A return by the US to the Paris Climate Accord expected under the incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden could give a further boost to renewable and clean energy generation Continue Reading
Five years ago this month, negotiators from nearly 200 countries agreed at a conference near Paris to hold “the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 degrees Continue Reading
Nature struck relentlessly in 2020 with record-breaking and deadly weather- and climate-related disasters. With the most named storms in the Atlantic, the largest-ever area of California burned by wildfires, killer Continue Reading
A locked-down pandemic-struck world cut its carbon dioxide emissions this year by 7%, the biggest drop ever, new preliminary figures show. The Global Carbon Project , an authoritative group of Continue Reading
A decade ago, NextEra, Iberdrola and Enel were sleepy regional utilities with little name recognition. Now they are fast-growing giants with market values rivaling the likes of oil majors Exxon Continue Reading
After surprising the world in September with a pledge to make China carbon neutral by 2060, President Xi Jinping has an opportunity to assert his global leadership on climate before Joe Continue Reading
Janet Yellen has promised to make fighting climate change a priority as Treasury secretary, spurring hope among activists she will put the issue at the center of U.S. economic policy for the first time. Yellen, President-elect Continue Reading
Joe Biden just picked one of his most important — if unheralded — Cabinet members when it comes to enacting his agenda on climate change. Tom Vilsack, who ran the Continue Reading
European Union leaders reached a hard-fought deal Friday to cut the bloc’s net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by the end of the decade compared with 1990 levels, Continue Reading
Despite sharp drop in greenhouse gas emissions during the pandemic, the world remains on pace for catastrophic warming in coming decades Students gather at John Marshall Park in Washington to Continue Reading
A child collects usable goods from the garbage in the Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 2, 2020 It’s hard to remember, in the midst of a calamitous global pandemic, Continue Reading
At first glance, big corporations appear to be protecting great swaths of U.S. forests in the fight against climate change. JPMorgan Chase & Co. has paid almost $1 million to Continue Reading
Almost five years after countries signed the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change, financial institutions are still providing billions of dollars to companies extracting and burning the earth’s most-polluting resources. Since the start of Continue Reading
No matter how often we hit one, a global temperature record never gets less shocking. Nineteen of the 20 hottest years on record have occurred in this century—which is only 20 Continue Reading
A new Ricardo report finds that the use of synthesized e-fuels should be prioritized for shipping and aviation ahead of road transport where other forms of electrification are more effective. Continue Reading
Highlights EVs not expected to overwhelm grid in near-term DOE says battery costs are ‘coming down’ Houston — Electric vehicles are projected to comprise 40% of new car purchases by Continue Reading
The U.S. air pollution monitoring network has fallen into disrepair after years of budget cuts and neglect, leaving tens of millions of Americans vulnerable to undetected bad air quality from Continue Reading
Homes nestled amongst dense brush and power transmission lines in the Oakland Hills area of Oakland, Calif. Photographer: Philip Pacheco/Bloomberg Acquiring home insurance has long been a mundane but necessary Continue Reading
This year’s record-breaking Atlantic hurricane season officially ended Nov. 30, but the procession of violent storms it unleashed foreshadows a dark future fueled by climate change. A combination of warmer Continue Reading
Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co said on Friday it was joining General Motors in exiting a group of automakers that had backed U.S. President Donald Trump in his bid to Continue Reading
Resurgent coronavirus infections are putting a chill on U.S. job creation, manufacturing in China is gaining pace and the final stages of Brexit negotiations are complicating the U.K.’s recovery prospects. Here Continue Reading
America’s Greenest Energy Giant Isn’t Trying to Save the Planet It spent millions to block homeowners from embracing solar panels, fought against hydropower, and pushed for an energy project next Continue Reading
Global efforts to reduce wasted energy have faced a major setback in 2020, sidelining a relatively simple way of slashing emissions and hitting climate goals. That’s the conclusion from an International Energy Continue Reading
President-elect Joe Biden introduced nominees for his national-security team during an event in Wilmington, Del., on Tuesday. Photo: Mark Makela/Getty Images WASHINGTON—A broad cross section of big U.S. corporations including Continue Reading
A brewing spat over the European Union’s plan to tighten its 2030 climate goal is adding to a list of conflicts that the region’s leaders will have to deal with Continue Reading
Global carbon capture and storage facility capacity increased by 33% in 2020 and 12 new commercial projects were added in the Americas, bringing that total to 38 operating facilities, which Continue Reading
A group representing major automakers on Tuesday vowed to work with President-elect Joe Biden on efforts to reduce vehicle emissions even as the industry remains split over an effort to Continue Reading
Ford Motor Co. is prodding other automakers to embrace more stringent automotive clean air standards set by California in another blow to President Donald Trump’s efforts to limit the state’s Continue Reading
Colder-than-normal weather settling into Europe over the next week is poised give the second boost to natural gas and power markets since the start of the heating season. The chill is Continue Reading
A group of environmental organizations backed by thousands of Dutch citizens launched a civil case Tuesday against the energy giant Shell, asking a court to order the multinational to commit Continue Reading
The EU’s economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions fell by 3.7% in 2019 to the lowest in three decades, the European Commission said Nov. 30. Not registered? Receive daily email alerts, subscriber Continue Reading
Joe Biden became president-elect, he listed climate change among his top priorities. Last week, he named former secretary of state John F. Kerry to be his climate czar. It is Continue Reading
Flooding after Hurricane Delta hit Delcambre, La., on Oct. 10. The 2020 hurricane season is set to officially close Monday, and this year surpassed 2005 as the busiest ever on Continue Reading
Last week BloombergNEF (BNEF) published a new report that quantifies the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on U.S. carbon dioxide emissions . The report estimates that 2020 emissions will be Continue Reading
Japan, South Korea and a fleet of international shipping groups have warned the European Union against its plan to add greenhouse gas emissions from the maritime sector to Europe’s carbon Continue Reading
The International Air Transport Association has launched the Aviation Carbon Exchange — the first centralized, real-time market for trading aviation carbon offsets, it said Nov. 25. Not registered? Receive daily Continue Reading
The election of Joe Biden to the US presidency and his commitment to rejoining the Paris Agreement will create a “tremendous momentum” to fight climate change and will likely lead Continue Reading
Europe is moving to a decisive stage in discussions to toughen the bloc’s 2030 climate target and put into law the ambition to become the world’s first climate neutral continent Continue Reading
Janet L. Yellen , the president-elect’s pick to run the treasury at a critical time, may play a crucial role in getting corporations to take global warming seriously if confirmed Continue Reading
The growing global drive to curb emissions has called attention to the processes of carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS), heralded as an indispensable technology that will help the world Continue Reading
Progressive environmentalists are mounting a long-shot bid to get President-elect Joe Biden to go beyond naming a climate czar and declare an environmental national emergency, borrowing a tactic employed by Continue Reading
Democratic presidential candidate former U.S. Vice president Joe Biden campaigns with former Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, December 6, 2019 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images President-elect Joe Continue Reading
Europe is moving to a decisive stage in discussions to toughen the bloc’s 2030 climate target and put into law the ambition to become the world’s first climate neutral continent Continue Reading
Global greenhouse gas emissions in 2020 will drop by 4 percent to 7 percent in 2020 because of the response to the coronavirus pandemic, but that decline won’t stop the Continue Reading
Can you put a price on pollution? Some of the world’s biggest economies are doing just that as they wrestle with how to make good on grand pledges to tame Continue Reading
General Motors said on Monday it was reversing course and will no longer back the Trump administration’s effort to bar California from setting its own emissions rules in an ongoing Continue Reading
Former Secretary of State John Kerry will be named as special presidential envoy for climate by President-elect Joe Biden, according to his transition team, in a sign Biden plans to Continue Reading
GM said it sees a route to compromise on tailpipe-emissions rules. Drivers navigated the freeway in Los Angeles in April. DETROIT—General Motors Co. will no longer back the Trump administration Continue Reading
Most Europeans living in cities are still breathing air that is dangerous to their health, according to the European Environment Agency (EEA) in a new report ; governments are not Continue Reading
World leaders urged countries not to lose sight of climate goals in the coronavirus pandemic, endorsing the aims of the Paris agreement amid hopes that U.S. President-elect Joe Biden will rejoin Continue Reading
