Amazon to Start $2 Billion Fund to Back Climate Technologies.
Amazon.com Inc. is investing $2 billion on “sustainable and decarbonizing technologies” in an effort to eliminate its carbon footprint.
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Funds With $3.7 Trillion Warn Brazil of Investor Backlash.
Institutional investors managing about $3.7 trillion in assets want Brazil to abandon a proposal they say will add to deforestation and violate the rights of indigenous group
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Electric Car Charging Stations Are Finally About to Take Off.
With EV sales poised to rebound faster than traditional autos, charge point networks are suddenly an attractive investment.
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Covid-19, UK tax policy and climate change.
With business leaders calling on the UK government for a 'green recovery' from Covid-19, it is time to rethink our tax system to make it green at its core.
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Climate Assembly: 79% of Brits want Covid-19 recovery package tied to net-zero.
A survey of the members of the UK's Climate Assembly, who were chosen to resemble the national population in terms of both social demographics and views on environmental issues, found that almost eight in ten want net-zero alignment embedded in all facets of the upcoming Covid-19 recovery package
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Car industry gets £73.5 million investment to promote a green economic recovery.
Government grants will contribute to the recovery of the automotive sector and the UK economy, cutting carbon emissions, and safeguarding more than 14,000 jobs.
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Committee on Climate Change (CCC): COVID-19 can be a historic turning point in tackling the global climate crisis.
The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) says that ministers must seize the opportunity to tackle climate change by implementing adequate schemes in the governments COVID-19 economic recovery scheme.
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Government climate advisers running scared of change, says leading scientist.
Rapid transformation needed, Kevin Anderson says, particularly in lifestyles of rich. Kevin Anderson, one of the world’s leading climate scientists, had a familiar reaction to the latest report from the government’s climate advisers, which was published this week.
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Extinction Rebellion activists launch UK Beyond Politics party by stealing food.
Robin Hood-style shoplifting session at London supermarket ‘because poverty sucks’
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Avoiding single-use plastic was becoming normal. Here’s how we can return to good habits.
Pre-pandemic, Australians made great progress on phasing them out – it is possible for the good work to continue. As Covid-19 restrictions start to ease, we’re unlikely to return to our previous behaviours, from our work-life balance to maintaining good hygiene.
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'My land is now owned by lions': Maasai farmers offer Kenya's wildlife a lifeline.
Kenya has lost 70% of its wildlife in 30 years, but conservancy schemes could halt the decline – and benefit local communities.
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EU SHAME: Most states MISSING air pollution targets - damning report.
MOST European Union countries are at risk of missing their targets for reducing health-damaging air pollution for both 2020 and 2030, the European Commission said on Friday. In its first report on countries' progress towards EU air pollution goals, the Commission said member states need
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Greta Thunberg hits out at leaders who use her fame to 'look good'.
Climate change campaigner said after UN summit, Angela Merkel queued up for a selfie.
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The Arctic heatwave: here's what we know.
It’s 38°C in Siberia. The science may be complicated – but the need for action now couldn’t be clearer
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Should we cull one species to save another?
Large mice are devastating rare birds on a tiny island, now moves are afoot to exterminate the rodents. But should conservation ever be about killing?
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Either we change or we die': the radical farming project in the Amazon
A growing movement for sustainable agriculture in Brazil has taken on new urgency with the coronavirus pandemic.
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Forgotten farmers, mining and anti-green invective: how the Nationals became a party for coal.
In this extract from her Quarterly Essay, Judith Brett says mining has offered the Nationals a way to supplement their declining agricultural base
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German far right infiltrates green groups with call to protect the land.
Extremists exploit rural nostalgia and farmers’ anger at globalisation to smuggle in ideology.
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France's oldest nuclear reactor to finally shut down.
Environmentalists have welcomed news that the 43-year-old Fessenheim reactor will close, nine years after it was first planned.
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Siberian Forest Fires Increase Fivefold in Week Since Record High Temperature.
The number of fires in the vast north Asian region of Siberia increased fivefold this week, according to the Russian forest fire aerial protection service, as temperatures in the Arctic continued higher tha
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