Brussels has given the green light for the EU to burn more coal over the next decade as it tries to end the use of Russian gas and oil. Coal is…Continue readingEU accepts it will burn more coal in move away from Russian gas
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A new record for the highest daily level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has been set this week, ringing alarm bells about the pace of global warming. The daily record…Continue readingRecord carbon dioxide levels alarm scientists
If your house was burning down and the emergency services were not answering your call, what would you do? Would you try to put out the fire yourself? This is what…Continue readingThe Tories are going all out to shut down protest. Just Stop Oil activists like me will not be deterred
India has relaxed environmental compliance rules for coal mines seeking to ramp up production as power outages exacerbate a sweltering heatwave, a government notice showed. Coal makes up more than two-thirds…Continue readingIndia relaxes environment rules for coal mines, citing heatwave
Saudi Aramco has overtaken Apple as the world’s most valuable company after higher oil prices pushed shares of the world’s biggest crude exporter to record levels, while a broader tech stock…Continue readingSaudi Aramco overtakes Apple as the world’s most valuable company
Indonesian state-owned oil and natural gas company Pertamina has reportedly received approval for the $2.41 billion investment plan to expand the Rokan oil block. Pertamina has received the approval from the…Continue readingPertamina gets planning approval for $2.4 billion Rokan block development
The Guanabara floating production storage and offloading unit (FPSO) has been designed to process up to 180,000 barrels of oil per day and 12 million cubic metres of gas per day.…Continue readingPetrobras begins production from FPSO Guanabara in Mero field
An unusually early and brutal heat wave is scorching parts of India, with acute power shortages affecting millions as demand for electricity surges to record levels. Supplies of coal at many…Continue readingHeat wave sparks blackouts, questions on India’s coal usage
Investors refused to back resolutions demanding stricter fossil fuel financing policies at three major US banks. Proposals filed at Wells Fargo, Bank of America and Citi called on the banks to…Continue readingInvestors at top US banks refuse to back climate proposals
The world has more than 2,400 coal-fired power plants, for a total capacity of nearly 2,100 gigawatts (GW). An additional 176GW of coal capacity is under construction at more than 189…Continue readingBoom and Bust Coal 2022
Chinese leaders pledged ahead of climate negotiations in Glasgow, Scotland, last November to peak national emissions before 2030 and stop building coal power plants abroad. A study published Friday indicates that…Continue readingWith coal surge, China puts energy security and growth before climate
China is in the throes of a building boom to jump start its economy. The government of President Xi Jinping has “scrambled in recent months to try to reverse a slowdown”…Continue readingChina doubles down on coal
The Biden administration announced on Friday that it would resume selling leases for new oil and gas drilling on public lands. The Interior Department said in a statement that it planned…Continue readingBiden Plans to Open More Public Land to Drilling
As one of the world’s most famous game reserves, Murchison Falls National Park is home to some of the largest populations of elephants, giraffes, lions and leopards anywhere on the planet.…Continue readingThe oil giants drilling among the giraffes in Uganda
Canada’s environment minister approved Wednesday a controversial offshore oil project expected to see 300 million barrels of oil extracted over 30 years This is equivalent to about 3 days of global…Continue readingCanada approves controversial Bay du Nord offshore oil project
Amazon rainforest becomes a savanna The 2.5 million square mile rainforest is so vast it creates its own rainfall and is home to 10% of the world’s species. But rising temperatures…Continue readingThe world is ‘perilously close’ to irreversible climate change
For the second year in a row, NOAA scientists observed a record annual increase in atmospheric levels of methane, a powerful, heat-trapping greenhouse gas that’s the second biggest contributor to human-caused…Continue readingIncrease in atmospheric methane set another record during 2021. Carbon dioxide levels also record a big jump
A $400 million coal mine expansion that would result in almost half a billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions has been conditionally approved by New South Wales planning authorities. The NSW…Continue readingNarrabri coal mine expansion gets final approval from NSW planning commission
Global industrialization and urbanization processes enabled a diverse cement production boom over the past three decades, as cement is the most important building construction material. Consequently, the cement industry is the…Continue readingA striking growth of CO2 emissions from the global cement industry driven by new facilities in emerging countries
China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the country’s top economic planner, will launch special investigation into the implementation of medium- and long-term contracts signed by coal suppliers in 2022. The…Continue readingMedium- and long-term contracts signed by Chinese coal suppliers shall account for over 80% of their resources: economic planner
Global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions rose by 6% in 2021 to 36.3 billion tons, their highest ever level, as the world economy rebounded strongly from the COVID-19 crisis and relied heavily…Continue readingGlobal carbon dioxide emissions rebounded to their highest level in history in 2021
Carbon emissions from tropical deforestation this century are far higher than previously thought, doubling in just two decades and continuing to accelerate, according to a study. The world’s forests form an…Continue readingDeforestation emissions far higher than previously thought
The top 10 banks—ranked as the largest funders of fossil fuel organizations—are talking more about climate change in general. However, in an analysis of annual reports, these banks were found to…Continue readingWorld’s top banks show minimal clear commitments to shift financing away from fossil fuels
The remote continent is becoming increasingly accessible—during the 2019-20 season, the number of sightseeing visitors reached 74,000, with the vast majority travelling by ship. All activity in Antarctica—be it powered drills…Continue readingEach Antarctic tourist effectively melts 83 metric tons of snow
An investor group, led by BlackRock, acquired a 49% stake in Aramco Gas Pipelines Co. in a lease and leaseback deal in December, according to a statement. The consortium also comprised…Continue readingSaudi Aramco closed a deal to sell a stake in its natural-gas pipelines for $15.5 billion
China will help its coal-fired power plants run at full capacity, the government has announced, raising further alarm about the fate of Beijing’s climate pledges. It was decided in the Monday…Continue readingChinese government to help run coal power plants at full capacity
Research prompts warnings humanity is ‘financing its own extinction’ through subsidies damaging to the climate and wildlife. From tax breaks for beef production in the Amazon to financial support for unsustainable…Continue readingWorld spends $US1.8 trillion a year on subsidies that harm environment
From the U.S. to China, in Europe, India and Japan, fossil fuels are staging a comeback, clean energy stocks are taking a hammering, and the prospects for speeding the transition to…Continue readingThe great climate backslide: How governments are regressing worldwide
For the past 15 years the world has been using more oil than the primary monitoring agency thought. The changes aren’t small. At 2.9 billion barrels, the additional demand they’ve just found is…Continue readingThe World Has Been Using A Lot More Oil Than We Thought
25 European banks have provided $US33 billion (£24 billion) in loans and other financing to 50 companies with large oil and gas expansion plans, less than a year since pledging to…Continue readingEurope’s biggest banks provide £24 billion to oil and gas firms despite net zero pledges
The European Commission has been accused of undermining its climate goals after it defied critics by pushing ahead with plans to include gas and nuclear in an EU guidebook for “green”…Continue readingEU includes gas and nuclear in guidebook for ‘green’ investments
After small drop in 2020, global electricity demand grew by 6% in 2021. It was the largest ever annual increase in absolute terms (over 1,500 TWh). Around half took place in China.…Continue readingIEA: Electricity CO₂ emissions reach record high and set to remain constant to 2024
The Pope, Smith and Kohler glaciers, in the Amundsen Sea Embayment of West Antarctica, have experienced enhanced ocean-induced ice-shelf melt, glacier acceleration, ice thinning and grounding-line retreat in the past 30…Continue readingStudy – Rapid glacier retreat rates observed in West Antarctica
The world’s oceans are hotter than ever before, continuing their record-breaking temperature streak for the sixth straight year. For the last year, the researchers found that the upper 2,000 meters in…Continue readingAccumulated heat in the upper ocean is at record levels again
When the EU adopted its 2009 Renewable Energy Directive — a plan to reach 20% renewable energy by 2020 to help the bloc adhere to the world’s first climate treaty, the…Continue readingCould Or Should Wood Be A Climate Solution?
China’s coal production reached record levels last year as the state encouraged miners to ramp up their fossil fuel output to safeguard the country’s energy supplies through the winter gas crisis.…Continue readingChina’s coal production hit record levels in 2021
As required by the UK Climate Change Act 2008, the government has today submitted the Third Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA3) to Parliament. Professor Richard Betts MBE, who led this team,…Continue readingUK government: 4°C warming by 2100: “can’t be ruled out”
China, under fire for approving new coal power stations as other countries try to curb greenhouse gases, has completed the first 1,000-megawatt unit of the Shanghaimiao plant, the biggest of its…Continue readingChina fires up giant coal power plant in face of calls for cuts
After falling in 2019 and 2020, global power generation from coal is expected to jump by 9% in 2021 to an all-time high. Depending on weather patterns and economic growth, overall…Continue readingCoal power’s sharp rebound is taking it to a new record in 2021, threatening net zero goals
Coal combustion for power generation made up 30% of global CO2 emissions in 2018. To achieve the goal of the Paris Agreement to keep global average temperatures below 2°C, power generation…Continue readingStudy – The Expanding Coal Power Fleet in Southeast Asia
The world likely will generate more electricity from the dirtiest source this year than ever before, indicating just how far the energy transition still needs to run in the fight against…Continue readingThe world is burning the most coal ever to keep the lights on
Scientists and monitoring groups are growing increasingly alarmed at the slew of vague net-zero pledges that appear to privilege offsets and future technological breakthroughs over short-term emissions cuts. “They’re not fit…Continue readingAs climate ‘net-zero’ plans grow, so do concerns from scientists
The warming of the planet is taking a deadly toll on seabirds that are suffering population declines from starvation, inability to reproduce, heat waves and extreme weather. One estimate by researchers…Continue readingHuman greenhouse gas emissions kill seabirds
Climate change and warming waters are pushing black-browed albatross break-up rates higher. Typically after choosing a partner, only 1-3% would separate in search of greener romantic pastures. But in the years…Continue readingHuman emissions causing increasing rates of albatross break-ups
TotalEnergies & China’s CNOOC will drill more than 431 wells in Uganda and pump the crude in a pipeline heated to 50˚C 1,450km (900 miles) to a port in Tanzania. The…Continue readingThe East African Pipeline
The World Meteorological Organization reported Monday that greenhouse gas concentrations hit a new record high last year and increased at a faster rate than the annual average for the last decade…Continue readingUN: Greenhouse gas concentrations hit a new record in 2020
Germany’s Garzweiler coal mine has already swallowed more than a dozen villages. Centuries-old churches and family homes have been razed and the land they were built on torn away. Farmland has…Continue readingGermany portrays itself as a climate leader. But it’s still razing villages for coal mines.
“We need drastic, radical emissions reductions, and on top of that we need some CDR,” said Glen Peters, research director at the Centre for International Climate Research. There are basically two…Continue readingClimate: Removing CO₂ from the air no longer optional
Total Energies is leaving it to others to meet the carbon reduction goals in the Paris agreement, after the Paris-based colossal fossil predicted the world will hit peak oil demand around…Continue readingColossal Fossil Total Projects Peak Oil by 2030, Still ‘Leaves it to Others’ to Meet Paris Targets
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A minority coalition of the Labour Party and the rural Centre Party will take power after defeating the Conservative-led government in last month’s election. “The Norwegian petroleum industry will be developed,…Continue readingNorway to keep searching for oil and gas
Hopes for a cleaner future have been fired by pledges from top coal consumer China and other countries to go carbon neutral, but much of the region is making a painfully…Continue reading‘Running out of time’: Asia struggles to kick coal addiction
Today’s emission reduction pledges cover less than 20% of the gap that needs to be closed by 2030 to keep a 1.5 °C path within reach. For all the advances being…Continue readingA new global energy economy is emerging, but the transformation still has a long way to go
China’s promise to stop financing coal power abroad is a positive step, but researchers say the emissions savings pale in comparison to those from its domestic coal use. “China is a…Continue readingChina’s pledge on overseas coal — by the numbers
National net zero emission targets could, if fully implemented, reduce best estimates of projected global average temperature increase to 2.0–2.4 °C by 2100, bringing the Paris Agreement temperature goal within reach. A…Continue readingWave of net zero emission targets will still cause dangerous warming
Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, shown as the dashed line in the image below, was connected on September 10, 2021. The 1,230km (764 mile) long pipeline will double the capacity of…Continue readingRussia’s New Nord Stream 2 Gas Pipeline
Maps of fossil-fueled power plants’ CO2 emissions. Taller spikes indicate that plants emit CO2 at higher levels. Colors signify plants’ primary fuels (blue = coal, yellow = natural gas, black =…Continue readingReducing CO₂ emissions by targeting the world’s hyper-polluting power plants
Carbon dioxide emissions from the global electric power sector rebounded in the first half of 2021 to above pre-pandemic levels, according to an analysis, signalling that the world has failed to…Continue readingGlobal electric power demand returns to pre-pandemic levels
Global greenhouse gas emissions must peak in the next four years, coal and gas-fired power plants must close in the next decade and lifestyle and behavioural changes will be needed to…Continue readingGreenhouse gas emissions must peak within 4 years, says leaked UN report
“If we do not halt our emissions soon, our future climate could well become some kind of hell on Earth,” says Prof Tim Palmer at the University of Oxford. Governments that…Continue readingIPCC report’s verdict on climate crimes of humanity: guilty as hell
The comprehensive assessment of climate science published on Monday, the sixth such report from the IPCC since 1988, has been eight years in the making. It represents the world’s full knowledge to date of the physical basis…Continue readingMajor climate changes inevitable and irreversible – IPCC’s starkest warning yet
Earth’s temperature is projected to hit 1.5˚C or 1.6˚C around 2030 in all five scenarios—a full decade earlier than a similar prediction the IPCC made less than three years ago. The…Continue readingKeeping Earth cool: Is the 1.5˚C target ‘mission impossible’?
“We find that there is a substantial mismatch between likely warming rates and research coverage. 1.5 °C and 2 °C scenarios are substantially overrepresented. More likely higher end warming scenarios of…Continue readingBetting on the best case: higher end warming is underrepresented in research
“There is growing evidence we are getting close to or have already gone beyond tipping points associated with important parts of the Earth system” The 5 hottest years on record have…Continue readingCritical measures of global heating reaching tipping point, study finds
To meet an ambitious goal of carbon neutrality by 2045, California’s policymakers are relying in part on forests and shrublands to remove CO₂ from the atmosphere, but researchers warn that future climate change may…Continue readingCalifornia’s carbon mitigation efforts may be thwarted by climate change itself
Carbon emissions are set to hit an all-time high by 2023 as just two percent of pandemic recovery finance is being spent on clean energy. “Not only is clean energy investment still…Continue readingCovid recovery to drive all-time emissions high: IEA
This backing for coal, oil and gas is “reckless” in the face of the escalating climate emergency, according to the report’s authors, and urgent action is needed to phase out the support. The…Continue reading‘Reckless’: G20 states subsidised fossil fuels by $3tn since 2015, says report
“The positive feedback, where deforestation and climate change drive a release of carbon from the remaining forest that reinforces additional warming and more carbon loss is what scientists have feared would happen. Now…Continue readingAmazon rainforest now emitting more CO₂ than it absorbs
“Every indication is they have no plans of actually fulfilling their campaign promise”.Continue readingUS drilling approvals increase despite Biden climate pledge
The French government said that it would drop its plans to enshrine the fight against climate change in the Constitution, effectively giving up on what was seen as a major step in the…Continue readingFrance Drops Plans to Enshrine Climate Fight in Constitution
Kelp are essentially the ocean’s equivalent of trees, capturing up to 20 times more carbon per acre than land forests. They also provide a vital habitat for a broad range of marine life;…Continue readingThe scientists fighting to save the ocean’s most important carbon capture system
Chair of CCAG, Sir David King said: “I believe we have five years left to get on top of this global problem. We began talking seriously about climate change in 1992, yet we…Continue readingReducing carbon emissions not enough, expert warns
“I cannot say that there was really any breakthrough in the consultations that took place here” said United Nations climate chief Patricia Espinosa.Continue readingNo breakthrough during ‘exhausting’ online climate talks
“We will supply energy to the world as long as the demand exists.”Continue readingNorway plans to continue oil exploration and drilling in coming decades
“Carbon dioxide going up in a few decades like that is extremely unusual”. “For example, when the Earth climbed out of the last ice age, carbon dioxide increased by about 80…Continue readingCarbon dioxide levels hit 50% higher than preindustrial time
“If we allow fossil fuel burning to continue to grow, our grandchildren may experience CO₂ levels that haven’t been seen on Earth for around 50 million years, a time when crocodiles roamed the Arctic.”Continue readingEarth’s history sends climate warning
There is “no longer any realistic chance” for an orderly transition for global financial markets because political leaders will be forced to rely on “handbrake” policy interventions to cut emissions, according…Continue readingPrepare for DISORDERLY shift to low-carbon era
The nightmare scenario: Year 2100, global waming exceeds 4˚C:→ Massive frequent wildfires→ Dead coral reefs→ Frequent prolonged droughts→ Increased air pollution→ Ice-free Arctic summers→ Rapid sea level rise→ Abandoned small island nations→…Continue readingClimate change: how bad could the future be if we do nothing?