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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
European mayors urge clampdown on diesel emissions
30 Mar 2016
The mayors of 20 European cities including Madrid, Paris and Copenhagen, but excluding London, have called for more stringent regulations to be put in place across the continent to tackle the deadly levels of air pollution caused by diesel vehicles.
Nuclear fusion needs a Wright brothers moment
30 Mar 2016
Nuclear fusion needs a “Wright brothers” moment, to convince the world of its promise of unlimited clean and safe energy and so unlock significant private investment, according to a physicist whose says his company is closing in on that goal.
China puts a chill on new wind energy projects
30 Mar 2016
The Chinese government has halted the expansion of wind power in its northern provinces where a large number of turbines are churning out power that's being wasted. The move underscores the challenges facing China as it works to fulfill its clean energy ambitions.
Rockefellers divesting from fossil fuels
29 Mar 2016
The Rockefeller Family Fund - yes, those Rockefellers - just announced that it’s divesting from fossil fuels, saying “we must keep most of the already discovered reserves in the ground if there is any hope for human and natural ecosystems to survive and thrive in the decades ahead.”
Greener trucks and buses on the move
29 Mar 2016
Low gasoline prices and continuing performance issues have slowed the growth of electric car sales. But that has not stymied progress in electrifying larger vehicles, including garbage trucks, city buses, and medium-sized trucks used by freight giants like FedEx.
After 115 years, Scotland is coal-free
29 Mar 2016
The Longannet power station, the last and largest coal-fired power plant in Scotland, has ceased operations.What once was the largest coal plant in Europe shut down after 46 years before the eyes of workers and journalists, who gathered in the main control room.
Rooftop solar booms in Japan
29 Mar 2016
Japan’s home rooftops are emerging as the next hot spot in what for years has been one of the biggest solar markets in the world, marking a move beyond the utility-scale projects in rich industrial nations that have fueled most of the industry’s growth.
Climate v primate: Dawn of extinction?
29 Mar 2016
A new study finds that every single primate species will be adversely affected by rising temperatures and changing rainfall levels.
US faces floods of climate refugees
24 Mar 2016
New research warns that more than 13 million American citizens could be at risk of being forced to move away from vulnerable coastal zones because of sea level rise.
What will Turnbull’s $1b energy fund actually do?
24 Mar 2016
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has announced the creation of a A$1 billion Clean Energy Innovation Fund, to be jointly managed by the Clean Energy Finance Corporation and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency.
European clean-tech industry falls into rapid decline
24 Mar 2016
Europe’s once world-beating clean technology industry has fallen into a rapid decline, with investment in low-carbon energy last year plummeting to its lowest level in a decade.
Michael Sheen backs Welsh anti-fracking film
24 Mar 2016
Actor Michael Sheen has given his support to an anti-fracking film opposing shale gas drilling in the Welsh village of Pontrhydyfen, Richard Burton’s birth place.
Bank of England warns of growing climate risks
23 Mar 2016
The financial impacts of climate change could hit global markets hard and at any time, a senior Bank of England official has warned.
Coal plants use as much water as a billion people
23 Mar 2016
Coal power plants use enough water to supply the needs of 1 billion people and that will almost double if all the world’s planned power plants come online.
China plans 22% boost for wind power capacity
23 Mar 2016
China plans to increase total wind power capacity by 22 percent in 2016, underscoring the government’s effort to develop clean energy at about the same pace as last year’s record installations.
Germany mulls 95% cut in emissions by 2050
23 Mar 2016
Germany is drawing up an action plan to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 95% from 1990 levels by 2050.
Apple hits 93% renewable energy worldwide
23 Mar 2016
Tech giant Apple has announced that 93 per cent of its facilities globally run on clean energy.
Current heat shocking even climate scientists
22 Mar 2016
“Stunning,” “wow,” “shocker,” “bombshell,” “astronomical,” “insane,”“unprecedented” – these are some of the words climate scientists have used to describe the record-shattering global surface temperatures in February.
Carbon emission release rate ‘unprecedented’
22 Mar 2016
Humanity is pumping climate-warming carbon dioxide into the atmosphere 10 times faster than at any point in the past 66m years, according to new research.
Can we stamp out environmental crime?
22 Mar 2016
More lucrative and less risky than many traditional criminal activities, environmental crime is growing largely unchecked.
Aust emissions rising and underestimated, says report
22 Mar 2016
The latest federal government carbon emissions inventory shows Australia has increased its emissions and has come under fire for allegedly vastly underestimating the amount of land clearing that has occurred, and its associated emissions.
How the world has changed since Paris
21 Mar 2016
National leaders have yet to sign a new United Nations climate pact, but developments during the three months since the Paris Agreement was finalised have been feverish.
US concern about climate change at eight-year high
21 Mar 2016
Americans are taking climate change more seriously than at any time in the past eight years, according to several measures in Gallup's annual environment poll.
Security, not climate, drives military's energy push
21 Mar 2016
The United States military wants to improve its energy efficiency and increase its use of renewables to enhance energy security, military leaders said.The environment, they said, is a lesser concern.
UN envoy warns of activist murder ‘epidemic’
21 Mar 2016
The killings of indigenous activists in Honduras signal a growing “epidemic” around the world, a UN envoy has declared.
Renewable energy surge stalls gas emissions
18 Mar 2016
Falling coal use in China and the US and a worldwide shift towards renewable energy have kept greenhouse gas emissions level for a second year running, one of the world’s leading energy analysts has said.
World’s top private coal company faces bankruptcy
18 Mar 2016
Peabody Energy, the largest US coal miner, has warned it could struggle to stay afloat and may look for bankruptcy protection.
Australian rainforests no longer a carbon sink – study
Fri 17 Oct 2025
Australia's tropical rainforests are among the first in the world to start emitting more carbon dioxide than they absorb, scientists said Thursday, linking the "very concerning" trend to climate change.
Climate scientists and republican lawyers are taking aim at Big Tech’s emissions
Fri 17 Oct 2025
Technology companies have long been one of the biggest investors in clean energy, but new accounting rules could upend that.
In China, climate litigation starts with the state
Thu 16 Oct 2025
With thousands of dedicated courts and more than a million recent cases, environmental and climate litigation is booming in China, but it often looks different to the trend seen elsewhere.
'Not up for discussion': Brussels rejects Washington's pressure on climate rules
Mon 13 Oct 2025
In response to US demands to roll back the EU's environmental legislation, the European Commission defended its autonomous power to adopt laws.
Government told to prepare for 2C warming by 2050
Thu 16 Oct 2025
The UK should be prepared to cope with weather extremes as a result of at least 2C of global warming by 2050, independent climate advisers have said.
Renewables are a global economic engine, not a culture war threat
2 Oct 2025
Energy companies are learning this lesson faster than Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.
Indonesia restarts international carbon trade after four years
Fri 17 Oct 2025
Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto has issued a new decree to restart international carbon emission trading after a four year hiatus.
Familiar tensions emerge at the Pacific Islands Forum
26 Sep 2025
With China-Taiwan rivalry, China-Western competition, and big carbon emitters at odds with the islands on climate policy, there is plenty of tension to go around.
Scientists discovered something alarming seeping out from beneath the ocean around Antarctica
Mon 13 Oct 2025
Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed as the region warms, with new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing rate".
Angola lowers climate ambition in blow to spirit of Paris Agreement
Tue 14 Oct 2025
Angola has scaled back its targets for reducing emissions in its new national climate plan, saying it chose “realism and implementability” over the Paris Agreement's calls for governments to set progressively more ambitious goals.
Four Brazilians to watch at COP30
Wed 15 Oct 2025
Influential Brazilians, from government figures to Indigenous activists, will take center stage during UN climate talks in the Amazon next month.
UN agency says CO2 levels hit record high last year, causing more extreme weather
Fri 17 Oct 2025
Heat-trapping carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere jumped by the highest amount on record last year, soaring to a level not seen in human civilisation and “turbo-charging” the Earth’s climate and causing more extreme weather.
