Advice to the Biden administration as it seeks to account for mounting losses from storms, wildfires and other climate impacts.
One of the first executive orders US President Joe Biden signed in…
World’s biggest investor wants polluting industries to set targets to cut emissions and reach net zero.
BlackRock, the world’s biggest investor, has said that oil companies and other polluting…
Exclusive: Ángel Gurría says action on environmental crises must be defining focus of wealthy countries after Covid.
The environment, climate change and the protection of nature must be the defining…
Jakarta, Indonesia, 18 February 2021 – PM2.5 air pollution was behind approximately 160,000 deaths in the world’s five most populous cities in 2020, according to a Greenpeace Southeast Asia analysis…
Forests are an important asset in the fight against climate change.
New research has found that they sequester around twice as much carbon dioxide as they emit, classifying them as a carbon sink.…
Removing CO2 from air will likely be needed if the world is to meet its climate goals, writes Daisy Dunne, but our options for achieving ‘negative emissions’ each come with a unique set of challenges.
Air quality is improving in one of the continent’s fastest-growing regions, researchers have found. If the trend can be sustained, it would be good news for human health and climate change.
Carbon emission cuts need to be about 80 per cent more ambitious to stay below 2 degree Celsius global warming -- considered a threshold for climate stability and climate-related risks such as…
Pollution from power plants, vehicles and other sources accounted for one in five of all deaths that year, more detailed analysis reveals.
Air pollution caused by the burning of fossil fuels such as…
Rigs burn off enough unwanted gas to heat 1m homes, UK regulator said last year.
The UK’s North Sea oil rigs release as much carbon dioxide as a coal-fired power plant every year by deliberately…
Report warns if $56bn worth of developments go ahead, it could threaten the goals of the Paris climate deal and lead to billions of dollars in stranded assets.
Australia has $56bn worth of gas…
New York (CNN Business)Europeans got more of their electricity from renewable sources than fossil fuels for the first time last year, according to an annual report from Ember and Agora Energiewende…
GHGSat, the global leader in high-resolution greenhouse gas monitoring from space, has successfully completed the launch of its third satellite, GHGSat-C2 (“Hugo”), which launched aboard a SpaceX …
Tropical forests are guardians against runaway climate change, but their ability to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is wearing down. The Amazon, which accounts for more than half of the…
Three of New York City’s five public employee pension funds are divesting $4 billion from securities related to fossil-fuel companies.
Pensions for teachers, school administrators and civil servants…
With the completion of a major investment treaty between the European Union and China, the new year will begin on a promising footing. Now is the time for the world's leading powers to stop casting…
Equinor ASA is considering selling its holdings in the Bakken play of North Dakota and Montana, part of a comprehensive review of its international oil and gas portfolio as the Norwegian state-…
As governments and companies jostle to show how committed they are to fighting global warming, plans to take carbon dioxide out of the air are becoming a giant loophole — just as experts have warned…
What a difference an election makes. Thanks to the Biden-Harris victory in November, the next administration is poised to make a 180-degree turn to again address the climate crisis.
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