Revealed: UK solar projects using panels from firms linked to Xinjiang forced labour
Investigation finds up to 40% of UK solar farms were built using panels from leading Chinese companies.
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UNEP-FI announces launch Net-Zero Banking Alliance with 43 major banks.
UNEP-FI has brought together 43 of the world’s leading banks to form the UN-convened Net-Zero Banking Alliance.
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Earth Day: Teachers from every corner of the world call for quality climate change education for all.
Ahead of this year's Earth Day on April 22nd, Teachers from across the world have called for quality climate change education for all.
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Alarm as Florida Set to Begin Release of Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes.
Environmentalists and Florida residents voiced concern and outrage Monday as state government officials and the biotechnology giant Oxitec announced plans to move ahead this week with a pilot project that involves releasing
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Extinction Rebellion activists dump fake coal outside Lloyd’s of London in fossil fuel protest.
Climate group is calling on insurers to stop giving cover to fossil fuel projects.
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Activists fight to save 550-year-old oak threatened by new Shrewsbury road.
Objectors say relief road contradicts council’s net zero target and will damage local wildlife sites.
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It’s inspiring hope and change – but what is the IUCN’s green list?
The red list of species at risk is well-known, but the list for protected sites is quietly helping to ‘paint the planet green’ The age of extinction is supported by
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How a hi-tech search for Genghis Khan is helping polar bears.
Researchers are going on a bear hunt, using AI and radar to spot dens and track the threatened Arctic predators The age of extinction is supported by
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PPE May Save Human Lives, But It’s Deadly for Wildlife.
One of the most distinguishable features of the COVID-19 era is the public, everyday use of personal protective equipment (PPE), mainly in the form of disposable face masks and latex gloves.
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Africa needs financial support to adapt to climate change.
Financial support for Africa to adapt to climate change is crucial, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said as he addressed an online dialogue for leaders convened by the African Development Bank (AfDB).
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Africa offers opportunities for green growth in post-COVID-19 recovery.
Africa’s recovery pathway offers enormous opportunities, African Development Bank (AfDB) head said at the European Union-Africa Green Investment Forum.
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Climate scientists: concept of net zero is a dangerous trap.
Sometimes realisation comes in a blinding flash. Blurred outlines snap into shape and suddenly it all makes sense. Underneath such revelations is typically a much slower-dawning process. Doubts at the back of the mind grow.
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Solar Mountain Is a Permanent Art Installation That Would Produce 300 MWH of Renewable Energy at Burning Man.
Environmental design is becoming more and more relevant as we feel the effects of climate change on our planet.
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COP25 and COP26 Presidents Urge Governments to Strengthen the Climate Ambition Alliance
UN Climate Change News - Ahead of this year’s UN Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow, the President of the conference, Mr. Alok Sharma, and the President of the UN Climate Change Conference COP25 in Madrid in 2019, Ms.
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BlackRock Backed Climate Proposals, But Key Votes Are Yet to Come
The money manager’s first-quarter stewardship report shows that it’s been more willing to stand up to management, while activists are looking ahead.
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Gigawatt-scale compressed air: World’s largest non-hydro energy-storage projects announced.
The two 500MW/5GWh 'advanced' compressed-air projects in California would each be bigger than the current record holder.
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The COP26 Climate Action Plan: Sign the letter
In 2020, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's UK government took the world-leading decision to put an end to public finance for fossil fuel projects(1) overseas.
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Oil prices set for massive plunge if Paris climate goals met by 2050.
The price of oil could plunge to as little as $10 a barrel by 2050 if the world succeeds in electrifying the energy market and meeting Paris Agreement goals, a consultancy said on Thursday.
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Rotterdam, major port cities, push to become hydrogen hubs.
Hydrogen, produced without carbon emissions, will find use in many sectors of a future ‘hydrogen economy.’ Its high energy intensity can make it the basis of fuels that reduce carbon emissions in the ‘hard to abate’ transportation and industrial sectors.
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Costly electricity bars Kenya from becoming energy-secure country.
Expensive pricing has hit Kenya’s transition into an energy-secure country over the past decade, a new index shows, despite improvements in customer connections, uptake of renewable energy and high capital investment.
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