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
China’s cabinet on Sunday outlined measures to achieve its goals of reaching peak carbon emissions by 2030 and carbon neutrality before 2060 but said food and energy security must be 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
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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
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 former Soviet republic is one of the world’s worst emitters of planet-warming methane. Its exported natural gas is becoming crucial to China. By Aaron Clark and Matthew Campbell Carrie 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
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
Britain faces a fossil fuel dilemma: it can burnish its green credentials by halting new oil and gas development in the North Sea, yet doing so will leave it more 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
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
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
Clean energy technologies such as wind turbines, solar panels and electric vehicles are advancing so rapidly that the global use of fossil fuels is now expected to peak by the Continue Reading
A global pledge to reduce methane emissions took two steps forward yesterday as 24 countries signaled they would join the effort and donors committed $200 million to the cause. The Continue Reading
Projected future sea level at South of Market (SoMa) in San Francisco, United States due to human-caused global warming under 3 degrees Celsius of global warming. Image: Climate Central Just Continue Reading
U.S. climate envoy John Kerry is tempering expectations for a U.N. climate summit sometimes billed as make-or-break for the Earth’s future, conceding next month’s talks likely will end with nations Continue Reading
Investment in renewable energy needs to triple by the end of the decade if the world hopes to effectively fight climate change and keep volatile energy markets under control, the Continue Reading
Extreme volatility in energy markets will present a continued risk unless investment in clean power is tripled in the next decade, the head of the International Energy Agency warned, as Continue Reading
China has taken a step back from emission reduction commitments amid the energy crunch that caused factory closures and power rationing. In a statement, Premier Li Keqiang said that the Continue Reading
A large cloud of planet-warming methane was detected in the natural gas-rich San Juan Basin in New Mexico by geoanalytics company Kayrros SAS. A large number of gas companies operate 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
Advocates heading to COP26 say wealthy nations have a moral responsibility to help developing countries endure existing global warming impacts. Devastation in Antigua and Barbuda from Hurricane Irma. Photographer: Jose Continue Reading
If the floods don’t get you, lack of electricity or a swamped hospital might. Nearly a quarter of U.S. critical infrastructure—utilities, airports, police stations and more—is at risk of being Continue Reading
The U.S. has endured 18 major weather and climate disasters so far this year that killed a combined 538 people and inflicted more than $100 billion in damage, according to Continue Reading
Kati Szilagyi for Bloomberg Green Veterans of annual global climate negotiations say the geopolitical backdrop makes a major breakthrough challenging this year Premiers, presidents, and princes come and go from Continue Reading
On the northern edge of a vast Chinese factory city, welding torches gleam as workers finish construction on a gas-fired power plant to replace one that burned coal and blanketed Continue Reading
Less food. More traffic accidents. Extreme weather hitting nuclear waste sites. Migrants rushing toward the United States, fleeing even worse calamity in their own countries. Those scenarios, once the stuff Continue Reading
The global supply of fresh water is dropping by almost half an inch annually, the World Meteorological Organization warned in a report released this week. By 2050, about 5 billion Continue Reading
Every so often the tectonic geopolitical plates that hold up the world economy suddenly shift in ways that can rattle and destabilize everything on the surface. That’s happening right now Continue Reading
With natural gas, coal, and oil prices all soaring this summer, it is clear that a successful energy transition will take decades not years Some energy transition proponents may have Continue Reading
Let a molecule of carbon dioxide escape into the atmosphere, and it stays for centuries. There’s more than enough up there to smother the planet like a too-warm quilt, trapping Continue Reading
Much of the world is unprepared for the floods, hurricanes and droughts expected to worsen with climate change and urgently needs better warning systems to avert water-related disasters, according to Continue Reading
Four months after the Ninewa province field came back online, production has again stopped. A wellhead at the Qayarah oil field. (Photo credit: Sonangol) ERBIL – Production has halted at Continue Reading
State and federal officials will deploy hundreds of more people to help respond to the oil spill off the coast of Orange County, Calif., Gov. Gavin Newsom said Tuesday. Mr. Newsom, who Continue Reading
