The European Commission has invested over €10 billion in clean technology to boost their global competitiveness.
Miguel Arias Cañete, Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy, said: “Less than…
Congress is in uncharted territory on climate policy.
For the first time ever, lawmakers face competing approaches to reviving U.S. climate action. And despite hostility from the White House, each…
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, who officially launched his presidential campaign on Friday, decried the "enormous cost" the United States will bear if it does not act swiftly to combat the effects of…
Extreme temperatures destroy kelp, seagrass and corals – with alarming impacts for humanity
The number of heatwaves affecting the planet’s oceans has increased sharply, scientists have revealed,…
On the 4th of March 2019, UN Environment launched its latest Frontiers report, which explores five of the most significant emerging issues on the environment.
The topics identified in the report…
A productive collaboration begins with a dominant goal: to became Crete zero-emission island in 2030
Greening the Islands Observatory & Crete Region
will involve Crete population in a new…
As The Climate Group works to inspire and showcase the highest levels of leadership on climate action in the private sector, our Corporate Actions Engagement Manager Ole Jakobsen shares his…
New research finds the United States’ energy mix is rapidly decarbonizing largely due to economics, as coal-fired generation keeps retiring in favor of cheaper clean energy additions, but U.S.…
Last month’s rollout of the Green New Deal, a fourteen-page legislative resolution, sponsored by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey, that called for “net-zero greenhouse…
New York is a city of canyons. But for Ashley Fallon, a child of Breezy Point who now lives in Rockaway Beach, her portion of Queens can seem closer to California than Manhattan.
The view from her…
New analysis shows UK carbon emissions have fallen for the sixth consecutive year.
New data from Carbon Brief has found that carbon emissions in the UK have fallen for the sixth consecutive year,…
Government benches mostly empty for debate inspired by schoolchildren’s climate strike
In the week that the UK experienced its hottest ever winter day, just a handful of government MPs attended a…
Climate change caused the majority of the world’s under-reported humanitarian disasters last year, and nine of the top 10 occurred in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific, according to an analysis…
Achieving the Paris Agreement global warming target could protect millions of tonnes in annual worldwide fisheries catch, as well as billions of dollars of annual revenues for fishers, workers'…
New analysis of pollen grains and radiocarbon dating suggests that climate change played a major role in Ancient Egypt’s downfall.
In 1500 B.C., Egypt’s New Kingdom and its neighbors were thriving.…
It's time to start planning for the 20th Global Conference on Environmental Taxation (GCET20)! This year's organizer and host is the Cyprus University of Technology, which has announced the Call for…
The EBRD’s Terry McCallion at a Brussels gathering of the Covenant of Mayors
Urban rivers choked with plastic, exhaust fumes hazing up the sunset over traffic jams, industrial chimney stacks…
STOCKHOLM — It’s complicated being Greta.
Small, shy, survivor of crippling depression, Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish girl skipping school to shame the world into addressing climate change…