The UK government has announced it will invest almost £22 billion in carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects over the next 25 years. The technology works by capturing CO₂ as it is being emitted by a power plant or another polluter, then storing it underground. Mark Maslin, UCL The Conversation This sounds great in theory. […]
The US is on the brink of making a major climate misstep. According to a new CIEL analysis, planned petrochemical projects across the US could add a staggering 153.8 million metric tonnes of CO2 equivalent (CO₂e) emissions annually. This is equal to the emissions of nearly 40 coal power plants or all US domestic commercial aviation emissions. The implications […]
Interfaith Power & Light has partnered with ClientEarth, an environmental legal advocacy organization, to work together on a unique opportunity that people of faith have to help shift financial institutions away from investing in fossil fuel projects. By Tiffany Hartung Chief Strategy Officer for Interfaith Power & Light American workers collectively invest trillions of dollars in […]
In this episode of Citizens’ Climate Radio, hosts Horace Mo and Erica Valdez bring together diverse voices to discuss current efforts to address climate change. Horace Mo speaks with Ann E. Burg, a celebrated author known for compelling historical novels for young readers, about her newly published novel, “Force of Nature–A Novel of Rachel Carson,“ which […]
Our team used superglue as a starting material to develop a low-cost, recyclable and easily produced transparent plastic called polyethyl cyanoacrylate that has properties similar to those of plastics used for single-use products like cutlery, cups and packaging. Unlike most traditional plastics, this new plastic can be easily converted back to its starting materials, even […]
Promise Breakers, a report released Wednesday by Oil Change International, reveals that the Glasgow Statement, a joint commitment forged at the 2021 UN climate summit (COP26), is already shifting an estimated USD 5.7 billion per year out of fossil fuels and into clean energy, with the potential of a further 13.7 billion per year if all Glasgow […]
The latest IPCC report, released today makes it clear that a rapid and equitable phase-out of all fossil fuels is necessary to avoid overshoot and minimize irreversible harm to people and ecosystems. Given the inequitable and catastrophic impact that exceeding a global temperature rise of 1.5°C will have on human rights and equity. By 350.org […]
The National Day of Action Against Dirty Banks is organized by Third Act to stop the big banks from funding fossil fuels projects. The goal is to pressure the banks to stop funding climate chaos. The top four banks propping up the fossil fuel industry are JP Morgan Chase, Citibank, Bank of America and Wells […]
Our dependence on fossil fuels is one of the biggest challenges to overcome in the fight against climate change. But production and consumption of fossil fuels is on the rise, and expected to peak within the next decade. Nehal El-Hadi, The Conversation and Daniel Merino, The Conversation The Conversation In this episode of The […]
India and China were widely criticised at COP26 in 2021 when they pushed to tone down the language on coal consumption that emerged from the climate summit. As a result of this intervention from two highly coal-dependent nations, with the covert support of other key players, the final version of the Glasgow Climate Pact only called on nations to “phase down” rather than “phase […]
Through a year of war in Ukraine, the U.S. and most European nations have worked to help counter Russia, in supporting Ukraine both with armaments and in world energy markets. Russia was Europe’s main energy supplier when it invaded Ukraine, and President Vladimir Putin threatened to leave Europeans to freeze “like a wolf’s tail” – […]
The European Union is embarking on an experiment that will expand its climate policies to imports for the first time. It’s called a carbon border adjustment, and it aims to level the playing field for the EU’s domestic producers by taxing energy-intensive imports like steel and cement that are high in greenhouse gas emissions but […]
Climate advocates are sharply critiquing the California Air Resources Board’s Final Scoping Plan for its reliance on carbon capture to lower emissions. Among the details outlined in the Scoping Plan are plans to use carbon capture at refineries, a process criticized by environmental organizations as a lifeline for fossil fuel companies to keep operating as usual. […]
Yeb Saño, Greenpeace International’s COP27 Head of Delegation, said: “As climate impacts and injustice accelerate, lives, livelihoods, cultures and even whole countries are lost, the latest draft cover note from the COP27 Presidency pushes the pedal to the metal on the highway to climate hell.” “We came to Sharm el-Sheikh to demand real action on […]
Russia’s war on Ukraine has cast a shadow over this year’s United Nations climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, where officials from around the world are discussing the costs of climate change and how to cut emissions that remain near record highs. The war has dramatically disrupted energy markets the world over, leaving many countries […]