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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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Shades of green hydrogen: EU demand set to transform Namibia - Climate Change News - Energy (Nov 15) |
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Nov 15 · Backed by the EU, Namibia has a $20 billion plan to export green hydrogen. A secretive tender process raises concerns for nature and citizens.
Cover art: Spoovio / Fanis Kollias / Climate Home News
For Namibia, green hydrogen could be transformative.
With vast sunbaked, windswept deserts and 2.5 million people, the southern African nation has plenty of renewable resources to go around.
Meanwhile rich, densely populated Europe, South Korea and Japan are crying out for clean fuel to decarbonise hard-to-electrify sectors like fertilisers, steel and shipping. Their net zero plans depend on it.
Keen to secure pole position in the global race for green ... | By John Grobler, Joe Lo and Matteo Civillini Read more ...
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Indonesia delays coal closure plans after finance row with rich nations - Climate Change News - Energy (Nov 2) |
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Nov 2 · After its pleas for grants not loans fell mostly on deaf ears, Indonesia has watered down its plans to shut coal power plants early
View of Suralaya coal power plant in Cilegon city, Banten Province, Indonesia.
Indonesia has watered down plans to shut coal-fired power plants early after expressing disappointment at wealthy nations’ offers to help them do so.
At the G20 summit on the island of Bali last December, Indonesia and a group of rich countries and banks announced a $20 billion deal to move the Southeast Asian nation from coal to clean energy.
But this announcement left a lot of the details vague. Since then, Indonesia has been pushing for the ... | By Matteo Civillini Read more ...
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Rooftop solar panels offer fragile lifeline to besieged Gazans - Climate Change News - Energy (Oct 31) |
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Oct 31 · As Israel cuts off electricity to the Gaza Strip, rooftop solar panels help residents to survive frequent bombardment
Three of Shark's solar panels were damaged by Israel's bombing of Gaza City (Photo: Taghreed Ali)
As the Israeli government cuts off fuel supplies to the besieged Palestinian enclave of Gaza, solar panels are providing a lifeline for some of the area’s two million residents.
For years, the region has suffered blackouts which worsen during Israeli attacks and wealthier Gazans have turned to solar panels for reliable electricity.
After Hamas militants invaded Israel on 7 October and massacred over 1,400 civilians, the Israeli defense ... | By Taghreed Ali Read more ...
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Saving the Three Basins means stopping fossil fuel expansion - Climate Change News - Energy (Oct 26, 2023) |
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Oct 26, 2023 · Planned oil and gas blocks cover an area the size of France in the Brazilian Amazon
View from the Congo River between Kinshasa and Lukolela, Democratic Republic of Congo. (Photo credit: Olivier Girard/CIFOR)
The president of the Republic of Congo will today host the Summit of the Three Basins alongside leaders from the Amazon, Congo, and Borneo-Mekong river basins with the aim of drumming up global support to preserve their forests and ecosystems.
In recent weeks, record drought has pushed the Amazon river to its lowest level in over a century affecting nearly half a million people and causing severe damage to ecosystems including the death of more than 100 river ... | By Guy Edwards and Peter Newell Read more ...
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One million coal jobs face the axe globally by 2050 - Climate Change News - Energy (Oct 10, 2023) |
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Oct 10, 2023 · China and India will see the biggest coal job losses and need to plan support for affected communities, Global Energy Monitor warns
An aerial view of the machinery at the coal terminal of Huanghua port, in Hebei province (Pic: China Daily via Reuters)
The global coal industry may have to shed nearly 1 million jobs by 2050, even without any further pledges to phase out fossil fuels, with China and India facing the biggest losses, research showed on Tuesday.
Hundreds of labour-intensive mines are expected to close in the coming decades as they reach the end of their lifespans and countries replace coal with cleaner low-carbon energy sources.
But most of the ... | By Reuters Read more ...
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Capturing coal’s carbon can ease pain of India’s energy transition - Climate Change News - Energy (Oct 05, 2023) |
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Oct 05, 2023 · Nearly two fifths of India’s districts depend on the coal sector and a rapid phasedown would be devastating for millions of people
A coal power station in the outskirts of Chennai in 2017 (Photo credit: Sajan Ponappa)
While it pursues renewables, India is right to invest in carbon capture technology for its coal plants in order to ease the pace of the transition and protect its citizens.
Although it is fast emerging as a global leader on renewables, India’s continued coal dependency has raised many eyebrows in the global community.
But much of India, particularly the poorest parts of it, rely on coal for jobs, tax revenues and ... | By Anusha Arif Read more ...
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ADB set to launch first coal early retirement scheme in Indonesia - Climate Change News - Energy (Sep 29, 2023) |
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Sep 29, 2023 · A finance tool to shut down Asian coal plants up to a decade early will swing into action “soon”, says Asian Development Bank climate envoy
View of Cirebon power plant from Waruduwur village in Cirebon, West Java, Indonesia. (Photo credit: Ulet Ifansasti / Greenpeace)
A new financing tool that allows Asian governments to force coal plants into early retirement is set to launch its first project in Indonesia “soon” following months of negotiations, the Asia Development Bank’s (ADB) climate envoy said on Friday.
The ADB’s “energy transition mechanism” (ETM) makes use of private and public capital to refinance ... | By Reuters Read more ...
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Vietnamese climate activist jailed in ‘unjust’ government crackdown - Climate Change News - Energy (Sep 28, 2023) |
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Sep 28, 2023 · Five environmentalists have been jailed in the last two years, while the government works on a clean energy partnership with rich nations
Vietnamese campaigner Hoang Thi Minh Hong was sentenced to three years in prison on Thursday. Photo: CHANGE/350Vietnam
A Vietnamese climate activist has been jailed for tax fraud as the country’s authoritarian government cracks down on environmentalists while developing a multi-billion dollar clean energy transition plan with rich nations.
A court in Ho Chi Minh City sentenced Hoang Thi Minh Hong on Thursday to three years in prison for dodging $275,000 in taxes related to her climate campaign group CHANGE, her lawyer said. In ... | By Matteo Civillini Read more ...
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New IEA net zero report leaves big polluters less room to hide - Climate Change News - Energy (Sep 27, 2023) |
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Sep 27, 2023 · The International Energy Agency calls on countries to bring forward net zero targets and rely less on fossil fuel technofixes
A protester with a banner saying "Future is more important than fossil fuels". Photo: Ivan Radic / Wikimedia
Big polluters need to move faster to wean themselves off fossil fuels and rely less on expensive and underperforming technologies, the International Energy Agency warned in its latest net zero assessment.
The influential energy watchdog has downgraded the role of technofixes such as carbon capture and hydrogen in meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement. As their development is failing to live up to expectations – the IEA argues ... | By Matteo Civillini Read more ...
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Sugar rush: how farmers spurred India’s G20 biofuels alliance - Climate Change News - Energy (Sep 21, 2023) |
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Sep 21, 2023 · Nineteen countries signed up to an India-led alliance this month to boost production of biofuels, but experts raise sustainability concerns
India's Narendra Modi walks past sugarcane plants at an exhibition in 2016. Photo: Prime Minister's Office of India
Transforming farmers from annadatas to urjadatas, from food producers to energy producers. India’s blueprint to lift the livelihoods of tens of millions of farmers reached the international stage in September, as prime minister Narendra Modi triumphantly unveiled the Global Biofuels Alliance at the G20 summit in Delhi.
After months of behind-the-scenes negotiations, nineteen countries signed up to the ... | By Matteo Civillini Read more ...
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