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Why rangers in the Congo’s Virunga national park are under attack.

Armed men have killed at least six rangers and wounded several others in an ambush in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) Virunga national park.

Environment

IRENA’s World Energy Transition Day to Kick-Start Crucial Assembly Meeting.

Agency’s 11th Assembly brings almost 2000 participants including 70 Ministers together virtually to set the course for a year of critical energy discussions.

Energy

McKinsey: Low Cost Renewables Will Outcompete Fossil Assets By 2030.

The energy transition is accelerating. 2020 saw renewables replace fossil fuels in Europe for the first time and one of the many impacts of COVID-19 has been on energy demand. According to the latest research from McKinsey, demand for fossil fuels will never return to pre-pandemic levels.

Energy

PepsiCo Pledges to Achieve Net-Zero Carbon Emissions by 2040.

PepsiCo Inc. has pledged to achieve carbon neutrality by 2040, adding to the growing list of major companies including

Climate

Bank Of England Tells Banks to Brace For Sky-High Carbon Price.

he Bank of England told banks and businesses to start assessing the risks they face from climate change immediately, and brace to pay much more for polluting.

Climate

The overreliance on carbon capture.

As governments and companies jostle to show how committed they

Energy

2020 ends earth’s warmest 10 years on record.

The latest data confirms 2020 concludes the earth’s warmest 10-year period on record.

Climate

Air pollution will lead to mass migration, say experts after landmark ruling.

Call for world leaders to act in wake of French extradition case that turned on environmental concerns.

Climate

Biden to cancel $9bn Keystone XL pipeline's permit, says source.

Rescinding permit is on list of executive actions thought to be scheduled for first day in office.

Energy

Pope’s adviser says Covid has highlighted ‘existential’ climate risk.

Focus must be on justice for those fleeing impact of extreme weather events, says new scientific adviser to Vatican. The pope’s newly appointed scientific adviser said the coronavirus pandemic has forced world leaders to face up to the “existential risk” of the climate crisis.

Climate

Climate crisis: record ocean heat in 2020 supercharged extreme weather

Scientists say temperatures likely to be increasing faster than at any time in past 2,000 years. The world’s oceans reached their hottest level in recorded history in 2020, supercharging the extreme weather impacts of the climate emergency, scientists have reported.

Climate

Revealed: business secretary accepted donations from fossil fuel investors.

Exclusive: Kwasi Kwarteng accepted funding as part of 2019 election bid despite Tories’ green pledges

Energy

Environmentalists Should Pay Close Attention to the Racial Justice Movement.

There are parallels and overlaps between climate justice and racial justice, as well as many lessons the climate movement can learn from this global moment of reckoning.

Climate

EU sees carbon border levy as 'matter of survival' for industry.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union’s proposed carbon border charge is essential to the survival of its own industries and the bloc will impose the levy on non-EU competitors unless they commit to lowering their emissions, the bloc’s climate policy chief said on Monday.

Energy

Shift to renewable energy eases key environmental burdens, EU says.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Europe’s shift from fossil fuel-based electricity to renewable sources has reduced environmental problems while also cutting the greenhouse gas emissions causing climate change, the European Environment Agency (EEA) said on Monday.

Climate

‘Human fingerprint’ covers global heating seen from before industrial era to today, research says.

The impact of greenhouse gas emissions on global temperatures would have been even larger if were not for the cooling impact of air pollution, study finds. A “human fingerprint” covers the global temperature rise seen from before the industrial era to today, new research has found.

Climate