Record-breaking temperatures mean we must change the way we talk about the climate emergency
New normal. Record-breaking. Unprecedented.
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UN sets out Paris-style plan to cut extinction rate by factor of 10
Ambitious draft goals to halt biodiversity loss revealed, with proposed changes to food production expected to ‘raise eyebrows’.
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Biden’s clean energy plan would cut emissions and save 317,000 lives.
A new report has found that a policy standard would be most effective to reach the goal of 80% renewable energy use by 2030.
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China’s Extreme Weather Warnings Avoid Talk of Climate Change.
State media often frame climate change as a global problem that China can lead in solving, not as a crisis that affects its citizens’ daily lives.
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Death Valley hits 130 degrees, nearly breaking heat record
Death Valley is more than earning its morbid name this weekend, as temperatures in the California desert reached a near-record-breaking 130 degrees Fahrenheit (54.4 degrees Celsius), according to news reports
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Flooded NYC Subways Exemplify Why Climate Is Key to Infrastructure Fight, Progressives Say
Footage of New Yorkers struggling to wade through filthy, waist-deep water at a Manhattan subway station as heavy rainfall engulfed the city's aging and long-neglected infrastructure on Thursday added fuel to
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Solar Energy Job Market Heats Up Globally
"I really like my job, I'm excited and I'm learning a lot," says Fabian Rojas.
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One million football fields and the entire Grand Canyon: This is how big US and Canada wildfires are
Around 1.2 million acres of land burning by end of last week.
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Japan still seeking to exploit coal power loopholes.
JBIC wants to continue burdening developing nations with its expensive coal-fired power technology Japan is continuing to push its expensive coal-fired power technology on developing nations if such projects feature carbon capture and storage (CCS) or if a proportion of ammonia or bioma
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India’s biggest oil and gas giant takes a leap into clean energy.
Reliance Industries’ entry into clean energy could be a game changer for India In late June this year, Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries, announced a Rs75,000 crore (US$10bn) investment plan into clean energy in India over the next three years.
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Major Philippines power generator announces end to new coal projects
San Miguel Corp., one of the Philippines’ largest power generators, will drop new coal projects from its expansion plans as it prepares for a transition to a low-carbon future.
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Solatio announces 810-megawatt solar complex in Brazil.
The Brazilian government officials and representatives from Spanish PV sector player Solatio Energia on Friday inaugurated a solar power complex that will add 810 MWp once fully up and running.
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UNCDF Releases Breakthrough Publication on Inclusive Digital Economies for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
THURSDAY 08 July 2021 (New York): The United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) has released a breakthrough publication ‘Inclusive Digital Economies for the Sustainable Development Goals’.
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Chinese Bank Walks Away from $3-Bilion Zimbabwe Coal Project
China’s biggest bank is stepping away from a plan to invest US$3 billion in the 2,800-megawatt Sengwa coal project in northern Zimbabwe, according to an email the bank sent to climate campaign groups in mid-June.
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BREAKING (The Energy Mix) :Deadly Western Heat Dome 'Virtually Impossible' withour Climate Change.
Less than a week after a deadly “heat dome” devastated western Canada and the U.S. Pacific Northwest and burned Lytton, B.C.
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Attribution Science Could Bring More Wins in Climate Lawsuits.
Better use of the latest climate attribution science in lawsuits against companies and governments that pollute could bring far more wins in the courts, says a new study in Nature Climate Change.
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International Students Initiative Plans to Train 50,000 Young Renewable Energy Workers
A Canadian-based global renewable energy solutions group is joining forces with New Energy Nexus and the Government of Denmark to help deploy 10,000 new youth-led clean energy initiatives by 2030.
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Simultaneous triple threat: Global warming, air pollution and COVID-19
Vital signs – Temperature check: Never before did I even think that this planet of ours would be affected by the three simultaneous threats of global warming, air pollution and COVID-19, any one of these having the potential to be totally devastating.
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Calls for EU to quit energy treaty over lack of progress in talks
Leaked documents have revealed the "limited progress" in negotiations on a revision of the highly-controversial Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) - triggering renewed calls from environmental activists to pull out entirely from the pact, which is seen as potentially blocking a transition to clean energ
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Clean energy is the future – so why are some investors still supporting the dying fossil fuel economy?
Institutional forces continue to prop up the fossil fuel economy, while both the market and public opinion are leaving it behind.
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