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12 08 2021 | 09:05

We’re Losing the Battle for the Future.

This is Why it Feels Like We Might Not Have a Future Anymore I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but the world is on fire. That’s a symptom of a grim trend. We’re losing the battle for the future. Is…

12 08 2021 | 09:04

Wildfires in Algeria: dozens of civilians and soldiers reported dead

Prime minister says request made for help internationally as forest blazes erupt in Kabyle region and elsewhere More than 40 people, including 25 soldiers, have died in wildfires that erupted east…

12 08 2021 | 08:54

Brazil rolls out $3.9 billion plan to support nation’s coal industry

Brazil is offering a lifeline to its coal industry even as the world’s scientists make it crystal clear that fossil fuel use must stop to avoid the worst effects of climate change. Brazil’s Mines…

12 08 2021 | 08:44

Facebook let fossil-fuel industry push climate misinformation, report finds

Thinktank InfluenceMap accuses petroleum giants of gaming Facebook to promote oil and gas as part of climate-crisis solution. Facebook failed to enforce its own rules to curb an oil and gas industry…

12 08 2021 | 08:32

We Can’t Beat the Climate Catastrophe

It’s not happening fast enough and it’s happening too fast We aren’t programmed to try to change the weather. Humans experience the euphemistic “climate change” disaster that is playing out before…

12 08 2021 | 08:32

25,000 Ads, 431 Million Views as Facebook Lets Fossils Spread Climate Misinformation.

Online behemoth Facebook turned its back in its own commitments to climate action and truth in advertising by allowing 25 fossil industry organizations in the United States to mount a $9.5-million…

12 08 2021 | 08:28

IPCC: Human influence has warmed climate at ‘unprecedented’ rate

In a new landmark report, the IPCC has found that human-induced climate change is already affecting many weather and climate extremes in every region across the globe. The report, prepared by 234…

11 08 2021 | 13:47

The entire Mediterranean region is burning. Here’s why it will get worse

It is the storied sea traversed by Odysseus and the Vikings, a body of water that has been the wellspring of civilisations, culture and commerce as well as countless myths and legends. It is the…

10 08 2021 | 16:10

Wildfires rage in Greece and Italy as EU mounts firefighting operation

Week of blazes forces evacuations and brings devastating scale of destruction to large areas of southern Europe The devastating scale of destruction from a week of wildfires in Greece and Italy was…

10 08 2021 | 15:15

Emissions must fall fast – but how?

Described as “a code red for humanity”, a new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has warned that major changes due to global heating are inevitable and irreversible with…

10 08 2021 | 11:25

Latest IPCC report ‘must sound a death knell for coal and fossil fuels’

Human activity is changing the Earth’s climate in ways “unprecedented” in thousands or hundreds of thousands of years, with some of the changes now inevitable and “irreversible”, climate scientists…

10 08 2021 | 10:26

IPCC report: global emissions must peak by 2025 to keep warming at 1.5°C – we need deeds not words

Earth could exceed 1.5°C of global warming – the “safe” limit for temperature rise outlined in the Paris Agreement – as soon as the early 2030s, according to a landmark report by the world’s most…

10 08 2021 | 09:57

IPCC says Earth will reach temperature rise of about 1.5℃ in around a decade. But limiting any global warming is what matters most

Of all the troubling news in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report out on Monday, one warning will surely generate the most headlines: under all scenarios examined, Earth is…

09 08 2021 | 16:38

The finance sector, COP26 and building a connected global green economy.

They say money makes the world go round. With COP26 on the horizon, that well-known saying has added currency. But how will the UK’s financial sector be playing its part? Gina V Hall, the Carbon…

09 08 2021 | 16:11

Should I factor climate change into deciding whether to have kids?

With more people worrying about the environmental ethics of bringing more children into the world, Kate Ng examines the arguments on either side The decision whether or not to have children, if we…

09 08 2021 | 15:53

Finance firms, ADB drafting plan to close Asian coal plants early

Financial firms including British insurer Prudential, lenders Citi and HSBC and BlackRock Real Assets are devising plans to speed the closure of Asia’s coal-fired power plants in order to lower the…

09 08 2021 | 15:49

Renewable investments hit record levels in first half of 2021

Investors poured more money than ever into renewable energy in the first half of the year, but the pace is far from enough to sufficiently curb increasing carbon emissions. As much as $174 billion…

09 08 2021 | 15:45

Major Philippines bank announces 2033 coal financing exit

Ayala-led Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) aims to stop by 2033 all lending to coal-fired power projects—which form 45 percent of its current power generation portfolio—and channel more funds to…

09 08 2021 | 15:45

EDF’s plans to produce pink hydrogen at proposed 3.2GW nuclear plant are 'daft': Liebreich

French utility wants to divert nuclear power to electrolysers at times when the supply of wind and solar is high, but 'the economics won't work', argues the influential independent analyst. EDF is…

09 08 2021 | 15:42

UK renewables out-generated fossil fuels for first time in 2020

Renewable energy sources across the United Kingdom generated more electricity in 2020 than fossil fuels, a first for the country amidst a year which saw an unprecedented drop in energy demand due to…