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Why does bitcoin consume 'insane' energy?
May 13, 2021 (AFP)
"Energy usage trend over past few months is insane," Musk tweeted on Thursday, sharing a chart from the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index (CBECI),...
Millions at risk as cities fail to adapt to climate change: report
May 12, 2021 (AFP)
Fast-expanding urban areas are home to more than half the population of the planet and are increasingly exposed to climate-fuelled disasters, economic shocks an...
German govt approves more ambitious emissions targets
May 12, 2021 (AFP)
"We are setting the framework for the next years and decades," said Environment Minister Svenja Schulze, adding that the reform was a "fair offer to the younger...
Growing movement for 'fair share' climate commitments
May 11, 2021 (AFP)
Biden's initiative may have won praise from political allies, but these campaigners want to see a different calculus rooted in history and ethics. To keep the w...
Germany's struggling Social Democrats push green credentials
May 09, 2021 (AFP)
"It's about the future of our country... the path Germany must follow in the 21st Century," Scholz told a socially-distanced SPD party congress after winning 96...
Reducing methane emissions by 45% can achieve Paris goals
May 06, 2021 (UPI)
The assessment determined that such a reduction would prevent nearly 0.3 degrees Celsius in global warming by 2045. The Global Methane Assessment was conducted ...
Germany sets more ambitious climate goals after landmark ruling
May 05, 2021 (AFP)
Under the new targets, rhe government expects to slash emissions by 65 percent by 2030 compared to 1990 levels, going further than the current 55 percent reduct...
Can US states afford to meet net-zero emissions targets by 2050?
May 04, 2021 (SPX)
To achieve these ambitious targets - which align with the Paris Agreement's long-term goal of keeping global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius to avoid the w...
French parliament to vote new climate law criticised by green groups
May 04, 2021 (AFP)
The draft legislation is almost certain to be approved in a first reading by the lower house of parliament, where Macron has a working majority, but it has been...
UK banks slammed over 'hollow' climate stance on coal
May 04, 2021 (AFP)
Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, NatWest and Standard Chartered provided $56 billion (46 billion euros) to coal firms over two years to late 2020, according to Reclaim F...
'Historic' legal blow for Merkel's climate plan amid Green surge
Apr 29, 2021 (AFP)
In a decision hailed by activists as "historic" and "sensational", Germany's Constitutional Court ruled that Berlin's emissions reduction plan was "incompatible...
Progressive climate policy can reduce extreme poverty: study
Apr 27, 2021 (AFP)
Authors of the study said the results showed that policymakers were facing a false choice between climate change mitigation and poverty reduction. Since fossil ...
UK's top spook reveals so-called green spying underway
Apr 25, 2021 (AFP)
In the first broadcast interview ever given by any serving MI6 chief, Richard Moore said the issue was "the foremost international foreign policy agenda item fo...
Biden summit brings new hope on climate but hard path ahead
Apr 23, 2021 (AFP)
At a 40-leader summit he convened just months into his presidency, Biden doubled US targets to slash greenhouse gas emissions responsible for climate change by ...
Ikea Foundation pledges 1 bn euros to reduce emissions
Apr 21, 2021 (AFP)
The funds, to be allocated as grants over five years, will target programmes that can achieve results in the short term. "The goal is to reduce greenhouse gas e...
EU seals 'game changer' deal setting carbon-cutting target
Apr 21, 2021 (AFP)
The deal, reached before dawn after 14 hours of negotiations, sets about putting parts of the 2016 Paris climate accord into binding legislative effect across a...
European Parliament, EU member states agree target to cut CO2
Apr 21, 2021 (AFP)
The agreement comes after intense negotiations between parliament, who wanted at least 60 percent reduction, and leaders of the member states, who agreed 55 per...
London trails Europe on green bonds: lawmakers
Apr 21, 2021 (AFP)
Finance Minister Rishi Sunak had revealed his government's first sovereign green bond late last year to help fund environmental projects, as part of plans to ge...
Yellen says green private investment critical to fight climate change
Apr 21, 2021 (AFP)
A day before President Joe Biden hosts a virtual climate summit with 40 world leaders on Earth Day, Yellen spoke to an international banking group to outline th...
Dems relaunch Green New Deal, heap pressure on Biden
Apr 20, 2021 (AFP)
The initial version of the resolution introduced by popular congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey in early 2019 was a progressive wish li...
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