Satellites are emerging as a tool to fight climate change, exposing hidden sources of greenhouse gas emissions and allowing governments to monitor compliance with international pacts. Over the past three Continue Reading
Major economies will produce more than double the amount of coal, oil and gas in 2030 than is consistent with meeting climate goals set in the 2015 Paris accord to Continue Reading
Coal mining in China has increased in 2021 Plans by governments to extract fossil fuels up to 2030 are incompatible with keeping global temperatures to safe levels, says the UN. Continue Reading
The International Energy Agency’s annual World Energy Outlook, the latest edition of which was published on Wednesday, is probably the closest thing to a bible in the energy world. It Continue Reading
At a July global climate gathering in London, South African environment minister Barbara Creecy presented the world’s wealthiest countries with a bill: more than $750 billion annually to pay for Continue Reading
Oil and gas companies are pushing a net-zero narrative, but their pledges may not live up to true carbon neutrality. Carbon neutral oil and gas is largely reliant on the Continue Reading
Outside of hunting season, few people visit the Tri-Valley Wildlife Area in the rolling hills of southeast Ohio. When a couple of Bloomberg Green reporters showed up on a muggy Continue Reading
Poland on Monday called for the European Union to cancel or delay parts of its plan to tackle climate change ahead of a summit at which EU leaders will wrangle Continue Reading
Some of the top cement and concrete manufacturers have pledged a new 25 percent reduction in CO2 emissions by 2030. The industry has wider plans to achieve net-zero in concrete Continue Reading
In Senator Joe Manchin’s hometown, a flood-prone hamlet of about 200 homes that hugs a curve on a shallow creek, the rain is getting worse. Those storms swell the river, Continue Reading
A $100 billion dividing line between the world’s richest and poorest countries threatens to undermine any hope for a grand deal at the COP26 climate negotiations. That’s the amount in Continue Reading
“It is adapt or die,” Emma Howard Boyd, the head of England’s Environment Agency, said in a statement earlier this week, as her government department released a study that warned Continue Reading
For the second year in a row, the weather phenomenon La Niña is expected to alter the U.S. winter. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Americans could expect myriad Continue Reading
The number of abandoned oil and gas wells in the United States is much higher than previously thought, according to an exclusive analysis shared with The Climate 202. The analysis, which Continue Reading
Queen Elizabeth II has been overheard criticizing world leaders for a lack of action on climate change ahead of the COP26 summit in Glasgow. The British monarch, 95, said “it’s Continue Reading
Biden’s Climate Agenda Comes Up Empty Ahead of Global Summit ( Sign up for the Green Daily newsletter, your best source for climate news and insights on the latest in Continue Reading
A weather-roiling La Nina appears to have emerged across the equatorial Pacific, setting the stage for worsening droughts in California and South America, frigid winters in parts of the U.S. Continue Reading
Clean energy technologies such as wind turbines, solar panels and electric vehicles are advancing so rapidly that the global use of fossil fuels is now expected to peak by the Continue Reading
A global pledge to reduce methane emissions took two steps forward yesterday as 24 countries signaled they would join the effort and donors committed $200 million to the cause. The Continue Reading
Projected future sea level at South of Market (SoMa) in San Francisco, United States due to human-caused global warming under 3 degrees Celsius of global warming. Image: Climate Central Just Continue Reading
U.S. climate envoy John Kerry is tempering expectations for a U.N. climate summit sometimes billed as make-or-break for the Earth’s future, conceding next month’s talks likely will end with nations Continue Reading
Investment in renewable energy needs to triple by the end of the decade if the world hopes to effectively fight climate change and keep volatile energy markets under control, the Continue Reading
Extreme volatility in energy markets will present a continued risk unless investment in clean power is tripled in the next decade, the head of the International Energy Agency warned, as Continue Reading
China has taken a step back from emission reduction commitments amid the energy crunch that caused factory closures and power rationing. In a statement, Premier Li Keqiang said that the Continue Reading
England will be hit hard by floods like those that devastated Germany this summer if the country does not improve its defense against more extreme weather brought by climate change, Continue Reading
Advocates heading to COP26 say wealthy nations have a moral responsibility to help developing countries endure existing global warming impacts. Devastation in Antigua and Barbuda from Hurricane Irma. Photographer: Jose Continue Reading
If the floods don’t get you, lack of electricity or a swamped hospital might. Nearly a quarter of U.S. critical infrastructure—utilities, airports, police stations and more—is at risk of being Continue Reading
The U.S. has endured 18 major weather and climate disasters so far this year that killed a combined 538 people and inflicted more than $100 billion in damage, according to Continue Reading
Kati Szilagyi for Bloomberg Green Veterans of annual global climate negotiations say the geopolitical backdrop makes a major breakthrough challenging this year Premiers, presidents, and princes come and go from Continue Reading
On the northern edge of a vast Chinese factory city, welding torches gleam as workers finish construction on a gas-fired power plant to replace one that burned coal and blanketed Continue Reading
Friederike Otto and her colleagues jump into action during heat waves, floods, and fires to pinpoint if global warming is to blame. When weather disaster strikes, observers near and far Continue Reading
Less food. More traffic accidents. Extreme weather hitting nuclear waste sites. Migrants rushing toward the United States, fleeing even worse calamity in their own countries. Those scenarios, once the stuff Continue Reading
Muon Space uses AI and detailed imagery to measure—and hopefully help mitigate—what can only be seen from space. Illustration: Maria Chimishkyan for Bloomberg Businessweek Over the past few years technology Continue Reading
Clean energy startups have raked in $11 billion so far this year, nearly double the total amount from 2020 One of the largest funders of clean energy startups has been Continue Reading
The global supply of fresh water is dropping by almost half an inch annually, the World Meteorological Organization warned in a report released this week. By 2050, about 5 billion Continue Reading
Every so often the tectonic geopolitical plates that hold up the world economy suddenly shift in ways that can rattle and destabilize everything on the surface. That’s happening right now Continue Reading
With natural gas, coal, and oil prices all soaring this summer, it is clear that a successful energy transition will take decades not years Some energy transition proponents may have Continue Reading
Let a molecule of carbon dioxide escape into the atmosphere, and it stays for centuries. There’s more than enough up there to smother the planet like a too-warm quilt, trapping Continue Reading
Much of the world is unprepared for the floods, hurricanes and droughts expected to worsen with climate change and urgently needs better warning systems to avert water-related disasters, according to Continue Reading
Thawing earth once thought to be permanently frozen is springing to life and threatening a crucial chunk of Russia’s economy. The melting of the thick layer of the earth known Continue Reading
Demand for coal and natural gas has exceeded pre-COVID-19 highs with oil not far behind, dealing a setback to hopes the pandemic would spur a faster transition to clean energy Continue Reading
Americans are spending a dollar more for a gallon of gasoline than they were a year ago. Natural gas prices have shot up more than 150 percent over the same Continue Reading
European banks are beginning to drop clients that pose a climate risk rather than face the possibility of higher capital requirements, according to the watchdog overseeing the development. Banks are Continue Reading
Unrelenting and unprecedented, back-to-back Atlantic hurricane seasons have punished the Gulf and East coasts of the United States. An unsurpassed 49 named storms have formed over the warming Atlantic waters Continue Reading
Some of Europe’s biggest asset managers are starting to drop a once-ubiquitous ESG label from their company filings amid concern that regulators will no longer tolerate vague descriptions of environmental, Continue Reading
Hurricane Sam could still make landfall on the U.S. East Coast in the middle of this week. Hurricane Sam, though currently forecasted to be less intense than previous storms this Continue Reading
As chief of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under President George H.W. Bush, William Reilly helped set in motion both global climate diplomacy and a critical law — the Clean Continue Reading
Ahead of the 76th UN General Assembly, the US and the EU both agreed to cut methane emissions by at least 30 percent from 2020 levels by the end of Continue Reading
When researchers flew over an Energy Transfer LP facility in the Permian Basin of West Texas two months ago, a NASA-designed sensor on their airplane detected a colossal plume of Continue Reading
Florida’s version of the American dream, which holds that even people of relatively modest means can aspire to live near the water, depends on a few crucial components: sugar white Continue Reading
