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Climate finance billions at stake at COP29
Nov 04, 2024 (AFP)
But there is deep disagreement over how much is needed, who should pay and what should be covered, ensuring that "climate finance" will top the agenda at COP29 ...
China hopes for 'consistency' in US climate policy
Nov 01, 2024 (AFP)
The two countries have expanded climate policy cooperation since Chinese leader Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden met in San Francisco nearly a year ago. Bu...
EU greenhouse gas emissions saw 'huge' drop in 2023
Oct 31, 2024 (AFP)
The European Environment Agency (EEA) attributed the year-on-year decline to a surge in renewable energy use in the 27-country bloc -- the world's fourth bigges...
Carbon cuts 'miles short' of 2030 goal: UN
Oct 28, 2024 (AFP)
Levels of the three main greenhouse gases -- heat-trapping carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide -- all increased yet again last year, said the World Meteor...
Trees and power lines flattened as Cyclone Dana hits India
Oct 25, 2024 (AFP)
Cyclones -- the equivalent of hurricanes in the North Atlantic or typhoons in the northwestern Pacific -- are a regular and deadly menace in the northern Indian...
World on deadline for carbon-cutting 'quantum leap': UN
Oct 24, 2024 (AFP)
The UN Environment Programme's annual Emissions Gap report was released ahead of COP29 climate talks in Azerbaijan and a looming deadline for countries to updat...
70% of Cuba's population has power back after blackout
Oct 23, 2024 (AFP)
The lights went out across the Communist-run country on Friday after the collapse of the island's largest power plant crippled the entire power grid. "This morn...
Electricity restored to 50% of Havana after nationwide blackout: Cuba state media
Oct 21, 2024 (AFP)
"Around 50 percent of clients" now have power, Havana's electricity company said in a report published by state-run news portal Cubadebate. Power went out for t...
U.S. makes $860M loan guarantee to aid Puerto Rico in strengthening its energy grid
Oct 21, 2024 (UPI)
This latest development gets Puerto Rico one step closer to its 2050 goal to be energy independent amid a slow, global movement to transition to clean, renewabl...
Japan youth sue utilities over climate impact
Oct 18, 2024 (AFP)
The plaintiffs, all in their teens and 20s, say it is the first such case brought by young people in Japan, which advocates say has the dirtiest energy mix amon...
Entire island of Cuba left without electricity after failure of key power plant
Oct 18, 2024 (UPI)
Following an unexpected shutdown of the Antonio Guiteras Thermoelectric Power Plant in Matanzas, the communist-run country's national electricity system was "co...
'Age of Electricity' coming as fossil fuels set to peak: IEA
Oct 16, 2024 (AFP)
Demand for oil, gas and coal is still projected to peak by the end of the decade, possibly creating a surplus of fossil fuels, the IEA said in its annual World ...
Climate pact needs 'hundreds of billions' in state money: COP29 hosts
Oct 14, 2024 (AFP)
Nearly 200 countries are supposed to agree at COP29 how much money should flow every year from rich nations to poorer ones to help them prepare for climate chan...
The changing geography of energy poverty
Oct 13, 2024 (SPX)
The newly published research also reveals that a major U.S. federal program that provides energy subsidies to households, by assigning block grants to states, d...
Little progress at key meet ahead of COP29 climate summit
Oct 11, 2024 (AFP)
Delegates were urged to put aside differences and move negotiations forward during the two-day "pre-COP" in Azerbaijan, which is hosting the major climate talks...
France's City of Light switches to climate-resilient power cables
Oct 10, 2024 (AFP)
With power cables melting from Portland to Sicily, the world's 80 million kilometres (50 million miles) of power lines are largely unprepared to resist extreme ...
COP29 fight looms over climate funds for developing world
Oct 08, 2024 (AFP)
A fight over this question looms at crucial negotiations next month as China and other major emerging economies come under pressure to chip in for climate actio...
China needs 'ambitious' climate goals to meet commitments: report
Oct 03, 2024 (AFP)
Signatories to the 2015 Paris climate accord must announce by next February their updated roadmaps to achieve the treaty's goal of limiting global temperature r...
Colombia seeks $40bn in investment towards energy transition
Oct 03, 2024 (AFP)
The country's first left-wing president, Gustavo Petro, last year halted all new concessions for oil, coal and gas exploration as part of his government's commi...
US fund to buy German energy firm Techem for 6.7 bn euros
Oct 01, 2024 (AFP)
TPG said it had signed an agreement to acquire Techem through its TPG Rise Climate fund, with Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC acting as a minority investor....
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