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Is Europe gassing Africa with World Bank support?

As the Ukraine war affects gas supplies, Europe and development banks need to decide: Are they for renewables, or more gas? Dean Bhekumuzi Bhebhe is a campaigner for Powershift Africa and the Don’t Gas Africa campaign. Naomi Kreitman campaigns for the Gastivists Collective.

Energy Environment

China's new coal plant approvals surge in 2022, highest since 2015, new research shows

Last year, China approved the construction of another 106 gigawatts of coal-fired power capacity, the equivalent of two large coal power plants per week and its highest in seven years, new research has shown.

Energy Technology Solutions

Leaving No One Behind in the Transition Towards a Low-Carbon Economy

UN Climate Change News, 12 April 2023 – Shifting to a low-carbon economy can unlock new jobs and opportunities but it must be done in a way that is as socially and economically fair as possible for everyone, according to on-the-ground case studies contained in a

Energy Climate

Why I Wrote Hothouse Earth

As the latest data reveals global average sea surface temperatures hitting a record high, Prof Bill McGuire explains why he wrote his uncompromising bestseller, Hothouse Earth

Climate Environment

Climate change: Fossil fuel emissions from electricity set to fall - report

The world will likely use fewer fossil fuels to produce electricity this year in a "turning point" for planet-friendly energy, a new report says.

Energy Climate

How pollution is causing a male fertility crisis

Sperm quality appears to be declining around the world but is a little discussed cause of infertility. Now scientists are narrowing in on what might be behind the problem.

Climate Environment

BP launches 2GW Spanish green hydrogen project

BP has launched plans for a green hydrogen cluster at its Castellón refinery, in the Valencia region of Spain.

Energy Climate

Global CO2 emissions rose less than initially feared in 2022 as clean energy growth offset much of the impact of greater coal and oil use

Risk of runaway emissions growth from shift to coal amid global energy crisis fails to materialise as renewables, EVs, heat pumps, efficiency and other factors reined in CO2 rise Global energy-related c

Energy Climate

Four podcasts to ease your climate anxiety

If you are feeling uncertain about what the future may hold, try listening to these podcasts, and episodes from climate podcasts, that discuss mental health effects of climate change and ways in which to cope.

Climate Environment

This really does change everything: attaining 1.5 °C needs all available mitigation levers

There are multiple ways in which society can theoretically transition from its current carbon-intensive state to a zero-carbon future, ideally fast enough to limit global warming to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels.

Climate Environment

The King co-writes children's climate change book

King Charles has co-written a children's book about the environmental threats the planet is facing. 'Climate Change' - a Ladybird Book, will be published next month.

Climate Environment

How Scotland pays back for Malawi climate damage

Scotland is one of the first countries in the world to stump up cash for "loss and damage" caused by climate change in poorer countries. When torrential rains came to the village of Mambundungu in Malawi, people's homes were washed away but that was not the worst of it.

Climate Environment

Climate crisis fuels new wave of TV ‘eco thrillers’

A sudden outbreak of online searches for terms like “deadly fungus invasion”, “poisonous fog spores”, “toxic seafood” and “killer ice worms” might be worrying. It would, though, only be a reaction to the grim natural threats in the latest spate of hit television thrillers.

Climate Environment

‘We create changemakers’: the new UK college dedicated to climate crisis

The lecture theatre was once a cowshed, the study centre is an old farmhouse living room and the classrooms are mostly outdoors: welcome to the newest higher educational college in Britain.

Energy Climate

Alarming levels of PFAS in Norwegian Arctic ice pose new risk to wildlife

Norwegian Arctic ice is contaminated with alarming levels of toxic PFAS, and the chemicals may represent a major environmental stressor to the region’s wildlife, new research finds.

Energy Climate

North Africa’s untapped clean energy potential

Last year, Europe’s “sudden” pivot to North Africa to shore up its energy security and shift its reliance away from Russia have accelerated investments in the sub-region’s oil and gas sector and also re-energized partnerships traditionally dominated by security, migration and lop-sided bilateral

Energy Climate

The latest warning

The devastating earthquakes of February 7, with a magnitude of 7.8 in Turkey, brought to the fore the issue of the danger of the nuclear plant under construction there in Akkuyu.

Climate Environment

Antarctica's Thwaites glacier at mercy of sea warmth increase

Antarctic glaciers may be more sensitive to changes in sea temperature than was thought, new research shows. The British Antarctic Survey and the US Antarctic programme put sensors and an underwater robot beneath the vast Thwaites glacier to study melting.

Antarctica sea-ice hits new record low,

There is now less sea-ice surrounding the Antarctic continent than at any time since we began using satellites to measure it in the late 1970s.

Climate Environment

Italian parties united against EU ban on combustion engine

Italian parties on all sides of the political aisle, including key government ministers, have criticised the European Parliament for recently approving a law that effectively bans the sale of new petrol and diesel cars in the European Union from 2035.

Climate Environment