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Urgent need for climate-friendly aircon: UN report
Sep 25, 2024 (AFP)
By 2050, demand for air conditioning, refrigerators and refrigerated transport will increase seven-fold in Africa and four-fold in Asia, according to the UN Env...
European Green Deal could unintentionally raise global emissions
Sep 22, 2024 (SPX)
The Green Deal promotes measures such as biodiversity enhancement, with plans to plant three billion trees in Europe. However, Hubacek points out that "trees re...
Net-zero pledges growing but integrity lacking: study
Sep 22, 2024 (AFP)
Net Zero Tracker, a research partnership between four organisations, annually reviews the climate pledges of more than 4,000 governments, states, cities, and ma...
World Bank boosts climate financing by 10 percent
Sep 19, 2024 (AFP)
The development lender has looked to boost its climate financing commitment under new president Ajay Banga, who took over last year on a pledge to reform the 80...
Energy companies have spent $5.6 bn on 'sportswashing': report
Sep 17, 2024 (AFP)
The report, entitled "Dirty Money - How Fossil Fuel Sponsors are Polluting Sport", says football, motor sports, rugby and golf are the sports most sponsored by ...
Climate finance: what you need to know ahead of COP29
Sep 17, 2024 (AFP)
These difficult questions will be wrestled at this year's United Nations climate conference, known as COP29, being hosted in Azerbaijan in November. - What is c...
UK agrees public control of key electricity operator
Sep 13, 2024 (AFP)
The state will buy Electricity System Operator -- which oversees the balancing of supply and demand in the UK's electricity grid -- from National Grid for GBP 6...
Chinese climate lending greater than previously understood: report
Sep 11, 2024 (AFP)
In particular, the country provided almost double in bilateral climate financing to developing countries than the United States did over the 2017-2021 period, s...
Heat pumps are key to home electrification -- but will Americans buy in?
Sep 07, 2024 (AFP)
Less sexy than an electric car, more obscure than solar panels, heat pumps are an energy-efficient system for replacing both a heater and air conditioner in one...
China nears peak emissions as climate envoy meets US counterpart
Sep 05, 2024 (AFP)
US climate envoy John Podesta will be looking to solidify Beijing's commitments -- which include topping out its planet-warming emissions by 2030 -- as he meets...
UK announces record green energy auction
Sep 03, 2024 (AFP)
The new Labour government hailed the outcome to power millions of homes across the island nation with cleaner energy and which followed a similar unsuccessful a...
Treasury Department, IRS, propose expansion of clean energy tax credits
Aug 30, 2024 (UPI)
The proposed rules would create a new Low-Income Communities Bonus Credit Program, a bonus tax credit within the Clean Electricity Low-Income Communities Bonus ...
Court rules S. Korea climate goals 'unconstitutional'
Aug 29, 2024 (AFP)
The first such case in Asia, brought by children and teenagers who named an embryo as a lead plaintiff, claimed that South Korea's legally binding climate commi...
Big polluters urged to pay as key Pacific summit opens in Tonga
Aug 26, 2024 (AFP)
The Pacific Islands Forum got underway in Tonga's capital Nuku'alofa, with leaders hoping to draw global attention to the region's worsening climate plight. "We...
Russia's largest strike in weeks hits Ukraine's power grid
Aug 26, 2024 (AFP)
Moscow's largest attack in weeks on Ukraine triggered widespread blackouts and came after Kyiv claimed new advances in its incursion in Russia's Kursk region. P...
Combining climate measures key to slashing emissions
Aug 22, 2024 (AFP)
Published in the journal Science, the study examined 25 years of public policies in 41 countries across six continents. It concluded that out of the 1,500 polic...
States' Renewable Energy Policies Show Cross-Border Impacts
Aug 21, 2024 (SPX)
Researchers Marilyn Brown, Regents' and Brook Byers Professor of Sustainable Systems at Georgia Tech's School of Public Policy; Shan Zhou, an assistant professo...
Japan schoolkids wilt in under-insulated classrooms
Aug 02, 2024 (AFP)
But it also means higher electricity bills and more carbon emissions in a country that campaigners say is behind on making buildings more energy efficient. "Chi...
China plans to adopt volume-based emissions reduction targets
Aug 02, 2024 (AFP)
With its population of 1.4 billion and a massive manufacturing industry, China is by far the world's largest emitter of the greenhouse gases that scientists say...
Net zero goal critical to Earth's stability: study
Aug 01, 2024 (AFP)
If left unchecked, global warming could set in motion dangerous and irreversible changes to planetary systems such as the disappearance of ice sheets or a colla...
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