IEA’s Fatih Birol says uptake of solar power and EVs is in line with net zero goal but rich countries must hasten their broader plans
The prospects of the world staying within the 1.5C limit on…
Fatih Birol, head of International Energy Agency, says countries planning expansion are ‘misjudging market trends’
Countries and companies planning to expand their fossil fuel production are taking…
Doubts about whether heat pumps work well in subzero conditions shown to be unfounded, say researchers
Heat pumps are more than twice as efficient as fossil fuel heating systems in cold temperatures…
Campaigners estimate about $3.7bn in trade finance was supplied to oil and gas projects despite bank’s green pledges
The World Bank poured billions of dollars into fossil fuels around the world last…
Fatih Birol, head of International Energy Agency, says countries planning expansion are ‘misjudging market trends’
Countries and companies planning to expand their fossil fuel production are taking…
Techniques such as solar radiation management may have unintended consequences, scientists say
Governments should place a moratorium on efforts to geoengineer the planet’s climate, as greenhouse gas…
Rishi Sunak avoiding UN summit after being warned about potential rejection.
Exclusive: PM risked embarrassment of downgraded status if UN deemed UK’s climate policies lacking ambition
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UN hopes to galvanise summit talks by persuading world leaders to commit to stop burning coal, oil and gas, despite industry lobbying
A global push to commit to phasing out fossil fuels is gathering…
Governments are failing to cut greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to meet the goals of the Paris agreement and to stave off climate disaster, a major report by the UN has found.
Meeting the goals…
The phase down of fossil fuels is “inevitable”, the president of the next UN climate summit has said, but can only happen when the world has ramped up its renewable energy capacity.
Marginal improvements to agricultural soils around the world would store enough carbon to keep the world within 1.5C of global heating, new research suggests.
Rich countries are signing a “death sentence” for millions of poor people around the world by failing to phase out fossil fuels, the climate activist Greta Thunberg has told governments.
Fossil fuel lobbyists will have to identify themselves as such in registering for the UN Cop28 climate summit, making polluting and carbon-intensive industries more accountable at the annual talks.
Talks on a global financial pact that will give poor countries access to funds to help them tackle the climate crisis and develop their economies in environmentally sustainable and socially equitable…
Poor countries hit by climate disaster should not be forced to struggle with crippling debt payments, the head of the International Monetary Fund has urged before a global summit on climate finance…
Poorer countries struggling with a growing debt crisis were thrown a lifeline at a global finance summit in Paris but the plans still fell short of the debt forgiveness programme that some had hoped…
Tax extreme wealth to pay for the climate-related damage to the poorest, a group of more than 100 leading economists have urged.
A wealth tax on the fortunes of the world’s richest people would…
Questions over a tax on global shipping and other big sources of greenhouse gas emissions, and how countries should go about setting up a loss and damage fund continue to be the subject of fierce…
Greenhouse gas emissions from shipping could be halved by 2030 without damaging trade, new research has found, as countries prepare to meet to discuss a potential new tax on carbon produced by ships…
The Netherlands has almost the same amount of solar generating capacity as the whole continent of Africa. That must be, in part, because the interest on a loan to set up a windfarm in Africa is about…
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