A green transition that leaves no one behind’: world leaders release open letter
We are urgently working to deliver more for people and the planet. Multiple, overlapping shocks have strained countries’ ability to address hunger, poverty, and inequality, build resilience and invest in their futures.
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Barbados PM fights for shake-up of global climate finance
World leaders meeting in Paris on Thursday could give poorer countries access to hundreds of billions of dollars to tackle climate change.
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Vast fossil fuel and farming subsidies causing ‘environmental havoc’
Trillions of dollars of subsidies for fossil fuels, farming and fishing are causing “environmental havoc”, according to the World Bank, severely harming people and the planet.
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$5.9bn and rising: Snowy 2.0 wrestles with delays and budget blowouts
On a wintry afternoon in the Snowy Mountains town of Cooma a month ago, about a dozen officials from Snowy Hydro, its Future Generation partners and unions huddled in a meeting room to take stock of the much-delayed Snowy 2.0 project.
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No time to waste’: getting Australian homes off gas crucial for meeting net zero targets, report says
Getting households off gas for heating and cooking would cut energy bills and improve people’s health, and is necessary for Australia to have any hope of reaching net zero greenhouse emissions by 2050, a new analysis says.
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Revealed: documents detail key players behind vast Australian fossil fuel expansion
In early 2022 the lobbying firm Dragoman met its client, the Northern Territory government, to discuss how to convince the federal government to support a vast new port and manufacturing hub in Darwin.
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Gas stoves emit benzene levels above secondhand smoke, US study finds
Using a gas stove can raise indoor concentrations of benzene, a cancer-linked chemical, to above what is found in secondhand smoking or even beyond levels found next to oil and gas facilities, a new study has found.
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The no-wash movement: would you wear underpants for a week without cleaning them?
Do you need to wash your T-shirts after every wear? Probably not. What about your knickers? That depends. But more and more people are eschewing detergent to save time, money and the environment
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Debt relief urgent for poor countries hit by climate shocks, says IMF chief
Poor countries hit by climate disaster should not be forced to struggle with crippling debt payments, the head of the International Monetary Fund has urged before a global summit on climate finance.
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France to shut down climate protest group citing public safety risks
The French government is to shut down a climate protest group over a series of recent demonstrations citing risks to public safety, as the environmental activists called the decision “political and particularly worrying”.
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‘I still can’t get over the fact we did it’: what it felt like to seal historic Cop15 deal
Six months ago, nearly every government in the world came together to agree this decade’s global biodiversity targets.
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Gaia And The Climate Emergency
Amid the doom-laden exhortations to change our ways, let us remember that we are striving to create a more beautiful world, and not sustain, with growing sacrifice, the current one. We are not just seeking to survive.
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Horse Hill: Future of UK fossil fuels at stake in test case
The latest step in a woman's legal fight over a Surrey oil drilling permit has concluded. Sarah Finch's lawyers told the Supreme Court that planning authorities should have considered the climate impacts of burning the oil, not just extracting it.
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ESA backs Greek firms’ and universities’ CubeSats
Seven CubeSat missions that demonstrate a variety of services including connectivity and secure communications are being developed by small and medium-sized companies and universities in Greece, following an open call and selection by ESA.
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Amazon, hydrogen, batteries and floating solar: is this offshore wind's ultimate multi-tasker?
It is co-built by an oil giant, has Amazon as a customer, will be tapped for green hydrogen and share its seaspace with solar – Hollandse Kust North (HKN) could be offshore wind’s most versatile project so far.
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'World's most beautiful island' to get pioneering offshore solar power
Malaysia is set to trial offshore floating solar off its coast for the first time under a link-up between the Asian nation’s largest utility and sector pioneer SolarDuck.
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A wealth tax could help poorer countries tackle climate crisis, economists say
Tax extreme wealth to pay for the climate-related damage to the poorest, a group of more than 100 leading economists have urged.
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Australia’s transition away from fossil fuels ‘not fast enough’ as wind and solar investment lags
Australia’s transition away from fossil fuels is not proceeding fast enough with too few investments in wind and solar farms, according to the head of the Australian Energy Market Operator.
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The west has broken its promises to developing countries – and we’re all paying the price
Broken promises, missed opportunities and a failure to see the bigger picture: that’s the story of the west’s approach to developing countries in recent years.
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Power companies spend millions to fight Maine’s proposed non-profit utility
Residents in Maine are about to be bombarded with a multimillion-dollar public relations campaign aimed at saving the state’s two dominant electric utilities from being voted out of existence in November.
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