United Airlines has become the first US airline to publicly commit to reducing its own greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2050, relative to 2005. The pledge represents the equivalent Continue Reading
If Europe’s eight largest oil companies want to meet the climate and carbon-reducing goals they have set, their spending on new, low-carbon energies must double by 2020, and then double Continue Reading
The bill that Governor Jerry Brown signed into law, SB 100, requires the state to reach 100 percent clean electricity in less than 30 years, with interim goals along the Continue Reading
Jacobin recently published an article calling for a national and worldwide expansion of air-conditioning usage. In it the writer, Leigh Phillips, used the suffering of economically and ecologically stressed people Continue Reading
The UN secretary-general has sounded the alarm on climate change, warning that there could be a $2tn loss in productivity in the global economy by 2030 due to the effects Continue Reading
António Guterres, the United Nations secretary general, called climate change “the defining issue of our time.” Want climate news in your inbox? Sign up here for Climate Fwd: , our Continue Reading
The number of people suffering from hunger has increased during the past three years, after years of decline, a UN report suggests. According to the analysis, 821 million people globally Continue Reading
The proposed changes, among other measures, would give drillers a year to do leak inspections instead of just six months, and 60 days to make repairs instead of 30, the Continue Reading
The world is not making nearly enough progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions to achieve the goals for limiting global warming agreed at the Paris climate summit in 2015, a Continue Reading
A steel factory in Wu’an, China. Many countries can report lower carbon emissions because they are increasing imports of materials like steel or cement. Over the past decade, both the Continue Reading
