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Debunking the myths that discourage public funding of clean energy
Jul 17, 2022 (SPX)
In 2021, worldwide investment in low-carbon energy transition was $755 billion, far below what is required, the authors note. Climate finance must grow by a fac...
UK climate chief hints at resignation as Tory race heats up
Jul 17, 2022 (AFP)
The legally enshrined target to achieve net carbon emissions by 2050 has been questioned by four of the five remaining candidates to succeed Prime Minister Bori...
Smart thermostats inadvertently strain electric power grids
Jul 14, 2022 (SPX)
The smart thermostats are saving homeowners money, but they are also initiating peak demand throughout the network at a bad time of day, according to Cornell Un...
Tory candidates must keep net zero pledge: business
Jul 13, 2022 (AFP)
The letter was signed by 15 business leaders, including the chief executives Renewable UK, Advertising Association and Food and Drink Federation. "The UK's busi...
ECB urges banks to 'step up' climate risk management
Jul 08, 2022 (AFP)
Banks in the eurozone "must urgently step up efforts to measure and manage climate risk", the ECB's supervisory chief, Andrea Enria, said in a statement. Launch...
Global effort to police 'greenwashing' begins to take shape
Jul 08, 2022 (AFP)
Even Saudi Aramco -- the world's biggest oil major -- has pledged to achieve "operational net-zero" carbon emissions by 2050, just days before the United Nation...
Divided MEPs to vote over EU green label for gas, nuclear
Jul 06, 2022 (AFP)
MEPs in the eastern French city of Strasbourg were to take their position on the measure in a vote set for 1000 GMT with opponents and backers furiously lobbyin...
ECB unveils plan to push climate-friendly investments
Jul 04, 2022 (AFP)
The steps by the ECB's governing council "aim to better take into account climate-related financial risk" and "support the green transition of the economy in li...
Kerry vows US to meet climate goal despite court setback
Jul 01, 2022 (AFP)
"We are determined to achieve our goals. We can achieve our goals," Kerry told AFP. "But obviously it would help if we had a majority of the Supreme Court in th...
US Supreme Court limits government powers to curb greenhouse gases
Jun 30, 2022 (AFP)
By a majority of 6-3, the high court found that the Environmental Protection Agency did not have the power to set sweeping caps on emissions from coal-fired pow...
Climate change cases surge as courts become environment battleground
Jun 30, 2022 (AFP)
The report, which underscores the rising importance of the courts in climate action, comes on the same day that the United States Supreme Court ruled that the g...
Critics round on UK govt over net-zero targets 'failure'
Jun 29, 2022 (AFP)
Britain's Climate Change Committee (CCC) last year praised the government for its new net-zero strategy to be carbon neutral by 2050, and a series of targets to...
G7 disappoints with fossil fuel 'loophole'
Jun 28, 2022 (AFP)
The G7 countries -- Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States -- ended a summit in the Bavarian Alps by reaffirming their goal to red...
G7 to launch 'climate club' to tackle global warming
Jun 28, 2022 (AFP)
The club will be open to countries committed to the Paris agreement goal of limiting global temperature increases to 1.5 degrees Celsius and achieving carbon ne...
EU ministers battle over EU climate plan
Jun 28, 2022 (AFP)
Environment ministers from the EU's 27 member states are trying to agree a joint position on five legal texts that could bring a historic shift to the bloc's en...
Britain off track for net zero targets: experts
Jun 28, 2022 (AFP)
The Climate Change Committee (CCC) last year praised the government for its new Net Zero Strategy to be carbon neutral by 2050. But its latest progress report f...
'Greenwashing': a new climate misinformation battleground
Jun 27, 2022 (AFP)
AFP Fact Check took an in-depth look at how this is happening. The full report, including lobbying and communications fact boxes on 10 top oil and gas companies...
Energy shock tests G7 leaders' climate resolve
Jun 26, 2022 (AFP)
Germany finds itself in an awkward position as G7 summit host, having recently announced that Europe's biggest economy will burn more coal to offset a drop in R...
German activists up their game to keep climate centre stage
Jun 25, 2022 (AFP)
This week, around a dozen activists sprayed a black liquid that looked like oil on the chancellery in Berlin and stood in front of the building with a banner th...
Climate activists slam EU renegotiation of fossil fuel deal
Jun 24, 2022 (AFP)
The Energy Charter Treaty -- involving 52 nations mainly from Central Asia and Europe -- was signed in 1994 to protect energy investments in volatile ex-Soviet ...
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