If it makes the Earth greener,
you will find it here.

Young people coming of age in an era of climate disasters are trying to channel anxiety about the planet flooding and burning.

The Washington Post

Activists ‘born into the climate crisis’ face another challenge: fear of the future

Biden unveils ambitious goal to repower America, but hurdles may short-circuit plan



Wood Mackenzie

Can the US rise to meet the net-zero emissions challenge?

Seven in 10 private wealth holders believe net zero transition is 'the greatest commercial opportunity of our age', survey reveals


Business Green

Ultra-wealthy investors tout private capital as 'essential' to tackle climate change

South America’s power sector will record imbalances between generation and demand due to the severe drought that is affecting the region, according to a new analysis by research firm Wood Mackenzie.



Power Engineering International

Severe drought strains South America’s power sector

The Cop26 climate summit will be an opportunity to put fossil fuel companies on trial through the court of public opinion. Fossil fuel companies bear as much responsibility as governments do for humanity’s climate predicament – and for finding a way out. Our planetary house is on fire, and these companies have literally supplied the fuel. Worse, they lied about it for decades to blunt public awareness and policy reform. There’s no better time for ExxonMobil and other petroleum giants to be held accountable than at the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow in November. The Glasgow summit is more than just another international meeting. It is the last chance for world leaders to limit future temperature rise to an amount that civilization can survive. Doing so, scientists say, will require a rapid, global decline in oil, gas and coal burning. 

The Guardian

Exxon helped cause the climate crisis. It’s time they own up | Mark Hertsgaard

Executives from Exxon, Shell, BP and others are being called to testify in Congress next month after a secret recording this year exposed an Exxon official boasting of such efforts.

The New York Times

Exxon, Chevron, BP and Others Called to Testify on Climate Disinformation

The demands that the IEA revise its World Energy Outlook are based on contradictions and unrealistic expectations of the scenarios' impact.

Forbes

The Unscientific Attack On The IEA’s World Energy Outlook

Utilities have upgraded the infrastructure for rooftop power in richer neighborhoods, but low-income areas don't have the same capacity.

Wired

An Outdated Grid Has Created a Solar Power Economic Divide

A September 15 report at CNN.com should raise significant questions about the true commitment by national governments to climate-related goals laid out under international agreements like the 2015 Paris Accord.

New Report Claims Governments Don’t Take The Climate Emergency Seriously

Scientists have uncovered new ways for food industry manufacturers to help tackle climate change by altering their cooking techniques to reduce energy consumption.

Tech Xplore

New processing and cooking technology helps food manufacturers reduce carbon and energy consumption

Renews Ltd provides news-focused coverage through unrivalled insights into the inner workings of offshore and onshore wind, wave and tidal power and other generation technologies.

Renews

Greg Hands appointed UK energy minister 

Only Gambia's climate action meets the 1.5°C global warming limit set by the Paris climate agreement out of a total of 37 countries reviewed, according to new analysis released today.



Argus Media

Countries fall short on 1.5°C global warming limit

In a sobering reality check ahead of the Cop26 meeting, analysis shows world is on track for 3C temperature increase if present trends continue . Every one of the world’s leading economies, including all the countries that make up the G20, is failing to meet commitments made at the landmark Paris agreement in order to stave off climate catastrophe, a damning new analysis has found. Less than two months before crucial United Nations climate talks take place in Scotland, none of the largest greenhouse gas emitting countries have made sufficient plans to lower pollution to meet what they agreed to in the 2015 Paris climate accord. 

Governments falling woefully short of Paris climate pledges, study finds

They are essential for trapping carbon, and world leaders must commit to protecting them, write a group of conservationists. News that the perilous plight of endangered grasslands is not fully recognised in a EU draft anti-deforestation law (Leaked EU anti-deforestation law omits fragile grasslands and wetlands, 14 September) brings into sharp focus the dangerous underappreciation of a global habitat that has a crucial role in the fight against climate change. Grasslands aren’t just crucibles of biodiversity, playing home to a wealth of wild plants, fungi, butterflies and bees, they also possess an as-yet underreported ability to lock down carbon. Given that up to 30% of the Earth’s land carbon is stored in grassland, these sites are every bit as important as other ecosystems in the fight against greenhouse gases. The Grasslands+ campaign, supported by some of Britain’s leading conservation charities including Plantlife, Butterfly Conservation and the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, is calling for international protections for our planet’s grasslands, savannas, plains, heaths, steppes and meadows to help mitigate the impact of climate change and increase biodiversity. The UK government, the EU and other world leaders must commit to restoring, enhancing and protecting these habitats at Cop26 in Glasgow. Ian Dunn CEO, Plantlife; Gill&nbsp;Perkins CEO, Bumblebee Conservation Trust; Julie Williams CEO, Butterfly Conservation 

Grasslands have key role to play in saving the planet | Letter

Research disproves perception young people want to save planet while older people do not care . A fake generational war over the climate crisis has distorted public thinking and political strategy, when in fact older generations are just as worried about the issue as younger people, according to new research. The idea that young people are ecowarriors, battling against selfish older generations is a common trope in representations of the environment movement. It has been stoked by instances including Time magazine naming Greta Thunberg their person of the year in 2019, for being a “standard bearer in a generational battle”. 

Generational conflict over climate crisis is a myth, UK study finds

Exclusive: study also shows ‘banana bread’ heard more in 2020 than ‘wind power’ and ‘solar power’ combined. “Cake” was mentioned 10 times more often on UK television shows than “climate change” in 2020, data has revealed. The research showed “banana bread” was a more frequently heard term than “wind power” and “solar power” combined. The report, from albert, a Bafta-backed sustainability project, also found that individual action, such as recycling, was far more frequently featured than issues that are much bigger drivers of the climate crisis such as energy and transport. 

‘Cake’ mentioned 10 times more than ‘climate change’ on UK TV – report

Greg Patton says he's not like other mechanics with more than 40 years of greasy auto repair experience because he gets the coming electric vehicle future.

How auto techs, trade schools are prepping for EV future

Review of over 100 groups in carbon-intensive sectors identifies more than 70% not including impact

Financial Times

Widespread lapses in climate risk reporting found in company accounts

Vattenfall launches offshore education programme

On Aug. 25, the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Harvey, which dumped about 50 inches of rain on Houston, Mayor Sylvester Turner announced that the city “is safer today as it prepares to move forward.”

Now comes Tropical Storm Nicholas as a test. Nicholas, which is strengthening and may become a hurricane, could drop as much as 20 inches in the region starting Monday night.

Bloomberg

New Storm to Test Post-Harvey Houston Infrastructure

The droughts, wildfires, floods and hurricanes of the past months have prompted US and EU leaders to connect domestic weather events to climate change in an unprecedented way – but will they change policy?



Energy Monitor

Will the summer’s extreme weather change climate policy in Europe and the US?

Evacuations were underway on Monday from offshore U.S. Gulf of Mexico oil platforms as onshore oil refiners began preparing for rain and heavy winds from a second hurricane in as many weeks.



Reuters

U.S. Gulf Coast energy firms face another hurricane hit

To meet climate promises, Boris Johnson must redirect billions from biomass energy into real renewables, says Elly Pepper. I was pleased to read your article exposing government bias against genuine renewables (UK ministers ‘met fossil fuel firms nine times as often as clean energy ones’, 10 September). The dirty energy industry still has Boris Johnson’s government completely under its thumb, despite the climate and biodiversity crises we are facing. Over the past year, Johnson has repeatedly promised to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss. Yet the UK remains Europe’s top subsidiser of biomass electricity, which is made by logging our planet’s forests and burning the trees in power stations. Enormous sums of money flow to Drax and others because the UK has wrongly defined biomass energy as “green” despite the objection of scientists, communities and public interest organisations. The reality is that just like burning fossil fuels, burning trees for electricity pumps enormous amounts of heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and exacerbates climate change. It also results in the logging of forests that we need to suck up and store carbon, threatens wildlife, harms vulnerable communities and emits deadly air pollution. 

Why is the UK still in thrall to dirty energy? | Letter

President Biden spent two days warning about the climate crisis and promising that his administration would work to confront it, but Congress is not aligned on the solution.

Biden Urges Climate Action: ‘We Don’t Have Much More Than 10 Years’

President calls year-round fires an emergency country can no longer ignore as he advocates for rebuilding plan. Joe Biden travelled to California on Monday to survey wildfire damage as the state battles a devastating fire season that is on track to outpace that of 2020, the state’s worst on record. The president is using the trip to highlight the connection between the climate crisis and the west’s increasingly extreme wildfires as he seeks to rally support for a $3.5tn spending plan Congress is debating. 

‘It’s a reality’: Biden calls for urgency in California as climate crisis fuels wildfires

Report by climate groups found more than three-quarters of projects were discarded after the deal was signed. The global pipeline of new coal power plants has collapsed since the 2015 Paris climate agreement, according to research that suggests the end of the polluting energy source is in sight. The report found that more than three-quarters of the world’s planned plants have been scrapped since the climate deal was signed, meaning 44 countries no longer have any future coal power plans. 

Most plans for new coal plants scrapped since Paris agreement

Because of hoarding by rich countries, those in the global south on the frontline of the crisis will be excluded from the talksMohamed Adow is the director of the climate and energy thinktank Power Shift AfricaAs a Kenyan from a farming community that has experienced the ravages of the climate crisis, no one is keener to see a successful climate summit held in Glasgow than me. But this year, due to restrictions placed by the pandemic on those attending from the global south, I fear Cop26 will not be a success. It is because of this that it must be postponed until next spring. The UK government is aware of the issues facing those wishing to attend the conference in person, which is why it has offered vaccines to delegates unable to receive them in their home countries and to pay for their hotel quarantine. However, obstacles still remain. The vaccine rollout has been slow, and for those receiving the AstraZeneca jab, the deadline for receiving both doses within eight to 12 weeks of the conference starting has passed. 

With many African climate activists unable to access vaccines, should Cop26 go ahead? | Mohamed Adow

As the university sheds its fossil fuel investments, some argue it’s dangerous to limit leverage over oil and gas companies. Even as climate activists celebrated Harvard University’s promise to cleanse its multibillion-dollar investment fund of holdings in fossil fuel companies last week, others dedicated to the fight against the climate crisis wondered if the real winner was the oil industry. Harvard bowed to pressure from students and advocacy groups who likened their campaign to the push to divest from apartheid South Africa in the 1980s. The group, Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard, described the decision as a “massive victory” and “proof that activism works, plain and simple”. 

The climate advocates who say Harvard’s oil divestment is a mistake

On a trip through India, Mr. Kerry, the U.S. climate envoy, said the global climate summit must be held in November despite concerns about the pandemic.

John Kerry: Delaying U.N. Climate Summit Would Be a ‘Huge Mistake’

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is expected to roll out as soon as October expansive new regulations requiring public companies to disclose how their operations contribute to climate change and what they are doing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Biden’s Plan To Expand Climate Disclosure Requirements Means Higher Prices For Consumers

Nations are coming to grips with their overdependence on renewables, and reconsidering their closure of nuclear plants

Skyrocketing Natural Gas Prices Create New Opportunity For Nuclear Energy

When it comes to the UK and net zero, the Gigastack project is a bit of a political favourite.

You can see why. The demonstration project is in the high-tech and high-hype area of green hydrogen. It sits squarely in levelling-up country, bringing together Orsted’s large wind farm off the coast of Yorkshire with ITM Power’s new electrolyser factory in Sheffield with a plan to power Phillips 66’s Humber refinery.


Policy smog is holding back UK net zero progress

This paper highlights the fundamental contribution the circular economy can make to halting and reversing biodiversity loss. It aims to detail the specific role of each circular economy principle, and their applicability across sectors. By showcasing four sectors - food, built environment, fashion, and plastics - the paper illustrates how the circular economy offers a framework for transformative change, and sets out actions business and policymakers can take to achieve this shift.

Ellen MacArthur Foundation

The Nature Imperative: How the circular economy tackles biodiversity loss

A confusing financial ecosystem is impeding the provision of climate finance to developing countries, and threatens to destroy what trust remains between rich nations and the Global South.



Depleting the Climate Trust Fund

Walmart is attempting to erase its huge climate footprint while continuing to sell tens of millions of low-priced products. Every day a seemingly never-ending stream of toothbrushes, toilet paper, tape, thumbtacks, toys and other products criss-cross the globe from a network of suppliers to Walmart’s more than 10,500 stores. The retailer, which was for many years the biggest in the world until Amazon took its crown in August, has a supply chain almost unfathomably complex. And it comes with a huge carbon footprint. In 2019 the company emitted 17.56m metric tons of greenhouse gases. 

Walmart has a plan to tackle the climate crisis. Can it pull it off?

Grid constraints mean many houses in California would not be able to access solar panels, electric vehicles or space and water heaters, Berkeley researchers found, typically affecting poorer, Black communities and exacerbating existing energy inequality.

California’s Grid Capacity Could Undermine Its Clean Energy Drive And Access Among Poorer Households, Study Finds

A Solar Futures Study released by the Department of Energy (DOE) projects that solar generation could achieve nearly 50% of the power production mix by 2050, contingent on large federal government infrastructure investments.

Big Money For Solar, As Biden Targets Half Of U.S. Electricity From The Sun By 2050

Activists want the companies that have called for federal climate action to get behind the $3.5 trillion package: "We will have a really long, long memory."

Politico

‘We will have a really long, long memory’: Greens calling businesses’ bluff on climate change

As demand for coal supposedly rises, Australia is keen to continue mining the fossil fuel, ignoring warnings over the negative impact on climate change


Mining Global

Australia dismisses climate caution to continue coal mining

Technologies to produce low-carbon fuel and convert harmful emissions into useful products are critical in transition to clean energy


The Straits Times

Hope for green future also rests on harnessing hydrogen, trapping carbon dioxide

Locals in the host city are being asked to offer a warm welcome to indigenous delegates visiting for Cop26. In October, Calfín Lafkenche of the Mapuche people of Patagonia, on the southernmost tip of Chile, will embark on an 8,000-mile journey across the Atlantic. He won’t be the only one taking such a trip; indigenous people from Peru’s highest mountains will walk for eight hours to board day-long flights, while those from the deepest Amazon will travel for two days to board a canoe bound for their nearest town. Their ultimate destination? Glasgow. These are just some of the indigenous communities journeying across the globe to make their voices heard for the first time at Cop26, the UN climate change conference taking place in Glasgow from November. 

Wanted: your spare room for global visitors to Glasgow’s climate summit

Whether coming from politicians, ESG insiders, or competing industries, the assertion that natural gas demand is somehow going away, and investments in new supply are thus unwarranted, is demonstrably false. Putin is counting on such Energy Unrealism.

The Obvious Delusion Of ‘No More Natural Gas’

The IPCC report on climate change published in August 2021 has provided a stark reminder that human activity is unequivocally responsible for global warming and changing environmental conditions on Earth. At the same time, the growing commitment of governments and companies across the world to net zero emissions targets is an encouraging sign that the reality of the world’s climate crisis is now being understood while also being a sharp reminder that actions, not just words, will be needed if the rise in global temperatures is to be limited to 1.5o C this century.

Oxford Inst. for Energy Studies

The Energy Transition: Key challenges for incumbent and new players in the global energy system

People around the world have logged tens of billions of hours on Zoom, Netflix and all kinds of other online applications at home over the past 18 months.

But a mass decampment to the online world requires a lot of space in the physical world. That means data centers. These buildings and warehouses store data and various critical applications used by companies of various sizes, and it's not just the major tech giants.

DW News

Europe is seeing a data center boom. But can the environment sustain it?

Polluted coal-reliant provinces made China’s megacities rich. Now President Xi Jinping’s green ambitions to curb carbon emissions risk leaving them behind.

Bloomberg Green

China’s Poor Regions Worry About Climate Justice in Net-Zero Push

Municipal bond ETFs are getting into something that stock fund managers have been doing for a while now—sustainable investing.  

On Friday, asset manager VanEck launched the first municipal bond exchange-traded fund explicitly focused on the type of investment that goes by many names—sustainable, values-aligned, but most commonly ESG, which stands for environmental, social, and corporate governance.

Barron's

ESG Is Coming to Municipal Bonds ETFs. What to Know.

Compared with most other sectors, the global defense industry remains at an early stage of its journey to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This isn’t entirely surprising: safety, reliability, and performance have been and will continue to be the paramount requirements of customers in the armed forces. Many defense systems and supporting infrastructure are also inherently more difficult to decarbonize than in most other sectors. As a result, it’s conceivable that the global defense industry’s contribution to worldwide CO2 emissions could soar from 2% today to 25% by 2050—unless contractors work more aggressively to reduce their carbon footprints.

The Growing Climate Stakes for the Defense Industry

The world’s largest listed oil companies will have to cut production by at least 50 per cent over the next decade if the world is to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees as per the Paris climate accord, influential climate think tank Carbon Tracker has warned.

In a new report, the group also claims the oil and gas industry is “still betting against the success of global efforts to tackle climate change”.

Irish Times

Big Oil needs to cut production by 50% to hit climate targets

Vehicle makers shy away from traditional materials that are hard to recycle, like leather and plastics, and look to repurpose alternatives that still convey quality.

Building a More Sustainable Car, From Headlamp to Tailpipe

ExxonMobil has been touting its commitment to “reducing carbon emissions with innovative energy solutions”. Chevron would like to remind you it is keeping the lights on during this dark time. BP is going #NetZero, but is also very proud of the “digital innovations” on its new, enormous oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico. Meanwhile Shell insists it really supports women in traditionally male-dominated jobs.

Big oil’s delay tactics are the new climate science denialism

Sustainability | Climate Change

When residents in Union Hill, Virginia, decried the pipeline as a form of environmental racism, the energy company insisted it wasn’t. As fracked gas fields in West Virginia boomed over the past decade, energy companies jumped at the chance to build massive new pipelines to move the fuel to neighboring east coast markets. The 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline would have been the crown jewel. But Union Hill, Virginia – a community settled by formerly enslaved people after the civil war on farm land they had once tilled – stood in the way. Residents fought against a planned compressor station meant to help the gas move through the pipeline, arguing that because Union Hill is a historic Black community, the resulting air pollution would be an environmental injustice. 

A historically Black town stood in the way of a pipeline – so developers claimed it was mostly white

Vehicle emissions contribute significantly to global warming effects, although technologies such as hybrid and fully electric vehicles have been introduced in recent years to reduce vehicle emissions. Hydrogen-fueled vehicles also offer the potential to reduce harmful emissions. In these vehicles, hydrogen must be stored at high pressure, which requires storage tanks that are mechanically strong and do not rupture easily during a crash. Ph.D. candidate Ruben Weerts investigated how hydrogen tanks are damaged when subject to controlled impacts. Weerts defended his Ph.D. thesis at the department of Mechanical Engineering on September 9th.

What happens to a hydrogen tank during a collision?

The California Air Resources Board has adopted a regulation that requires truck and engine manufacturers to reduce the nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from new heavy-duty trucks by 90 percent starting in 2027. NOx from heavy-duty trucks is one of the main sources of air pollution, creating smog and threatening respiratory health. This regulation requires the largest air pollution cuts in California in more than a decade. How can manufacturers achieve this aggressive goal efficiently and affordably?

The benefits of high-efficiency, flexible-fuel engines for heavy-duty trucking

Solar and wind sectors unite in new global alliance

National Audit Office warns the flagship Environmental Land Management Scheme that is set to come online from next month is at risk from low levels of support from farmers and a lack of detailed objectives


Poor harvest: Is the UK's post-Brexit green farming subsidy scheme struggling to capture farmers' attention?

Brazil government is determined to show the world a new, greener face after three years in which deforestation rates and global outrage exploded. In the four decades since he helped found the Garden of Gold, Fernando Viana has had a front row seat to the chaotic scramble for precious metals in the Brazilian Amazon. Cutthroat squabbles over the jungle mines sprinkled around this riverside outpost. Lead-riddled corpses dumped outside the rowdy wooden bordellos he once ran. 

Bolsonaro cracks down on illegal mining in Amazon amid global pressure – for now

Governments need to engage more with companies to cut CO2, says new head of gas and low carbon business

Incoming BP executive urges dialogue to speed up clean energy transition

The US and EU plan on Friday to commit to cutting methane pollution by 30 per cent over the next decade and are lobbying other large emitters of the potent greenhouse gas to join the effort. The pact is designed to push methane up the agenda ahead of the UN climate summit in Glasgow in November, said people briefed on the plan, and will take effect in October. The UK would also be included, they said.


US and EU plan agreement to curb methane pollution

The world’s first operational deployment of approximately 35 new Caterpillar 793 zero-emissions autonomous haul trucks will be at Gudai-Darri.

Mining.com

Rio Tinto teams up with Caterpillar for zero-emissions autonomous trucks

Energy-focused multilateral development bank, the Arab Petroleum Investments Corporation (APICORP) has reinforced its commitment to the energy transition by committing to a new environment, social and governance (ESG) policy framework.



ESI Africa

Development bank prioritises energy transition through new ESG policy

Officials at Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant have acknowledged they neglected to investigate the cause of faulty exhaust filters that are key to preventing radioactive pollution, after being forced to replace them twice.

Fukushima plant failed to probe cause of faulty filters

As the UK's National Metrology Institute, NPL has a significant role to play in supporting climate change mitigation action and enabling the innovations which will help industry deliver on their goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Geological storage of carbon has gained a lot of attention, but a more versatile carbon capture solution is required if it is to become a reliable mitigation to emissions.

Improving carbon capture efficiency to help net zero emissions

Eight months after Francisco Vera was targeted on social media, no arrests have been made. But he continues to campaign for the wildlife he loves. Ever since someone threatened to kill her 12-year-old son, Ana Maria Manzanares says life has felt like Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. In January, Francisco Vera was sent anonymous death threats on Twitter after the young environmentalist called for better access to education for children during the Covid-19 pandemic. The news caused outrage in Colombia and made headlines around the world. President Iván Duque pledged to find the “bandits” that sent the message. Eight months later, nobody has been arrested. But the fear and anxiety have not gone away. 

Colombia’s 12-year-old eco-activist refuses to let death threats dim passion

Last year, there were a record 227 killings globally. It is our duty to keep resisting the insatiable forces that led to their deaths. Each year, we learn more about the climate crisis. The data flows: ever-rising heat, unprecedented deforestation, record rainfall. And once a year, we also learn more about the human impact of the crisis too, as data is released on the killings of land and environmental activists, the very people highlighting and protesting at the breakdown of our climate. As Global Witness’ annual report reveals, in 2020, that number rose to a record 227 killings worldwide. Every time, the data hits me like a blow to the face. I’ve spent much of my life as an environmental activist and journalist, and so if I haven’t actually met the people sadly on this list, I’ve met hundreds exactly like them. Strong local people, attached to place and community, seeing their role in defending terrain and ancestral territory. Every person like this around the world is at risk. And they are at risk, in the end, not so much because of another local person who pulls the trigger or plunges the blade; they’re at risk because they find themselves living on or near something that some corporation is demanding. Like Fikile Ntshangase, the South African grandmother who led a spirited campaign against a coalmine in KwaZulu-Natal province and was shot dead in her home last year. Or Óscar Eyraud Adams, the indigenous activist who, during Mexico’s worst drought in 30 years, vocally advocated for his community’s right to water, as the authorities denied them and granted corporations ever more permits. Oscar was shot dead in Tecate last September. The demand for the highest possible profit, the quickest possible timeline, the cheapest possible operation, seems to translate eventually into the understanding, somewhere, that the troublemaker must go. The blame rarely if ever makes its way back up to a corporation’s HQ. But it should. Especially since the people who inhabit these places never really share in the riches produced there: colonialism is still running strong, even if it’s dressed up with corporate logos or hidden with offshore bank accounts. 

Climate activists are being killed for trying to save our planet. There is a way to help | Bill McKibben

Some biofuels may contribute to greenhouse gas emissions in ways that can significantly reduce, and sometimes offset, their advantages over fossil fuels, studies have shown.

Biden Outlines a Plan for Cleaner Jet Fuel. But How Clean Would It Be?

The best, safest, least expensive solution to nuclear waste gets a near-unanimous bipartisan negative vote from the Texas Legislature. Lawmakers banned storage of high-level radioactive waste in Texas, including spent nuclear fuel, at their approved nuclear waste disposal site near Andrews, Texas.

Atomic Chickens: Texas Lawmakers Reject Proven Plan To Store Nuclear Waste

A record 227 people were killed in 2020 for standing up against developments, including mining projects, a report by Global Witness shows.

Murders of environment and land defenders hit record high – report

Several thousand people gathered at an ecological protest in Belgrade on Saturday, called ‘Uprising for survival – people versus Rio Tinto,’ to voice their discontent over the endangered environment and public health, as well as plans to open a lithium mine in western Serbia.

Balkan Green Energy News

Thousands demand revoking Serbia’s commitments to Rio Tinto

Biden permitting decisions give major US mining investment a black eye.

‘Here we go again,’ reacts Northern Dynasty’s Thiessen on EPA permitting decision

Oil extraction is neither a clean nor simple process. Alongside the desired crude, vast quantities of water and natural gas are produced from oil wells.

In 2019, 75% of the 935 billion cubic metres (bcm) of gas emitted – so-called ‘associated gas’ – was captured on-site, estimates the International Energy Agency (IEA). It was then either used to power the extraction site, reinjected into the well or stored and later sold to consumers.

Oil industry flaring needs immediate action to keep net-zero hopes alive

IEA Key World Energy Statistics (KWES) is an introduction to energy statistics, providing top-level numbers across the energy mix, from supply and demand, to prices and research budgets, including outlooks, energy indicators and definitions. KWES is part of the IEA's annual edition of the world’s most comprehensive series of energy databases and data services, which include World Energy Statistics and Balances and the full range of fuel information data services.

Key World Energy Statistics 2021

Biden administration study says quadrupling installation rate would not raise bills.

US clean-energy blueprint contains 40% solar goal for 2035

Increasing green public investment while consolidating deficits will be a central challenge of this decade. A green fiscal pact would address this tension, but difficult trade-offs remain.

Bruegel

A green fiscal pact: climate investment in times of budget consolidation

The Institute for Public Policy Research calls on the government to spend £6 billion a year in green measures to reach its decarbonisation targets



Energy Live News

‘Government installs nearly 6% of the heat pumps needed for net zero’

China’s efforts to control carbon emissions could have a negative impact on its economic growth in the short term, says Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk business (Nasdaq:VRSK).



Controlling emissions could have short-term negative impact on Chinese economy

Many Republicans vying to replace Newsom as governor want to roll back the state’s ambitious plans to cut planet-warming emissions, a change with nationwide implications.

California Recall Vote Could Weaken the State’s Aggressive Climate Policies

The instances of environmental injustice across the country are plentiful, and one can see it’s not as easy as “reduce, reuse, recycle.” Often it’s external factors, and those in power, making the decisions that affect our land. But just because we are met with these hardships doesn’t mean we don’t have a voice.

What does sustainability mean in the Bronx?

Australia has passed legislation that could set a precedent for who pays to clean up the fossil fuel industry in Asia, making former owners of oil and gas fields responsible for the costs of dismantling facilities if later owners fail.

Asia eyes Australia blueprint as $100 bln oil, gas clean-up looms

The pollution, emissions and clean-up costs of plastic produced in 2019 alone could be $3.7 trillion, according to a report released Monday (6 September) by wildlife charity WWF, warning of the environmental and economic burden of this “seemingly cheap” material.

Euractiv

Social cost of plastic pollution more than GDP of India

Sustainability | Policy & Regulation

Iraq’s announcement this month of a $27bn deal with TotalEnergies garnered little public attention outside Baghdad. That may be what the recently rebranded French oil major wanted.

Like its peers, Total is in the process of a challenging overhaul of its business, caught between sustaining oil and gas projects that generate the bulk of its profits, and louder calls to increase investment in cleaner energy. The Iraq deal seeks to do both at the same time.


TotalEnergies walks carbon tightrope with $27bn Iraq energy deal

Sustainability is a more urgent concern than ever. A new report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change outlined serious consequences already taking effect—and what’s coming if we don’t act.

Fast Company

How sustainability is transforming commerce

Orsted names new onshore chief

I am deputy director of Green 2.0 and a Latina. I am also an exception to the rule. 



GreenBiz

How green organizations can hire more people of color

When American Campus Communities Inc. announced the signing of a $1 billion sustainability-linked credit line in May, its executives decided to take a victory lap. For the first time, they said, the company was tying its borrowing costs to targets ranging from improved energy efficiency to workforce and boardroom diversity. The largest owner of college apartments in the U.S. even put out a press release touting its commitment to environmental, social and governance goals.

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