The year 2021 is now expected to qualify among the hottest seven in history, all of them recorded since 2014, according to an early estimate by the United Nations World Continue Reading
Up to 3bn out of the projected world population of about 9bn could be exposed to temperatures on a par with the hottest parts of the Sahara by 2070, according Continue Reading
Nearly 90 countries have joined a U.S.- and EU-led effort to slash emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane 30% by 2030 from 2020 levels, a pact aimed at tackling Continue Reading
The U.N. climate summit in Glasgow gathers leaders from around the world, in Scotland’s biggest city, to lay out their vision for addressing the common challenge of global warming. (AP Continue Reading
The Biden administration is launching an assault on methane Tuesday, advancing initiatives across government — and the globe — to keep the potent heat-trapping gas from escaping landfills, oil wells Continue Reading
A U.N. conference seen critical to averting the most disastrous effects of climate change launches amid acrimony on Monday after major industrialized nations were accused of dragging their feet on Continue Reading
There have been so many storms in the Atlantic Ocean this year that the National Hurricane Center has used up all 21 available names, the third time in recorded history Continue Reading
For nearly 30 years, the pharmaceutical giant Bristol Myers Squibb has proclaimed it’s been setting and meeting ambitious targets around energy and greenhouse gas emissions. These days, those goals include Continue Reading
Tightening The Emissions Gap Leaders of the Group of 20 countries agreed on a climate deal that fell well short of what some nations were pushing for, leaving it to Continue Reading
Leaders of the Group of 20 major economies agreed on a final statement on Sunday that urged “meaningful and effective” action to limit global warming but angering climate activists by Continue Reading
U.S. President Joe Biden said on Sunday it was “not inconsistent” for him to push energy-producing nations to increase output of fossil fuels while also urging countries to commit to Continue Reading
The United Nations and the European Union launched a global watchdog on Sunday to monitor governments’ pledged reductions of greenhouse gas methane that have the potential to make a rapid Continue Reading
The United Nations COP26 summit that starts in Glasgow this week has been billed as a make-or-break chance to save the planet from the most calamitous effects of climate change. Continue Reading
President Joe Biden said he is disappointed that Russia and China declined to make stronger commitments to combat climate change or to send their leaders to key global meetings to Continue Reading
Leaders of the world’s biggest economies agreed Sunday to stop funding coal-fired power plants in poor countries and made a vague commitment to seek carbon neutrality “by or around mid-century” Continue Reading
Hello 420; goodbye 413. These recent carbon dioxide measurements, the highest in 3 million years, signal that fossil-fuel burning is hurtling us irreversibly into a much warmer future. The U.N. Climate Change Conference in Glasgow gives Continue Reading
Luis Sinco Extreme weather events – including powerful heat waves and devastating floods – are now the new normal, says the World Meteorological Organisation. The State of the Climate report Continue Reading
A U.N. conference seen critical to averting the most disastrous effects of climate change launches amid acrimony on Monday after major industrialised nations were accused of dragging their feet on Continue Reading
Highlights Saudi Arabia concerned about climate change: king Kingdom and allies in OPEC+ under pressure to boost supply US official says OPEC+ ramping up output very slowly Saudi king Salman Continue Reading
Leaders of Europe’s biggest oil and gas companies said political leaders attending U.N. climate talks that start this week must make carbon markets more effective and that only governments can Continue Reading
Leaders from the Group of 20 major economies are split over phasing out coal and limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, officials said, throwing into doubt whether ambitious climate Continue Reading
Brazil’s carbon dioxide emissions soared last year due to greater deforestation in regions including the Amazon, dealing a fresh blow to President Jair Bolsonaro’s environmental credentials. Emissions rose 9.5% versus Continue Reading
China and India cast a pall over the opening of the COP26 summit in Glasgow when they rejected calls to set tough new climate targets, calling into question whether the Continue Reading
China has pledged to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2060, although it has not outlined exactly how it will get there and is planning an additional 60 coal plants Saudi Continue Reading
The world’s 20 richest countries will commit this weekend to tackle the existential threat of climate change, paving the way for more detailed action at a UN climate change summit Continue Reading
Leaders from the Group of 20 major economies are split over phasing out coal and limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, officials said, throwing into doubt whether ambitious climate Continue Reading
Gulf oil producers present big renewables plans ahead of COP26 Oil remains key, but NOCs look to offset a large part of emissions Renewables investment fits in long-term low-carbon energy Continue Reading
With COP26 taking place next week, there is a renewed focus on major funds divesting from fossil fuels This divestment movement can be epitomized by the Dutch pension fund ABP, Continue Reading
The world’s major economies, many of which helped fuel the Earth’s warming over the past century through massive greenhouse gas pollution, are still failing to do their part to adequately Continue Reading
Current plans to cut carbon emissions don’t work quickly enough, says the UN National plans to cut carbon fall far short of what’s needed to avert dangerous climate change, according Continue Reading
New and updated climate commitments from governments still fall short of the effort needed to reach the goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change, the United Nations Environment Program Continue Reading
The torrential rain that fell on much of California in recent days recharged rivers, filled storage tanks and prepared the ground for the next storm, providing what many climate experts say is Continue Reading
Even as large swaths of the Siberian forest have burned during summer wildfires — made increasingly worse by climate change — the Kremlin’s strategy to slash emissions is a bet on those Continue Reading
The leaders of most of the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitters gather in Glasgow from Sunday, aiming to thrash out plans and funds to tilt the planet towards clean energy. Continue Reading
Greenhouse gas concentrations hit a record last year and the world is “way off track” in capping rising temperatures, the United Nations said on Monday in a stark illustration of Continue Reading
Global greenhouse gas emissions are on a catastrophic trajectory and developed nations will fall short of a pledge made more than a decade ago to mobilize $100 billion a year Continue Reading
It looks like Senator Joe Manchin will stand firm in his stance against the climate change provisions in Biden’s infrastructure bill When it comes to the climate bill it looks Continue Reading
After years of publicly dismissing climate change, President Vladimir Putin is finally prodding officials to take the threat it poses to Russia’s economy more seriously. The shift in thinking means Continue Reading
Curbing China’s output of greenhouse gas will do more than almost anything else at this point to decide the fate of the planet. That primacy comes from being, by far, Continue Reading
Lower than usual temperatures from China to Japan will add to power demand at a time of already tight supply and high prices. Bloomberg News Waves, whipped up by a Continue Reading
It is perhaps unsurprising that you rarely see the words ‘climate change’ and ‘optimism’ in the same headline. The world’s forests, oceans and polar ice caps remain in peril, extreme Continue Reading
( Sign up for the Green Daily newsletter, your best source for climate news and insights on the latest in science, environmental impacts, zero-emission tech and green finance.) More than Continue Reading
A forecast for a developing drought in the U.S. southern Plains is the latest threat to dwindling world wheat supplies. Hard red winter wheat, a bright spot this year compared Continue Reading
Picking the precise moment when the world’s leaders had unmissable evidence of climate change is a matter for unsolvable debate, but there’s a strong case to be made for 1990. Continue Reading
The 2021 Production Gap Report, by leading research institutes and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), finds that despite increased climate ambitions and net-zero commitments, governments still plan to produce more Continue Reading
As the United States and nations around the world struggle to blunt the effects of rising temperatures and extreme weather, sweeping assessments released Thursday by the White House, U.S. intelligence Continue Reading
In April, Diversified Energy Co. told investors it had achieved a “marked improvement” in its environmental record: It had cut direct greenhouse gas emissions by 28% in a single year. Continue Reading
Picking the precise moment when the world’s leaders had unmissable evidence of climate change is a matter for unsolvable debate, but there’s a strong case to be made for 1990. Continue Reading
Two of the most important events on the global diplomatic calendar take place at the end of this month. The Group of 20 summit, a meeting of the leaders of the Continue Reading
A huge leak of documents seen by BBC News shows how countries are trying to change a crucial scientific report on how to tackle climate change. The leak reveals Saudi Continue Reading
