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Despite solar surge, world off track for COP28 renewable energy target - Climate Change News - Energy (Oct 11, 2024) |
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Oct 11, 2024 · Current plans will only deliver half of the growth needed to hit a global target of tripling renewables by 2030, IRENA warns
Construction of a wind turbine in Germany. Photo: IMAGO/Jochen Tack
The world is not yet doing enough to meet a goal to triple renewable energy capacity by 2030 despite “record” growth last year, the first official review of the global commitment made at the COP28 climate summit has warned.
Current national plans and targets would deliver only half of the required growth in renewable power by the end of the decade, according to an assessment by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) released on Friday.
Except for solar power, ... | By Matteo Civillini Read more ...
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Mexico’s new president must reform national oil company Pemex - Climate Change News - Energy (Oct 08, 2024) |
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Oct 08, 2024 · Investing even more in oil and gas would be a huge financial risk so Claudia Sheinbaum should order Pemex to diversify
Mexico's then President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum and Victor Rodriguez, appointed as Chief Executive of state-run oil producer Petroleos Mexicanos PEMEX, leave after a press conference in Mexico City, Mexico August 26, 2024. REUTERS/Raquel Cunha
Fernanda Ballesteros leads the Natural Resource Governance Institute’s work in Mexico and is part of the organization’s energy transition coordination group.
Last week, Claudia Sheinbaum started her six-year term as Mexico’s president. Among great expectations for change, many are puzzling over how she might ... | By Fernanda Ballesteros Read more ...
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New study blows hole in gas backers’ “transition fuel” claim - Climate Change News - Energy (Oct 08, 2024) |
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Oct 08, 2024 · The study found that, for Europe and China, importing US-produced LNG is worse for the climate than using local coal
Liquified natural gas (LNG) facilities in Texas. Photo: Tim Aubry / Greenpeace
For Europe and China, importing fossil gas from the United States to burn for power is worse for the climate than using local coal, because it produces about a third more emissions, a new study in Energy Science and Engineering has found.
While previous studies have relied on gas companies’ claims about how polluting their facilities are, the study by Cornell University’s Robert Howarth used independent measurements. His research concluded that planet-heating ... | By Joe Lo Read more ...
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The demise of coal, as it turns out, is a lot of gas - Climate Change News - Energy (Sep 13, 2024) |
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Sep 13, 2024 · Comment: The global pipeline of coal projects shrank dramatically in recent years – but now coal is making a comeback in Asia, threatening climate goals
Large machinery piles and stores electrical coal just unloaded from a cargo ship at the coal terminal in Lianyungang Port, China, on May 24, 2024. (Photo: Costfoto/NurPhoto via Reuters)
Lidy Nacpil is coordinator of the Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD).
A few years ago, the world was on a path to ending coal, the most carbon-intensive fossil fuel and the single biggest contributor to carbon dioxide emissions. Active and sustained campaigning brought coal closer to the point of death and ... | By Lidy Nacpil Read more ...
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How better buildings can help von der Leyen maintain her green legacy - Climate Change News - Energy (Aug 12, 2024) |
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Aug 12, 2024 · Comment: The EU president must implement plans to boost energy efficiency in the sector, reducing reliance on fossil fuels and exposure to geopolitical shocks
President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen addresses national delegations during the COP28, UN Climate Change Conference, held by UNFCCC in Dubai Exhibition Center, United Arab Emirates on December 1, 2023. (Photo: Dominika Zarzycka/NurPhoto/via Reuters)
Cristina Gamboa is CEO of the World Green Building Council.
Imagine walking through a city where every building is a testament to sustainability, resilience and innovation. A city built by – and now serving – a prosperous, diverse ... | By Cristina Gamboa Read more ...
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Pollution clampdown on Delhi kilns threatens brick workers’ future - Climate Change News - Energy (Jul 29, 2024) |
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Jul 29, 2024 · Emissions controls are causing brick kilns to close, raising fears that migrant labourers – who lack social safety nets – will struggle to earn a living
Workers stack the last bricks at a kiln in Ghaziabad, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, as their shift comes to an end mid-morning. (Photo: Esha Roy/The Migration Story)
On the outskirts of New Delhi, the four-month brick-making season is ending, and migrant worker Munna Majnu is preparing for the arduous 1,560-km journey home to Cooch Behar, in far northeastern West Bengal.
Majnu, 40, started labouring at the brick kiln in Uttar Pradesh’s Gautam Buddha Nagar district this year, when the previous ... | By Esha Roy Read more ...
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Canada’s Olympics kit provider hit with greenwashing complaint in France - Climate Change News - Energy (Jul 25, 2024) |
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Jul 25, 2024 · Lululemon is accused by environmental group of using “misleading” sustainability claims despite growing emissions
Team Canada athletes pose for a photo at the reveal of Lululemon's uniforms for the Paris 2024 Olympics, in April 16, 2024. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio
Sports clothing firm Lululemon – the official supplier of kit to Canada’s Olympics team – is portraying itself as a sustainable brand despite its rising greenhouse gas emissions and “highly-polluting” activities, according to a complaint filed to the French authorities on Wednesday.
Environmental advocacy group Stand.earth accused the Vancouver-based apparel company of ... | By Matteo Civillini Read more ...
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Scottish oil-town plan for green jobs sparks climate campers’ anger over local park - Climate Change News - Energy (Jul 19, 2024) |
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Jul 19, 2024 · The oil and gas industry aims to bring clean jobs to Aberdeen, but it involves paving over part of a much-loved park, igniting a debate on just transition
Scottish Climate Camp protesters outside a waste-to-energy incinerator in Torry on 13 July (Photo: Hannah Chanatry)
In the Scottish city of Aberdeen, a debate over the region’s energy transition away from fossil fuels is playing out over roughly one square mile of green space.
In question is a proposed development called the Energy Transition Zone (ETZ), which is intended to bring in more renewable energy investments as the city tries to cut its dependence on the oil and gas industry that has defined it for half ... | By Hannah Chanatry Read more ...
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Where East African oil pipeline meets sea, displaced farmers bemoan “bad deal” on compensation - Climate Change News - Energy (Jul 12, 2024) |
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Jul 12, 2024 · The oil export project has pushed up the price of land, so compensation is too low to maintain affected villagers’ standard of living
Land by the ocean has been closed off to the public (Photo: Climate Home News)
The serene coastline of Chongoleani used to be a little-known paradise for local fishers and farmers just north of the Tanzanian city of Tanga.
But now it is becoming the end-point for the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) where, after a journey of over 1,400 km through Uganda and Tanzania, the oil is stored and put onto ships bound for customers abroad.
EACOP is a joint venture between French multinational TotalEnergies, the China ... | By CHN Staff and Joe Lo Read more ...
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A simmering conflict over one of Latin America’s biggest wind hubs confronts Mexico’s next president - Climate Change News - Energy (Jul 09, 2024) |
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Jul 09, 2024 · Claudia Sheinbaum will have to deal with violent divisions over wind power projects on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec
Pedro Matus, a farmer and longtime Union Hidalgo resident who opposes windfarms, looks up at a turbine (Photo: Leon Pineda)
Following years of violence surrounding one of Latin America’s largest wind energy projects, local residents in southern Oaxaca state are cautiously optimistic that Mexico’s incoming president understands their anger over what they call poor consultations and environmental damage.
Claudia Sheinbaum will be sworn in as Mexico’s first female president on October 1 with a broad electoral mandate. Before entering politics, she ... | By Chris Arsenault and Philippe Le Billon Read more ...
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