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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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New South African government fuels optimism for faster energy transition - Climate Change News - Energy (Jul 04, 2024) |
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Jul 04, 2024 · Stuttering shift away from coal could pick up pace as new faces enter an unprecedented coalition government
Cyril Ramaphosa takes the oath of office for his second term as South African President in June 2024. KIM LUDBROOK/Pool via REUTERS
South Africa’s energy transition is likely to accelerate after voters forced the ruling African National Congress (ANC) into a power-sharing arrangement for the first time, analysts say.
On Sunday President Cyril Ramaphosa appointed ministers from his ANC party and the pro-business opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) to serve in his “government of national unity”.
In one of the most significant changes, Ramaphosa took away ... | By Nick Hedley Read more ...
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Gas flaring back on the rise, fuelling calls for stronger regulation - Climate Change News - Energy (Jun 20, 2024) |
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Jun 20, 2024 · Gas flaring from oil production increased in 2023, with pledges and new rules aimed at curbing methane emissions yet to make a difference
Gas flaring is seen at the state-owned oil company PDVSA, in Punta de Mata, Venezuela April 5, 2023. (Photo: REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria)
Gas flaring – where oil and gas companies burn off gas released during oil extraction – increased around the world last year to its highest level since 2019, despite a growing international push to regulate and curb the polluting practice.
According to satellite data released by the World Bank on Thursday, gas flaring increased by 7% in 2023, reversing a decline in 2022. The ... | By Daisy Clague Read more ...
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UN chief calls on governments to ban fossil fuel ads - Climate Change News - Energy (Jun 05, 2024) |
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Jun 05, 2024 · António Guterres says many nations have already banned tobacco advertising and should do the same for fossil fuels, reining in “the Godfathers of climate chaos”
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, U.S., June 5, 2024. (Photo: REUTERS/David Dee Delgado)
The head of the United Nations, António Guterres, has for the first time called on governments to ban fossil fuel companies from advertising, as many have already done with the tobacco industry.
In a speech to mark World Environment Day at the American Museum of Natural History in Washington DC, he said that “many in the ... | By Daisy Clague and Joe Lo Read more ...
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Despite exit, EU seeks to save green reforms to energy investment treaty - Climate Change News - Energy (May 30, 2024) |
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May 30, 2024 · EU ministers have agreed they are free to support reforms to end protection for fossil fuels at a conference in November
A demonstration against the Energy Charter Treaty by Friends of the Earth Europe in July 2021 (Pic: Friends of the Earth Europe/Flickr)
Prospects have brightened for green reforms to a controversial international treaty that protects fossil fuel investments, as ministers of European Union states agreed on Thursday that countries can still choose to support the reforms despite the bloc’s decision to quit the pact.
In a statement, a gathering of EU ministers called the Council of the EU said the decision “unlocked the process of ... | By Joe Lo Read more ...
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Calls for responsible mining fail to stem rights abuses linked to transition minerals - Climate Change News - Energy (May 16, 2024) |
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May 16, 2024 · As demand grows for critical minerals used in clean energy supply chains, new data suggests more protection is needed for communities affected by their extraction
Members of indigenous communities camp on the property of Chinese-owned Las Bambas copper mine, in Las Bambas, Peru, which is mired in social conflict. April 26, 2022. (Photo: REUTERS/Angela Ponce)
As the rapid deployment of clean energy technologies fuels demand for their components, human rights abuses linked to the supply of critical minerals show no sign of letting up.
New data from a Transition Minerals Tracker compiled by the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC) shows that more than 630 ... | By Daisy Clague Read more ...
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Hopes fade for production curbs in new global pact on plastic pollution - Climate Change News - Energy (May 03, 2024) |
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May 03, 2024 · With no further talks scheduled on limiting plastic production before final negotiations in November, the treaty may focus instead on recycling
Negotiators discuss the text in Ottawa (Photo: Kiara Worth - IISD/ENB)
Hopes for a new global treaty to include limits on rocketing production of plastic worldwide have faded after government negotiators sidestepped the issue at UN talks in the Canadian capital of Ottawa earlier this week.
At the fourth – and penultimate – round of talks, negotiators did not agree to continue formal discussions on how to cut plastic production before a final session in the Korean city of Busan set for November, making it less ... | By Joe Lo Read more ...
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Louisiana communities are suffering from Japan-funded LNG exports - Climate Change News - Energy (Apr 09, 2024) |
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Apr 09, 2024 · 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, 2024) |
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Mar 18, 2024 · 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, 2024) |
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Mar 13, 2024 · 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 06, 2024) |
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Mar 06, 2024 · 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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