Search Results | e-mc2.gr

EU agrees deal to cut emissions from homes and buildings

New buildings must be zero-emission and have solar panels by 2030, and fossil fuel boilers to be banned by 2040

‘It’s kind of gross but we can do it’: How a community learned to go zero waste

When Alexandre Garcin dreamed up Zero-Waste Roubaix, it wasn’t sustainability he wanted to tackle, but the litter problem that plagued his city.

Beach? Shopping? Sleep? How Cop28 spent its rest day

From the world’s largest waterpark to an indoor ski resort in a shopping centre, Cop28 delegates will have plenty of options to choose from on their only day off at the clima

A knife-edge quest: Lord of the Rings resonates at Cop28 climate summit

Back in the 1960s, no self-respecting hippy would be seen dead without a well-thumbed copy of the Lord of the Rings. Along with a copy of Sgt Pepper and the Tibetan Book of the Dead, it came to epitomise the counterculture.

Cop28! No prizes for guessing how it is turning out

I’m still recovering from the glittering spectacle of Cop27

My generation can’t wait any longer for climate action – and Europe could hold the key

Something flipped last summer in both the visibility of the climate crisis and in the space the media devotes to it.

UK bans giant rhubarb after study finds popular garden plant is invasive species

With its dramatic leaves and sprawling structure, the giant rhubarb has long been a popular garden plant, gracing the grounds of stately homes and multiple National Trust properties.

After Cop28, know this: Sunak and his rightwing allies around the world have no interest in saving our planet

Not only did Rishi Sunak spend more time travelling to Cop28 on his private jet than attending the conference itself, he also delivered a

Cop28: highlights and lowlights so far

A summary of some of the news from the first half of the Cop28 UN climate conference in Dubai, including a spectacular row about the host president’s remarks on the science o

Cop28 diary: video games, solar-powered yachts and colossal fossils

Game on: Dubai police get creative One of the strangest tie-ins to the climate conference must be the Cop28 Adventures mobile game that was

Talks at Cop28 set to intensify in bid to break impasse over fossil fuels

Negotiations on how the world can slash greenhouse gas emissions and stave off the worst impacts of the climate crisis will reach a fresh inte

At least 475 carbon-capture lobbyists attending Cop28

Cop28 organisers granted attendance to at least 475 lobbyists working on carbon capture and storage (CCS), unproven technologies that climate scientists say

We need power to prescribe climate policy, IPCC scientists say

Senior climate experts are calling for an overhaul of the structure and powers of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in despair at the slow pace of climate action.

Mary Robinson reiterates call for rapid phase-out of fossil fuels

Mary Robinson, the former president of Ireland, has called for a rapid phase-out of fossil fuels, in a diplomatic but firm response to the row over comments made to her by the Cop28 president, which were

$700m pledged to loss and damage fund at Cop28 covers less than 0.2% needed

Wealthy countries most responsible for the climate emergency have so far pledged a combined total of just over $700m (£556m) to the loss and damage fund – the equivalent of less than 0.2% of the irreversible economic and non-economic losses developing countries are facing from global heating ever

Cop28: UN climate chief warns nations not to ‘fall into the trap of point-scoring’

Countries negotiating at Cop28 must not fall into the trap of point-scoring and “lowest common denominator politics”, Simon Stiell, the UN’s climate chief, has said.<

Climate funding must be faster and easier, says deputy PM of flood-hit Somalia

Funding to support vulnerable countries to repair the irreversible damage caused by the climate crisis needs to be fast tracked and easy to access, Somalia’s deputy prime minister has said.

‘This may be our last chance’: Cop28 talks enter final phase

The next few days could be the world’s last chance of keeping global heating within safe limits, nations meeting for the Cop28 UN climate summit <

‘Getting away with murder?’: European Oil and Gas majors’ 2022 emissions alone could cause at least 360,000 temperature-related premature deaths before 2100

Dubai – An estimated 360,000 people could die prematurely before the end of the century because of global heating caused by the 2022 greenhouse gas emissions of nine major European oil and gas companies alone, according to a Greenpeace Netherlands study.[1]

Airline adverts banned over 'greenwashing' claims

Adverts for Air France, Lufthansa and Etihad have been banned for misleading consumers about the airlines' environmental impact.