Tariq Fancy, BlackRock Inc.’s former chief investment officer for sustainable investing, found himself at odds with colleagues more focused on marketing sustainable funds than creating investments that have actual climate Continue Reading
While more than 80% of the largest U.S. companies have set emissions reduction goals, less than half engaged with lawmakers to advocate for science-based climate policies — and more than Continue Reading
The Biden administration has tapped scientist Allison Crimmins from the Environmental Protection Agency to guide the U.S. government’s next authoritative report on the consequences of climate change. The report, known Continue Reading
The European Union is set to transform every corner of its economy — from how people heat their home to the cars they drive — as the bloc uses a Continue Reading
European officials are preparing to introduce ambitious legislation designed to wean one of the world’s biggest and most polluting economies off fossil fuels far more quickly than other nations have Continue Reading
” The professionalization of the biomass industry is a problem that needs attention .”–Bas Eickhout, Dutch politician and member of the European Parliament. When it comes to the global shift Continue Reading
EU emissions rules due to come into force as soon as 2025 are likely to make petrol cars less profitable than electric models, marking a landmark moment for the auto Continue Reading
Earlier this month the International Energy Agency had yet another dire warning for those concerned about the welfare of the planet. Natural gas demand, the IEA said, was improving faster Continue Reading
Searing heat continues to scorch the western U.S., with Las Vegas tying its highest temperature ever and downtown Sacramento, California, setting a new second-highest mark on Saturday and relief at Continue Reading
The European Union is set to take the lead in climate policy action among the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitters this week, with a raft of ambitious plans designed to Continue Reading
Last month was the hottest June on record in North America, with more than 1,200 daily temperature records broken in the final week alone. But overlooked in much of the coverage were Continue Reading
Reservoir levels are dropping throughout the West, as the drought tightens its grip on the region and intense summer heat further stresses both water supply and the surrounding landscape. Many Continue Reading
A European Union plan to extend carbon pricing to the fuel used in cars and to heat homes is facing a wall of early resistance from countries and lawmakers fearing Continue Reading
Last week, a “thousand-year” heat wave baked the Pacific Northwest and adjacent British Columbia with widespread highs topping 100 degrees, resulting in a death toll in the hundreds. Lytton, Canada, climbed to Continue Reading
California’s power grid operator on Thursday issued a “flex” alert for Friday, asking consumers to conserve energy from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. as high demand driven by extreme heat Continue Reading
The extraordinarily hot and cold temperatures that are becoming more common as climate change accelerates are responsible for 5 million deaths globally every year. Extreme weather accounted for 9.4% of Continue Reading
Last week’s deadly heat in the northwestern U.S. and British Columbia would not have reached the highs it did in a world without greenhouse gas pollution, according to climate scientists Continue Reading
The extraordinary heat wave that scorched the Pacific Northwest last week would almost certainly not have occurred without global warming, an international team of climate researchers said Wednesday. Temperatures were Continue Reading
A coalition of investors overseeing a combined $4.2 trillion of assets are asking the world’s biggest banks to take more aggressive action in addressing climate change and biodiversity decline. Aviva Continue Reading
Bloomberg News China’s top economic planning body has been put in charge of devising a plan for the world’s biggest polluter to cut greenhouse gas emissions, indicating that climate policies Continue Reading
At his international climate summit in April, President Joe Biden vowed to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030. The goal will require sweeping changes in the power Continue Reading
Last week, Lytton, a small town in British Columbia, Canada, broke its nation’s all-time temperature reading three days in a row as temperatures soared as high as 121 degrees. Days Continue Reading
The heatwave that broke temperature records in North America made last month the hottest June ever for the region, according to Europe’s Earth observation agency Copernicus. Europe also experienced extreme Continue Reading
A European Union strategy to boost forest protection has turned a simmering scientific debate into a full-blown firestorm, pitting one of the bloc’s oldest industries against a perceived power grab Continue Reading
A key mining region in Australia, the world’s top exporter of metallurgical coal used in steelmaking, is producing vastly more methane emissions than global competitors, according to new analysis. For Continue Reading
Melting permafrost across Arctic regions has already caused highways to buckle and homes to sink. A new study conducted in the north of Alaska helps explain why rising temperatures are Continue Reading
A rebound in global gas demand to 2024 following a record fall last year is poised to knock the world off track for a climate goal of achieving net-zero emissions Continue Reading
A massive plume of methane, the potent greenhouse gas that’s a key contributor to global warming, has been identified in China’s biggest coal production region. The release in northeast Shanxi Continue Reading
The spotlight on the insurance industry’s support of fossil fuel projects is proving so searing that the names of some of those involved have been scrubbed from the record. Canada’s Continue Reading
It is hardly news any more that heat records are being broken every summer. We knew this would happen in a warming world — and so it has. What is Continue Reading
Opinion by the Editorial Board Americans should get used to terms such as “heat dome” and “megadrought.” The sorts of extreme weather events that experts warned would become increasingly frequent Continue Reading
On Feb. 6, 2020, the mercury stood at 64.9 degrees on a thermometer at Esperanza Base on the Trinity Peninsula at Antarctica. After more than a year of investigation, scientists Continue Reading
Extreme temperatures in China coupled with a lack of hydro-power forced blackouts in some of its largest industrial cities last month. A rare and short-lived subtropical storm popped up in Continue Reading
Last August, scientists aboard an icebreaker that had been drifting with the ice across the Arctic Ocean in a yearlong research expedition decided to take a detour to the North Continue Reading
Following a joint statement with China addressing the climate crisis on April 17th, the US submitted a new ‘nationally determined contribution’ (NDC) at the virtual summit led by Biden on Continue Reading
A heatwave that smashed all-time high temperature records in western Canada and the U.S. Northwest has left a rising death toll in its wake as officials brace for more sizzling Continue Reading
Covid-19 led to a sharp rise in the production of single-use plastics, a significant proportion of which end up in the world’s oceans. With the pandemic gradually being brought under Continue Reading
Dangerous Northwest Heat Wave Already Triggering Power Outages The world is counting on farmers in North America for big harvests of everything from corn to canola this year. Due to Continue Reading
A record-breaking heatwave eased for coastal cities in the Pacific Northwest but tightened its grip inland, threatening people, crops, and wildlife. After several days above 100 degrees, temperatures Tuesday topped out Continue Reading
Dozens of people have died in Canada amid an unprecedented heatwave that has smashed temperature records. Police in the Vancouver area have responded to more than 130 sudden deaths since Continue Reading
The European Council adopted its position at first reading on the European climate law, ending the adoption procedure and setting into legislation the objective of a climate-neutral EU by 2050. Continue Reading
Methane is the second-largest contributor to global warming after carbon dioxide. But new and better techniques to spot major emitters of the odorless, colorless gas have pushed curbing it up Continue Reading
Temperatures were expected to shatter records in the Pacific Northwest again on Monday, bringing the city of Portland to a standstill as residents hunkered down in air conditioned homes or Continue Reading
The US Northeast has been hit by this year’s second heat wave, with forecasts for increased power demand, and temperatures above 90 degrees Fahrenheit, while power and natural gas prices Continue Reading
European Union countries on Monday gave the final seal of approval to a law to make the bloc’s greenhouse gas emissions targets legally binding, as EU policymakers prepare a huge Continue Reading
The glaciers of the Tian Shan mountain range in northwestern China had lost about a quarter of their ice mass since the 1960s when this image was captured, in November Continue Reading
Congress has moved to restore environmental regulations to limit the amount of methane that leaks from U.S. oil and gas production facilities, reversing a Trump era rollback for the greenhouse Continue Reading
The Southwest, already the driest region in the United States, has become even drier since the mid-20th century, particularly on the hottest days, according to new research. Humidity has declined Continue Reading
Residents in eastern Europe and parts of Siberia unaccustomed to high temperatures are struggling to cope with heatwaves sweeping across the region. Kyiv, Belgrade and Budapest experienced record-high monthly temperatures Continue Reading
Governments around the world have been slow to take uncomfortable decisions to persuade consumers to cut energy consumption to help achieve climate targets, often because consumers are not ready to Continue Reading
