The president of Cop28, Sultan Al Jaber, has claimed there is “no science” indicating that a phase-out of fossil fuels is needed to restrict global heating to 1.5C, the Guardian and the Centre for…
Dear Sultan Al Jaber,
As climate scientists, we welcome your commitment to develop at COP28 a real plan to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement. We know you have met many different Parties to…
The country hosting COP28 climate talks aimed at cutting fossil fuel emissions is massively ramping up its own oil production, the BBC has learned.
The United Arab Emirates' state oil firm Adnoc may…
Countries and oil companies at the UN climate talks have promised to make major progress in tackling global warming in a large new energy pledge.
Around 100 countries promised to treble world…
In the early hours of Friday in Dubai, a city surrounded by oil and gas plants, a draft text emerged at Cop28 that opened the possibility of phasing out all fossil fuels.
Other options are to “…
The oil and gas industry wants you to believe it can capture its emissions and keep drilling as usual. That’s no way to avert climate chaos
At the Cop28 climate conference taking place in Dubai, oil…
When Vietnam and a group of rich countries struck up a $15.5 billion energy transition deal nearly a year ago, they set out an enticing prospect: cheap financing would help the nation leave coal…
The fund designed to finance climate "loss and damage" in vulnerable countries was adopted on Thursday 30 November 2023, on the first day of the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28)…
As vice-president Tiémoko Meyliet Koné represents Ivory Coast at COP28, which opened in Dubai on Thursday 30 November 2023, a World Bank report makes it clear that the West African country is not…
The African Development Bank (AfDB) is providing around €43 million to improve access to drinking water, sanitation and hygiene in Burkina Faso. The financing approved on 21 November 2023 will…
The development of sustainable agriculture is one of the solutions to climate change in Morocco. This practice is supported by French Development Agency (AFD), which has just granted an €80 million…
In South Africa, the city of Cape Town is embarking on the extension of nine nature reserves and the creation of six new ones, with the aim of enhancing their ecological functions. The initiative…
Climate change is reducing the snowpack the mythic predators depend on for their dens, but resistance from resource extraction and recreation interests delayed Endangered Species Act protection.…
As food and agriculture take center stage, industry groups plan a full-on campaign to downplay the carbon impacts of meat and dairy.
By the end of the United Nations annual climate conference, going…
Sandy Pouncey survived a 2019 tornado that killed 23. Cut off from access to her storm shelter, she’s afraid of the sound of thunder.
BEAUREGARD, Ala.—She lay in the bathtub as her home shook around…
President Biden skipped the U.N. summit to campaign back home on clean energy investments, while Republicans called for more fossil fuels, even as U.S. oil production hits record highs.
President…
This year’s U.N. climate summit could be an especially important one as carbon emissions continue to reach historic highs, bringing the planet closer to critical tipping points.
More than 70,000…
A novel program reimburses landowners for replenishing groundwater, in a bid to add regularity to the state’s boom and bust water system.
In recent decades, as water has grown increasingly precious…
In an open letter to African heads of state and government, scientists have denounced a new scramble for oil, gas and coal on the continent, led by former colonial and neo-colonial powers.
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