A fund announced at COP28 in Dubai by the host country ostensibly aimed at investing in clean energy has invested in natural gas, Climate Home News reports.
Much of the oil and gas industry considers natural gas (which burns far less CO2 than coal) a climate solution, but long-term, dependence on the fuel isn’t compatible with aggressive climate targets.
Paris 2024 may be the greenest Olympics ever, harnessing renewables and low-carbon vehicles, using existing facilities and relying on low-carbon concrete for new buildings, Reuters reports.
The organizers, alas, have no control over the carbon footprint of thousands of spectators traveling to the games. It's kind of similar to the UN climate summits attended by thousands, too.
As the planet recorded back-to-back daily heat records this week, scientists are particularly alarmed at the heating of the oceans, the Financial Times reports in one of its daily Big Reads.
Oceans have been a sort of heat sponge, absorbing much of planetary warming. They may have reached their absorptive capacity, which would mean much faster temperature rises on land going forward.
Europe’s hunger for minerals for electric cars and microchips is sparking accusations the bloc is inflaming conflict in eastern Congo, one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, POLITICO reported.
It's a complex geopolitical dynamic involving Rwanda and Congo, and a cautionary tale of all the other elements that can come with the mineral race: human rights, wars, smuggling — and precious lives.
Gig Car Share, a car-sharing service operating in a couple West Coast cities, including Seattle where I live, is ceasing operations at year’s end, Geekwire reports.
No! My one-car household uses this frequently when we need two vehicles. It’s a shame these services, which helps reduce the need for so many cars, are not succeeding (in the U.S. at least).
On this episode of the Cleaning Up podcast, marketing guru John Marshall explains what messages about climate change do and don’t move people.
Marshall’s advice — based on detailed, scientific testing and decades of big-business marketing experience — challenges many assumptions about climate messaging held dearly by those who care most.
The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association and 24 GOP attorneys general seek a U.S. Supreme Court stay of EPA's power plant greenhouse gas rule over reliability concerns, E&E News reports.
EPA's rule targets existing coal-fired and new gas plants. Will reliability claims hold up? The U.S. Energy Information Administration found coal-fired power declined in the past two years.
Barbados is set to get the green light for a "debt-for-climate" swap soon, with a $300 million guarantee from the European Investment Bank and Inter-American Development Bank, Reuters reported.
This is an interesting and increasingly popular instrument that allows countries access to cheaper debt, in return for directing the savings to climate-related projects.
On Wednesday, the Energy Department signed a deal to launch a hydrogen hub in the Pacific Northwest, E&E News reports. This is the second hub deal in as many weeks, following California last week.
The Pacific Northwest hub will focus on “maritime hydrogen” to power shipping and port operations. “I think maritime hydrogen is part of our identity," the president of the hub told E&E News.
ALTÉRRA, the $30 billion-climate fund started by UAE during the UN COP28 meeting, is now being used to finance a U.S. natural gas pipeline, Climate Home News reports.
ALTÉRRA was meant to channel climate finance to the Global South. Instead, BlackRock, one of the fund managers, is funneling some of those funds to the Portland Gas Transmission System.