Canada, other countries failing to meet climate change targets: report
Canada and other major fossil-fuel-producing countries are failing to meet targets to keep climate change in check, a newly released major international report warned Wednesday.
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‘Insanity’: petrostates planning huge expansion of fossil fuels, says UN report
Plans by nations including Saudi Arabia, the US and UAE would blow climate targets and ‘throw humanity’s future into question’The world’s fossil fuel producers are planning expansions that would blow the planet’s carbon budget twice over, a UN report h…
Tax on vapes could be part of plans to create a smoke-free generation in UK
Documents published alongside Rishi Sunak’s first king’s speech show that a new duty is being considered by ministersMinisters are considering a new tax on vapes in a significant expansion of moves to create a “smoke-free generation” that also includes…
Fresh calls to scrap Cumbrian coalmine amid steel industry’s green push
UK’s coal-hungry blast furnaces likely to be replaced, making economic case for mine ‘dead in the water’ says local MPNews of the likely closure of the UK’s steel blast furnaces has prompted calls for the government to reconsider approval for a controv…
UK museums agree to collective action to tackle the climate crisis
UK Museum Cop held at Tate Modern says the sector has a ‘responsibility to speak out about climate and biodiversity crisis’National and regional museums across the UK have agreed to take collective action on the climate crisis, including managing colle…
UN to seek assurances UK will not renege on net zero pledge
Concerns ahead of Cop28 climate summit that Rishi Sunak among leaders backsliding on green measures The UN secretary-general, António Guterres, will be seeking assurances from the UK that there will be no reneging on climate promises, after Rishi Suna…
Pittsburgh in ‘extreme embrace’ with fossil fuel lobbyists, research finds
Several of the city’s governmental, environmental and cultural institutions share lobbyists with fossil fuel companiesDozens of governmental, educational, cultural and environmental organizations across the city of Pittsburgh have hired lobbying firms …
France is Europe’s biggest supporter of ‘carbon bomb’ projects, data shows
French banks have financed $154bn to firms running biggest fossil fuel projects since 2015 climate pactFrance is Europe’s biggest supporter of “carbon bomb” extraction projects that hold enough fossil fuels to pump out more than a gigaton of CO2 each, …
Banks pumped more than $150bn in to companies running ‘carbon bomb’ projects in 2022
Exclusive: Projects that risk 1.5C heating target operated by companies receiving financing from European, Chinese and US banksBanks pumped more than $150bn last year into companies whose giant “carbon bomb” projects could destroy the last chance of st…
Emissions of Beetaloo Basin gas projects ‘significantly underestimated’ by government, analysis finds
Climate Analytics says onshore emissions of proposed fracking understated by up to 84% in ‘a rosy picture that simply doesn’t reflect reality’Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastFracking to extract gas from the Nort…