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Earth Day 2020: Global Atmospheric Methane.

Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas that traps heat 28 times more effectively than carbon dioxide over a 100-year timescale. Concentrations of methane have increased by more than 150% since industrial activities and intensive agriculture began.

Environment

UN Sec. General to Petersberg Dialogue on climate action. "The only answer to COVID 19 is brave, visionary and collaborative leadership. The same leadership is needed to address the looming existential threat of climate disruption."

Madam Chancellor, Ministers, Dear friends, Covid-19 has put the lives of billions of people around the globe in turmoil, inflicting grave suffering and destabilizing the global economy.

Environment

What happens after coronavirus will determine our climate's future.

Daily CO2 counts from Hawaii make depressing reading – but this year the usual pattern may change.

Environment

Implications of COVID-19 for Public Health and the SDGs.

27 April 2020 COVID-19 RESPONSE

Environment

Solar rooftops can power the EU's green recovery.

On the occasion of Earth Day, SolarPower Europe held a webinar centred on the immense solar power generation potential of Europe's vacant rooftops.

Energy

Climate crisis will make insurance unaffordable for people who need it most.

In a submission to the royal commission into natural disasters the Consumer Action Law Centre calls for an inquiry into insurance.

Climate

How to source local, affordable, renewable energy for your company.

Because of the current uncertainty brought by the corona pandemic and the impending recession, many companies have put their sustainability actions on hold. However, today’s crisis urges more than ever to take secure, sustainable actions.

Energy

350.org responds to inaccuracies in documentary “Planet of the Humans” produced by Michael Moore.

Global — On the eve of Earth Day, Michael Moore’s production company released a new documentary, “Planet of the Humans”, directed by Jeff Gibbs.

Environment

Michael Moore’s Planet of the Humans: A reheated mess of lazy, old myths

The film ‘Planet of the Humans’ opens with the director, Jeff Gibbs, operating a fossil-fuelled combustion engine vehicle, on a road full of combustion engine vehicles, followed up with some footage taken from the International Space Station (fossil fuelled rockets put that in space).

Environment

BNEF: Onshore wind and solar cheapest new power option for most of planet.

Best land-based renewables on track to dip below benchmark price of $20/MWh 'this side of 2030', says analyst group.

Energy Technology Solutions

Climate experts call for 'dangerous' Michael Moore film to be taken down.

Planet of the Humans, which takes aim at the green movement, is ‘full of misinformation’, says one online library.

Environment

UN chief: don't use taxpayer money to save polluting industries.

António Guterres calls for coronavirus aid to be directed at firms with green credentials.

Energy Climate

Economic stimulus and European Green Deal must go hand-in-hand .

With occasion of this year’s Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin, the European Renewable Energies Federation (EREF) vigorously advocates to maintain the level of ambition set in the European Commission’s tremendous work plan to decarbonise our societies: the European Green Deal.

Energy