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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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Global energy-related CO2 emissions hit record high in 2023 – IEA - Climate Change News - Energy (Mar 01, 2024) |
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Mar 01, 2024 · 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, 2024) |
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Feb 21, 2024 · 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 08, 2024) |
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Feb 08, 2024 · 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, 2024) |
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Jan 26, 2024 · 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, 2023) |
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Nov 29, 2023 · 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, 2023) |
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Nov 28, 2023 · 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, 2023) |
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Nov 15, 2023 · 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 02, 2023) |
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Nov 02, 2023 · 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, 2023) |
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Oct 31, 2023 · 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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Leaders must listen to the people and end fossil fuels - Climate Change News - Energy (Sep 15, 2023) |
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Sep 15, 2023 · Masses of people will take to the streets in 650 events around the world this weekend, to call for a phaseout of coal, oil and gas
A demonstrator against offshore oil development in Argentina, April 2022 (Photo: Lucía Alejandra Prieto/Greenpeace)
There is no nice way to say this: fossil fuels are killing us and our leaders are permitting it to happen.
Across the world and all over our social media feeds, boiling temperatures, devastating wildfires, worsening droughts and violent floods are reported on a near daily basis. These are not just statistics – these are lives, loves and livelihoods being lost and shattered. From Hawaii to Greece, Libya to China and ... | By Mads Flarup Christensen Read more ...
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Debt relief must break dependence on fossil fuel exports - Climate Change News - Energy (Sep 13, 2023) |
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Sep 13, 2023 · There is a vicious cycle between fossil fuel reliance and debt, which helps explain why so many oil exporters are heavily indebted
A worker on a break looks over an open-pit coal mine concession in Makroman, East Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. (Kamal Jufri/Greenpeace)
As host of the G20 summit last weekend, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi was right to highlight the importance of debt relief.
But he and other G20 leaders could have done more to recognise how economic reliance on fossil fuels has made debt crises worse.
National debt burdens have reached catastrophic levels in over 50 countries. Sri Lanka, Ghana, Zambia and Pakistan are already ... | By Sarah Colenbrander Read more ...
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Why India is rebuffing a coal-to-clean deal with rich nations - Climate Change News - Energy (Sep 13, 2023) |
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Sep 13, 2023 · The country is not moving away from coal yet, doesn’t want to hand rich nations a win and thinks the JETP terms aren’t good enough
Women and chilren work past a coal power plant in Chhattisgarh (Photo credit: Sri Kolari/Greenpeace)
More than a year ago, leaders of the G7 group of big wealthy countries announced they were working on a series of deals to move emerging economies away from fossil fuels, particularly coal.
With South Africa’s Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) already underway, they said at the summit in Germany that they were negotiating with Indonesia, Vietnam and India.
Since then, Indonesia and Vietnam have signed JETP ... | By Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar Read more ...
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G20 leaders strike renewables deal, stall on fossil fuels - Climate Change News - Energy (Sep 09, 2023) |
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Sep 09, 2023 · The world’s largest economies agreed to push for a tripling of renewable energy capacity by 2030, but made no progress on oil and gas phaseout
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi attending a session on "One Earth" at the G20 summit in New Delhi (Pic: ANI via Reuters Connect)
Leaders of the world’s largest economies have backed efforts to triple renewable energy capacity by 2030, but failed to make any progress towards a commitment to phase out fossil fuels.
Following fraught negotiations, G20 countries clinched an agreement in India’s capital New Delhi on Saturday afternoon.
Raising the bar on climate targets was a priority of India’s G20 presidency, ... | By Matteo Civillini Read more ...
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