Arizona positioned to take on cuts in Colorado River supply
Water officials in Arizona say they are prepared to lose about one-fifth of the water the state gets from the Colorado River in what could be the first federally declared Continue Reading
Urgent methane cuts needed to rein in climate change, U.N. says
Deep cuts in methane emissions, including from the fossil fuel industry, are urgently needed to slow the rate of global warming and keep it beneath a threshold agreed by world Continue Reading
Democrats move to reinstate methane rules loosened by Trump
Congressional Democrats are moving to reinstate regulations designed to limit potent greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas fields, part of a broader effort by the Biden administration to combat Continue Reading
This might be the Senate’s most important climate vote ever
THE SENATE votes Wednesday on what sounds like an arcane regulatory question. In fact, Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) argued Tuesday, “This is the most important climate vote that the Senate Continue Reading
Effort to cut world’s greenhouse emissions may be hampered by a giant accounting problem.
Scientists have identified a staggering 5.5 billion ton gap between greenhouse gas emissions acknowledged each year by the world’s nations and the emissions calculated by independent models, an accounting discrepancy Continue Reading
Climate Deniers Are Changing Their Strategy: Green Summit Update
Top executives, policy makers and investors are gathering this week for the two-day Bloomberg Green Summit. The virtual event focuses on the core issues of climate change. The conference kicked off Monday Continue Reading
Why It’s So Hard to Compare Countries’ Climate Goals
There is just no accounting for climate change. This statement is not figurative, in the way “There’s no accounting for taste” is figurative. There’s literally no common accounting for what Continue Reading
US EPA gives green light to California, other states to set tougher car standards
The US Environmental Protection Agency on April 26 took the first steps in dismantling the Trump administration’s rollback of fuel economy standards for cars and light trucks, including announcing it Continue Reading
EPA moves to restore California waiver for setting tailpipe emission limits
The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that it will move to grant California permission to set more stringent climate requirements for cars and SUVs, a reversal of a key Trump Continue Reading
Global Emissions Goals Come With Big Cost and Political Hurdles
Countries aiming to sharply reduce their emissions to meet climate goals must be prepared for staggering costs and looming political battles as they seek to overhaul swaths of their economies, Continue Reading
John Kerry Climate Summit Q&A: ‘Everyone Talked About the Crisis’
Bringing 40 heads of state together for two days of virtual climate talks created the most visible role yet for John Kerry, the White House’s special envoy for climate. With Continue Reading
Appalachia Spews More Methane Than Permian, Satellite Data Show
The Appalachian Basin spanning Alabama to Maine spewed more methane last year than the oil- and gas-heavy Permian Basin of Texas and New Mexico — making the region the biggest Continue Reading
Climate Summit’s Final Day Focuses on Technology, Innovation
Officials from the U.S. and other nations spent the final day of a global climate summit focused on innovation, as they debate how to deploy technology and economic incentives to Continue Reading
New US climate strategy opens up old faultlines with Europe
“The Americans have a strategy based on the development of new technologies,” France’s environment minister Barbara Pompili told the FT this week. “It’s great to develop hydrogen, as we are Continue Reading
Live Updates: Biden and World Leaders Focus on Innovation for ‘Clean Energy Future’
Bill Gates during the White House climate summit meeting on Friday.Credit…Associated Press Bill Gates on Friday called for huge new public and private investment in innovation to meet President Biden’s Continue Reading
White House touts EVs, but not backing gasoline-powered phase-out date
The Biden administration wants to spend $174 billion to boost electric vehicles and charging stations but its 2030 climate emissions reduction pledge released on Thursday does not include a firm Continue Reading
U.S., other countries deepen climate goals at Earth Day summit
The United States and other countries hiked their targets for slashing greenhouse gas emissions at a global climate summit hosted by President Joe Biden, an event meant to resurrect U.S. Continue Reading
Key takeaways from the Biden Earth Day summit
Dozens of world leaders are joining CEOs, activists and Pope Francis for a two-day virtual summit that started Thursday on reducing climate change hosted by U.S. President Joe Biden. THE Continue Reading
U.S. to double public climate finance to developing countries by 2024
The United States on Thursday said it will boost public climate finance to help poor countries reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to a changing climate, doubling funding by 2024 Continue Reading
Kerry says U.S. will likely exceed pledge to cut emissions by 50-52% by 2030
The United States will likely exceed its pledge to reduce emissions 50% to 52% by 2030 compared with 2005 levels, U.S. climate envoy John Kerry told reporters on Thursday. U.S. Continue Reading
U.S. Climate Goal Falls Short of European Peers and Paris Target
President Joe Biden’s new commitment to cut U.S. emissions in half over the coming decade from 2005 levels, with an aim to zero out planet-warming gases in the next 30 Continue Reading
Biden Wants to Slash Emissions. Success Would Mean a Very Different America. – The New York Times
President Biden’s new pledge to slash America’s greenhouse gas emissions over the coming decade is long on ambition and short on specifics, but experts say that success would require rapid and sweeping Continue Reading
Biden’s climate summit zeroes in on technology to help fight global warming
U.S. President Joe Biden’s climate summit will turn to the issue of technology on Friday, featuring remarks from entrepreneurs Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg, after Thursday’s Earth Day kickoff sought Continue Reading
Biden Wants to Slash Emissions. Success Would Mean a Very Different America.
President Biden’s new pledge to slash America’s greenhouse gas emissions over the coming decade is long on ambition and short on specifics, but experts say that success would require rapid Continue Reading
Biden’s Climate Credibility May Hinge on Whether He Makes Good on U.S. Financial Commitments to Developing Nations
President Joe Biden speaks in the Oval Office at the White House April 19, 2021 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images For poor nations that contributed little to greenhouse Continue Reading
Climate Summit ‘Last Chance’ for Brazil to Show Leadership on Global Warming
President Joe Biden’s climate summit of 40 world leaders this week will be Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s “ last chance ” to restore Washington’s confidence in Brazil’s commitment to taking Continue Reading
At Biden’s Earth Day climate summit, some rare common ground with Putin
The stress points keep piling up between President Biden and Vladimir Putin. Biden agreed that the Russian president is a “killer,” the United States leveled more sanctions, diplomats have been expelled on both Continue Reading
Putin, Xi, Pope Join 40 Leaders at Biden’s Climate Summit
President Joe Biden is bringing together dozens of foreign leaders along with corporate executives, union heads and Pope Francis in a two-day virtual summit meant to invigorate the global fight Continue Reading
U.S. Rejects Australia’s Climate Strategy Ahead of Global Summit
The U.S. has called out Australia’s lack of climate ambition ahead of President Joe Biden’s summit of global leaders. “Our colleagues in Australia recognize that there’s going to have to be Continue Reading
US to propose emissions cut of up to 50% by end of decade
US President Joe Biden is set to announce the country’s steepest ever emissions cuts, as he hosts 40 world leaders on Thursday for a summit on climate change that will Continue Reading
Biden Administration Moves to Unwind Trump Auto-Emissions Policy
The Biden administration is moving to end a legal battle with California over the state’s authority to regulate motor-vehicle emissions, setting the stage for stricter regulations on the auto industry, Continue Reading
Trump administration sidelined experts in writing car pollution rules, EPA watchdog finds
The Trump administration sidelined career staffers at the Environmental Protection Agency when weakening pollution rules for new passenger vehicles, according to a federal watchdog report. The EPA’s inspector general found top Continue Reading
2020 was Europe’s hottest year on record
Power-generating windmill turbines are seen during sunset in Bourlon, France, February 23, 2021. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol Europe experienced its hottest year on record last year, while the Arctic suffered a summer Continue Reading
Europe clinches deal on wide-ranging climate law to speed emissions cuts
The European Union clinched a deal in the early hours of Wednesday on a landmark climate change law that puts new, tougher greenhouse gas emissions targets at the heart of Continue Reading
Europe’s Changing Climate Viewed From Orbit Shows Rising Danger
Climate change whipsawed through Europe last year, alternately baking locked-up economies beneath record heat before inundating them with unprecedented floods, underscoring the rising levels of uncertainty faced by the continent’s 500 million Continue Reading
Cities Are Our Best Hope for Surviving Climate Change
The hysteria about urban density that arrived with the coronavirus is—like the pandemic itself—already easing. Regardless of how quickly or slowly urbanites return to their cramped apartments, however, the long Continue Reading
Climate change creates migrants. Biden considers protections
Ioane Teitiota and his wife fought for years to stay in New Zealand as refugees, arguing that rising sea levels caused by climate change threaten the very existence of the Continue Reading
Biden to pledge to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by at least half by 2030
President Biden this week will pledge to slash U.S. greenhouse gas emissions at least in half by the end of the decade, according to two people briefed on the plan, Continue Reading
Xi to attend Biden’s climate change summit in first meeting of two leaders
China’s President Xi Jinping will attend a U.S.-led climate change summit on Thursday at the invitation of President Joe Biden, in the first meeting between the two leaders since the Continue Reading
EU Council, Parliament reach provisional deal to cut emissions 55% by 2030
Highlights 225 million mt CO2 cap put on removals Carbon sink volume increased Negotiated deal needs formal approval Negotiators for the European Council and Parliament reached an informal agreement early Continue Reading
IEA issues ‘dire warning’ on CO2 emissions as it predicts 5% rise
Global CO2 emissions from energy are seen rising nearly 5% this year, suggesting the economic rebound from COVID-19 could be “anything but sustainable” for the climate, the International Energy Agency Continue Reading
Blinken Says U.S. Falling Behind China in Shaping Climate Future
Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the U.S. is falling behind China in the race to seize opportunities created by climate change. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. Continue Reading
The Pandemic Worsened Climate Misery for Millions Last Year
The Covid-19 pandemic did little to slow the rise of greenhouse-gas pollution in 2020—and much to complicate responses to humanitarian disasters, according to the World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Global Continue Reading
What It Takes to Turn Cities Into Bulwarks Against Climate Change
Grownups look straight past the nuts and bolts of the city. Power lines and drainage grates go unseen. But my 8-year-old notices, even those up above the row houses. “Look Continue Reading
Biden Wants the U.S. to Lead on Climate Action, But the World Needs Proofberg
President Joe Biden aims to prove to the world this week that the U.S. has rejoined the international fight against climate change by vowing cuts in greenhouse gas emissions that Continue Reading
Biden feels heat on emissions goal as climate summit nears
As President Joe Biden convenes a virtual climate summit on Thursday with 40 world leaders, he faces a vexing task: how to put forward a nonbinding but symbolic goal to Continue Reading
U.K. Plans Deeper Carbon Cuts to Spur Climate Change Fight
U.K. Prime Minster Boris Johnson is preparing to announce deeper carbon cuts this week as he aims to spur global momentum in the fight against climate change, three people familiar Continue Reading
Whatever Climate Change Does to the World, Cities Will Be Hit Hardest
More than half of humanity is crowded together in cities. That’s about 4 billion people living on top of one another, working, commuting, polluting, and figuring out how to survive. Continue Reading
US, China agree to cooperate on climate crisis with urgency
The United States and China, the world’s two biggest carbon polluters, agreed to cooperate to curb climate change with urgency, just days before President Joe Biden hosts a virtual summit Continue Reading
US and China pledge joint action on climate change despite strained ties
The US and China have committed to work together to combat climate change despite rising tensions between the two powers, boosting chances of global deal on emissions at a UN Continue Reading