Shell says it wants to double green energy investment
Company already committed to spend $1bn-$2bn annually in the next two years on low carbon energy
World will approach record-breaking temperatures in 2019, says Met Office
‘The forecast for 2019 would place next year amongst the five warmest years on record, which would all have occurred since 2015’
Climate change: Where we are in seven charts and what you can do to help
Representatives from nearly 200 countries are gathering in Poland for talks on climate change – aimed at breathing new life into the Paris Agreement.The UN has warned the 2015 Paris accord’s goal of limiting global warming to “well below 2C above pre-industrial levels” is in danger because major economies, including the US and the EU,
Climate change: CO2 emissions rising for first time in four years
Global efforts to tackle climate change are way off track says the UN, as it details the first rise in CO2 emissions in four years.The emissions gap report says that economic growth is responsible for a rise in 2017 while national efforts to cut carbon have faltered.
Trump on dire warnings in climate report: ‘I don’t believe it’
President Trump said Monday that he doesn’t “believe” the findings of a major report his administration released forecasting dire consequences to the United States from climate change.“Yeah, I don’t believe it,” Trump told reporters as he left the White House for a campaign rally for Sen. Cindy Hyde Smith (R) in Mississippi, when asked about
Did you Know There Is a Revolution Taking Place?
There is a revolution taking place in how energy is generated, stored and distributed.
A Grave Climate Warning, Buried on Black Friday
In a massive new report, federal scientists contradict President Trump and assert that climate change is an intensifying danger to the United States. Too bad it came out on a holiday.
World has no capacity to absorb new fossil fuel plants, warns IEA
Watchdog says new projects must be low carbon or existing plants must be cleaned up
Renewables face increasingly level playing field
Adoption of green energy will only grow, as technology makes renewables increasingly cost competitive Opponents of renewable energy—a broad church that can stretch from economists lamenting subsidies’ distortion of competitive markets to climate-change-science deniers, and from hydrocarbons industry incumbents to uncompromising single-issue environmental lobbies—have a problem. Their inconvenient truth is that
‘A total myth’: Green policy costs not to blame for energy price hikes, says new report
Policy costs are not to blame for electricity price hikes in the UK, a study by the UK Energy Research Council has concluded.