Fossil fuel consumption is set to shrink for the first time in modern history as climate policies boost renewable energy while the coronavirus epidemic leaves a lasting effect on global energy demand…
With only one leading coal company currently making a profit, the Indonesian government must let the market decide the future for financially broken coal companies wishing to avoid payments of much-…
The European Commission plans to withdraw free allowances given to polluting industries under the EU’s emission trading system (ETS) in order to clear the way for their inclusion in the bloc’s…
Now is a time for courage. It will take sacrifices from everyone for us all to survive, the president of the Marshall Islands writes.
My country joined the United Nations nearly 30 years ago, in…
By early June, emissions had mostly returned to the levels of the same period in 2019, a UN report found.
The Covid-19 pandemic will deliver an unprecedented annual drop in global greenhouse gas…
Britain needs to step up and become a global leader in climate action, creating a number of green jobs and boosting productivity to help the economy recover from the coronavirus pandemic, the CBI…
Insurance market says claims totalled £2.4bn in first half of 2020, leading to £400m loss.
Lloyd’s of London, the world’s biggest insurance market, has said it expects up to £5bn to be paid out in…
Pinning hopes of economic recovery on fossil fuel comes at huge environmental cost, analysis warns.
Australia’s untapped gas reservoirs could lead to three years’ worth of global greenhouse gas…
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) said on Thursday that robust interventions rolled out by governments and donor agencies to fight desert locusts in the Horn of African…
COVID-19 may only be the beginning of global pandemics – a future scenario in which climate change may also play a role.
"We have entered a pandemic era," said a recent study in the journal Cell.…
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Carbon costs for Europe’s businesses could double this decade under European Union plans to deliver deeper emissions reductions by 2030, according to analysis of European…
Wildlife populations are in freefall around the world, driven by human overconsumption, population growth and intensive agriculture, according to a major new assessment of the abundance of life on…
Bonn– A new online platform on sustainable and resilient recovery from COVID-19 has been launched by the Government of Japan with support from UN Climate Change.
The new platform, called “Platform…
Jean Castex unveils €100bn plan aimed at returning France to pre-pandemic economic strength.
France’s prime minister has stressed the importance of getting the country back on its feet within 18…
At least 300 more people in UK died than average in second week of August.
While attention was focused on Covid-19, a spike in death rates in the UK during the second week of August slipped past…
When I call Chef Q. Ibraheem to discuss urban farming in her own cooking career, she's in the middle of placing an order for microgreens from a small farm in Lake Forest, a ritzy suburb just north of…
The utility has added IDR100 trillion in debt annually for the last five years
Utilities globally started changing the way they do business years ago, but Indonesia’s PLN power company stands out as…
National papers missing from some newsagents after protesters blockading Murdoch-owned print sites.
The prime minister, Boris Johnson, has accused Extinction Rebellion of seeking “to limit the…
New York/Geneva - Climate change has not stopped for COVID19. Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere are at record levels and continue to increase. Emissions are heading in the direction of…
Kicking the fossil-fuel habit completely was hard for AC Energy, the energy arm of Philippine industry giant Ayala Corp., to do overnight even if it had been investing in renewable energy (RE) in…