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Louisiana communities are suffering from Japan-funded LNG exports - Climate Change News - Energy (Apr 9) |
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Apr 9 · Comment: When the Japanese and US leaders meet in Washington, they should back a renewable energy future that will end harm to our health and livelihoods from fossil gas
Travis Dardar delivers a speech outside Chubb’s Houston office for the “Insure Our Future” week of Action. (Photo: Traverse Productions @justtraverse)
Travis Dardar is a Louisiana shrimper and founder of Fishermen Interested in Saving Our Heritage (FISH).
I was six when I started catching shrimp in the waterways of Louisiana. I inherited the livelihood that sustained my father, grandfather, and generations before them. My boat in the Gulf of Mexico is my second home. But I may lose it all – ... | By Travis Dardar Read more ...
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Companies still missing in action on methane-cutting goals - Climate Change News - Energy (Mar 18) |
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Mar 18 · Comment: The farming and fossil fuel industries must help governments cut methane emissions 30% this decade by harnessing existing technologies and changing practices
A herd of cows pictured in a farm field in La Ferriere-Aux-Etanges, Orne, France, on June 12, 2023. (Photo: Artur Widak/NurPhoto)
Leslie Cordes is vice president of programs at the sustainability nonprofit Ceres.
As global policymakers, nonprofit advocates and industry leaders meet this week in Geneva to turn lofty promises to slash methane emissions into meaningful action, a crucial stakeholder will largely be missing from the table: the private sector.
The aim of the 2024 Global Methane Forum ... | By Leslie Cordes Read more ...
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Fossil fuel industry under pressure to cut record-high methane emissions - Climate Change News - Energy (Mar 13) |
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Mar 13 · New regulations and monitoring advances could turn the tide on methane emissions from oil, gas and coal production this year
Gas flares are seen at the state-owned oil company in Venezuela. REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria
Energy analysts have been singing the same tune ad nauseam: cutting climate-harming methane emissions from fossil fuels is one of the simplest and cheapest ways to slow the rate of global warming fast.
But oil, gas and coal producers are still closing their ears. In 2023, they continued spewing near record-high amounts of methane into the atmosphere, according to the latest assessment by the International Energy Agency (IEA) released on ... | By Matteo Civillini Read more ...
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China steps away from 2025 energy efficiency goal - Climate Change News - Energy (Mar 6) |
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Mar 6 · The government aims to cut the amount of energy needed for its economic growth by 2.5% in 2024, putting it far off track for a key five-year climate target
An aerial view of the machinery at the coal terminal of Huanghua port, in Hebei province (Pic: China Daily via Reuters)
China looks set to miss one of its key 2025 climate goals as the government is targeting only a “modest” cut to the amount of energy needed to power its economic growth this year, analysts said.
Beijing is aiming to reduce its energy intensity – the amount of energy consumed per unit of its gross domestic product – by 2.5% in 2024, according to a government policy work ... | By Matteo Civillini Read more ...
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Global energy-related CO2 emissions hit record high in 2023 – IEA - Climate Change News - Energy (Mar 1) |
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Mar 1 · Global emissions from energy rose by 410 million tonnes, or 1.1%, in 2023 to 37.4 billion tonnes, hitting a record hight
Smoke billows from a chimney at a combined-cycle gas turbine power plant while coinciding the COP28 is being held in Dubai, in Drogenbos, Belgium December 6, 2023. REUTERS/Yves Herman - RC2SR4AOL6OM
Global energy-related emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) hit a record high last year, driven partly by increased fossil fuel use in countries where droughts hampered hydropower production, International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Friday.
Steep cuts in CO2 emissions, mainly from burning fossil fuels, will be needed in the coming years if targets to ... | By Reuters Read more ...
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Despite Cop28 pledge, France keeps fossil fuel subsidies for farmers - Climate Change News - Energy (Feb 21) |
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Feb 21 · France has abandoned plans to phase out tax breaks on agricultural diesel in efforts to appease its increasingly disgruntled farmers
A tractor in Provence in southern France (Photos: Marcovdz)
At Cop28 last December, France’s former minister for the energy transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, announced she was “very happy” to support a Dutch initiative to remove subsidies for fossil fuels.
“Leading by example is obviously a key way to move forward and to show that the solutions are under our eyes,” she told a press conference, alongside ministers from Canada, Spain and other – mainly European – governments.
But, just two months later, in efforts to placate ... | By Natasha Foote Read more ...
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Ecuador’s new president tries to wriggle out of oil drilling referendum - Climate Change News - Energy (Feb 8) |
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Feb 8 · To fund a crackdown against gang violence, Ecuador’s recently elected president Daniel Noboa suggested a moratorium on a vote to ban an Amazon oil drilling project.
Oil field technicians walk at an oil field of Ecuador's state oil company Petroamazonas, in Yasuni, Ecuador October 20, 2017. Picture taken October 20, 2017. (Photo: REUTERS/Daniel Tapia)
Last August, Ecuadorians voted to keep the oil from block 43 in the heart of the Amazon rainforest’s Yasuní park in the ground. But months after the victory in the polls, the fate of oil exploitation in Yasuní is still uncertain.
Last month, recently elected president Daniel Noboa said in an interview to a local ... | By Doménica Montaño Read more ...
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US government pauses new gas export terminals in ‘historic win’ for climate - Climate Change News - Energy (Jan 26) |
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Jan 26 · The Biden administration is freezing approvals of new LNG export permits as climate considerations take centre stage.
Actor and activist Jane Fonda visits John Allaire a retired environmental engineer and Southwest Louisiana resident has been battling the LNG expansion near him. (Photos: Tim Aubry/Greenpeace)
The US government is halting decisions over further expanding its gas exports until it can apply updated climate considerations to projects seeking new approvals.
Announcing the move on Friday morning, President Joe Biden said the pause on all pending export permits for liquified natural gas (LNG) “sees the climate crisis for what it is: the existential threat ... | By Matteo Civillini Read more ...
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Ten years on from Haiyan, Shell’s intimidation won’t silence me - Climate Change News - Energy (Nov 29) |
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Nov 29 · I am named in a Shell lawsuit against Greenpeace for trying to board their oil rig, but I won’t stop fighting their climate vandalism
Yeb Saño delivers a rousing speech as the 2023 Climate Justice Walk prepares to cross the San Juanico Bridge in the Phillipines (Photo: Geric Cruz/Greenpeace)
Ten years ago this month, huge areas of my country were devastated by Typhoon Haiyan – the most powerful storm the Philippines had ever known.
Winds of almost 200 mph tore through communities claiming more than 6,000 innocent lives. My family’s hometown of Tacloban – only five metres above sea level – faced a wall of seawater over seven metres ... | By Yeb Saño Read more ...
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The Cop28 climate summit must set us free from fossil fuels - Climate Change News - Energy (Nov 28) |
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Nov 28 · My homeland of Denmark played its part in causing the climate crisis but is now phasing out fossil fuels. In Dubai, the world must follow
An environmental protest in Brazil in 2019 (Photo credit: Christian Braga/Greenpeace)
Cop28, marking a key stress test for the Paris Agreement, will be about facing the facts, correcting course and giving solutions a real chance.
The UAE talks cap a year that saw the world’s climate scientists lay out the unequivocal need for steep and immediate emissions cuts to limit warming to 1.5ºC and ways to get there.
A year in which the International Energy Agency set out a narrow but feasible 1.5ºC aligned pathway for the decline ... | By Mads Flarup Christensen Read more ...
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