Coal must be phased out seven times faster and deforestation reduced four times faster to avoid worst impacts of climate breakdown, says reportCoal must be phased out seven times faster than is now happening, deforestation must be reduced four times fa…
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‘A treasure beneath our feet’: How the Dutch went down the toilet looking for heat
Sewage waste is now being seen as a reliable heat source for millions of homes in the NetherlandsI once lived in a building where every morning the double flush of the upstairs neighbour’s toilet trip reverberated loudly through our kitchen. Now, inste…
Read moreClimate groups launch national tour for Green New Deal
Exclusive: multistate tour, launching in Michigan on Sunday, aims to pressure Biden on climate action before 2024 electionOne year after the passage of the much-lauded Inflation Reduction Act, a coalition of organizers and representatives are relaunchi…
Read moreSurging renewable energy sees record supply to Australia’s electricity grid
At one point in September nearly 100% of eastern Australia’s demand could have been met by renewables, says energy operator AemoFor a half hour in the middle of a Saturday last month, enough renewable energy was available to meet all but 1.4% of easter…
Read moreAustralia is already an energy superpower. We should be using that to drive the world towards renewables
The coal and gas we provide internationally makes us powerful – and we waste it being craven to the mining industryThe Australian government likes to say we can be a renewable energy superpower, but it ignores that we already are an energy power that f…
Read more‘Vaca Muerta was the future’: Argentina goes all in on fracking
It promised wealth and energy self-sufficiency but Vaca Muerta’s vast shale fields have left locals in poverty, harm the environment and stall progress on renewables, critics sayIn the middle of his usual rounds, a worker at a fruit farm near the town …
Read moreHow Germany, France and Italy compare on net zero emission targets
Politics get in the way as the EU’s three largest economies, also its biggest polluters, fall short of cleaning up their act Germany, France and Italy have pledged to hit net zero emissions around the middle of the century in a bid to stop weather from…
Read more‘Missing half the equation’: scientists criticise Australia over approach to fossil fuels
Prof Lesley Hughes and others says there is ‘cognitive dissonance’ between Labor’s stated commitment to the climate crisis and its policiesThe Australian government is “missing half the equation” in acting on the climate crisis by backing a shift to re…
Read moreNew fossil fuel projects ‘very unwise economic risk’ says global energy chief
Fatih Birol, head of International Energy Agency, says countries planning expansion are ‘misjudging market trends’Countries and companies planning to expand their fossil fuel production are taking “very unhealthy and unwise economic risks” as their inv…
Read moreFossil fuel companies have a secret weapon. Here’s how Britain can help take it away from them | Cleodie Rickard
Eleven countries have already pledged to exit the disastrous international charter treaty. We must join themIf Labour wants an energy transition in which working people don’t foot the bill, it has to address fossil fuel companies’ secret weapon against…
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