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
To increase supply during the severe drought, Marin County is considering buying water from agricultural areas and piping it across the San Francisco Bay. Welcome to the future in Marin 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
U.S. environmental regulators are expected to base new rules for controlling methane emissions from oil and gas operations on the nation-leading policies of a state that has been tamping down 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
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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
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
The Biden administration is launching a wide-ranging strategy to regulate toxic industrial compounds associated with serious health conditions that are used in products ranging from cookware to carpets and firefighting 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
