, 2016, world leaders from 175 countries gathered in New York on Earth Day to sign the Paris Agreement
Tom Mutch/The Daily BeastCHERNOBYL, UKRAINE—Nuclear terror has been the nightmare scenario ever since the Chernobyl and Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plants got caught up in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.The U.N. nuclear watchdog convened a meeting of Russian and Ukrainian officials last week to plead for sanity to prevail after drones struck Zaporizhzhia—Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant.While missiles, mines, drones and gunfire continue to be deployed around nuclear plants, the risk of an accident is sky high.Read more at The Daily Beast.
Norway’s KLP and the UK’s LGIM among those who say they have concerns over energy giant’s carbon transition goals Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Woodside Energy is facing the prospect of an overwhelming protest vote against its climate plans when shareholders meet on Wednesday, as global investors pick apart the emissions strategy of Australia’s biggest oil and gas company. Norway’s largest pension fund, KLP, and Britain’s biggest asset manager, LGIM, are the latest investors to disclose they will vote against Woodside’s climate report, citing concerns over its carbon transition plans. Continue reading...
Venice's 60th Biennale international art show has opened its doors, exploring humankind's relationship with the fragile planet, from Greenland's icecaps to deforestation in the Amazon.
Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant in Zhejiang expected to be able to make enough of the material to meet the country’s demand.
Climate protesters gather for the Global Day of Action for Climate Justice march in Glasgow in November 2021
Energy Secretary Claire Coutinho defends government after watchdog accuses PM of setting the UK back.
Some biologists are predicting climate change could mean the arrival of new insects on Atlantic Canada's shores.
Nasa utilizes AI and open science to address climate change challenges through technological advancement, transparency, data sharing, global collaboration, and educational outreach, setting a precedent for effective environmental stewardship and scientific inquiry.
Chris Stark, head of the Climate Change Committee, says Tories’ decision to dilute key green policies has had huge diplomatic impact Rishi Sunak has given up Britain’s reputation as a world leader in the fight against the climate crisis and has “set us back” by failing to prioritise the issue in the way his predecessors in No 10 did, the government’s green adviser has warned. Chris Stark, the outgoing head of the Climate Change Committee (CCC), said that the prime minister had “clearly not” championed the issue following a high-profile speech last year in which he made a significant U-turn on the government’s climate commitments . The criticism comes after Sunak was accused of trying to avoid scrutiny of Britain’s climate policies by failing to appoint a new chair of the CCC . Continue...
Green members are to vote on whether to remain in government after the SNP ditched key climate change targets.
DUBAI - The heavy rains that flooded Dubai this week halted air traffic, damaged buildings and streets — and left climate experts and common citizens asking whether one of the world’s hottest and driest cities should be better prepared for extreme storms.
The administration said it will restrict new oil and gas leasing on 13 million acres in Alaska to help protect wildlife such as caribou and polar bears as the Arctic continues to warm.
ACAPULCO - Mexican presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum on Friday said that if elected, her administration would focus on water management and renewable energy as part of a plan to boost the country's sustainability.
Diagram of PACE satellite imagery We know NASA mostly for launching rockets and humans into outer space, but for about 60 years the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has also played a vital role in understanding the spaceship humans call home-planet Earth. Data from NASA's newest Earth-observing satellite will provide insight into ocean health, air quality, and the effects of a changing climate. In the lead-up to Earth Day, which falls on April 22, NASA officials in Washington on Friday documented how climate change is affecting the planet, this time using data from a program that watches for changes in the ocean and the air from space. Earth Day draws attention to negative effects human activity has on the environment and asks people to focus on things they can do to better care...
The Scottish Greens have called an EGM after the Scottish government ditched key climate change targets.
Polestar, which has dreams of toppling Tesla one day, is making a gorgeous phone that will live as part of its connected electric car ecosystem.
This Alaska Insight, host Lori Townsend and her guests discuss how realistic a transition to renewable energy is, and how long it could take.
Despite significant progress, Scotland was falling short on cutting vehicle emissions, switching to heat pumps and even restoring peatland, the government said.
Tit-for-tat attacks have breached taboo of direct strikes on each other’s territory but Tehran has no ‘immediate’ plans to retaliate Middle East crisis – live updates World leaders urged calm on Friday after Israel conducted a pre-dawn drone sortie over Iran following a cycle of tit-for-tat attacks that crossed an important red line that has for decades held the Middle East back from a major regional conflict. There were tentative hopes late on Friday that the apparent strike attempt against an airbase near the city of Isfahan was sufficiently limited to fend off the threat of a bigger Iranian response and an uncontrolled spiral of violence between a nuclear power and a state with the capacity to develop nuclear weapons quickly. Continue reading...
YANVARTSEVO, Kazakhstan - Kazakhstan braced on Friday for levels on the Ural River to rise sharply, something that could threaten two of its western regions and key oil infrastructure, while Russia grappled with floods in and near Siberia.
The Biden administration moved to restrict the use of 13 million acres of federal petroleum reserves in Alaska leading to fury from the state's lawmakers who say the energy is vital to the local economy.
Volt Typhoon hacking campaign is waiting ‘for just the right moment to deal a devastating blow’, says Christopher Wray Chinese government-linked hackers have burrowed into US critical infrastructure and are waiting “for just the right moment to deal a devastating blow”, the director of the FBI , Christopher Wray, has warned. An ongoing Chinese hacking campaign known as Volt Typhoon has successfully gained access to numerous American companies in telecommunications, energy, water and other critical sectors, with 23 pipeline operators targeted, Wray said in a speech at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, on Thursday. Continue reading...
[New Era] Johannesburg -- A drought that pushed millions of people into hunger across southern Africa has been driven mostly by the El Nino weather pattern -- not climate change, scientists said yesterday. Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi have declared a national disaster over the severe dry spell that started in January and has devastated the agricultural sector, decimating crops and pastures.
NASA has selected six new airborne missions that include domestic and international studies of fire-induced clouds, Arctic coastal change, air quality, landslide hazards, shrinking glaciers, and emissions from agricultural lands. NASA’s suite of airborne missions complement what scientists can see from orbit, measure from the ground, and simulate in computer models. Funded through the […]
It's a major blow to New York's climate plan and to President Joe Biden's energy ambitions.
The rule is part of a suite of Biden administration actions to elevate the fight against climate change and aid communities saddled with pollution.
The environmental reviews for the projects come a week after the Biden administration released its rule to streamline permitting for renewable energy on federal lands.
[TI] The rising demand for land due to the global food crisis, climate change, rising sea levels, desertification, and extreme weather events, all limit its availability and accessibility. As global crises exacerbate inequalities, people who experience discrimination see their land rights affected the most.
A new Bureau of Land Management rule says that conservation is a "use" of public land, just like grazing, mining or recreation. The State of Utah is ready to sue over it.
At the time of writing, the national average price of regular gas is $3.62 per gallon, $0.02 higher than this time last year. Drivers who use premium gas are paying $0.07 more this year than last year at $4.42 per gallon. While Americans are currently paying about 15 percent less for gas than in 2022, prices are expected to climb higher throughout 2024. Numerous factors impact the price drivers pay at the pump, including the cost of crude oil, taxes, distribution and refining. Gas prices also depend on the ZIP code you fill up in, with states in the West paying the highest gas prices on average and Southeastern states paying the lowest. Key gas price statistics Here’s what to know about regular gasoline prices: The current national gas price average is $3.62 per gallon. The average cost of...
[UN News] Renewable energy, if supported by governments, can "truly change the landscape" in terms of achieving equitable access to affordable and clean energy, but only if those governments can move from "commitment to action"; That's according to the Director-General of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).
OKYO: Asian shares and bond yields sank on Friday while the dollar, yen, oil and gold surged after reports of a sharp escalation in Middle East hostilities.
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Now, climate change is adding urgency to those pledges.
An older demographic and greater use of electric vehicles (EV) are the driving forces behind the solar power business in Thailand, says New Energy Plus Solutions Co (NEPS), which expects 66% growth in its earnings this year from sales of rooftop solar panels and installation.
Experts warn that if deep-pocketed tech companies buy up carbon-free electricity from large nuclear baseload power plants and take that power off the grid too quickly, they will exacerbate the reliability risks now facing the broader network.
The new bank boss is trying to stretch balance sheets to address climate and other shared global challenges, largely at the urging of G7 countries that continue developing fossil fuels.
The U.N.'s nuclear watchdog said on Thursday that officials at Ukraine's Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant had reported a new attempted drone attack on the facility's training centre -- less than two weeks after other similar incidents.
[The Conversation Africa] South Africa is feeling the impacts of global warming. Heat is frequent and more intense. Human-induced climate change made the severe 2015-2017 drought three to six times more likely. But climate change also doubled the likelihood of the heavy rain that hit parts of South Africa in April 2022, which led to 400 people being killed and many thousands forced to flee their homes.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00341A, Paper Xiaoru Zhao, Feng Zhang, Houzhen Li, Huitong Dong, Chuncheng Yan, Chao Meng, Yuanhua Sang, Hong Liu, Yu-Guo Guo, Shuhua Wang Manganese oxide (MnO2) has attracted significant attention for aqueous zinc-ion batteries (ZIBs) due to its excellent theoretical capacity and high output voltage. However, irreversible phase transitions, the manganese dissolution and... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Oil prices rallied and equities sank Friday as reports said explosions had been heard in Iran and Syria, fuelling fears of an escalation of the Middle East crisis after last weekend's missile attack on Israel by Tehran.
The Amazon founder is looking for innovators with ideas about how to combat climate change with technologies powered by artificial intelligence.
This blog was authored by Francisco Pinto and Rodrigo Bórquez, economists of the Climate Action Teams (CAT) initiative, and by Environmental Defense Fund economist Luis Fernández Intriago. Source: Climate Action Teams Reducing emissions is imperative to address climate change. The mechanisms established in Article 6 of the Paris Agreement can serve as vital tools in […]
Trudi Warner was arrested on March 27 last year for holding up a sign outside an entrance used by jurors at Inner London Crown Court.
A brutal, deadly stretch of heat in West Africa would not have been possible without human-caused climate change, a new report has found.
The European Court of Human Rights has given one of the most extraordinary judgments it has ever handed down. It ruled that Switzerland had acted unlawfully in failing to take adequate steps to combat climate change, and that this failure was a breach of human rights.
Two new studies show the unseen toll smoke is taking on people across the country. Climate change is likely to make the problem even bigger.
Màiri McAllan has confirmed that the Scottish Government is scrapping a key climate change target.
Science in Space: April 2024 Everyone on Earth is touched by the effects of climate change, such as hotter temperatures, shifts in rain patterns, and sea level rise. Collecting climate data helps communities better plan for these changes and build more resilience to them. The International Space Station, one of dozens of NASA missions contributing […]
[The Point] Rohey John Manjang, the minister for Environment, Climate Change and Natural Resource, has made it clear that the government would not take "lightly" the illegal sale of the Manduar Forest.
[Global Witness] Together with Access Now and IPANDETEC, we're hosting a side event at the UNESCO 2024 World Press Freedom Day Conference on the online dangers to freedom of expression in Latin America and the fundamental links to environmental and climate communication globally.
Combining engineering, earth system science, and the social sciences, Course 1-12 prepares students to develop climate solutions.
The change in the much-anticipated BLM rule puts protection and restoration of lands on par with other uses, such as oil drilling and grazing.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00020J, Paper Michael W. Martinez-Szewczyk, Steven J. DiGregorio, Owen Hildreth, Mariana I. Bertoni ITRPV silver consumption of standard low-temperature and high-temperature paste as compared to reactive silver ink. As little as 16.4 mg of silver is consumed when a busbarless cell is metallized with reactive silver ink. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
The recent deadly heat in West Africa is driven by human activities, including the burning of fossil fuels, particularly in the wealthy Northern Hemisphere, according to an international report.
Japan expects AUVs to be used for inspecting offshore wind power generation facilities and underwater surveillance.
Climate Change and Revenue minister Simon Watts and Prime Minister Christopher Luxon are leading a business delegation to South East Asia. New Zealand has signed separate partnership agreements with Singapore and Thailand,...
The grass pea is one: a hardy crop that can thrive in a drought. An agriculturist is spearheading an effort to diversity what farmers grow as climate change threatens staples like corn and wheat.
Recycling more of the copper, aluminum, and other minerals in our old electronics could reduce the need for mining.
[IPS] London -- The heat records keep tumbling - 2023 was the hottest year in recorded history. Extreme weather events keep mounting up. And yet the voices most strongly calling for action to prevent climate catastrophe are increasingly being silenced.
The world economy faces significant losses if carbon emissions are not curbed.
Dr Sarah Benn from Birmingham was part of a demonstration at the Kingsbury oil terminal in 2022.
Scientists said extreme temperatures that reached 119 degrees Fahrenheit and killed at least 100 people would normally occur every 200 years.
California joins a group of states trying to pass climate Superfund bills to fine oil and gas companies for damages caused by climate change.
The study shows that the economic harms over the next 25 years are locked in with emission cuts producing only small changes in the income reduction.
[The Conversation Africa] A greater part of Africa's population can't afford a healthy diet than any other regional population. Food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa is caused by climate change, high levels of poverty, rapid population growth, low economic growth, inadequate infrastructure and conflicts. Women are the backbone of agricultural labour in the region. The problems of limited access to land, water and technology faced by these women also worsen food insecurity.
[The Conversation Africa] The effects of ocean warming are profound and well-documented. But sometimes changes in the patterns of winds and ocean currents cause seawater to suddenly cool, instead.
Foreign minister warns of environmental catastrophe in Baltic Sea as he accuses Moscow of using unseaworthy vessels Russia appears prepared to create “environmental havoc” by sailing unseaworthy oil tankers through the Baltic Sea in breach of all maritime rules, the Swedish foreign minister has said. Speaking to the Guardian during his first visit to London since Sweden became a Nato member, Tobias Billström called for new rules and enforcement mechanisms to prevent the ageing and uninsured Russian shadow fleet causing an environmental catastrophe. About half of all Russian oil transported by sea the passes through the Baltic Sea and Danish waters, often operating under opaque ownership, and using international waters to try to avoid scrutiny. Continue reading...
The United States is to snap back sanctions on Venezuela's crucial oil industry after President Nicolas Maduro's government continued its "repression" of opponents, US officials said Wednesday. "The areas in which they've fallen short include... what we see as a continuing pattern of harassment and repression against opposition figures," the official added.
Cloud seeding almost certainly did not play a significant role in the flooding on the Arabian peninsula this week – but the heavy rains may have been exacerbated by climate change
Post readers respond to articles on climate change, Trump’s comments on Jewish voters and calls for a cease-fire in Gaza.
Decades ago, humans began employing chemicals to enhance clouds' ability to produce rain and snow, a practice that is increasingly relevant as climate change exacerbates heat and dryness in certain areas. While embraced in countries like the US and the United Arab Emirates, cloud seeding remains contentious due to potential unintended outcomes such as excessive precipitation or heightened pollution levels.
Environmental campaigners have warned the Scottish Government against trying to "weasel out” of their 2030 climate change targets.
Negative thinking is unpopular but it could drive more realistic efforts to limit harm from global warming
The Scottish government is to scrap its flagship target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 75% by 2030.
A senior U.S. official, discussing the decision with reporters, said any U.S. company investing in Venezuela would have 45 days to wind down operations to avoid adding uncertainty to global energy markets.
As the Orkney Islands position themselves as a pivotal hub in Scotland’s renewable energy landscape – leveraging centuries of innovation and strategic natural assets – the focus now shifts to infrastructural advancements and collaborations to harness the region’s full potential, writes Paul Olvhoj, Business Development Manager at Orkney Harbours
Cost of environmental damage will be six times higher than price of limiting global heating to 2C, study finds Average incomes will fall by almost a fifth within the next 26 years as a result of the climate crisis, according to a study that predicts the costs of damage will be six times higher than the price of limiting global heating to 2C. Rising temperatures, heavier rainfall and more frequent and intense extreme weather are projected to cause $38tn (£30tn) of destruction each year by mid-century, according to the research, which is the most comprehensive analysis of its type ever undertaken, and whose findings are published in the journal Nature . Continue reading...
Government support for green manufacturing is actually the easy part. To truly reduce emissions, we must stop digging up and burning fossil fuels Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Last week Anthony Albanese finally announced the government’s major plan for the transition to a renewable energy economy. The Future Made in Australia plan was quickly derided by critics as “picking winners”, in the misguided view that the market is better at deciding how to tackle climate change and that the market is in any way free or lacking distortions. It’s an article of faith among many economists and commentators that governments should not try to “pick winners”, despite the fact that Australia has a long and glorious tradition of doing so. Continue reading...
Renewable energy experts from around the world will arrive in Glasgow next month for the prestigious All-Energy and Dcarbonise conference – a two-day extravaganza that will be also attended by political leaders and top academics
CNN — It’s not just ocean heat that’s affecting marine life – new research shows extremely cold events are welling up and causing mass mortalities. And the same planet-warming pollution that’s driving the climate crisis is likely to blame for these “killer events” on the other end of the temperature spectrum. The world’s oceans have … The post How climate change could be driving ‘killer’ cold outbreaks in oceans appeared first on Egypt Independent.
WASHINGTON/HOUSTON - The Biden administration has signaled that it could reimpose oil sanctions on Venezuela on Thursday in response to what U.S. officials see as President Nicolas Maduro's failure to meet his commitments for free and fair elections this year.
“To bring prosperity and business investment to all the cities and towns in our amazing state, our leaders need to face market realities and support the BLM Oil and Gas Rule,” writes Jacques Hadler.
Climate change caused by CO2 emissions already in the atmosphere will shrink global GDP in 2050 by about $38 trillion, or almost a fifth, no matter how aggressively humanity cuts carbon pollution, researchers said Wednesday.
[Seychelles News Agency] Climate mitigation will play a big role in the strategic plan of the Islands Development Company (IDC) and it is crucial to put adequate measures in place sooner rather than later if Seychelles wants to preserve its islands, said a top official in a press conference.
Virginia data centers that process nearly 70 percent of global digital traffic need more electricity. Coal-fired power plants in neighboring states are going to provide it.
Pressure piles on World Bank and IMF to steer countries to low-carbon transition at spring summit Governments of wealthy countries must pledge hundreds of billions more in overseas aid payments channelled through the World Bank to avert the worst effects of the climate crisis, civil society experts and economists have said. The International Development Association fund, the arm of the World Bank that disburses loans and grants to poor countries, is worth about $93bn (£b75n) but that figure must be roughly tripled by 2030, according to economic experts . Continue reading...
TOKYO: Oil prices eased in early trade on Wednesday as worries about global demand due to weak economic momentum in China and fading hopes for U.S. interest rate cuts in the near term outweighed supply fears on heightened tensions in the Middle East.
Steel is one of the most carbon-intensive industries, producing roughly 8 percent of energy sector emissions annually.
The president's global climate adviser wasn't as optimistic about EPA climate regulations surviving a Trump victory.
More than 1,800 people in North and South America have died this year from the mosquito-borne disease.
It will support investments in early stage companies focused on renewable energy, biomanufacturing and rare mineral processing.
[Greenpeace] The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has condemned Switzerland for violating the European Convention on Human Rights. The verdict is a major victory for a women's association that had brought a complaint against the country for its inaction on climate change.
The Panama Canal has been dubbed the greatest engineering feat in human history. It's also (perhaps less favorably) been called the greatest liberty mankind has ever taken with Mother Nature. But due to climate change, the Canal is drying up and fewer than half of the ships that used to pass through are now able to do so. So how did we get here? Today on the show, we're talking to Cristina Henriquez, the author of a new novel that explores the making of the Canal. It took 50,000 people from 90 different countries to carve the land in two — and the consequences of that extraordinary, nature-defying act are still echoing through our present.
Offsets are sold on a promise to help wipe out emissions. But studies show they often don’t deliver. A project targeting Asian coal plants aims to change that.
Gunmen attacked fuel tankers in Tamenglong, causing oil spill and injuring a driver. The incident prompted reinforcement before Manipur's Lok Sabha elections. Constable suspension resulted in mob violence, leading to SP transfer.
El Niño weather phenomenon depletes reservoirs and limits output at hydroelectric plants Ecuador has begun to ration electricity in the country’s main cities as a drought linked to the El Niño weather pattern depletes reservoirs and limits output at hydroelectric plants that produce about 75% of the nation’s power. “We urge Ecuadorians to cut their electricity consumption in this critical week,” the ministry of energy said in a statement late on Monday. “And consider that each kilowatt and each drop of water that are not consumed will help us face this reality.” Continue reading...
EDF's 2024 Climate Corps fellowship program empowers a new cohort of 185+ global fellows to advance climate solutions at over 130 organizations.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01258E, Paper Jiaqi Sang, Tianfu Liu, Pengfei Wei, Hefei Li, Conghui Liu, Yi Wang, Youwen Rong, Qi Wang, Guoxiong Wang, Xinhe Bao Cu-based catalysts selectively convert CO2/CO into valuable C2+ oxygenates and hydrocarbons electrochemically, which is regarded as a promising strategy for carbon cycle utilization. Herein, we synthesized CuxP2Ox+5 (x=2, 4, 5)... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
A bakery, fruit pulp processing and water pumped from springs are empowering women farmers in Goiás, a central-eastern state of Brazil. New renewable energy sources are driving the process. “We work in the shade and have a secure, stable income, not an unsteady one like in farming. We cannot control the price of milk, nor […]
Modelling that shows how the world can remain below 1.5°C of warming assumes we can store vast amounts of carbon dioxide underground, but a new analysis reveals that achieving this is extremely unlikely
Its revised energy mix target would provide companies a better long-term outlook for investment decisions.
Shortages raised expectations of an accerated shift to green energy, but India's response was exactly the opposite.
Amid threats of a weekend driving ban to hit emissions targets, Germany's governing coalition has reached a last-minute agreement on reforms to climate protection rules. Here's what you need to know.
Minnesota’s Lower Sioux Indian Community is pioneering green building with its fully integrated hempcrete facility – a first in the country When Earl Pendleton first heard about building houses out of hemp more than a decade ago, it seemed like a far-fetched idea. To start, it was still illegal to grow hemp – the non-psychoactive strain of Cannabis sativa – in the US. Importing it from overseas was prohibitively expensive. But Pendleton, a member of the Lower Sioux Indian Community , was intrigued by early research that showed hemp could be transformed into non-toxic construction materials that allow for faster build times and result in low-carbon, energy-efficient houses. Continue reading...
The change announced Monday will follow policies adopted by the Forest Service and Navy.
Progress roundup: Digging up paved surfaces inspires others to reap the climate benefits. In Australia, landlords are installing solar to help meet emissions goals.
In an unprecedented deal, a private company purchased land in a tiny Arizona town – and sold its water rights to a suburb 200 miles away. Local residents fear the agreement has ‘opened Pandora’s box’ One of the biggest battles over Colorado River water is being staged in one of the west’s smallest rural enclaves. Tucked into the bends of the lower Colorado River, Cibola, Arizona, is a community of about 200 people. Maybe 300, if you count the weekenders who come to boat and hunt. Dusty shrublands run into sleepy residential streets, which run into neat fields of cotton and alfalfa. Continue reading...
WASHINGTON/HOUSTON - The U.S. will not renew a temporary license that widely eased sanctions on Venezuela's oil and gas sector unless progress is made by President Nicolas Maduro on commitments for free and fair elections this year, a State Department spokesperson said on Monday, three days before the license is to expire.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00445K, Review Article Farid Attar, Hang Yin, Simon Lennard Schumann, Julien Langley, Nicholas Cox, Zhiyuan Zeng, Kylie Catchpole, Siva Krishna Karuturi, Zongyou Yin New sustainable energy technologies are an important current research field, which aim to address the global environmental challenge caused by our excessive reliance on fossil fuels. Underpinning this field is... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00048J, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Hakhyeon Song, Carlos A. Fernandez, Hyeonuk Choi, Po-Wei Huang, Jihun Oh, Marta C. Hatzell Electrochemical CO2 reduction (CO2RR) offers an environmentally friendly method to transform and harness sequestered CO2. While gas-phase electrolysis systems provide high efficiency, gas-phase electrolysis systems face challenges related to carbonate... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Revamped financial assurance regulations could provide as much as $7 billion in new insurance bonds from oil and gas companies, the department said.
The residual blazes underscore how Canada’s energy industry — underpinned by an oil-sands sector — is imperiled by climate change.
[WHO] More than 900 filmmakers from 110 countries have submitted short films for the 5th edition of the WHO Health for All Film Festival on themes ranging from climate change, refugees, tobacco, and gender-based violence. Some 60 films have been selected for the shortlist, for review by a jury of international artists and health experts, before the announcement of the winners on 26 May 2024.
Is There Such a Thing as “Better” Meat? It’s Complicated margaret.overh… Tue, 04/16/2024 - 00:00 Meat and dairy are major contributors to climate change. Animal agriculture is responsible for more than three-quarters of agricultural land use, 11% - 20% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and more than 30% of global methane emissions. Meat production is also a leading driver of recent tropical deforestation. The good news is that companies and consumers are increasingly looking for more sustainable animal products. But reducing emissions is just one piece of the puzzle. So are addressing water use, water pollution and biodiversity loss driven by animal agriculture; improving animal welfare; supporting local farmers and more. The problem is that there’s...
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00086B, Paper Bo Yan, Hao Sun, Xueping Liu, Xinyuan Fu, Changqing Xu, Tiantian Zhang, Lu-Lu Zhang, Huachao Tao, Xifei Li, Xue-Lin Yang, Renheng Wang Self-supporting electrode materials play a pivotal role in advancing the progress of flexible potassium-ion batteries (PIBs). However, crafting self-supporting electrodes with unique compositions and structures to surmount the volume effect... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
New deep-sea mobile operation can reportedly drill to a depth of 9,085 metres, a record for China as Beijing looks to rely less on imported oil and gas amid rising geopolitical uncertainties.
John Avery, 97, was one of thousands of men who were made to work in the mines to increase coal production - even though they put themselves forward for the military.
The issue of climate change continues to dominate the political discourse, with the ban on wood-burning stoves in new-builds claiming many column inches over recent days.
Mr. Gore spoke at a climate leadership conference hosted by his nonprofit organization.
Revamped financial assurance regulations could provide up to almost $7 billion in new insurance bonds from oil and gas companies, the federal government said.
Nearly four dozen countries would risk default if they invested the necessary amounts to hit Paris Agreement goals.
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections The June general election in Mexico could mark a turning point in ensuring that the country’s climate policies better reflect the desire of its citizens to address the climate crisis, with both leading presidential candidates expressing support for renewable energy. Mexico is the 10th-most populated country with the 15th-largest economy and is also the 11th-most climate-polluting country in the world. In international surveys conducted in 2022 and 2023 , Mexico had one of the highest percentages of citizens worried about human-caused climate change at 92%, compared to just 63% of Americans.* And 88% of Mexican respondents reported that they consider climate change an important issue that their country should...
For the women who pick and prepare Maryland’s famous crab, the once profitable work is far more uncertain – and the climate crisis has had a damaging impact In the evening light, Maribel Malagon stepped outside into a rain storm. It was late October and Malagon, 53, had worked all day picking crab off the eastern shore of Maryland. That night, she and a handful of other seasonal workers walked to a neighbor’s house for an evening of prayer. On the way, Malagon clutched a pendant of St Judas, the patron saint of lost causes, that hung around her neck; she hoped he would hear her prayers for more work. Continue reading...
[Daily Trust] Research has demonstrated that majority of food crops are producing less due to climate change, which is caused by rise in temperature and altered rainfall patterns.
PHOTO: NIWA By Liz Kivi New Zealander of the Year Jim Salinger says government cuts to science funding will put Aotearoa even further behind other countries in terms of economic well-being and tackling climate change.
Winning a battle for survival requires understanding the opponent. And, for the peoples of 22 island nations and territories scattered across more than 155 million square kilometres of Pacific Ocean, the volatility and wrath of the climate are their greatest threats. The region harbours three of the world’s most disaster-prone countries, while eight are among […]
Long-awaited Interior Department policy will raise financial assurance and royalty rates. The post Drilling for oil on public land is about to cost a lot more appeared first on High Country News.
A highly misleading new documentary claims soil carbon storage can redeem the livestock industry – it’s all so much ‘moo-woo’ We draw our moral lines in arbitrary places. We might believe we’re guided only by universal values and proven facts, but often we’re swayed by deep themes of which we might be unaware. In particular, we tend to associate the imagery and sensations of our earliest childhood with what is good and right. When we see something that chimes with them, we are powerfully drawn to it and attach moral value to it. This results from a combination of two factors: finding safety and comfort in the familiar, and what psychologists call “ the primacy effect ” – the first thing we hear about a topic is the one we tend to recall and accept. These tendencies contribute to the illusory...
California gas prices are on the rise again as Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration mulls a cap on refiner profits.
Atmospheric physicist Susan Avery once spoke out about the need to "get off fossil fuels." But her appointment didn't stop Exxon from doubling down on oil and gas.
The move comes as European banks step back from fossil fuel lending over concerns about violating climate-related legislation.
BJP emphasizes rooftop solar for PM Modi's third term, targeting India's 2047 energy independence. Focus on electric mobility, renewable energy, energy efficiency, China challenge, clean energy center, manufacturing hub, and green hydrogen.
The spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are due to open Tuesday, with two clear objectives: help countries combat climate change, and assist the most indebted nations.
Oil prices are expected to rise on Monday after Iran's attack on Israel over the weekend, analysts said on Sunday, but further gains may depend on how Israel and the West choose to retaliate.
Paris agreement negotiator Todd Stern attacks premiers who say that decarbonisation programmes are unrealistic and should be slowed down Political leaders who present themselves as “grownups” while slowing the pace of climate action are pushing the world towards deeper catastrophe, a former US environment chief has warned. “We are slowed down by those who think of themselves as grownups and believe decarbonisation at the speed the climate community calls for is unrealistic,” said Todd Stern, who served as a special envoy for climate change under Barack Obama, and helped negotiate the 2015 Paris agreement. Continue reading...
The US fixation on a China threat distracts it from its serious domestic challenges and holds the world back from addressing critical challenges, from climate change and wars to AI risks.
Plan to break up Noaa claims its research is ‘climate alarmism’ and calls for commercializing forecasts, weakening forecasts Climate experts fear Donald Trump will follow a blueprint created by his allies to gut the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), disbanding its work on climate science and tailoring its operations to business interests. Joe Biden’s presidency has increased the profile of the science-based federal agency but its future has been put in doubt if Trump wins a second term and at a time when climate impacts continue to worsen. Continue reading...
Asia is on the cusp of a summer of life-threatening dengue fever.
The newly approved renewable energy project is planned across an eco-corridor and ceremonial sites. The post Wildlife habitat and tribal cultures threatened by Washington’s largest wind farm appeared first on High Country News.
Mild winter weather and increasing air and car travel also affected carbon dioxide emissions from electricity, fuel and heating.
President Joe Biden's power plant regulation could shift the future of carbon capture, hydrogen and natural gas.
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 26 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-01994-4The authors perform a meta-analysis to assess current and future capacities of healthcare systems under climate change. They summarize the key focus points of current literature and highlight the need for effective policies, trained workforces and redesigned infrastructure to meet future burdens.
[RFI] At least 155 people have died in floods and landslides in Tanzania following weeks of heavy rain that has pounded East Africa. Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa said the El Nino climate pattern had worsened the ongoing rainy season.
World wine production dropped 10 percent last year, the biggest fall in more than six decades, because of "extreme" climate changes, the body that monitors the trade said on Thursday.
Warmer air holds more water, and climate-driven circulation changes are making storms more disastrous.
The bank was accused of indirectly financing the country's coal plants through a $816 million loan.
A group of young girls aged between 15 and 17 sit tight, following attentively a lesson being taught by a Mualim (Islamic teacher) in a makeshift madrassah (Qur’anic school) located in one of the impoverished townships of Benin’s economic capital, Cotonou. They arrived in Benin recently, fleeing poverty, hunger, climate change, and rising insecurity in […]
[WFP] World Food Programme enables refugee and local women to challenge gender norms in conservative pastoralist communities
Simon Watts giving his maiden speech, 2021. Photo: Wikimedia Climate Change minister Simon Watts now has a seat at the Cabinet table.
Steam is still needed in many industries, but much of it is still made with fossil fuels.
While most automakers around the world made a sudden pivot to electric cars, Toyota held off and decided to stick with hybrid models and slowed its rollout of battery-powered cars. Now, that cautious approach to electrification appears to be paying off, as hybrid cars just helped the Japanese automaker to a…Read more...
Despite considerably back-to-back rainy winters in California, new research finds the region has seen much wetter years in the last 3,000 years. Experts worry that variability, coupled with climate change, could leave the state unprepared.
Artificial intelligence provides amazing potential for advancement across fields, from medicine to agriculture to industry to the entertainment business, even as it generates significant concerns. AI can also improve the efficiency of energy production and use in ways that can reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But AI requires a lot of computational capacity, powered by electricity […]
A powerful rainstorm that wreaked havoc on the desert nation of the United Arab Emirates last week was likely made more intense because of climate change, a team of international scientists has found.
Between 10 and 40 percent more rain fell in just one day last week than it would have in a world without the 2.2 degrees Fahrenheit of warming that has come from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas since the mid-19th century.
Intensive breeding since the 19th century has created thousands of varieties of rose, but a reduction in genetic diversity could leave them vulnerable to diseases and climate change
The environment minister says she is approving windfarms at the fastest rate in history amid industry concerns about an ‘alarming’ slowdown Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Tanya Plibersek has said she is approving windfarms faster than any previous environment minister, rejecting industry claims the sector faces deteriorating investment conditions and lengthening delays. Renewable energy firms have raised concerns that securing environmental approval is becoming more difficult, particularly for wind. Challenges are unlikely to ease soon, given the government’s recent decision to postpone conservation law reforms until after the next election, putting at risk emissions reduction goals, they say. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning...
Tankers in Dongying discharge Russian oil for China's reserves, exceeding US. Amid rising Russian imports post Ukraine invasion, China consumes 14M barrels/day, preparing for potential future conflicts and building strategic stockpiles.
Zero-emission Zones Are Helping Some Cities Fight Pollution alicia.cypress… Thu, 04/25/2024 - 09:15 With growing urban populations and increases in cars, trucks and buses, cities are poised to experience more harmful pollution threatening people’s health and livelihoods. But some cities around the world are turning to an emerging solution called zero-emission zones (ZEZs). These are designated small areas of about 1.5 square miles to 11 square miles inside large cities in Europe, Asia and North America where only zero-emission vehicles (such as electric cars and trucks), pedestrians and bikes are granted unrestricted access, with gas and diesel vehicles either prohibited or forced to pay an access fee. What Are the Pros and Cons of Zero-emission Zones? The policy...
Increase in cost of crude could drive inflation up and force central banks to keep interest rates high • Business live – latest updates A serious escalation of tensions in the Middle East would push the price of oil above $100 (£80) a barrel and reverse the recent downward trend in global inflation, the World Bank has said. The Washington-based institution said the recent fall in commodity prices had been levelling off even before the recent missile strikes by Iran and Israel – making interest rate decisions for central banks tougher. Continue reading...
The new rules targeting coal wastewater and coal ash are part of a suite of regulations expected to reshape the power sector.
Globally, malaria infections increased from 233 million in 2019 to 249 million in 85 countries in 2022.
New EPA directive will cut pollution equivalent to the emissions of 328m cars, but industry group decries it as a ‘reckless plan’ Coal-fired power plants would be forced to capture smokestack emissions or shut down under a rule issued on Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). New limits on greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel-fired electric plants are the Biden administration’s most ambitious effort yet to roll back planet-warming pollution from the power sector, the nation’s second-largest contributor to the climate crisis . The rules are a key part of Joe Biden’s pledge to eliminate carbon pollution from the electricity sector by 2035 and economy-wide by 2050. Continue reading...
[Nile Post] Environmental conservation ensures the sustainability of ecosystems, helps preserve biodiversity, maintains the balance of natural resources, mitigates climate change, and protects the health and well-being of current and future generations.
This timely book by Abrahm Lustgarten argues that mass migration triggered by climate change will fundamentally rock U.S. society. The post Book review: “On the Move” is a must-read account of U.S. climate migration appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
[Daily Trust] The Secretary General of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), Celeste Saulo, has said the world economy has so far lost about $8 billion due to climate change threats.
As the climate crisis has deepened, protesters have become more confrontational – and their ambitions have grown The head of ExxonMobil told to “eat shit” as he was about to receive an award. A US senator and coal boss called a “sick fuck”, almost sparking a brawl. Theatre shows interrupted. As the climate crisis has deepened, protests aimed at those deemed responsible are becoming starkly personal, and often confrontational. At the vanguard of this new style of in-your-face activism is Climate Defiance , a group of just a handful of core staffers now marking its first birthday following a year of disrupting, often crudely, the usually mundane procession of talks, speeches and panels that feature Joe Biden administration officials , oil company bosses and financiers . Continue reading...
Kyle Wool, chief executive officer of Dominari Securities, spoke with Quartz for the latest installment of our “Smart Investing” video series.Read more...
The Environmental Protection Agency announced a set of rules aimed at reducing harmful pollution from gas- and coal-fired power plants nationwide.
Broad terms of subpoenas a ‘chilling’ precedent that could undermine future climate litigation, legal experts say Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast A federal court judge has allowed Santos to subpoena paperwork held by three activist groups who were not directly involved in a lawsuit against the oil company. Justice Natalie Charlesworth ruled on Wednesday afternoon that Santos could pursue financial records and communications between activist groups – Sunrise, Jubilee Australia and the NT Environment Centre – and the Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) in order to determine whether the company will also pursue the campaign organisations for costs for the lawsuit carried out by the EDO on behalf of Tiwi Island traditional owners. Sign up...
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 129, Issue 9, 16 May 2024.
For the first time in 15 years, the United States is reportedly planning to station nuclear weapons in the United Kingdom, a decision many experts interpret as attempting to counter growing geopolitical instability. As the war in Ukraine rages on, nuclear posturing—including stationing nuclear weapons in other countries—is seen by nuclear powers as an important […]
Agencies will be required to eliminate on-site fossil fuel use in buildings that start construction in 2030 or later.
The International Energy Agency said global storage needs to increase 25 percent annually this decade to avoid grid bottlenecks.
As environmental disasters push more people into poverty, families are forced to pull children from school and put them to work in farm and field.
The new standards — on everything from carbon pollution to wastewater — are the last major pieces of Biden's push to clean up the power sector.
After last summer's heat waves, deadly floods and record-breaking wildfires, some scientists are urging Canadian health professionals to help their patients better prepare for climate change-related extreme weather and natural disasters.
Green NGOs have accused the Asian Development Bank of indirectly financing coal plants in Indonesia through a $600 million loan despite promises to no longer fund projects tied to the fossil fuel, according to a new report.
The package includes what would become the first U.S. carbon regulation to affect existing coal plants — if it survives political and legal attacks.
BRUSSELS - The European Commission is expected to propose sanctions on ships delivering North Korean military equipment to Russia as well as tankers that flout the G7 price cap on Russian oil, European Union sources said on Wednesday.
A greenhouse is a great way to grow plants and produce, but they need energy for lighting, heating, and airflow. Here's how solar panels can help.
The Interface of Change project will support five years of research to boost climate resilience for mariculture and traditional harvesting.
Without the resources or political will to pursue a policy of climate adaptation, experts warn that this spring's disaster will become the new norm.
The German carmaker, which saw its market share shrink in China last year, said it plans to launch 30 new electric cars on the mainland by 2030 as it vies to keep up with the rapid pace of electrification in the world’s largest vehicle market.
Yellowstone's lake's ice cover has remained unaffected by increasing temperatures due to increased snowfall. But this could make it vulnerable to a sudden shift.
A U.N. report suggests that pastoralism may be part of the global emissions problem. Some researchers see the climate math on herders differently.
The divestment movement has a long history among US student activists, including in the overlapping movements of today Cameron Jones first learned about fossil fuel divestment as a 15-year-old climate organizer. When he enrolled at Columbia University in 2022, he joined the campus’s chapter of the youth-led climate justice group the Sunrise Movement and began pushing the school in New York to sever financial ties with coal, oil and gas companies. “The time for institutions like Columbia to be in the pocket of fossil fuel corporations has passed,” Jones wrote in an October 2023 op-ed in the student newspaper directed toward Columbia president Minouche Shafik. Continue reading...
Gas and coal accounted for just 2.4% of power generation for an hour last week, data shows, amid ‘zero-carbon grid’ plans The share of Great Britain’s electricity generated by burning fossil fuels plummeted to unprecedented lows this month, ahead of plans to begin running a “zero-carbon grid” for short periods from next year. Electricity generated by burning gas and coal fell to a record low of just 2.4% for an hour at lunchtime on Monday 15 April, according to an analysis of data from National Grid’s electricity system operator (ESO). Continue reading...
The Biden administration posted hundreds of job openings this week as part of a climate and clean energy jobs program.
A conversation with the Environmental Voter Project’s Nathaniel Stinnett. The post ‘Basic peer pressure’: The plan to turn out millions of pro-climate voters in the 2024 U.S. election appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Small Island Developing States (SIDS), a distinct group of 39 states and 18 associate members, are making efforts to promote the blue economy as they possess enormous potential for renewable energy relying on the sea. Experts predict that switching to renewables will help SIDS countries decarbonize power generation as an appropriate option for islands to cut […]
[IPS] Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia -- Rich nations' climate hypocrisy is accelerating global heating, pushing the planet closer to irreversible catastrophe, with its worst consequences borne by the poorest, both countries and peoples.
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When Wyoming governor Mark Gordon told the Environmental Protection Agency in 2023 that the state would not be applying for federal grant money to reduce pollution and greenhouse gases, he left most communities in the state without access to […]
The United Nations said Wednesday it was launching a new Climate Resilience Fund aimed at boosting protections for "refugees and displaced communities" threatened by climate change.
As Hong Kong phases in its plastics ban, more can be done such as developing reusable systems and regulating corporations to reduce packaging. Fossil fuel and petrochemical interests are impeding progress on global plastics treaty talks but local solutions show we can put an end to the scourge of plastic.
“Everybody is looking for the magic tree.”
Drones sent by Ukraine struck two Rosneft-owned oil depots in Russia's Smolensk region in an overnight attack on Wednesday, as the two-year war has featured a wave of attack on energy facilities this spring.
The Finance Ministry has recommended using the Oil Fuel Fund to sustain the subsidy for retail diesel prices, noting the fund has sufficient capacity to support the government's diesel subsidy programme.
Conservatives are aggressively targeting efforts to reduce carbon emissions across the continent.
The lawsuit says state regulators are under an "existing and ongoing statutory obligation" to reduce emissions and have failed to do so.
Climate change is making it harder to meet clean air goals, says the 25th annual State of the Air report from the American Lung Association.
The WMO report - state of the climate in Asia 2023 - said floods and storms caused the highest number of reported casualties and economic losses in Asia whereas the impact of heatwaves became more severe in terms of growing health risks in 2023 -- the year when the annual mean surface temperature over the continent in 2023 was the second highest on record: 0.91 degree Celsius above the 1991–2020 average and 1.87 degree C above the 1961– 1990 average.
NPR's Tom Dreisbach is back in the host chair for a day. This time, he reports on a story very close to home: The years-long battle his parents have been locked in with the local wild beaver population. Each night, the beavers would dam the culverts along the Dreisbachs' property, threatening to make their home inaccessible. Each morning, Tom's parents deconstructed those dams — until the annual winter freeze hit and left them all in a temporary stalemate. As beaver populations have increased, so have these kinds of conflicts with people...like Tom's parents. But the solution may not be to chase away the beavers. They're a keystone species that scientists believe could play an important role in cleaning water supplies, creating healthy ecosystems and alleviating some of the effects of climate...
Venezuela's PDVSA is reportedly planning to speed up crypto adoption in oil transactions after the U.S. Treasury announced it will reimpose sanctions on the country's vast oil sector.
Climate change’s effects on ocean water temperatures and salinity could shrink sonar detection ranges underwater and make it more challenging to spot submarines
In a Clean Energy Future, What Happens to California’s Thousands of Oil Refinery Workers? shannon.paton@… Tue, 04/23/2024 - 13:50 California is often considered the United States’ greenest state — a first-mover on climate policy, renewable energy, electric vehicles and more. But at the same time, the state is still a fossil-fuel production powerhouse. This is especially true for its petroleum refineries, which turn crude oil into transportation fuels (like gasoline) and feedstocks for making chemicals. Despite declining oil production in the state, California still has the third-largest crude oil refining capacity in the country, just after Texas and Louisiana. About 83% of its refined petroleum is used for transportation, a sector that produces half of the state’s...
Over the course of nearly two decades, its powerful radar provided never-before-seen details of clouds and helped advance global weather and climate predictions. CloudSat, a NASA mission that peered into hurricanes, tallied global snowfall rates, and achieved other weather and climate firsts, has ended its operations. Originally proposed as a 22-month mission, the spacecraft was […]
With vehicle electrification expected to take 10-20 years, Chinese manufacturers are breaking energy-saving records in an old technology.
With severe climate impacts becoming more and more apparent, many scientists think we should explore ways to block out solar radiation, but doing so would be risky
Philippe Lamberts says far-right gains in June elections could mean deal to protect nature and biodiversity is scrapped The EU’s green deal to restore biodiversity, clean the continent’s soil, air and water, and mitigate climate change is at high risk of being killed off, the co-president of the Green group of MEPs has warned. The Belgian MEP Philippe Lamberts said the green deal, which has informed everything from tax policy to environment law making, would be a thing of the past if the far right made significant gains in the June EU parliamentary elections. Continue reading...
Climate change raised Asia's temperatures last year by nearly 2 deg C above the 1961 to 1990 average.
The study found the heat dome in June and July 2021 was 34 per cent larger and lasted 59 per cent longer than a similar event would have without climate change.
A giant-hail event that hit Girona in northwest Spain in 2022 was fueled by climate change, with a marine heatwave helping to intensify the storm that killed a small child.
On February 14, 2023 we announced our Rebuttal Update Project . This included an ask for feedback about the added "At a glance" section in the updated basic rebuttal versions. This weekly blog post series highlights this new section of one of the updated basic rebuttal versions and serves as a "bump" for our ask. This week features " The difference between weather and climate ". More will follow in the upcoming weeks. Please follow the Further Reading link at the bottom to read the full rebuttal and to join the discussion in the comment thread there. At a glance How do you go about weather forecasting by yourself? Study the computer models. With experience, you will become familiar with the art - for it takes human interpretation of model output to make the calls. That's what...
Claire O’Neill, a former climate minister, says PM’s move was to ‘try and create political division and dividing lines’ The UK government’s decision to weaken some of its climate commitments was a “retrograde step” that will set back vital cross-party action to cut carbon emissions, Claire O’Neill, a former Conservative climate minister, has said. O’Neill, who was known as Claire Perry when she served as a minister under David Cameron and Theresa May, said the rolling back of emission reduction efforts by Rishi Sunak appeared to be a ploy for political advantage. Continue reading...
The awards will help government agencies and nonprofits stand up programs to deploy solar power and storage to low-income communities.
Climate groups criticise nine-year agreement with Tamboran Resources, while chief minister says it will provide ‘competitively priced gas’ for the territory Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast The Northern Territory government has signed a major deal to buy fracked gas from the Beetaloo basin south of Katherine a year after it gave the green light for production in the region. The chief minister, Eva Lawler, said the government was “backing the growth of the territory’s onshore gas industry” and had signed a nine-year gas sales agreement with the US company Tamboran Resources. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup ...
President Joe Biden on Monday announced $7 billion in federal grants to supply more than 900,000 low- and moderate-income homes with residential solar power.
Paris is becoming a city of bikes. Across China, people are snapping up $5,000 electric cars. On Earth Day, a look at a few bright spots for emission reductions.
Critics call the grants an own goal for Biden - undercutting his bid to revive US manufacturing with clean energy factories through his signature climate change law, the Inflation Reduction Act.
Solar panels can shrink your carbon footprint and your energy bill, but they can be fragile. Here are some ways help them achieve a long, productive life.
MOSCOW - Russia said on Monday that U.S., British and French military support for Ukraine has pushed the world to the brink of a direct clash between the world's biggest nuclear powers that could end in catastrophe.
The president urged young people to become part of the inaugural group of American Climate Corps members.
AustralianSuper says it has ‘ongoing concerns’ about how the country’s biggest oil and gas company will reach net zero emissions by 2050 Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Australia’s biggest superannuation fund has joined a protest vote against Woodside Energy’s failure to do more to address the climate crisis, saying it has unanswered questions about the fossil fuel company’s plans. AustralianSuper said it had spent “a lot of time reviewing and engaging” with Woodside on its climate transition plan before the company’s annual general meeting on Wednesday, and still had “ongoing concerns” about how it would reach net zero emissions by 2050. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news...
LUXEMBOURG - The European Union's next package of sanctions should include steps against a shadow fleet of tankers moving Russian oil to circumvent sanctions, Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom said ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg.
Thunderbolt Solar panels can give you free renewable energy without a huge investment. But where can you buy them, and are they any good?
State officials unveiled 81 targets to transform millions of acres in the Golden State into landscapes that can absorb more carbon than they release by 2045.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was in neighbouring Iraq on Monday for his first state visit there in years, with water, oil and regional security issues topping their agenda.
The new wastewater discharge standards for coal plants are expected to be finalized Thursday, along with other regulations.
Happy Earth Day 2024. Ask people worldwide “is climate change a problem?” and the answer is usually a clear “yes.” But ask a follow-up, “what is the real nature of that problem?” and the picture is murkier. Answers might range … Continue reading →
Historic hearing will receive submissions from people whose human rights have been affected by climate change Julian Medina comes from a long line of fishers in the north of Colombia’s Gulf of Morrosquillo who use small-scale and often traditional methods to catch species such as mackerel, tuna and cojinúa. Medina went into business as a young man but was drawn back to his roots, and ended up leading a fishing organisation. For years he has campaigned against the encroachment of fossil fuel companies, pollution and overfishing, which are destroying the gulf’s delicate ecosystem and people’s livelihoods. Continue reading...
Germany was further confronted with extreme weather conditions and their consequences last year. With this summer likely to break records again, a new report shows the impact climate change is having.
Heat was singled out by two climate agencies as the biggest climate-related threat.
Giant sun shades, 40-foot-tall air filters, stratospheric sulfur injections: Here are some of the wild and wondrous ways we might save the planet.
Europe saw its warmest year on record in 2023, both on land and sea, with climate change driving the rate of warming at double the global average, according to a new international report published Monday.
North America's 2021 fire season, including massive Northern California blazes, was made worse by a supercharged heat dome. What did the supercharging? Climate change.
On this Earth Day, we reflect on the importance of protecting our planet for future generations. Understanding the Earth system and the complex interactions that shape our planet is paramount for addressing environmental challenges, mitigating climate change, preparing for natural disasters, managing resources sustainably and conserving biodiversity.Each component of the Earth system – from the atmosphere and oceans to land surfaces and ice sheets – influences and interacts with one another in complex ways. ESA works all-year round to provide satellite data to monitor the health of our planet. Here are 10 examples of how Earth’s systems intertwine and how satellite measurements are key to understanding these complex processes.
Environmentalists fear focus on economy may undermine country’s climate transition – one of most radical in Europe Portugal has been among Europe’s more ambitious countries in terms of climate action, but the rise of the far right in recent elections could threaten the positive steps the country has taken. At the end of 2023, Portugal broke records as it went for six consecutive days relying solely on renewable energy. But national elections in March this year marked a significant shift in the political landscape, with the far-right party Chega (Enough) making a major breakthrough. Having more than quadrupled its number of MPs from 12 to 50, Chega holds considerable sway in the 230-seat parliament, where it could influence legislation. Continue reading...
President Joe Biden will announce $7 billion from the Environmental Protection Agency's Solar for All grant competition along with the first jobs climate-related positions at ClimateCorps.gov.
The number of heat-related deaths in Europe increased 30% in the last 20 years. Climate change is to blame.
The president will spend the week touting climate policies to young voters, while EPA will finalize four final Clean Air Act rules.
The United Arab Emirates was slammed last week by its heaviest downpour since records began in 1949.
Michael Hubrich via Getty ImagesA new report urges Europe to invest in more renewable energy after it was reveled to be the fastest-warming continent—heating up at approximately twice the global average. According to the joint report by the U.N.’s World Meteorological Organization and the European Union’s climate agency, Copernicus, Europe has seen a rise in renewable resources in 12 months–up to 43% in 2023 in comparison to 36% in 2022. More renewable energy has been generated than from fossil fuels in Europe for the second consecutive year.But not all of the news is so good. 2023 was the second-warmest year on record for Europe, at 1.02–1.12°C above average, according to the report. Meanwhile, Europe has recorded the three warmest years on record since 2020, and the ten warmest since 2007...
Europe's overall temperature last year was 1.8°F (1°C) above average, the EU's climate change programme has revealed - putting it on a par with 2020.
Biologists on a trail in the Ecuadoran Amazon hold their breath as they distribute a foul-smelling delicacy to lure butterflies, critical pollinators increasingly threatened by climate change.
Drought, wildfires, floods and record heat in Europe. Last year, was one of extreme climate impacts for humans and nature. But there's some positive news too.
Resolution Foundation calls for fourfold increase in renewable power investment to reduce pressure on household bills A permanent shift to higher interest rates could add billions of pounds to the UK’s renewable energy transition, a leading thinktank has warned. Borrowing costs have soared since the easing of pandemic lockdowns and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as the world’s leading central banks raised interest rates to tackle inflation – pushing up the costs of investment in infrastructure across advanced economies including for green power generation schemes . Continue reading...
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The annual World Bank and IMF meetings have concluded without a concrete plan to mobilize the trillions of dollars needed to fight climate change. Rich countries are expected to raise more than the 'USD 100 billion' they promised to provide every year from 2020, but repeatedly failed.
Louisiana State University allowed Shell to influence studies after a $25m donation and sought funds from other fossil fuel firms This story is co-published with the Lens, a non-profit newsroom in New Orleans For $5m, Louisiana’s flagship university will let an oil company weigh in on faculty research activities. Or, for $100,000, a corporation can participate in a research study, with “robust” reviewing powers and access to all resulting intellectual property. Those are the conditions outlined in a boilerplate document that Louisiana State University’s fundraising arm circulated to oil majors and chemical companies affiliated with the Louisiana Chemical Association, an industry lobbying group, according to emails disclosed in response to a public records request by the Lens . Continue...
In California’s boom-and-bust climate, Death Valley has offered some of the strangest scenes over the past few years. Some of the area’s perennial creosote bushes died back during a severe drought that hampered the region through 2022. Then torrential downpours — from the remnants of Hurricane Hilary and subsequent storms — revived annual wildflowers from seed over the last year. During the winter, extreme rainfall resurrected an ancient lake that is now disappearing once again. Together, these extremes have created bizarre juxtapositions in the famed desert. “I could take you to a field of dead creosote bushes with nice wildflowers springing up in between,” said Patrick Donnelly, a conservation biologist at the Center for Biological Diversity. “For a plant, it’s a post-apocalyptic wasteland...
EVs are getting more popular, but there's more to their warranties than those for traditional cars. Here's what you need to know about EV battery warranties.
The country’s top legislature will review the proposed framework designed to secure supplies and encourage the shift to low-carbon power.
In recent weeks, Ukraine has focused its efforts on dismantling oil refineries and energy facilities within Russia.
In a BBC interview, Chris Stark says the PM has not made climate change "as much of a priority as his predecessors".
AS someone who was working to establish the Greens when they were still the Ecology Party and Patrick Harvie would have still been in short trousers, I am appalled that neither he nor his co-leader Lorna Slater did not resign from the Government over dropping climate change targets.
West Asia oil shipments remain stable amidst Israel-Iran tensions. Speculators influence Benchmark Brent prices. Opec's Hai Tham al-Ghais engages with India on oil imports. Potential disruption if Hormuz Strait blocked."}
The Supreme Court has decreed that Article 48A of the Constitution, which aims to preserve the environment and safeguard forests and wildlife, is intricately linked to the citizens' right to life. It has urged governments to prioritize forest protection as a means to shield both the nation and the world from the adverse impacts of climate change.
The UN body on climate change in New Delhi announced the launch of the global Art Charter for Climate Action (ACCA) to unite arts and entertainment sectors for impactful climate action, aiming to decrease carbon footprints in alignment with the Paris Agreement's goals.
WASHINGTON - U.S. lawmakers have tucked sanctions on Iran's oil exports in the House of Representatives' aid package for Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific after Tehran's missile and drone strike on Israel last weekend.
Humans aren’t the only mammals working to mitigate the effects of climate change in the Western United States. People there are also enlisting the aid of nature’s most prolific engineers – beavers. Using NASA-provided grants, two open-source programs from Boise State University in Idaho and Utah State University in Logan are making it possible for […]
Ryan Connon, a hydrologist with the Environment and Climate Change, said that also means an elevated risk of high water at breakup this year for the Peel River.
[New Dawn] Government of Liberia strategizes on Climate Change regime.
Plastic waste gets lots of attention, but producing plastics actually produces more planet-heating greenhouse gases than the airline industry and coal-fired powerplants - notoriously bad sources.
Governments and regulators should recognize oil and gas mergers as an important inflexion point to ensure environmental harm is minimized and emissions are reduced.
MOSCOW - Russian oil producer Bashneft has installed anti-drone nets to protect key facilities at its refineries from potential Ukrainian attack, the head of the republic of Bashkortostan where the company is based was quoted as saying on Friday.
The Israeli military attacked Iran early Friday, and oil markets have gotten the jitters in response. Initial reports suggest that Iran is downplaying the impact of the strikes, which might mean that tensions between the two countries could de-escalate. Read more...
Environmentalists celebrate new rules but Alaska politicians call it an ‘illegal’ attack on state’s livelihood and predict lawsuits The Biden administration said on Friday it will restrict new oil and gas leasing on 13m acres (5.3m hectares) of a federal petroleum reserve in Alaska to help protect wildlife such as caribou and polar bears as the Arctic continues to warm. The decision – part of an ongoing, years-long fight over whether and how to develop the vast oil resources in the state – finalizes protections first proposed last year as the Biden administration prepared to approve the controversial Willow oil project . Continue reading...
Some projects that will receive support are in communities with closed coal mines or coal-fired plants.
“The Department of the Interior seems to believe that they care about this land more than we do,” said North Slope Borough Mayor Josiah Patkotak.
The United States on Friday blocked oil, gas and mining operations across tracts of unspoiled wilderness in Alaska, winning praise from environmentalists for safeguarding habitat for polar bears, caribou and other Arctic species.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00865K, Paper Muyang Chen, Tingting Niu, Lingfeng Chao, Xiaozheng Duan, Jingpei Wang, Tengfei Pan, Yajing Li, Junhan Zhang, Chenyue Wang, Biyun Ren, Lijuan Guo, Mohammad Hatamvand, Jing Zhang, Qingxun Guo, Yingdong Xia, Xingyu Gao, Yonghua Chen Preparation of low defect density FAPbI 3 perovskite thin films by adjusting the process temperature to −20 °C for high-performance perovskite solar cells. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Small-scale farmers and local NGOs work together to create resilience in the face of climate change in this Western African country. The post Water is at the heart of farmers’ struggle to survive in Benin appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
By Jeremy Rose Former Tuvalu prime minister Enele Sopoaga declared Australia’s climate change policy a threat to the survival of the Pacific at a gathering in Wellington yesterday.
A flood of cheap Chinese electric car exports has raised the specter of another trade war with the U.S. And it has Tesla worried.
The Interior Department finalized a rule limiting future oil and gas development across 13 million acres of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.
From low birth weight to wildfire smoke, kids can bear the brunt of climate change.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00796D, Review Article Shipeng Jia, Shinichi Kumakura, Eric McCalla With the increasing demand for energy and growing environmental concerns, sodium-ion batteries have garnered significant attention in recent years as a potential alternative to lithium-ion batteries. This is due to... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
The decisions underscore the Biden administration’s attempt to curb mining and drilling on public lands.
The regulation will determine which fossil fuel operators have to pay fees for leaked gas.
The poll suggests that although the Inflation Reduction Act has already affected some Americans, it's not widely known among the general population.
[IFRC] This press release was originally published by the World Weather Attribution (WWA) group. An expert from the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre contributed to the study and is quoted below.
[African Arguments] Projections that assume the Global North will continue to over-emit help perpetuate inequalities and violate principles of equity, warn scientists.
Disney had previously committed to ditching gasoline engines but left open hybrids as a possibility and hadn't set a firm timeline.
Indian experts dismiss cloud seeding as the cause of Dubai's flooding, attributing it to climate change. The heavy rainfall in Dubai is linked to a synoptic system and global warming, leading to extreme weather events in the region.
As extreme weather events increase around the world due to climate change, the need for further research into our warming planet has increased as well. For NASA, climate research involves not only conducting studies of these events, but also empowering outside researchers to do the same. The artificial intelligence (AI) efforts spearheaded by the agency […]
Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden revealed that a top-level review is under way into whether hostile states could use the vehicles (EVs) as intelligence-gathering devices.
Images of a saturated desert metropolis startled the world, prompting talk of cloud seeding, climate change and designing cities for intensified weather.
Patrick Harvie will tonight face angry members of the Scottish Greens - some now questioning the value of the Bute House Agreement - following this afternoon announcement by the Scottish Government to formally ditch a key climate change target.
[RFI] An extreme heatwave in the Sahel region in March and April would not have been as lethal without human-caused climate change, the World Weather Attribution (WWA) group of climate researchers has found. It warned of an increase in extreme weather if carbon emissions are not rapidly reduced.
[Leadership] Natural Oil and Gas Suppliers Association of Nigeria (NOGASA) on Tuesday clear the air over the purported crisis between it and other unions stating that it neither had any issues with Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, Petroleum Tanker Drivers nor any other group in the downstream sector of the petroleum industry in the country.
Consider the weasel. It is Scotland’s smallest carnivore, the nemesis of mice and other small animals, and a sleek, elusive shadow when spotted in the wild...
[The Point] The Minister for Environment, Climate Change and Natural Resources, Rohey John Manjang, has informed lawmakers that the forestry department is working on implementing a participatory forest management scheme for communities to take ownership of their forests to avoid bush fire and other forest disasters.
The annual and interim climate targets will be replaced with a system measuring emissions every five years.
The burning of fossil fuels plays a major role in the region's unusually intense heat wave.
The United States said it will snap back sanctions on Venezuela’s crucial oil industry after President Nicolas Maduro’s government continued its repression of opponents.
The lawmakers pointed to the categorical exclusions used to permit Deepwater Horizon before the 2010 oil rig blowout that killed 11 workers and caused an 87-day oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.
Renewable energy, if supported by governments, can “truly change the landscape” in terms of achieving equitable access to affordable and clean energy, but only if those governments can move from “commitment to action”; That’s according to the Director-General of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 129, Issue 8, 28 April 2024.
Using existing expertise and innovative new data management software to ease teething troubles in the offshore sector is the way forward in Scotland’s renewable energy journey, says Mike Allan, Global Director, Operational Support, at Xodus
In a heartbreaking moment on BBC series Mammals, desperate foxes are seen feeding on one of their own who himself is believed to have collapsed and died from starvation.
A extreme once-in-a-century heatwave in Africa's Sahel and western regions that saw temperatures soar to a high as 48.5 degrees Celsius at the end of March and early April was caused by human-induced climate change.
Ampace is betting on a boom in home energy storage systems and the ‘batterification’ of tools and electronic devices as it aims to solidify an already dominant position in a part of the market away from electric cars and smartphones.
Scottish Government plans to scrap a flagship climate target have been branded “the worst environmental decision in the history of the Scottish Parliament.”
While electric vehicles (EVs) gain in popularity as an option to replace oil-powered cars, hydrogen still holds promise as a future energy that may suit mobility technology and help reduce air pollutants, says national oil and gas conglomerate PTT Plc.
The company's acquisition of a major Gulf Coast terminal is seen by analysts as a key earnings driver.
The Solar for All program is meant to reduce energy costs and lower pollution in poor areas across the U.S.
The state House stripped the bill of provisions that would have granted some local control over CO2 injection wells.
A recent poll from AAPI Data and the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds 84 percent of Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander adults agree climate change exists.
[VOA] Windhoek, Namibia -- Environmentalists in Namibia have accused local wildlife officials of hiding the real extent of rhino poaching in the Etosha National Park, which holds the highest concentration of black rhinos in the world. The Ministry of Environment recently acknowledged that rhino killings at the park quadrupled during the first quarter of 2024.
[IPS] Abu Dhabi -- Investors, regulators, researchers, policymakers, and representatives of renewable energy companies, acknowledged the key challenges of shifting away from fossil fuels to renewable energy in Africa when they gathered in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE) this week.
Deaths from record temperatures in Mali reportedly led to full morgues turning away bodies this month The deadly protracted heatwave that filled hospitals and mortuaries in the Sahel region of Africa earlier this month would have been impossible without human-caused climate disruption, a new analysis has revealed. Mali registered the hottest day in its history on 3 April as temperatures hit 48.5C in the south-western city of Kayes. Intense heat continued across a wide area of the country for more than five days and nights, giving vulnerable people no time for recovery. Continue reading...
Sen. Bert Stedman said the state has been "blessed" the last couple of years by high oil prices — but warned high prices won't last forever.
Relief had been granted after president Nicolás Maduro promised to hold free and fair elections this year The Biden administration has reimposed crushing oil sanctions on Venezuela, admonishing the president Nicolás Maduro ’s attempts to consolidate his rule just six months after the US eased restrictions in a bid to support now fading hopes for a democratic opening in the Opec nation. A senior US official, discussing the decision with reporters, said any US company investing in Venezuela would have 45 days to wind down operations to avoid adding uncertainty to global energy markets. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss US policy deliberations. Continue reading...
With a bolder policy and flexible payment mechanisms, perhaps Alexis Rodríguez would have opted for solar panels for his home, instead of the portable generator that has made it possible for him to weather the frequent blackouts caused by Cuba’s recurrent energy crises. “It’s a little noisy, the fuel is expensive, but I can tolerate […]
ADVISORY: Embargoed WRI Press Call on Cities Climate Hazards Analysis casey.skeens@wri.org Wed, 04/17/2024 - 15:23 Registration is for members of the media only. Register here. WASHINGTON (April 17, 2024) – Join the World Resources Institute (WRI) team on April 23, 2024 at 8:30 AM EDT / 14:30 CEST , for a preview of new analysis highlighting climate hazards under different warming scenarios – including heatwaves, cooling demand, and disease – for the world’s cities. The speakers will present findings on potential climate hazards for nearly 1,000 cities across the world – currently home to 2.1 billion people representing 26 percent of the global population. The data analysis and projections show the shifts, patterns and links between climate...
The United States on Wednesday announced that it will be reimposing sanctions on Venezuelan oil after the government had conceded that the South American country had not gotten close enough to free and fair elections.
Lightning and heavy rains led to the heaviest downpour in decades, flooding villages in Pakistan’s southwestern coast.
The United States said Wednesday it will snap back sanctions on Venezuela's crucial oil industry after President Nicolas Maduro's government continued its repression of opponents.
The United States is to snap back sanctions on Venezuela's crucial oil industry after President Nicolas Maduro's government continued its "repression" of opponents, US officials said Wednesday.
The Alaska House of Representatives is set to vote for House Bill 50 on Wednesday, sending it to the Senate.
Clerics in the world’s largest Muslim country are mobilising congregants to rein in climate change.
In anticipation of Earth Day, NASA invites media to a briefing at the agency’s headquarters on Friday, April 19, at 11 a.m. EDT. The event will share updates on NASA’s climate science and early data from the agency’s ocean-watching PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) mission, as well as reveal upcoming Earth airborne missions. The […]
Addressing our planet’s climate crisis requires commitment, cooperation, and urgency – all underpinned by finance. But our international financial systems were not designed for a challenge of this scale, and we are falling behind in meeting the needs of developing countries in combatting climate change.
Development Banks Are Starting to Spark Climate Action. Will They Complete the Task? shannon.paton@… Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:14 The World Bank and other multilateral development banks (MDBs) are on the cusp of evolution. Their transformation is fundamental to the world’s ability to simultaneously tackle the climate crisis and poverty. Ten years ago, having had no substantial policies for climate change, development banks began to gather climate data and increase attention to the impacts of climate change. This process gradually led to where we are today, with the MDBs recently releasing principles on how to align all their investments with the international Paris Agreement on climate change. The World Bank also committed to combat climate change as part of its mission...
Fossil Fuels Are in Everything from Plastics to Makeup, but Cleaner Alternatives Are Emerging margaret.overh… Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:00 Fossil fuels aren’t just used to power cars, heat buildings and keep the lights on. They are, quite literally, woven into almost every facet of our lives. From crayons, cosmetics and carpeting to fabrics, fertilizers and pharmaceuticals, around 70,000 everyday products are made with “petrochemicals” produced from fossil fuels. These products are so ubiquitous that many oil and gas companies are betting on chemical production to stay in business even as fossil fuel use in energy, heating and transport declines. This comes with serious consequences for people and the planet. In the United States alone, chemical production directly...
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Site of the proposed Te Kuha coal mine. PHOTO: Forest & Bird By Jeremy Rose Resources minister Shane Jones told RNZ this morning that digging up more coal would help deliver the economic surplus required to meet the...
“I hate wind,” the former president told oil industry officials at a recent Mar-a-Lago dinner, doubling down on promises to end this form of clean energy.
Herders in Kenya are substituting camels for cows, whose numbers have declined by the millions as drought has devastated eastern Africa.
Investors, regulators, researchers, policymakers, and representatives of renewable energy companies, acknowledged the key challenges of shifting away from fossil fuels to renewable energy in Africa when they gathered in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE) this week. The latest estimates by the African Development Bank show that Africa’s energy potential, especially renewable energy, is enormous, […]
The report found that U.S. LNG had a lower emissions intensity than coal when used for power generation in 13 European and Asian countries.
Steel is one of the most carbon-intensive industries, producing roughly 8 percent of energy sector emissions annually,
Tuesday's agreement with Norway outlines cooperation on green transportation, energy, agriculture and recycling.
Climate change is heating oceans faster than the world's coral reefs can handle. So scientists are breeding corals that can withstand hotter temperatures – but only to a point.
Co-authors say ‘no-regrets policy’ would save consumers €2.8bn a year while cutting emissions by 48m tonnes Healthier ready-to-eat meals could cut EU emissions by 48m tonnes annually and save customers €2.8bn (£2.4bn) each year, as well as reducing disease, a report has found. Fast food and ready meals provide more than a sixth of the EU’s calories but contain far more salt and meat than doctors recommend, according to an analysis from the consultancy Systemiq commissioned by environmental nonprofit organisations Fern and Madre Brava. Continue reading...
At a South African wine farm, dry, uprooted grapevines are stacked at the bottom of a hilly stretch of brown fallow land.
Former environment secretary Theresa Villiers called for the substance to be outlawed by 2024 to restore peatlands, which are the UK's largest carbon sink.
One of the world’s richest people is awarding $100 million in grants for AI solutions to tackle climate change and nature loss.Read more...
Bumblebees can surprisingly withstand days underwater, according to a study published Wednesday, suggesting they could withstand increased floods brought on by climate change that threaten their winter hibernation burrows.
In the UK, anxiety over the crisis after Iran’s missile strike on Israel drives down UK shares An escalating Middle East conflict risks leading to higher oil prices, a reversal of the recent fall in inflation and a puncturing of the optimistic mood in financial markets, the International Monetary Fund has warned. The Washington-based IMF said it was closely monitoring events in the region after Iran’s missile strike on Israel at the weekend and stressed the possibility that a war between the two countries could lead to higher interest rates. Continue reading...
OPEC and its economic allies in the OPEC+ bloc have been trying to cut global oil supplies in order to bid up prices lowered by record production from the United States. Russia, for its part, pledged earlier this year to cut crude oil exports as part of that mission. But it has actually been ramping up its exports.Read more...
The task force aims to create a global trading system that cuts pollution and prevents buying goods made with weak environmental regulations elsewhere.
The challenge for a resource-rich, medium-sized economy such as Australia is to identify the right green industries to focus on, while minimising the risks to taxpayers Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast It’s taken a while to get here, but Anthony Albanese is on the verge of promising what some economists and most clean energy advocates have been urging Australian governments to do for years. Or at least a version of it. The prime minister’s promised “future made in Australia” act is clumsily named, and the announcement last week had few details, but the idea – that the government will need to use its weight to help develop green industries if the country is to make a rapid transition from fossil fuels to a clean economy – has been a long time...
We need nature-based climate solutons to work. Yet as a recent study shows, questions remain on how we can achieve the best ground-level outcomes and maximize the enormous potential of these solutions to lower greenhouse gas concentrations.
An expert said said that oil-related sanctions have not been strictly enforced in the past couple of years.
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis, April 16 -- Tunisia, which has suffered six years of drought over the past decade, is considered to be the 5th most vulnerable country in the world to the growing risk of droughts and water shortages, according to the latest report published in March 2024 by the Tunisian Institute of Competitiveness and Quantitative Studies (ITCEQ).
Coal at Lyttelton Port. PHOTO: Liz Kivi By Jeremy Rose Resources minister Shane Jones’ announcement of changes to the Resource Management Act to facilitate more coal mining have been met with incredulity by...
Dr Sarah Benn, 57, is fighting to keep her licence to practise medicine after being jailed for 31 days for contempt of court by breaching an injunction not to demonstrate outside Kingsbury oil terminal.
The recent oil price spike fueled by rising Middle East tensions has the potential to derail the IMF's "relatively good" outlook for the world economy, its chief economist told AFP. "We are projecting a global economy that is quite resilient for 2024," Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas said in an interview ahead of the publication of the International Monetary Fund's World Economic Outlook (WEO) report on Tuesday.
Oil prices rose on Tuesday amid heightened tensions in the Middle East after Israel's military chief said his country would respond to Iran's weekend missile and drone attack amid calls for restraint by allies.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00318G, Paper Zimin Yang, Yi-Lun Sun, Siting Deng, Hao Tong, Mingqiang Wu, Xinbin Nie, Yifan Su, Guanjie He, Yinghe Zhang, Jianwei Li, Guoliang Chai Irreversible Zn plating/stripping along with interfacial degradation seriously affect the practical applications of aqueous zinc-ion batteries. Herein, 3-(hydroxy (phenyl) phosphoryl) propanoic acid (HPA) is introduced as an electrolyte additive that... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
The Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine has come under a series of drone attacks since April 7.
U.S. West Coast refiners that have relied on Basrah Heavy and other crudes from the Middle East will have incentives to switch to Canadian oil, which is cheaper and located right next door, said an energy analyst.
A quarter of a million households now have home batteries to store the electricity their rooftop solar generates and help them avoid sky-high power bills.
Humanitarian work in Afghanistan and Yemen now classified as climate finance, FoI request reveals, as £11.6bn pledge slips The UK government has been accused of double counting £500m of overseas aid as climate finance in an attempt to meet its commitments under the Paris agreement . Money for humanitarian work in Afghanistan, Yemen and Somalia is now being classified as climate finance, according to documents released under a freedom of information request by the website Carbon Brief . Continue reading...
WASHINGTON - The World Bank and other multilateral development banks are making good progress on reforms to expand their lending capacity to help countries brace for climate change and other challenges, but more work is needed, a senior U.S. Treasury official said.
Asian stocks fell and oil prices climbed Tuesday on growing fears of a wider war in the Middle East after Israel's army chief vowed a response to Iran's unprecedented attack on his country at the weekend.
MOSCOW - Russia has been able to swiftly repair some of key oil refineries hit by Ukrainian drones, reducing capacity idled by the attacks to about 10% from almost 14% at the end of March, Reuters calculations showed.
During a recent visit to Ketchikan, Rep. Mary Peltola discussed her approach to housing, mental health resources and addressing climate change.
Climate change is making extreme cold upwellings more common in certain regions of the world, and these events can be catastrophic for animals such as bull sharks
Intense patches of cold water rising from the depths are killing sharks, rays and other creatures, researchers say A climate-disrupted ocean is pushing sharks, rays and other species to flee ever-hotter water in the tropics, only for them to be killed by increasingly intense upwells of cold water from the depths, a study has found. One of the authors of the paper described the “eerie” aftermath of a mass die-off of more than 260 marine organisms from 81 species in a singular event of extreme cold upwelling off the coast of South Africa in 2021. Continue reading...
As American oil floods the planet, the biggest domestic players producing it are happy that the Biden administration’s relationship with the industry is less frosty than anticipated. The Wall Street Journal reports that they’re not getting everything they want, it but maybe more than they had expected when Biden was…Read more...
Citigroup Inc has increased its three-month target for West Texas Intermediate by $8 a barrel. Additionally, Citigroup analysts, including Max Layton, expressed in a note that the current market has not fully accounted for the possibility of an ongoing direct conflict between Iran and Israel. They estimate that such a scenario could drive oil prices up to over $100 per barrel, depending on how events unfold.
Energy market sanctions imposed on Moscow have already had a dramatic impact on China’s buying habits, helping Russia surpass Saudi Arabia to become the largest oil supplier to Beijing last year.
Billionaire says ‘there is nothing I hate more’ than cutting staff as more than 10% of workforce to be affected Business live – latest updates Tesla is laying off more than 10% of its global workforce, equivalent to at least 14,000 roles. The electric carmaker’s chief executive, Elon Musk, said he had made “the difficult decision to reduce our headcount by more than 10% globally”, in a memo first reported by the online publication Elektrek . Tesla employs 140,473 people, according to its annual report . Continue reading...
Humanity needs to burn less fossil fuels. But that means fewer aerosols to help cool the planet—and a potential acceleration of global warming.
Study connects heatwaves and cold snaps to surges in payday lending, keeping people in debt and harming communities of color Two competing payday loan stores stand on the corners of an intersection in south Los Angeles. An area of persistent poverty, south LA is also a banking desert where payday lenders fill the gap. Long lines form inside the stores on the first of the month, when rent is due. Guillermina Molina, a 60-year-old retired housekeeper, visits the same Speedy Cash each month. During the summer months – which are becoming increasingly hot – she runs her air conditioner but frets about her utility bills. “It’s kind of hard because the [power bill] is coming up too high because you gotta have the air conditioner on,” Molina said. Continue reading...
The Biden administration views Ukraine’s attacks on Russian oil facilities as reckless. Kyiv sees them as essential.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00580E, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Luyin Tang, Tianyu Li, Wenjing Lu, Xianfeng Li The robust and reversible solid bromine complexation effect was incorporated into electrodes, endowing bromine-based flow batteries with ultralow self-discharge. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
The move is the latest in a long battle over Enbridge's plan to replace part of the Line 5 pipeline that runs under the waterway linking lakes Michigan and Huron.
More than 900 filmmakers from 110 countries have submitted short films for the 5th edition of the WHO Health for All Film Festival on themes ranging from climate change, refugees, tobacco, and gender-based violence. Some 60 films have been selected for the shortlist, for review by a jury of international artists and health experts, before the announcement of the winners on 26 May 2024.
The annual tally of U.S. climate pollution has some conservative supporters.
[UN News] Fishing communities in the south of Madagascar are facing sometimes deadly sea conditions due to climate change, but with the help of the UN's International Labour Organization (ILO) are finding ways to adapt to the new circumstances they face.
It is a Caribbean paradise with stunning beaches and practically guaranteed year-round sunshine.
Indigenous groups see hope in the environmentally friendly process of bioremediation. But will cities pay attention? It almost looked like a garden. In Taylor Yard, a former railyard near downtown Los Angeles, volunteers knelt down to tend to scrubby plants growing in neat rows under the sweltering sun. But beneath the concrete of the 60-acre site overlooking the Los Angeles River, the soils were soaked with an assortment of hazardous heavy metals and petrochemicals like lead, cadmium, diesel, and benzene. As the volunteers worked to dig up entire plants for closer study – some with roots nearly 12ft deep – they wore protective gear and carefully avoided inhaling or touching the toxic soil. Even a brief exposure to the contaminants could cause serious health consequences. Continue reading...
Andriy Kobolyev calls for more weapons after Russia destroys one of Ukraine’s largest power plants A dramatic rise in European energy prices is inevitable if the Russian destruction of Ukrainian energy infrastructure continues unabated, the former chief executive of Ukraine’s state-owned oil company has warned. Andriy Kobolyev, a former head of Naftogaz, said in an interview with the Guardian: “Russia is trying to wage a global energy war and Ukraine is part of that war and if the markets perceive that Russia is winning that war the consequences will be very serious. You will see a spike in prices all round the globe”. Continue reading...
Amy Westervelt and Kyle Pope have covered climate disinformation for a combined 20-plus years – here’s their guide on how to decode it Increasingly sophisticated and better-funded disinformation is making climate coverage trickier both for journalists to produce and for the public to fully understand and trust. But telling the story, and understanding it, has never been more urgent with half of Earth’s population eligible to vote in elections that could decisively impact the world’s ability to act in time to stave off the worst of the climate crisis. Continue reading...
KYIV - Safety at the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine remains precarious but the shift to a cold shutdown of all six reactor units, completed on Saturday, is positive, the U.N. nuclear watchdog chief said in a statement.