‘Absolute scandal’: UAE state oil firm able to read Cop28 climate summit emails
Exclusive: UN conference president Sultan Al Jaber is also head of oil firm, which was consulted on how to respond to…
As Germany’s 2045 climate neutrality target looms, the government is launching a multi-billion euro ‘Carbon Contracts for Difference’ scheme to help bridge the investment gap between clean tech and…
Canada’s ongoing wildfire season is a harbinger of our climate future, experts and officials say.
The fires are a “really clear sign of climate change”, said Mohammadreza Alizadeh, a researcher at…
The city of Hiroshima has played an important role in almost every aspect of the global movement to stop the spread of nuclear weapons and to proscribe their use. But as the recent G7 meeting of…
The future of fossil fuels – the leading source of planet-heating emissions – will face scrutiny at UN climate negotiations Monday (5 June) with an under-fire Emirati oil chief poised to step into…
Rich countries are signing a “death sentence” for millions of poor people around the world by failing to phase out fossil fuels, the climate activist Greta Thunberg has told governments.
France has made energy sufficiency – the deliberate reduction of energy consumption – one of the three pillars of its decarbonisation strategy, alongside nuclear and renewables. However, Brussels and…
When I was in primary school my favourite Baby-Sitters Club member was Dawn Schafer, the environmental crusader. This was the 1990s, when we were all very concerned about CFCs and other greenhouse…
We often say “It depends” when we are expected to answer with “yes or no” to a complex question. As with the majority of the choices in life, there is not a “one-fits-all” miracle solution. The same…
An ad campaign by Shell promoting its green initiatives has been banned for not telling consumers that most of its business is based on environmentally damaging fossil fuels such as petrol.
Large household appliances will have to be transported almost entirely using reuseable packaging by 2030, according to the European Commission’s proposed packaging waste law, a move widely questioned…
Can we achieve the Green Deal without protecting nature? Simply put, no – it is as central to the energy strategy as it is to meeting environmental goals, write Noor Yafai and Kristian Ruby.
Noor…
In the face of glaring evidence for stepping up actions against climate change for our future generations, learning for sustainability is still in its infancy. The results of a global survey indicate…
Achieving the green transition requires rapid and large-scale investment from cities, national governments and the private sector acting in unison, writes Mark Watts.
Mark Watts is the executive…
Belgium and Ireland expressed support for tighter environmental regulations on private jets on Thursday (1 June) at a gathering of EU transport ministers, joining a push led by Austria, France, and…
After a rocky start to a week of negotiations, around 170 countries agreed to develop a first draft by November of what could become the first global treaty to curb plastic pollution by the end of…
From owls to hedgehogs to fungi, genetic material from plants and animals is being inadvertently hoovered up by air-quality monitoring stations around the world, creating an untapped “vault of…
Every year countries pledge to cut their greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to curb the impacts of climate change.
But still global temperatures keep rising.
Just last month, scientists…
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