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US 2024 Election: Biden delivers solar announcement in Earth Day message

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Italian football club to fit stadium with solar panels

By Anders Lorenzen The Italian Serie A football team Udinese Calcio have announced a significant sustainability move and teamed up with local utility Bluenergy Group to cover the roof of the club’s stadium with solar panels. The installation is already in progress and will comprise more than 2,400 panels and is estimated to produce a daily average of 3,000 kilowatt […]

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Analysis: COP28, a compromised deal reached amidst all-time high fossil fuel influence

The COP28 President Sultan Al Jaber applauds the deal reached after two weeks of climate negotiations. Photo credit: COP28. By Anders Lorenzen Whether or not to include the language stating ‘fossil fuels must be phased out’ rather than ‘phased down’ became the key contentious issue at this year’s UN climate talks. A draft text released Friday, with just under a […]

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WMO: Greenhouse gases will keep rising

Photo credit: iStock. By Anders Lorenzen On the eve of the COP28 UN climate summit, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a United Nations (UN) body, has warned that the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases (GHG) is forecast to continue the trend that resulted in record-high CO2 measurements last year. The agency said that in 2022 the global average concentrations of […]

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COP28: A coalition of companies unite around ditching fossil fuels from the final agreement

An Offshore Support Vessel and a deepwater drillship at work during exploratory phase of a new offshore field. Photo credit: Public Domain, via Wikimedia. By Anders Lorenzen Just over a month out from another crucial UN climate summit, COP28 – this year held in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) – a divide has been building up between two sectors of […]

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Viewpoint: Personal climate actions that matter

climate change By Jeremy Williams There’s a lot of confusion over which climate actions make the biggest difference – or even whether personal actions make any difference at all. They do – about a quarter of climate emissions can be dealt with through personal actions. The rest is beyond our control as individuals, though of course we can campaign and […]

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Viewpoint: Panasonic’s unusual climate target

By Jeremy Williams Lots of companies and corporations have set themselves climate targets of one kind or another. Most focus on their own immediate impact – the emissions from their own operations. Some stretch a bit further and tackle the emissions in their supply chain, or that result from people using their products. The Japanese electronics company Panasonic include these […]

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Net-zero commitments by fossil fuel companies are meaningless, says report

The Houston Ship Channel and adjacent refineries are part of the Port of Houston. are seen in Houston, Texas, US. Photo credit: Reuters / Loren Elliott. By Anders Lorenzen In recent years, a series of large and small fossil fuel companies have publicly signalled net-zero commitments while continuing business-as-usual investments in fossil fuels. Around 75 out of 112 of the […]

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Opinion: In the worst April heatwave in history, South Asia must demand these urgent climate actions

A woman pours water over her head to cool off during soaring temperatures in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 11 April 2023. Temperature records have been broken across Asia in recent weeks. Photo credit: Habibur Rahman /Alamy Live News. By Aditi Mukherji The heatwave sweeping across Asia has forced schools in India to shut down. With our children already paying a terrible […]

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Book review: Five Times Faster, by Simon Sharpe

By Jeremy Williams Every week there are steps forward on climate change to report. There is movement. Things are happening. “The problem,” writes Simon Sharpe, “is the pace of change.” It’s all moving too slowly, bogged down in glacial decision-making processes, held back by institutional inertia and the power of vested interests. The carbon intensity of the global economy is […]

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