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E-bikes schemes get a boost in Ireland and Denver
26 Oct 2022
A recent report revealed that the New Zealand government has subsidised Tesla drivers to the tune of $30 million so far this year as part of it clean car discount scheme. In contrast the owners of the most popular electric vehicle on our roads, e-bikes, have received nada.
EU countries agree to hike climate change target next year
26 Oct 2022
European Union countries agreed on Monday to raise their target to curb greenhouse gas emissions under the Paris climate agreement next year, as the bloc attempts to rally ambition among major emitters ahead of this year's U.N. climate talks.
Deforestation slowed last year — but not enough to meet climate goals
26 Oct 2022
Countries are failing to meet international targets to stop global forest loss and degradation by 2030, according to a report. It is the first to measure progress since world leaders set the targets last year at the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, UK.
Ukraine reconstruction must steer clear of energies that allowed Putin to thrive: opinion
26 Oct 2022
Fossil gas and nuclear energy projects should be excluded from talks about Ukraine’s post-war reconstruction opening tomorrow in Berlin, writes Svitlana Romanko.
The hard truth about carbon emissions
26 Oct 2022
Scientists and researchers admit despair at the failure of politicians to deliver meaningful climate emission reductions.
Climate change threatens emperor penguins with extinction: US officials
26 Oct 2022
It is the only animal that dares to breed during the Antarctic winter. It endures gale-force winds and freezing temperatures to lay and protect a single egg.
Weekend of protests in Europe, from energy to Iran
25 Oct 2022
Thousands of protesters gathered across Europe over the weekend to protest over energy prices and climate — and also to show solidarity with antigovernment protesters in Iran.
First Australia carbon budget balances climate risks
25 Oct 2022
For the first time, the Australian government must work within a financial budget and a carbon budget. Treasurer Jim Chalmers has confirmed his first budget, due out on Tuesday, will include a major analysis of the impact of climate on Australia's economy.
Energy crisis sets Poland on rocky transition out of fossil fuels
25 Oct 2022
High coal prices, scarce fossil gas supplies and barriers to renewable energy projects are complicating Poland’s transition from fossil fuels amid the ongoing energy crisis.
New fossil fuels ‘incompatible’ with 1.5C goal, comprehensive analysis finds
25 Oct 2022
There is a “large consensus” across all published studies that developing new oil and gas fields is “incompatible” with the 1.5C target, a new report says.
Africa headed for climate showdown with rich nations
25 Oct 2022
African leaders say industrialized countries should pay to save the planet rather than expecting them to forego oil and gas development.
Can charging frequent flyers for their carbon solve aviation’s climate problem?
25 Oct 2022
If you were to design a scheme to deliberately accelerate climate change, you couldn’t do much better than an airline loyalty program. The more you fly, the cheaper and easier your flights become. Now what if that was switched around, and each flight you took in a year was instead more expensive than the last?
Insurers withdraw from fossil fuel projects amid climate change fears
21 Oct 2022
BERLIN (AP) — Insurance companies that have long said they’ll cover anything, at the right price, are increasingly ruling out fossil fuel projects because of climate change — to cheers from environmental campaigners.
‘Shocked’: Victoria premier ‘brings back’ electricity commission in state-owned energy plan
21 Oct 2022
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has vowed to “bring back” the government-owned State Electricity Commission of Victoria in a move that will reverse decades-long privatisation of Australia’s energy market.
Will ‘carbon neutral’ claims land brands in legal hot water? Danone sued over Evian eco claims
21 Oct 2022
Could ‘carbon neutral’ claims land food & beverage brands in legal hot water, even where they are certified by a third party such as the Carbon Trust? FoodNavigator-USA asked attorneys to weigh in after Danone Waters America found itself at the receiving end of a lawsuit.
A modern history of ancient trees, through the lens of climate change
21 Oct 2022
Historian Jared Farmer discusses his new book, ‘Elderflora,’ looking at why humans have no trouble looking at the ancient past but can’t seem to envision the deep future, and what trees can teach us.
Climate change puts a billion children at 'extremely high risk'
20 Oct 2022
Some one billion children are at "extremely high risk" due to climate change harms, a rights group warned on Wednesday, adding that youths' living standards failed to improve in the last decade.
People less concerned about climate change than before: survey
20 Oct 2022
Climate change is a pressing concern for the health of the planet. However, people worldwide appear to have become less concerned about its effect.
'Massive gaps' seen in countries' plans to tackle climate change: study
20 Oct 2022
The latest pledges by countries to tackle global warming under the Paris Agreement are "woefully inadequate" to avert a rise in global temperatures that scientists say will worsen droughts, storms and floods, a report said on Wednesday.
India gets ready to launch a national carbon market
20 Oct 2022
The Indian government has green-lighted the creation of a national carbon market that will be key to decarbonising heavy industry and helping shape international carbon trading.
The tipping points of climate change: how will our world change?
20 Oct 2022
The IPCC has identified several so-called ‘tipping points of climate change’, critical thresholds in a system that, if exceeded, can lead to irreversible consequences. But when exactly will we reach them, who will bear the brunt, and, most importantly, is there a way to avoid it?
In the Netherlands, balancing energy security against climate concern
20 Oct 2022
A central location and web of gas pipelines are helping boost gas imports in the country even as it tries to stick to its clean energy goals.
Tracing anthropogenically emitted carbon dioxide into the ocean
19 Oct 2022
Researchers labeled anthropogenically emitted carbon and tracked it with an ocean circulation model to determine whether it winds up in the sky or the sea.
As climate risks intensify in Brazil, election rivals offer few solutions
19 Oct 2022
“People’s post-traumatic stress levels are extremely high,” says Rafaela Facchetti, a researcher at Brazil’s National School of Public Health, or ENSP.
South Africa’s EV dream threatens $8.5 billion in climate aid
19 Oct 2022
South Africa wants to spend billions of dollars fostering an electric vehicle industry, complicating efforts to finalize an $8.5 billion climate aid package before next month’s United Nations climate summit.
Young Germans take climate case against govt to European Court
19 Oct 2022
Climate activists who won a landmark case against the German government last year are now taking their case to the European Court of Human Rights, an organisation representing them said on Tuesday.
Pernod Ricard unveils €250m plan for carbon-neutral distillery in Ireland
19 Oct 2022
Whiskey company Irish Distillers, owned by Pernod Ricard, has announced a €250m investment to create a new distillery in East Cork that is carbon-neutral in its operations.
Carbon credits have struggled to win market approval — until now
18 Oct 2022
Carbon credits have struggled to gain a foothold among countries and companies. But Deutsche Bank has just lit a fire under them — specifically, “sovereign credits” issued by rainforest nations. The aim is to minimize deforestation.
Carbon credits serve to greenwash business-as-usual and won’t cut emissions: Australia Institute
18 Oct 2022
A focus on carbon credits may serve to hamper Australia’s efforts to reduce its emissions, warn researchers from The Australia Institute.
Climate crisis could increase African country debts by $1 trillion
18 Oct 2022
Sub-Saharan African countries will have to take on almost $1 trillion in debt over the next 10 years unless wealthy countries provide adequate finance to address the climate crisis, according to a new report published on Monday, October 17, 2022, by Debt Justice and Climate Action Network International.
These 11 EU countries want climate to be at the heart of the bloc's foreign policy
18 Oct 2022
Eleven European Union countries on Monday launched a new group to bolster the bloc's climate diplomacy and place it at the heart of the EU's foreign and security policy.
Future emissions from ‘country of permafrost’ potentially devastating
18 Oct 2022
By the end of this century, permafrost in the rapidly warming Arctic will likely emit as much carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere as a large industrial nation, and potentially more than the U.S. has emitted since the start of the industrial revolution.
World Bank’s president survives climate gaff, but its fossil fuel policy may not
17 Oct 2022
WASHINGTON — David Malpass' job as president of the World Bank appears safe despite calls for his ouster by climate advocates, but the recent controversy over his climate views may have helped ram through changes to help clean energy despite his resistance.
Pakistan suffered climate-induced losses worth $29bn in past three decades: World Bank
17 Oct 2022
Climate-related disasters in Pakistan have resulted in economic losses of $29 billion over the past thirty years, according to a report by the World Bank.
The 'green' glen embracing hydro powered farming that could solve energy crisis
17 Oct 2022
While it may seem to be one of many traditional uphill farms in the area, Glensaugh in Aberdeenshire is set to become Scotland’s first truly ‘green glen’ with a hydro hamlet powered entirely by self-generated renewable power.
CSIRO abruptly scraps globally recognised climate forecast programme
17 Oct 2022
Australia’s premier science organisation abruptly scrapped a fully-funded, globally recognised programme to predict the climate in coming years without consulting an advisory panel that had praised its “good progress” only weeks earlier.
Climate change: Can an enormous seaweed farm help curb it?
17 Oct 2022
Imagine a huge seaweed farm the size of Croatia floating in the South Atlantic between Africa and South America. It could pull a billion tonnes of carbon out of the atmosphere every year and sink it to the ocean floor out of harm's way. Far-fetched? Maybe. But a British businessman plans to have this up and running by 2026.
Australian government to pledge to reduce methane emissions by 30%
14 Oct 2022
Australia is set to pledge its support to reduce global methane emissions by 30% by 2030.
Successes and struggles: Brazil’s 20-year Amazon reforestation carbon sink project
14 Oct 2022
The Peugeot-ONF Forest Carbon Sink project, implemented more than 20 years ago in northwestern Mato Grosso state, within the “arc of deforestation” of the Brazilian Amazon, has achieved significant ecological restoration and carbon sequestration results.
International climate change bodies win humanity award
14 Oct 2022
A prize worth 1 million euros ($970,000) is being awarded to two intergovernmental bodies for their work on climate change.
People-centred climate action delivers more for cities, report finds
14 Oct 2022
Cities are responsible for 70% of global greenhouse gas emissions, meaning that shifts in policy and citizen practices in urban areas have the potential to significantly reduce pollution worldwide.
‘We’re on our own.’ How people with disabilities are left out of climate planning
14 Oct 2022
When the inevitable hurricanes threaten New Orleans, it’s hard for India Scott to figure where to go. In the city where she was born and raised, she’s stayed in hotels, relief shelters and, during Hurricane Katrina, in the famously overcrowded Superdome.
Climate change is testing resilience of UK wheat yields
14 Oct 2022
Wheat yields in the UK have largely been resilient to varying weather over the past 30 years. However, the future security of our most widely grown food crop is uncertain due to increasingly frequent extreme wet and dry conditions as a result of climate change, say scientists.
Energy expert warns Australia against “drinking the Kool-Aid” on renewable hydrogen
13 Oct 2022
Engineer and “electrify everything” advocate Saul Griffith has warned against squandering precious time and money in the fight against climate change by chasing unrealistic goals for renewable hydrogen – including as fuel for heavy transport and in the production of green steel.
Marine institute eyes share of carbon trading billions
13 Oct 2022
The Kenya Marine Fisheries Research Institute (Kmfri) is planning to launch a carbon credit offset project in Lamu County. The project will emulate Kwale’s Mikoko Pamoja, the first carbon credit project where communities conserve mangroves and earn from offsets.
Farm soil carbon: Is the focus on sequestration right?
13 Oct 2022
Arable farmers must be realistic about the amount of carbon that can be locked up in soils and should be wary of exaggerated claims about sequestration, warns a leading soil scientist.
Beef in the time of net zero: Reducing livestock emissions in Latin America
13 Oct 2022
Beef production accounts for almost 60% of emissions from agriculture and land use change in Latin America, according to a recent study by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). However, its researchers suggest it is possible to reduce these emissions through new production models and changes in diets.
Greenland's culture shifts as Arctic heats up
13 Oct 2022
Icebergs bigger than city blocks loom through the mist as Kaleeraq Mathaeussen reels in halibut from the frigid waters one by one.
Fuel shortages could be a ‘blessing’ for the climate: UN weather chief
13 Oct 2022
The war on Ukraine "may be seen as a blessing" from a climate perspective, says the head of the UN weather agency.
Larry Summers' trillion-dollar climate spending plan
12 Oct 2022
Larry Summers — who spent the last year-and-a-half warning about easy money and inflation — is calling on the World Bank to loosen its lending limits to combat climate change and think in the "trillions not the billions."
Companies could have profits from breaking environment laws stripped under Australian reforms
Thu 23 Oct 2025
The Albanese government wants the power to strip companies of any financial gains made from breaking environment laws, as part of a package of landmark reforms to be put before parliament in the next two weeks.
ExxonMobil sues California over climate disclosure laws
Today 11:30am
Exxon Mobil Corporation is suing the state of California over a pair of 2023 climate disclosure laws that the company says infringe upon its free speech rights, namely by forcing it to embrace the message that large companies are uniquely to blame for climate change.
In China, climate litigation starts with the state
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.
EU leaders set conditions for new climate goal
Today 11:30am
The EU is trying to pass a new target to cut net greenhouse gas emissions 90% by 2040 to put the bloc on track for net-zero emissions by 2050.
UK Prime Minister will attend Brazil climate summit
21 Oct 2025
Keir Starmer will travel to the Amazon rainforest for the COP30 United Nations climate summit next month, Downing Street has confirmed, after weeks of speculation that he would not.
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.
Philippines storm victims to seek damages from Shell in “unprecedented” climate claim
Today 11:30am
The case is the first civil claim to directly link an oil firm’s climate impact to deaths and personal injury in the Global South, its backers say.
Mystery heatwave warms Pacific Ocean to new record
21 Oct 2025
The waters of the north Pacific have had their warmest summer on record, according to BBC analysis of a mysterious marine heatwave that has confounded climate scientists.
Scientists discovered something alarming seeping out from beneath the ocean around Antarctica
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
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.
Brazil's Indigenous battle with a dry Amazon rainforest
Thu 23 Oct 2025
As pastures and thirsty crops dry up the Amazon, Indigenous people try to adapt traditional farming methods.
UN report: Five charts showing how global deforestation is declining
Today 11:30am
The amount of forest lost around the world has reduced by millions of hectares each year in recent decades, but countries are still off track to meet “important” deforestation targets.
