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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) |
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Oct 26 · 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) |
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Oct 10 · 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 5) |
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Oct 5 · 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) |
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Sep 29 · 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) |
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Sep 28 · 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) |
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Sep 27 · 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) |
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Sep 21 · 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) |
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Sep 15 · 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) |
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Sep 13 · 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) |
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Sep 13 · 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 9) |
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Sep 9 · 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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EU puts Maroš Šefcovic in charge of climate policy - Climate Change News - Energy (Aug 23) |
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Aug 23 · The Slovakian will replace Frans Timmermans as the EU’s lead on climate, at home and abroad
Maros Sefcovic leads Europe's energy union project (Pic: Flickr/epp group)
The European Commission has put Slovakia’s Maroš Šefcovic in charge of its climate policy, at least temporarily.
The Commission, the European Union’s executive arm, announced yesterday that the current long-time climate lead Frans Timmermans officially resigned to campaign to become prime minister of his native Netherlands.
His role leading on climate policy would go to Šefcovic “until the appointment of a new member of the commission of Dutch nationality”, they ... | By Joe Lo Read more ...
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Ecuadorians reject Amazon oil drilling in historic referendum - Climate Change News - Energy (Aug 21) |
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Aug 21 · Around 60% of voters said oil reserves in the Yasuní National Park should be left in the ground in binding vote
Yasuní National Park during the extraction of barrels of oil in the Amazon rainforest. (Photo: Reuters)
Citizens of Ecuador voted against extracting oil from large reserves found within a national park in the Amazon rainforest in a historic referendum.
In a first-of-its-kind poll, 59% of voters decided to keep oil in the ground in the Yasuní National Park, one of the largest biodiversity hotspots on the planet and home to indigenous people in voluntary isolation.
Following Sunday’s result, Ecuador’s state-0wned oil company, Petroecuador, ... | By Matteo Civillini Read more ...
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Climate Home News seeks pitches on renewable energy supply chain - Climate Change News - Energy (Aug 18) |
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Aug 18 · Send us you pitches for powerful accountability journalism stories on the trends and actors shaping the renewable energy supply chain
Filipino workers carry a solar panel during a home installation in Manila, Philippines (Photo credit: IMF Photo/Lisa Marie David)
Climate Home News is seeking stories on the global renewable energy supply chain.
The rapid deployment of renewable energy is critical for the world to meet its climate goals. This requires a massive expansion of the renewable energy supply chain, from the critical minerals required to manufacture solar panels, wind turbines, and batteries to the skills and jobs needed to produce, assemble, and install ... | By Chloé Farand Read more ...
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Indonesia delays $20bn green plan, after split with rich nations on grants and new coal plants - Climate Change News - Energy (Aug 16) |
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Aug 16 · The launch of the Jetp investment plan has been hampered by disagreements over funding and technical challenges
The energy transition deal aims to wean Indonesia off coal, which now takes up nearly half of the country's electricity mix. Photo: Kemal Jufri / Greenpeace
Indonesia has delayed the launch of a $20 billion clean energy plan as it needs more time to bridge divisions with wealthy donor nations on financing terms and new coal plants.
The investment blueprint is supposed to set out how foreign funding will help wean the Southeast Asian country off coal. But international talks on it have been tense, with Indonesia wanting more money on better terms from rich ... | By Matteo Civillini Read more ...
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US sparks controversy by backing oil company’s carbon-sucking plans - Climate Change News - Energy (Aug 15) |
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Aug 15 · The CEO of Occidental Petroleum has said that direct air capture is a way of prolonging the life of the oil industry
Image of fossil fuel infrastructure near Monahans, Texas. (Photo credit: Aaron M. Sprecher/Greenpeace )
The US government has been criticised for plans to hand out up to $500 million to help an oil company suck carbon out of the air in Texas.
The Department of Energy announced it would invest in two direct air capture facilities, which will suck the planet-warming gas out of the atmosphere and store it underground.
One of those facilities will be built by Occidental Petroleum, whose CEO Vicki Hollub said earlier this year that direct air ... | By Joe Lo Read more ...
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Court says renewable firms can seize Spain’s property after subsidy cuts - Climate Change News - Energy (Aug 4) |
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Aug 4 · The Energy Charter Treaty, which Spain is trying to leave, protects investments in fossil fuels and in renewables
A Spanish solar plant in 2022 (REUTERS/Guillermo Martínez)
London’s High Court has ruled that two investors in Spanish solar energy plants are entitled to seize a Spanish property in London to enforce a judgment in a long-running dispute over renewable energy incentives.
The court’s interim charging order – meaning it is not yet final and can be objected to by the debtor – was issued on Wednesday but made public on Friday.
The judgement was issued under the controversial energy charter treaty (ECT) which protects investments in both ... | By Reuters and Joe Lo Read more ...
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Gas lock-in: Debt-laden Ghana gambles on LNG imports - Climate Change News - Energy (Aug 4) |
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Aug 4 · The West African nation is preparing to import LNG under a long-term agreement with Shell which critics say Ghana doesn’t need and can’t afford.
A man bikes past a vendor selling football shirts in downtown Accra. (Photo credit: IMF Photo/Andrew Caballero-Reynolds)
For 15 years, John Gakpo has milled corn to make kenkey – a cornmeal dumpling and Ghana’s staple food – in a dimly lit wooden shack in a suburb of Accra, the country’s capital.
In the past, his earnings have been sufficient to provide for his family. But Gakpo is now struggling to make ends meet.
Once the poster child economy for West Africa, Ghana is suffering from its worst economic crisis in a ... | By Chloé Farand Read more ...
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Ghana’s gas curse – Climate Weekly - Climate Change News - Energy (Aug 4) |
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Aug 4 · A customer buys phone credit in Ghana (Photo credit: IMF/Andrew Caballero Reynolds)
Of all climate topics, the role of gas in Africa is among the most divisive.
Chloé Farand’s eye-opening report from Ghana adds to this debate by showing how ruinously expensive it can be to import shipped gas.
The heavily-indebted nation is planning a 17-year agreement with Shell to ship gas in through a new UK and German-backed terminal.
Critics describe this deal as a rope hanging around Ghana’s neck and ask why the government hasn’t learned its lessons from a previous bad gas deal.
That “take or pay contract” was signed when Ghana was ... | By Joe Lo Read more ...
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UK government bets on ‘pragmatic’ climate inaction ahead of election - Climate Change News - Energy (Aug 3) |
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Aug 3 · The government is cutting climate finance, backing oil production and opposing air pollution measures in an attempt to win next year’s election
UK prime minister Rishi Sunak visits a gas power plant in Scotland
The UK government led by Rishi Sunak has gone from indifference to hostile to climate measures in recent weeks, re-iterating its backing for oil production and polluting vehicles after previously cutting climate finance.
With a general election next year, the ruling Conservatives are consistently trailling the Labour Party in opinion polls and have ramped up their opposition to emissions-cutting measures in the hope of winning over climate-sceptic voters. | By Joe Lo Read more ...
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Pressure grows on governments and banks to stop supporting Amazon oil and gas - Climate Change News - Energy (Jul 25) |
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Jul 25 · An upcoming summit on protecting the Amazon has become the focus of a Indigenous and civil society-led campaign to set up an exclusion zone for fossil fuels
Campaigers say banning fossil fuel exploitation in the Amazon is essential to combat climate change, and to protect biodiversity and the Indigenous people that live there. (Photo: Anna&Michal)
South American nations and international financial institutions are coming under increasing pressure to stop exploiting oil and gas in the Amazon ahead of key political talks in Brazil.
Leaders will be meeting next month at the Amazon Summit in Belém, a city also due to host the Cop30 climate talks in 2025, to discuss the ... | By Isabella Kaminski Read more ...
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Pressure grows on governments and banks to stop supporting Amazon oil and gas - Climate Change News - Energy (Jul 25) |
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Jul 25 · An upcoming summit on protecting the Amazon has become the focus of a Indigenous and civil society-led campaign to set up an exclusion zone for fossil fuels
Campaigers say banning fossil fuel exploitation in the Amazon is essential to combat climate change, and to protect biodiversity and the Indigenous people that live there. (Photo: Anna&Michal)
South American nations and international financial institutions are coming under increasing pressure to stop exploiting oil and gas in the Amazon ahead of key political talks in Brazil.
Leaders will be meeting next month at the Amazon Summit in Belém, a city also due to host the Cop30 climate talks in 2025, to discuss the ... | By Isabella Kaminski Read more ...
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'Historic milestone’: Ecuador nears vote to keep Amazon oil on the ground - Climate Change News - Energy (Jul 10) |
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Jul 10 · Experts consulted by Climate Home News suggested the vote will define Ecuador’s economic model for the future.
Yasuní Park during the extraction of barrels of oil from Petroecuador. (Photo: Reuters / Latin America News Agency / Bolívar Parra)
The fate of the Yasuní rainforest, at the heart of the Ecuadorian Amazon, will be decided at the polls this August, when the South American nation votes on whether to leave large oil reserves found within Yasuní on the ground.
It is the first time that Ecuadorians will vote on an ecological issue of this magnitude. Experts consulted by Climate Home News said the referendum will define the economic model for the country’s ... | By Doménica Montaño Read more ...
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Threat of EU carbon tax prompts dubious “green aluminium” claims in Mozambique - Climate Change News - Energy (Jul 3) |
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Jul 3 · Mozambique’s biggest industry claims its aluminium is green, which would help it avoid European taxes – but those claims have been questioned
Bratsk aluminium smelting facility in Russia (Photo credit: UC Rusal/WikiCommons)
In the face of new carbon taxes on exports to the European Union (EU), Mozambique’s biggest industrial employer is making big claims about its hydro-powered “green aluminium”.
For years, policymakers in the European Union have worried that their heavy industries would flee abroad to escape taxes on carbon.
To try and avoid this, in 2021, the EU approved a tax on the carbon emissions that come from imports - ... | By Pamela Machado Read more ...
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Norway approves oil and gas fields despite Cop fossil phase-out push - Climate Change News - Energy (Jun 29) |
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Jun 29 · Despite pushing for a phase out of unabated fossil fuels, Norway claims its oil and gas are “essential to Europe’s energy security”
Greenpeace activists protest against the Siem Day oil equipment installation ship in Randaberg harbour (Photo: Greenpeace)
Norway’s government said on Wednesday it has given approval for oil companies to develop 19 oil and gas fields with investments exceeding $18.5 billion, part of the country’s strategy to extend production for decades to come.
The news comes six months after the Norwegian government pushed unsuccesfully at the Cop27 climate talks for an agreement to phase out unabated fossil fuels and ... | By Reuters and Joe Lo Read more ...
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Unfinished paperwork is kneecapping solar’s potential in China - Climate Change News - Energy (Jun 27) |
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Jun 27 · Heaps of new renewable energy are going up in China, but there’s more to an energy transition than hardware
A workers at Dafeng Power Station, whihc poduces electricity with solar and wind (Photo credit: Zhiyoung Fu/Greenpeace)
In recent years, China has installed a mind-blowing number of solar farms and hookied them up to big cities with giant electricity transmission lines. But there’s more to an energy transition than just that.
Just this year, China will install much more solar than it was doing just a few years ago and more, in one year, than the US has installed in its history. The growth in capacity will be huge.
But the percentage of ... | By August Rick and Gao Yuhe Read more ...
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Ahead of elections, Argentina’s leaders wrap fossil fuels in the flag - Climate Change News - Energy (Jun 20) |
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Jun 20 · Argentina’s political class is promoting fossil fuels as a patriotic national endeavour and demonising any environmentalists who oppose them
Gas workers wave the Argentine flag during the inauguration ceremony (Photo credit: Flavia Royon)
Argentina’s national oil company has begun to fill up a key gas pipeline on the country’s national flag day today, rushing to get the project completed on time to present it as a patriotic endeavour.
As the country gears up for election season, all the leading candidates and even some young environmentalists support the building of the Néstor Kirchner pipeline - a key piece of infrastructure that would allow for ... | By Julian Reingold Read more ...
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Colombia accuses Drummond coal mining exec of funding paramilitary group - Climate Change News - Energy (Jun 05, 2023) |
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Jun 05, 2023 · The current Colombia head of an American coal miner will face trial, accused of giving money to right-wing paramilitaries in the late nineties
Mining company Drummond President Jose Miguel Linares (REUTERS/John Vizcaino/File Photo)
The current Colombia head of coal miner Drummond Co Inc and his predecessor will be tried for allegedly funding right-wing paramilitaries, the country’s attorney general’s office said on Wednesday, as the U.S.-based company denied any wrongdoing by the executives.
There is “abundant proof” current head Jose Miguel Linares, who took up his post in 2013 after serving as vice-president of legal, and Augusto Jimenez, ... | By Reuters Read more ...
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“Green” finance bankrolls forest destruction in Indonesia - Climate Change News - Energy (Jun 01, 2023) |
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Jun 01, 2023 · Green funds have been spent cutting down trees for biomass to make electricity, decimating the traditional food sources of indigenous people
A Medco truck carries wood along a road between the forest and a clearing (Photo: Albertus Vembrianto)
Millions of dollars in green financing intended to help Indonesia reduce its carbon emissions have been invested in a project that is destroying rainforest in Papua.
The money has been used to help an Indonesian conglomerate, Medco Group construct a biomass power plant that makes electricity from burning wood.
Medco has already cleared large tracts of rainforest, establishing timber plantations in its ... | By The Gecko Project Read more ...
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Restrictions on energy firm’s borrowing complicates South Africa’s energy transition - Climate Change News - Energy (May 24, 2023) |
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May 24, 2023 · The South African government has told cash-strapped power company Eskom it can’t invest in new electricity generation
The Hendrina power station, pictured in 2018 (Photo credit: Ruth Sacco/Greenpeace)
The South African government’s restrictions on state-owned energy firm Eskom are complicating a coal to clean energy deal with rich nations, according to a leading official.
Joanne Yawitch leads the South African unit implementing its plan to switch from coal to clean energy, reporting to the office of president Cyril Ramaphosa.
She told South African website Oxpeckers that “a number of international financiers were making the assumption that ... | By Thabo Molekwa Read more ...
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Rich nations “understanding” of South African delay to coal plant closures - Climate Change News - Energy (May 22, 2023) |
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May 22, 2023 · Despite a multi-billion dollars clean energy transition deal, South Africa expects to keep coal plants running for longer while it battles electricity blackouts.
The Hendrina power station is among the coal plants expected to close under South Africa's JetP plans. Photo: Ruth Sacco/Greenpeace
Rich nations “understand” South Africa’s immediate need to keep coal power plants running for longer to tackle electric power cuts despite an $8.5 billion clean energy transition deal, a German government spokesperson told Climate Home.
But they warned the South African government should not row back from a clear commitment to cutting long-term ... | By Matteo Civillini Read more ...
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Regulator blocks Brazilian oil drilling, sparking conflict within government - Climate Change News - Energy (May 19, 2023) |
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May 19, 2023 · While President Lula’s environment minister Marina Silva supported the decision, Lula ally Randolfe Rodrigues vowed to oppose it
Environment minister Marina Silva and president Lula, pictured before taking office last year (Photo: Reuters/Adriano Machado)
A decision by Brazil’s environmental regulator to block state-owned oil company Petrobras’ Amazon oil project has exposed tensions in President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s coalition between those wanting to protect Brazil’s environment and those prioritising economic development at any cost.
Brazil’s environmental regulator Ibama, late on Wednesday, said it would block a request ... | By Reuters Read more ...
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France proposes tax credits for green technology - Climate Change News - Energy (May 17, 2023) |
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May 17, 2023 · France will spend €500m a year on tax credits for wind and solar power, heat pumps and batteries funded by a tax rise on carbon-intensive fuels
Sheep graze on a solar farm
The French government plans to budget half a billion euros annually for a new tax credit for environmentally-friendly investments as part of a bill presented on Tuesday to green the industrial sector, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said.
The tax credit makes France the first EU country to take advantage of a loosening of European state aid rules in recent months in response to new tax subsidies in the United States made available by the Biden administration’s $430 billion Inflation ... | By Reuters Read more ...
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Local business group tries to keep South Africa’s coal plants alive - Climate Change News - Energy (May 15, 2023) |
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May 15, 2023 · A business coalition in South Africa’s energy heartland is fighting against plans to shut down coal plants.
Hendrina coal power station (Photo credit: Dianah Chiyangwa)
Business interests in South Africa’s electricity capital want to keep coal-fired power plants running, despite government plans to phase out the fuel and concerns by some in the local communities.
The proposals of the local business association have gained support from local politicians and at least one executive in the state-run power company that currently operates the coal mines and come as South Africa’s electricity minister argues that coal plant closures should be delayed.
While ... | By Andiswa Matikinca Read more ...
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India mulls end to coal plant construction - Climate Change News - Energy (May 05, 2023) |
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May 05, 2023 · If approved by the cabinet, India’s new electricity policy would end the construction of new coal-fired power plants after the planned 28 GW are built
Chimneys of a coal-fired power plant are pictured in New Delhi, India, July 20, 2017. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi//File Photo
India plans to stop building new coal-fired power plants, apart from those already in the pipeline, by removing a key clause from the final draft of its National Electricity Policy (NEP), sources said.
The draft, if approved by the federal cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, would make China the only major economy open to fresh requests to add significant new coal-fired ... | By Reuters and Joe Lo Read more ...
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