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EU’s new ESG ratings framework will be major overhaul

The EC’s proposal for regulating ESG ratings companies will bring about the biggest change the previously unregulated market has ever seen.

No investment in new coal, oil, natural gas should be made: IEA

A Drop in Emissions, and a Jobs Bonanza? Critics Question Benefits of a Proposed Hydrogen Hub for the Appalachian Region

The potential gains for Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio have not been clearly spelled out, and the science is being challenged, as the Department of Energy prepares to announce the builders of six to 10 federally funded hubs across the country. PITTSBURGH—As the federal government

Fossil Fuel Companies Made Bold Promises to Capture Carbon. Here’s What Actually Happened.

A DeSmog review of 12 large-scale projects reveals a litany of cost-overruns and missed targets, with a net increase in emissions.

Biden is touting hydrogen as a source of clean energy and West Virginia officials want in. Here’s what to know about hydrogen hubs

Here’s the difference between “green hydrogen” vs “blue hydrogen,” what a major hydrogen hub means for West Virginia, and whether it could bring jobs to the state.

Will Asia’s food shortages be exacerbated by new Global Biofuels Alliance, with crops diverted?

Policies and subsidies for crops to boost the use of biofuels and advance associated technology may cause food supply issues, say analysts

Why Asia needs to reduce oil dependency – but how to fund clean energy transition?

With oil prices rising, there is good reason – besides fossil fuel-induced climate change – for import-heavy Asia to slash oil consumption

Dark clouds ahead as Indonesia’s emissions surge from Asia’s need for data centres, Singapore’s offshore push

Pollution woes are hampering Indonesia’s economic ambitions as more tech firms seek vast spaces for energy-intensive data centres across Asia

‘We’re not doomed yet’: climate scientist Michael Mann on our last chance to save human civilisation

The renowned US scientist’s new book examines 4bn years of climate history to conclude we are in a ‘fragile moment’ but there is still time to act

Thousands of salmon escaped an Icelandic fish farm. The impact could be deadly

Aquaculture is bringing jobs and money to rural regions, but a huge escape of farmed fish in August could devastate local salmon populations

The hottest summer in human history – a visual timeline

From June to August 2023, a series of extreme weather events exacerbated by climate breakdown caused death and destruction across the globe

How a thinktank got the cost of net zero for the UK wildly wrong

Civitas’s deeply flawed report was timed to follow the PM’s speech in which he called for an honest approach to the issue

Activists stage Rosebank oilfield protest outside offices of Labour frontbench

Party urged to commit to revoking licence for site in North Sea and back comprehensive Green New Deal

Biden to sell three oil and gas leases over five years, angering climate advocates

Administration releases plan, which represents lowest number of lease sales since 1980, but is still set to increase oil production

‘Watching extinction in real time’: conservationists losing hope for Australia’s swift parrot if logging continues

Experts predict there will be fewer than 100 individuals of the species by 2031 as the rate of decline in population grows faster

‘You’ve got to be data-driven’: the fashion forecasters using AI to predict the next trend

Artificial intelligence can help predict style crazes, shape collections and help the environment by cutting waste material

‘We felt so betrayed’: Indigenous tribe reels after exclusion from US marine sanctuary

The Chumash tribe had advocated for California’s central coast to be protected, but a draft management plan left out the stretch they had hoped would be protected

Weatherwatch: UK needs fludders and drookit to describe changing climate

These Scottish words can help widen our vocabulary as extreme weather becomes more common

How lobbying has stalled climate action

Since outright denial of the crisis is an untenable position, other tactics have been employed

Amid the battle of Xi Jinping and Joe Biden, a new global order struggles to take shape

While the US and China vie for supremacy, smaller countries, championed by Barbados PM Mia Mottley, are speaking out on key challenges of climate, poverty and migration