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Sanders calls for ban on fracking
14 Apr 2016
Bernie Sanders, campaigning across New York State, called for a nationwide ban on fracking.
Saudi creating $2tn wealth fund by selling oil assets
13 Apr 2016
Saudi Arabia will end its dependence on fossil fuels by creating the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund from selling shares in a state oil company.
China, Japan, US leading solar energy boom
13 Apr 2016
The boom in solar energy development across the United States in recent years is part of a worldwide phenomenon.
Global warming changing how Earth wobbles
13 Apr 2016
Global warming is shifting the way the Earth wobbles on its polar axis, a new NASA study finds.
Could this be a fair dinkum climate policy for Australia?
12 Apr 2016
An Australian think-tank claims to have done the impossible – come up with an effective climate policy that both sides of the political divide can live with.
WANTED: Women in charge to take up climate issues
12 Apr 2016
Women working in financial services are opening a new front in the battle against climate change, with the launch of a UN-backed initiative to take global warming concerns into business boardrooms.
How insect farms could spawn a food revolution
12 Apr 2016
With meat prices expected to soar, agricultural entrepreneurs believe invertebrate livestock can provide the protein we need. But will the mainstream ever be ready to eat mealworms?
Ratification critical test for Paris climate deal
12 Apr 2016
The recent fuss over who will sign the UN’s new climate pact is a distraction. The real test will come when countries have to pass the deal into domestic law
Israel to slash emissions by 26%
12 Apr 2016
Israel has announced plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 26 per cent.
To help to curb climate change, stop wasting food
12 Apr 2016
Reducing food waste around the world would help to curb emissions of planet-warming gases, lessening some of the impacts of climate change such as more extreme weather and rising seas, scientists said in a new study.
How big oil spends millions on obstructing climate change
11 Apr 2016
ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, and three oil-industry groups together spend $115 million a year on advocacy designed to “obstruct” climate change policy, according to new estimates released by Influence Map, a British nonprofit research organisation.
Clouds could mean climate crisis worse than we think
11 Apr 2016
Climate change projections have vastly underestimated the role that clouds play, meaning future warming could be far worse than is currently projected, according to new research.
Pressure builds in EU on climate disclosure for investors
11 Apr 2016
Pressure is building on global regulators and the European Commission to “stress-test” portfolios of large institutional investors against long-term objectives to reduce climate change, in a move that could shift billions in investment away from fossil fuels.
Banks pledge $7bn for clean-energy investment
11 Apr 2016
A group of eight banks and investors pledged $7 billion to join Bank of America Corp’s initiative that plans to raise at least $10 billion for investments in clean energy and sustainable development.
Renewables grew at record pace last year
11 Apr 2016
Installations of renewable power plants registered their biggest leap on record last year as costs tumbled, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency.
China green bonds market to reach $46bn in 2016
8 Apr 2016
China’s green bonds market will reach $46 billion)this year, according to one of the country’s leading economists.
Panasonic unveils ‘smart town’ plan in Japan
8 Apr 2016
Japanese electronics giant Panasonic has launched the concept plans for a new ‘smart town’ that will be built in the city of Yokohama.
Kerry calls for climate action from private sector
8 Apr 2016
US Secretary of State John Kerry has called on businesses to drop fossil fuels to combat climate change and boost global economic growth.
CSIRO cuts were about making money, emails show
7 Apr 2016
The CSIRO’s decision to sack about 120 climate scientists was motivated by an intention to move some of the organisation’s focus from science done in the public good, like climate change, toward science that makes money, internal emails suggest.
Weather men want to do CSIRO climate work
7 Apr 2016
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology has offered to save climate research that CSIRO plans to axe under a plan that would see long-term programnes and dozens of jobs transfer between the two national science agencies.
Vancouver chases crown as world's greenest city crown
7 Apr 2016
Vancouver wants to be the greenest city in the world - and it’s given itself until 2020 to do it.
Belgium ends era with closure of last coal plant
7 Apr 2016
Belgium has losed its last coal power plant, marking the end of an era for a dirty fuel that accounted for 27 per cent of the country’s electricity generation in 1994. The EU country becomes the seventh to quit coal, joining Cyprus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg and Malta.
Countries show how to grow GDP while cutting emissions
7 Apr 2016
Twenty-one counties have expanded their economies while slashing carbon emissions over the past 15 years. Nearly all are European, bar the United States and Uzbekistan.
Climate change threat to public health worse than polio
7 Apr 2016
Climate change poses a serious danger to public health – worse than polio in some respects – and will strike especially hard at pregnant women, children, low-income people and communities of color, an authoritative US government report warns.
Hyundai green cars to take on Toyota
6 Apr 2016
Hyundai Motor Group, which comprises Hyundai and Kia, believes that launching a blitz of 26 green models through 2020 could place the Korean automaker among the leaders in the segment. Only Toyota would be larger in the electrified vehicle market if Hyundai's plan works.
Carbon capture needs massive investment
6 Apr 2016
Combating climate change successfully will require massive investments in technologies to capture and store carbon dioxide, new research has found.
Burma finds cheap coal hard to ignore
6 Apr 2016
Burma's new government is set to mushroom coal’s share of its energy mix, despite manifesto pledges to boost clean energy and cut air pollution.
Labour MP: Leaving overstayers here will help sinking islands
5 Apr 2016
New Zealand should let overstayers from Pacific countries which are becoming uninhabitable stay here, says Labour’s Pacific climate change spokesperson.
Meet the top 10 cleantech innovators
5 Apr 2016
Bloomberg New Energy Finance has announced its selection of 10 leading companies for energy technology and business transformation.
Orders for Tesla 3 surpass $10 billion
5 Apr 2016
If Elon Musk was delighted by the 115,000 orders for his Tesla Model 3 at launch, he should be positively jubilant with the latest figures which break the $10 billion mark.
Big names call for British Museum to drop BP
5 Apr 2016
Almost 100 prominent figures from the arts, science and politics are calling on the new director of the British Museum to drop BP as a commercial sponsor.
Hawaii utility sets 100% renewable target
5 Apr 2016
Hawaiian Electric hopes to have the Big Island reaching 100 per cent renewable energy by the year 2040, 10 years behind Molokai and Lânai and five years ahead of the statewide goal of 2045.
VW to spend big on cleaner trucks
5 Apr 2016
Volkswagen’s truck division will spend about half a billion euros by the end of the decade to enhance digital features of heavy-goods vehicles as truckmakers increase their focus on automation in road haulage.
Australia records hottest March ever
4 Apr 2016
March was the hottest on record in Australia, reaching 1.7degC above the long-term average, says the Bureau of Meteorology.
Tesla releases electric car for the masses
4 Apr 2016
Tesla Motors' unveiling of its new electric vehicle on Friday had the marks of an iPhone release - long lines of enthusiastic consumers, a glossy product and a CEO presenting in a simple black shirt.
New coal project will fall short on jobs promise
4 Apr 2016
A contentious coal project will generate less than a fifth of the jobs the mining company first claimed when seeking approval from the Queensland government, the state land court has heard.
Mexico City orders cars off the street
4 Apr 2016
The Mexico City government has ordered all cars to stay off the city's roads for one day a week in response the capital’s severe air-quality crisis.
US and China agree to sign Paris climate accord
1 Apr 2016
The United States and China will sign the Paris climate change agreement in New York on April 22, a move that officials hope will help the accord enter into force this year.
PNG logs first official climate plan under Paris pact
1 Apr 2016
The United Nations has launched a new website to track national climate action plans as part of the Paris Agreement.
Rapid decline of coal use leads to drop in UK emissions
1 Apr 2016
Plummeting coal use in 2015 led to a fall of 4% in the UK’s annual carbon dioxide emissions, according to government energy statistics published on Thursday. Coal is now burning at its lowest level in at least 150 years.
Top US attorneys step up probe into oil major ‘fraud’
1 Apr 2016
US oil and gas majors face investigation from 17 attorney generals into claims they misled the public over the impacts of climate change.
Hundreds of UK churches set to go green
1 Apr 2016
More than 400 churches in the United Kingdom plan to switch to clean energy providers for their light and heat, shifting spending of $1.4 million to renewables from fossil fuels.
Nevada plant first with solar-geothermal mix
1 Apr 2016
Nevada is home to the world's first hybrid power plant that combines geothermal energy with two different types of solar power.
Does it help when companies track carbon emissions?
31 Mar 2016
Voluntary greenhouse gas accounting has become common in the private sector, but is it helping?
Storing carbon could help to meet climate goals
31 Mar 2016
Australia's agricultural lands help to feed about 60 million people worldwide, and also support tens of thousands of farmers as well as rural communities and industries.
Tesla might have to fight courts for direct sales
31 Mar 2016
Tesla Motors hopes to capture mainstream auto buyers with its Model 3, an electric car it plans to unveil this week at a price about the same as the average gasoline-powered vehicle, but it might need a federal court ruling to succeed.
Arctic melt hits another record low
31 Mar 2016
The amount of ice in the Arctic during the depths of winter's freeze hit record lows for the second consecutive year, escalating concerns that sea ice is melting at an alarming rate.
Aussie offices race to go green
30 Mar 2016
More than three million square metres of Australia’s office space is officially green.
New-energy investments reach major milesone
30 Mar 2016
Coal and gas-fired electricity generation last year drew less than half the record investment made in solar, wind and other renewables capacity - one of several important firsts for green energy recently announced in a United Nations-backed report.
Science says US is drilling for earthquakes
30 Mar 2016
Scientists are increasingly confident about the link between earthquakes and oil and gas production, yet regulators are slow to react
500 Australian businesses back 75% climate target
Today 10:46am
Atlassian, Canva and Fortescue are among a coalition of more than 500 businesses operating in Australia that are backing a 75% emissions reduction target for 2030, which modelling from Deloitte found was technically achievable.
Ørsted shares at all-time low after Trump halts work on US windfarm
Today 10:46am
Shares drop by 17% after stop-work order on $1.5bn project off Rhode Island, which was 80% complete.
China's carbon market to introduce absolute emissions caps from 2027
Today 10:46am
China will tighten its carbon trading market by introducing absolute emissions caps in some industries for the first time starting by 2027.
EU wildfires hit new record as flames scorch area larger than Cyprus
Mon 25 Aug 2025
The area burned this year has exceeded the 1 million hectare mark for the first time since records started in 2006.
What happens to net zero if the trees don’t survive?
20 Aug 2025
When climate change undermines the climate plan.
Challenges persist in bid to mine the deep sea, even after boost from Trump
29 Jul 2025
After years of delay, the deep-sea mining plans of Canadian firm The Metals Company (TMC) now appear to be progressing as it pursues a controversial new path to securing a license to mine in international waters under U.S. jurisdiction.
India needs $467 billion climate finance by 2030 to decarbonise 4 key sectors
Mon 25 Aug 2025
India will need to mobilise USD $467 billion in climate finance by 2030 to put four of its most carbon-intensive sectors – power, steel, cement and transport – on a low-carbon pathway.
Rise in dengue fever outbreaks across the Pacific driven by the climate crisis, experts say
13 Aug 2025
Samoa, Fiji and Tonga among the worst affected amid warning the disease and others will become ‘more common and more serious’ as the planet warms.
Iconic Antarctic species at risk amid 'regime shift', with 'rapid and self-perpetuating changes'
Fri 22 Aug 2025
Scientists say there is emerging evidence of abrupt and potentially unstoppable changes in the Antarctic environment.
Africa’s top climate change challenges: a fairer deal on phasing out fossil fuels and mobilising funds
Fri 22 Aug 2025
African countries have made binding commitments to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. To do this, they will need to shift to renewable energy and stop mining and using fossil fuels like oil and coal.
Amazon nations pledge support for Brazil's COP30 rainforest fund
Today 10:46am
The fund will be backed by an initial, one-time $25-billion contribution from donor nations, along with $100 billion in private funds.
Brazil issues last-ditch plea for countries to submit climate plans ahead of COP30
20 Aug 2025
Only 28 countries have submitted carbon-cutting proposals to the UN, with some of the biggest emitters yet to produce plans.
