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.
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
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.
There is a revolution taking place in how energy is generated, stored and distributed.
Watchdog says new projects must be low carbon or existing plants must be cleaned up
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
Policy costs are not to blame for electricity price hikes in the UK, a study by the UK Energy Research Council has concluded.
The UK renewables lobby has once again expressed its exasperation that clean energy failed to merit a mention within this year’s Budget, despite the government teasing an overhaul of tax benefits for on-site generators.Yesterday afternoon chancellor Philip Hammond delivered the 2018 Budget, but during his speech in the House of Commons failed to mention climate
The new IPCC report on climate change will fill you with existential dread — rightfully so
Scientists say we must keep global temperature rise under 1.5C – so what does that mean for the UK?Next week, ministers are likely to ask their advisers how Britain can reduce carbon emissions in line with that target.They’ve declared what they’re calling Green GB Week – a celebration of the UK’s achievement as a world