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Power line corridor through Maine in jeopardy after rebuke by voters
Nov 03, 2021 (UPI)
If completed, the New England Clean Energy Connect project, six years in the making, would help bring hydropower from Canadian mega dams to ratepayers in Massac...
'The money is here': COP26 banks on boosting climate finance
Nov 03, 2021 (AFP)
Cost estimates vary but it is thought that it will take between $3-4 trillion annually -- around 2 percent of global GDP -- to reach net-zero by mid-century. Fi...
Finance takes centre stage at UN climate talks
Nov 03, 2021 (AFP)
After a world leaders' summit yielded a landmark deal slashing methane emissions, negotiators are now tasked with keeping alive the Paris Agreement goal of limi...
Industry must prepare now for a new world of green electricity
Nov 03, 2021 (SPX)
The study cautions that national strategies for replacing fossil fuels with renewables need an integrated approach to energy use and material production - or ri...
India to hit net-zero climate target by 2070: Modi
Nov 02, 2021 (AFP)
"By 2070, India will achieve the target of net-zero emissions," Narendra Modi told more than 120 leaders at the critical talks. India is the last of the world's...
UK to unveil plan for first 'net zero' financial centre
Nov 02, 2021 (AFP)
The chancellor of the exchequer will set out the plans on carbon emissions in a speech at the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow on Wednesday morning. S...
Brazil pledges higher greenhouse emissions cuts
Nov 01, 2021 (AFP)
It also vowed to eliminate illegal deforestation by 2028, two years earlier than a previous undertaking, despite record tree losses in recent years. "We are pre...
IMF head urges COP26 leaders to ramp up climate ambition
Nov 01, 2021 (AFP)
Georgieva published a blog post titled "Climate Threat Demands More Ambitious Global Action" before heading to Glasgow, where she will take part in the climate ...
Turkey's Erdogan skips Glasgow climate conference
Nov 01, 2021 (AFP)
The Anadolu state news agency and other media did not explain why Erdogan decided not to attend. Turkey's parliament this year finally ratified the Paris climat...
Barbados PM says failure to fund climate adaptation 'immoral'
Nov 01, 2021 (AFP)
Impacts from climate-enhanced droughts, heatwaves, floods and wildfires are "measured in lives and livelihoods in our communities and that, my friends, is immor...
G20 agrees on 1.5 degree target ahead of UN climate talks
Oct 31, 2021 (AFP)
The pledges by the Group of 20 major economies, who emit nearly 80 percent of carbon emissions, are viewed as crucial to the success of make-or-break UN climate...
Promises, power plants and politics: China's position ahead of COP26
Oct 29, 2021 (AFP)
As part of the 2015 Paris Agreement, all countries agreed to slash emissions to limit temperature rises, and to submit ambitious plans for further cuts every fi...
China submits new climate plan days before COP26 summit
Oct 28, 2021 (AFP)
Beijing's new submission to the United Nations, just days before the COP26 climate summit, confirmed its goal to achieve carbon neutrality before 2060 and slash...
Women show the way as India pushes 'eco-miracle' seaweed
Oct 28, 2021 (AFP)
India is the world's third largest carbon polluter, behind China and the US, and has yet to set a target date for its emissions to reach net zero. But authoriti...
Not good enough: National climate pledges
Oct 28, 2021 (AFP)
That first raft of "nationally determined contributions" (NDCs) -- many conditioned on financing and technical support -- under the 2015 Paris Agreement would h...
India vows to take up 'climate justice' combat at COP26
Oct 27, 2021 (AFP)
And the world's third biggest source of greenhouse gases is not yet guaranteeing that it will offer new mitigation efforts at the crucial conference which start...
Climate holdout Australia sets 2050 net zero emissions target
Oct 26, 2021 (AFP)
Widely seen as a climate laggard, Australia is one of the world's largest coal and gas exporters and its conservative government has resisted climate action for...
Less than 1% fund assets Paris climate goal compliant
Oct 26, 2021 (AFP)
The non-profit Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) analysed over 16,500 investment funds with $27 trillion in assets, but found that over 60 percent of assets are a...
COP26 ministers say $100 bn target can be reached in 2023
Oct 25, 2021 (AFP)
The target was meant to have been reached last year, and the failure of developed nations to do so has become a key point of contention heading into the summit ...
Nine EU partners reject French-led electricity reforms
Oct 25, 2021 (AFP)
"As the price spikes have global drivers, we should be very careful before interfering in the design of internal energy markets," the nine said in a joint state...
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