An ambitious blueprint announced by the Business and Energy Secretary aims to deliver the world’s first low-carbon industrial sector, with over £1 billion allocated to cut emissions from industry,…
In 2021, developed countries must work with low-income, developing, and emerging economies to chart a path toward a low-carbon future – and clear barriers to progress. This means, first and foremost…
INTRODUCTION
This is a submission by Greenpeace Aotearoa, Inc. on the Climate Change Commission’s draft advice. Greenpeace is a global, independent campaigning organisation that acts to protect and…
Thank you very much. Excellencies,
I thank the African Development Bank and the Global Center for Adaption for convening us today.
As the world confronts a pandemic, a recession and a…
In his latest deep dive for Last Week Tonight, comedian John Oliver took on plastic pollution and, specifically, the myth that if we all just recycled enough, the problem would go away.
The 2011 Fukushima disaster in the wake of a 9.0-magnitude earthquake has been an inflection point for nuclear power in the public mind, particularly in Europe. The events dealt a blow to the image…
Zero became the biggest number in the investment world last month. More than 40 more asset managers, including Vanguard and BlackRock, signed up to the Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM) initiative last…
The hard facts about global warming - a defining issue of our time. Climate change is happening now, and even world leaders meeting for climate talks at this year’s Cop25 know we aren’t doing enough…
Vídeo promocional per la #GlobalClimateStrike19M (2021)
Promotional video for the #GlobalClimateStrike, March 19 (2021)
Directed and edited by Birch With Aura Sala, Karu Borge, Sara Nofrerias,…
Four of the country’s most polluting power production plants are being formally shut down as Greece phases out the use of brown coal, or lignite, in line with European Union environmental protection…
Beijing skies turned yellow Monday as air pollution reached hazardous levels after the worst sandstorm in a decade coincided with an industrial boom following last year's COVID lockdown.
In future decades large wildfires could pose similar level of threat to Britain as they currently do in the south of France or parts of Australia, say researchers.
Wildfires which ordinarily only…
Multi-million-pound investment in ports on Humber and Teesside intended to support UK’s growing wind industry.
The government has announced a £95m plan to build two new offshore wind ports on the…
Our summers are already about 20% longer than they used to be, and if the climate crisis continues unabated then northern hemisphere summers could cover nearly half of the year by 2100, making them…
Access to deeper waters allow turbines to be positioned in areas with more consistent windspeeds, company says.
Fifteen miles off the Aberdeenshire coast at Peterhead, five truly enormous wind …
But critics question the continued inclusion of gas in Andrew Forrest’s grand climate ambition.
In the second half of last year, while most of the world was in pandemic lockdown, Andrew “Twiggy”…
The UK Government has launched a £150 million fund to help protect 2.1 million hectares of rainforest from deforestation.
Through the newly launched Mobilising Finance for Forests Programme, the…