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COP29 aims to boost battery storage and grids for renewables, as pledges proliferate - Climate Change News - Politics (Sep 19) |
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Sep 19 · Governments are being asked to sign up to a goal to boost energy storage six-fold and renew or add 80 million km of electric grids, among other initiatives
Electricity cables at the Lethaba power station in 2007 (Photos: World Bank)
Azerbaijan, which is hosting this year’s COP29 UN summit, this week announced 14 climate initiatives it hopes countries will sign up to, including one to promote energy storage and electric grids.
Governments are being asked by the COP29 presidency to back a pledge to increase global energy storage capacity six times above 2022 levels, reaching 1,500 gigawatts (GW) by 2030, and to add or refurbish more than 80 million kilometres ... | By Joe Lo Read more ...
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Developing countries denounce rich nations’ disregard for just transition talks - Climate Change News - Politics (Sep 17) |
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Sep 17 · One negotiator said it was “very unfortunate” that no developed-country officials travelled to Ghana for UN climate talks on “response measures”
Women illegally gather coal to sell from Jharia mine in Jharkand state, India, in 2008 (Pic: Peter Caton/Greenpeace)
United Nations talks on how to make the global green transition fair provoked frustration last week among developing countries as rich nations did not attend in person and refused to discuss thorny issues.
About 30 developing countries sent civil servants to a five-star hotel in Ghana for official UN discussions on “response measures” that are meant to tackle how to ... | By Joe Lo Read more ...
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UK calls for “ambition” on COP29 climate finance goal but won’t talk numbers - Climate Change News - Politics (Sep 17) |
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Sep 17 · The UK’s new foreign minister, David Lammy, says Global North rhetoric on climate action must be matched by funding but stays silent on the size of a new global finance goal
David Lammy makes his speech at Kew Gardens on September 17, 2024 (Photos: Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office/Ben Dance)
Britain’s new foreign minister has called on governments to set an “ambitious” new goal for climate finance to help developing countries at the COP29 UN climate summit, but declined to discuss how much it should be.
In his first major speech in government, after the Labour Party won power in July, Foreign Secretary David Lammy told ... | By Joe Lo Read more ...
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Is Brazil’s Lula a climate leader? - Climate Change News - Politics (Sep 16) |
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Sep 16 · Comment: The Brazilian president has run up against similar challenges to his US counterpart Joe Biden – and it’s bad news for the planet
U.S. President Joe Biden and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attend an event with labor leaders from the United States and Brazil, on the sidelines of the 78th U.N. General Assembly in New York City, U.S., September 20, 2023. (Photo: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)
Marcio Astrini is the executive secretary of Observatório do Clima, a network of 120 Brazilian civil society organizations.
In a big country in the Americas, an elderly leader defeats his far-right rival by a narrow margin. After facing a coup ... | By Marcio Astrini Read more ...
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Slow progress in Baku risks derailing talks on new climate finance goal at COP29 - Climate Change News - Politics (Sep 13) |
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Sep 13 · Azerbaijan’s COP29 president calls for determination and leadership from all countries to bridge the gaps on finance
A delegate's laptop bears a slogan calling for loss and damage finance at the mid-year UN climate talks in Bonn on June 7, 2024. (Photo: IISD/ENB - Kiara Worth)
At the latest climate talks in Baku, which ended on Thursday, countries made little progress towards agreeing a new climate finance goal to replace the current $100-billion-a-year target, dimming prospects for the main expected outcome from November’s COP29 summit.
Negotiators gathered in Azerbaijan this week for the last round of technical talks before COP29, after mid-year ... | By Sebastian Rodriguez 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) |
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Sep 13 · 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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British Airways plans to offset rising emissions by sprinkling crushed rocks - Climate Change News - Politics (Sep 12) |
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Sep 12 · The airline will pay a UK company to carry out enhanced rock weathering, which speeds up natural carbon-absorbing processes
A British Airways flight takes off in Sao Paulo in 2017 (Photos: Rafael Conossa)
British Airways has completed a deal to cancel out some of its rising emissions by financing a process that sprinkles crushed-up rocks on the ground to capture and store more planet-warming carbon dioxide.
The company has agreed to pay British project developer UNDO to take around 4,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the atmosphere – about 0.02% of the airline’s current annual emissions – through a form of carbon removal known as ... | By Joe Lo Read more ...
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Human rights must be “at the core” of mining for transition minerals, UN panel says - Climate Change News - Politics (Sep 12) |
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Sep 12 · The UN Panel on Critical Energy Transition Minerals launches principles to guide responsible, fair extraction of minerals for green value chains
People hold placards as they protest against environmental degradation which they blame on mining activity and climate change, near the Chamber of Mines of the Philippines Convention in Pasay city, metro Manila, September 16, 2014. (Photo: REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco)
A panel of experts convened by the UN Secretary-General has called on governments and industry to prevent human rights abuses in mining for minerals that will play a key role in the world’s transition to clean energy.
After five months of discussion, the UN ... | By Sebastian Rodriguez Read more ...
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How to convince Beijing of the case for stronger climate targets - Climate Change News - Politics (Sep 10) |
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Sep 10 · Comment: An ambitious NDC would boost China’s economy, win it recognition as a responsible global power – and keep its people safer from climate disasters
White House Senior Advisor for Clean Energy John Podesta and China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi speak during a bilateral meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, September 6, 2024. (Photo: Andy Wong/Pool via REUTERS)
Yao Zhe is global policy advisor for Greenpeace East Asia.
John Podesta visited Beijing last week on his first trip to China as US climate envoy. Both countries’ new climate action plans, known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), were high on his agenda, along ... | By Yao Zhe Read more ...
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Green Climate Fund restructures, aiming to become donors’ “partner of choice” - Climate Change News - Politics (Sep 9) |
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Sep 9 · GCF chief Mafalda Duarte tells Climate Home how she plans to boost the fund’s impact and position it to secure more resources
GCF Executive Director Mafalda Duarte speaks at the High-level Pledging Conference for the fund's second replenishment in October 2023. (Photo: Green Climate Fund / Ute Grabowsky)
Since the Green Climate Fund (GCF) approved its first eight projects just before the Paris Agreement was sealed in 2015, its investments to curb emissions and adapt to climate change in developing countries have grown to $15 billion across 270 projects.
Mafalda Duarte, the Portuguese climate finance specialist who heads the fund’s South Korea-based ... | By Megan Rowling Read more ...
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Relegating Africa to the world’s green mine is costing us - Climate Change News - Comment (Sep 5) |
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Sep 5 · Comment: We have the resources, talent and need to develop supply chains for the energy transition that bring sustainable economic benefits for Africans
Congo mines minister Antoinette N'Samba Kalambayi speaks during the Investing in African Mining Indaba 2023 conference in Cape Town, South Africa, February 8, 2023. (Photo: REUTERS/Shelley Christians)
Adam Anthony is executive director of HakiRasilimali, a platform of civil society organizations working on strategic advocacy issues around minerals, oil and gas extraction in Tanzania, and chair of Publish What You Pay’s Africa Steering Committee.
There is a fierce scramble underway for the minerals to enable a ... | By Adam Anthony Read more ...
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UN climate chief calls for “exponential changes” to boost investment in Africa - Climate Change News - Finance (Sep 5) |
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Sep 5 · Action on clean energy and adaptation can be the single greatest opportunity to lift up African people and economies, Simon Stiell says
UNFCCC Executive Secretary Simon Stiell speaking at climate talks in Bonn, Germany, in June 2024. Photo: UNFCCC/Lucia Vasquez
UN climate chief Simon Stiell has urged world leaders “to flip the script” on climate action in Africa and move from “an epidemic of under-investment” to a “goldmine of human and economic benefits”.
Speaking at a conference of African environment ministers on Thursday in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, Stiell said investments in renewable energy and climate resilience ... | By Matteo Civillini Read more ...
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Delaying the EU’s anti-deforestation law is not an option - Climate Change News - Science (Sep 3) |
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Sep 3 · Comment: The EU’s new deforestation law was seen as a breakthrough in the global battle against forest loss, but it’s provoking fractious debate among governments and producers
People dry cocoa beans in the Ivorian cocoa farming village of Djigbadji, commonly known as Bandikro or Bandit Town, located inside the Rapides Grah protected forest and destroyed by forest authorities in January 2020, in Soubre, Ivory Coast on January 7, 2021. (Photo: REUTERS/Luc Gnago)
Nicole Polsterer is the sustainable production and consumption campaigner at forests and rights NGO, Fern.
Initially the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) was hailed as a game-changer in the fight ... | By Nicole Polsterer Read more ...
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As Pacific Islanders, we need climate action – not greenwashing – from Azerbaijan - Climate Change News - Politics (Sep 2) |
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Sep 2 · Comment: As host of the COP29 summit, Baku must stop fossil fuel expansion, cut its emissions further, and work to deliver an ambitious climate finance goal
A performer wears the flag of Tuvalu as she waits at a signing ceremony for the Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union to come into force at the 53rd Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting in Nuku'alofa, Tonga on August 28, 2024. (Photo: AAP Image/Lukas Coch via Reuters)
Joseph Zane Sikulu is a member of the Pacific Climate Warriors and Pacific Director for climate campaign group 350.org. Here is his open letter to Mukhtar Babayev, president-designate of the COP29 UN climate summit, which will take place in November in Baku, ... | By Joseph Zane Sikulu Read more ...
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Fossil fuel transition back in draft pact for UN Summit of the Future after outcry - Climate Change News - Politics (Aug 30) |
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Aug 30 · The new text of a UN pact for the high-level event brings back a mention of the headline COP28 agreement
Activists calling for an end to fossil fuels at COP28 in Dubai. Photo by IISD/ENB | Mike Muzurakis
Governments have reinstated a commitment to transition away from fossil fuels in the draft of a new United Nations pact due to be adopted next month, following widespread condemnation over its previous removal.
The U-turn comes after nearly 80 Nobel prizewinners and world leaders hit out at the deletion of any references to fossil fuels in a previous version of the negotiating text for the Summit of the Future taking place in New York during this year’s UN General ... | By Matteo Civillini Read more ...
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Verra axing of Shell’s rice-farming carbon credits in China fuels integrity fears - Climate Change News - Finance (Aug 30) |
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Aug 30 · The carbon market standard found “serious” quality issues with the projects, prompting questions about their initial approval
An oil-stained Shell logo is seen during the demonstration outside the Science Museum. (Photo by Vuk Valcic / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)
The axing of Shell’s carbon offsetting schemes linked to Chinese rice farming, announced by leading carbon credit standard Verra this week, has raised questions about the process used to verify the emissions reductions from such projects.
The activities were meant to slash climate-heating emissions of methane – a potent greenhouse gas – caused by the decomposition of plants in rice fields ... | By Matteo Civillini Read more ...
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After cutting fossil fuel finance we must unlock clean energy for all - Climate Change News (Aug 29) |
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Aug 29 · Comment: While international public finance for coal, oil and gas has fallen by two-thirds, little of that money has gone to boost green energy in poorer countries
A woman looks at a solar panel, at a factory called Ener-G-Africa, where high-quality solar panels made by an all-women team are produced, in Cape Town, South Africa, February 9, 2023. (Photo: REUTERS/Esa Alexander)
Natalie Jones is a policy advisor on the energy programme at the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). She holds a PhD in international law from the University of Cambridge.
It’s a quiet climate success story: over 40 countries and public finance institutions have cut ... | By Natalie Jones Read more ...
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Leaders are cutting fossil fuel finance – next comes unlocking clean energy for all - Climate Change News - Finance (Aug 29) |
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Aug 29 · Comment: While international public finance for coal, oil and gas has fallen by two-thirds, little of that money has gone to boost green energy in poorer countries
A woman looks at a solar panel, at a factory called Ener-G-Africa, where high-quality solar panels made by an all-women team are produced, in Cape Town, South Africa, February 9, 2023. (Photo: REUTERS/Esa Alexander)
Natalie Jones is a policy advisor on the energy programme at the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). She holds a PhD in international law from the University of Cambridge.
It’s a quiet climate success story: over 40 countries and public finance institutions have cut ... | By Natalie Jones Read more ...
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EU hit with lawsuit over green labelling of aviation and shipping investments - Climate Change News - Finance (Aug 28) |
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Aug 28 · Environmental campaigners take the EU to court over the inclusion of fossil fuel-powered planes and ships in green taxonomy
The LNG-powered MSC World Europa meets the EU green investment criteria, according to NGOs (Photo by Gerard Bottino / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)
Environmental campaigners have filed a lawsuit against the European Union over its inclusion of polluting planes and ships powered by fossil fuels in the bloc’s green investment rulebook.
The European Commission should review “flawed” sustainable finance criteria for the aviation and shipping sectors in the EU Taxonomy, a guide designed to funnel private investment towards net zero-aligned ... | By Matteo Civillini Read more ...
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How can governments tackle loss and damage at the national level? - Climate Change News - Finance (Aug 27) |
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Aug 27 · Comment: As host of the board of the new UN L&D fund, the Philippines can set an example with its pioneering climate accountability bill
An aerial view of a coastal town devastated by super Typhoon Haiyan in Samar province, Philippines, November 11, 2013. (Photo: REUTERS/Erik De Castro/File)
John Leo Algo is the national coordinator of Aksyon Klima Pilipinas and the deputy executive director for programs and campaigns of Living Laudato Si’ Philippines. He has represented Philippine civil society at UN climate and environmental conferences since 2016 and also works as a climate and environment journalist.
The Philippines now finds itself in a position to once ... | By John Leo Algo Read more ...
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London airport expansion spotlights danger of “false hope” Jet Zero strategy - Climate Change News - Technology (Aug 23) |
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Aug 23 · The UK government decided expansion is compatible with its plan to cut aviation emissions, raising questions about its reliance on unproven techno-fixes over reducing flights
A plane takes off at London's City Airport (Photos: James Petts)
This week, the UK’s new centre-left government approved an expansion of London City Airport, which would allow the business travel hub to fly an extra 2.5 million passengers a year.
Monday’s approval follows similar green lights for airport expansion given by the previous centre-right government – and goes against the firm advice of the UK’s official climate change advisory body, as well as opposition from ... | By Joe Lo Read more ...
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Climate disasters challenge right to safe and adequate housing - Climate Change News - Science (Aug 22) |
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Aug 22 · Climate-proofing homes is now an essential response to regular extreme weather events and can help prevent displacement
Climate disasters displace millions of people each year.
In 2023, the figure reached 26.4 million worldwide as a result of floods, storms, wildfires and other disasters, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).
Climate change is not solely responsible, but the frequency and intensity of extreme weather is increasing as global temperatures continue to rise. As a result we can expect that more and more people will face losing their homes and their livelihoods.
It is commonplace to see people boarding up their homes and ... | By Adam Wentworth Read more ...
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In a world first, Grenada activates debt pause after Hurricane Beryl destruction - Climate Change News - Finance (Aug 21) |
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Aug 21 · More creditors are agreeing to suspend debt payments in the wake of weather disasters, but experts say greater financial relief will be needed
A man digs out a stranded boat after Hurricane Beryl passed the island of Petite Martinique, Grenada. REUTERS/Arthur Daniel
As Hurricane Beryl swept through the Caribbean in early July, its deadly passage left a trail of destruction across the island nation of Grenada.
Winds of up to 240 kilometres per hour flattened entire neighbourhoods and toppled power and communication lines, causing damage equivalent to a third of the country’s annual economic output, according to early government estimates.
Many Grenadians ... | By Matteo Civillini Read more ...
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The UN can set a new course on “critical” transition minerals - Climate Change News - Science (Aug 20) |
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Aug 20 · Comment: A high-level panel is working to define principles for responsible mining, which will be presented to the UN General Assembly in September
Indigenous protesters march with banners, flags and placards during a demonstration on "La Pachamama," or Mother Earth Day on August 1, 2023 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Indigenous leaders from Jujuy protested against a provincial constitutional reform they claim is an attempt against their ancestral rights to lands the state aims to use for lithium mining. (Photo by Mariana Nedelcu/SOPA Images/Sipa USA/via Reuters)
Claudia Velarde is Co-director of the Ecosystems Program at the Interamerican Association for Environmental ... | By Claudia Velarde, Stephanie Weiss and Jessica Solórzano Read more ...
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As Swiss propose ways to expand climate finance donors, academics urge new thinking - Climate Change News - Politics (Aug 16) |
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Aug 16 · Switzerland pitches criteria to include China and Gulf States in the donor base. But experts recommend incentives not coercion
An activists holds a placard during a climate strike in September 2023, in Edmonton, Canada. Photo: Artur Widak/NurPhoto
As diplomats get ready to restart talks next month over the new UN climate finance target, the question of who should be putting money into the pot looms large over the negotiations.
Most developing countries offer a straightforward answer: keep the status quo, meaning only the countries classified as industrialised when the UN climate treaty was adopted in 1992.
But this club of developed nations, vocally led by ... | By Matteo Civillini Read more ...
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FAO draft report backs growth of livestock industry despite emissions - Climate Change News - Science (Aug 14) |
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Aug 14 · Experts say the UN’s food agency has shied away from recommending less animal farming, though cutting methane emissions is a quick way to curb warming
Aerial view of dairy cows eating at a breeding base on August 12, 2024 in Lingwu, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of China (Photo: Yuan Hongyan/VCG/via Reuters)
The livestock industry is essential for food security and economic development, according to a draft report by the United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) that reinforces its defence of practices in the emissions-heavy sector in recent years.
Former and current FAO officials and academics have criticised the document, seen by Climate Home ... | By Arthur Neslen Read more ...
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Climate Home News is hiring! Apply to be our new energy transition reporter (Africa-based) - Climate Change News - Politics (Aug 13) |
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Aug 13 · Climate Home News is looking for a journalist to cover climate and energy policy developments across Africa, with a global view
Workers install solar panels in Senegal (Photo credit: European Investment Bank)
Climate Home News is seeking a full-time energy transition reporter based in Africa with remote working, who will contribute to expanding our coverage of international climate diplomacy.
Founded over a decade ago, Climate Home News is a leading independent digital media outlet?covering climate change.?We aim to be the go-to newsroom for a global community seeking to understand the political, social and economic drivers of the climate crisis and responses to ... | By CHN Staff Read more ...
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How better buildings can help von der Leyen maintain her green legacy - Climate Change News - Energy (Aug 12) |
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Aug 12 · 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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Key UN report lends weight to Pacific plan for shipping emissions levy - Climate Change News - Technology (Aug 8) |
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Aug 8 · The report was seized upon by the Marshall Islands but denounced as “unacceptable” and “nonsensical” by Argentina and Brazil
A container ship calls at a port in New Zealand (Photo: Bernard Spragg/Flickr)
Pacific governments say an official UN report shows their push for a levy on all shipping emissions – with the revenues redistributed to poorer nations – is fairer, cheaper and more effective than other green options under consideration.
The report, overseen by a steering committee of 32 governments and published by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), found that a levy would do less damage to the global economy than a ... | By Joe Lo Read more ...
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Renewable-energy carbon credits rejected by high-integrity scheme - Climate Change News - Finance (Aug 7) |
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Aug 7 · The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market decided existing renewables methodologies don’t do enough to prove their emissions reductions are additional
Wind turbines spin at the partially carbon offset financed Guazhou Beidaqiao Wind Farm on August 30, 2023. (Photo by Mao Jianjun/China News Service/VCG )
Carbon credits generated from renewable energy projects have failed to obtain a new quality label from a key oversight body, casting fresh doubt on popular emissions offsets favoured by multinational companies like Audi, Shell and Total.
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) announced on Tuesday that eight renewable energy ... | By Matteo Civillini and Joe Lo Read more ...
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IPCC’s input into key UN climate review at risk as countries clash over timeline - Climate Change News - Science (Aug 5) |
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Aug 5 · Most governments want reports ready before the next global stocktake, but a dozen developing nations are opposed over inclusivity concerns
IPCC delegates exchange views on the final day of the session in Sofia, Bulgaria. Photo: Photo by IISD/ENB | Anastasia Rodopoulou
Governments have again failed to agree on a schedule for producing key climate science reports as deep divergences blocked progress at a meeting of the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) last week.
At the talks in Sofia, Bulgaria, most countries supported a faster process that would see three flagship reports assessing the state of climate science delivered by mid-2028, in time ... | By Matteo Civillini Read more ...
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As first airline drops goal, are aviation’s 2030 targets achievable without carbon offsets? - Climate Change News - Technology (Aug 2) |
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Aug 2 · Air New Zealand has dropped its 2030 emissions reductions targets, validated by the Science-Based Targets Initiative
Three Air New Zealand planes
On Tuesday, New Zealand’s biggest airline announced that it was dropping its target, set just two years ago, to reduce emissions by just under a third between 2019 and 2030.
In a statement, Air New Zealand’s CEO Greg Foran said that because of delays to the delivery of more fuel-efficient aircraft and because “so many levers needed to meet the target are outside our control”, the airline was dropping its target and withdrawing from the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi), an influential non-governmental arbiter of ... | By Joe Lo Read more ...
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The IPCC must produce its flagship report in time for the next UN global stocktake - Climate Change News - Science (Jul 31) |
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Jul 31 · Comment: An IPCC author from the Global South on why aligning the two timelines is crucial for the integrity of international climate cooperation
A plenary meeting at the 61st session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Sofia, Bulgaria. Photo: IISD/ENB | Anastasia Rodopoulou
Dr Youba Sokona is an energy and sustainable development expert from Mali and was a vice chair of the IPCC’s sixth assessment cycle.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) seventh Assessment Report can and must be ready in time for the second Global Stocktake (GST).
The IPCC report plays a pivotal role in assessing climate change science and ... | By Youba Sokona Read more ...
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Pollution clampdown on Delhi kilns threatens brick workers’ future - Climate Change News - Energy (Jul 29) |
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Jul 29 · 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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It’s time for Azerbaijan to shift gears on diplomacy ahead of COP29 - Climate Change News - Politics (Jul 26) |
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Jul 26 · Comment: Amid record-breaking climate impacts, the COP29 host nation needs to ramp up action for an ambitious outcome in Baku
Mukhtar Babayev, Azerbaijan's COP29 President-Designate, at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue 2024 in Berlin, Germany, on April 25, 2024. (Photo by Christian Marquardt/NurPhoto)
Manuel Pulgar–Vidal is WWF’s Global Lead for Climate and Energy and, previously, he was the COP20 President.
July will be a month of records. Athletes and spectators gather for the Paris Olympics to celebrate feats of human endurance and record-breaking achievement. But July is also seeing records of another kind breaking.
This month we experienced the ... | By Manuel Pulgar-Vidal Read more ...
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Canada’s Olympics kit provider hit with greenwashing complaint in France - Climate Change News - Energy (Jul 25) |
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Jul 25 · 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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UN chief appeals for global action to tackle deadly extreme heat - Climate Change News - Science (Jul 25) |
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Jul 25 · António Guterres calls extreme heat “the new abnormal” as he urges countries to step up protection of vulnerable populations
Iraqi workers harvest potato crops, which has been damaged by a heatwave and environmental and climatic changes, in Mosul, Iraq, July 15, 2023. REUTERS/Khalid Al-Mousily
People everywhere are struggling with the fatal impacts of worsening extreme heat, which is also damaging economies, widening inequalities and undermining the world’s development goals, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said on Thursday.
Calling for global action to limit the devastating consequences, the head of the United Nations said “billions ... | By Megan Rowling and Matteo Civillini Read more ...
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UAE’s ALTÉRRA invests in fund backing fossil gas despite “climate solutions” pledge - Climate Change News - Politics (Jul 24) |
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Jul 24 · Four months after partnering with the new “landmark” climate vehicle at COP28, a BlackRock fund put money into a US gas pipeline
COP28 President Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber and ALTÉRRA CEO Majid Al Suwaidi attend a plenary meeting at COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. REUTERS/Amr Alfiky
As world leaders gathered in Dubai at the start of COP28 last December, the United Arab Emirates dropped a surprise headline-grabbing announcement. The host nation of the UN talks promised to put $30 billion into a new climate fund aimed at speeding up the energy transition and building climate resilience, especially in the Global South.
ALTÉRRA was billed as the world’s ... | 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) |
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Jul 19 · 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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To keep its profits, Big Oil stole our future - Climate Change News - Comment (Jul 19) |
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Jul 19 · Comment: Children’s education, and their prospects, are suffering as a result of extreme heat driven by climate change – and dirty energy giants are the culprits
People watch a local derby soccer match in the village of Ormenio, Greece, March 30, 2024. (Photo: REUTERS/Louisa Gouliamaki)
Foteini Simic, 16 years old, and Petros Kalosakas, 18 years old, are high-school students and Greenpeace volunteers from Athens, Greece.
There are few moments in life that count forever. Choosing who (and if) to marry, becoming a parent, buying a house… Before all of these come the last years of the Greek Lykeio (senior high school) and the critical final exams ... | By Foteini Simic and Petros Kalosakas Read more ...
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