China’s coal power generation approached a record high this week, as a severe heatwave and drought threaten to cripple the country’s energy system. Coal power plants were fired up in response to surging demand for air-conditioning, as record high temperatures persisted across central, southern and western China. Coal is also filling the gap created by…
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China’s coal power generation approached a record high this week, as a severe heatwave and drought threaten to cripple the country’s energy system. Coal power plants were fired up in response to surging demand for air-conditioning, as record high temperatures persisted across central, southern and western China. Coal is also filling the gap created by…
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As the world braces for an energy shock even bigger than that of 1974, it is striking that Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine has foisted upon us something more like a global carbon tax than anything achieved by UN climate summits. Yet the green movement is oddly silent. It would be callous to cheer price…
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As a boy, Sam Mamia, a Maasai from Kajiado county in southern Kenya, used to herd his father’s livestock on the hills around his house. Now 34, he still works within sight of where he roamed as a child. “My home is there and my school was there,” he says, pointing to nearby fields where…
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California has enacted rules that halt sales of new petrol-powered vehicles by 2035, as the US state that has been a bellwether on environmental policy takes aim at its largest source of carbon emissions. A carmaker trade group described the target as “extremely challenging”. Even as California leads the nation in electric vehicle sales, they…
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BlackRock has come out fighting against Texas’s decision to single it out as hostile to fossil fuels, calling the state’s targeting of it “opportunistic”, “anti-competitive” and “bad for business”. The world’s biggest asset manager was the only US company included by Glenn Hegar, Texas comptroller, on a list of 10 financial institutions that “boycott” fossil…
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Do you remember where you first heard the term “carbon footprint”? Neither do I. For many of us, the term was slipped into our subconscious by an advertising campaign that ran for two years from 2004 and was funded by oil giant BP. “What on earth is a carbon footprint?” read one ad, emblazoned with…
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California is poised to enact rules that halt sales of new petrol-powered vehicles by 2035, as the US state that has been a bellwether on environmental policy takes aim at its largest source of carbon emissions. A carmaker trade group described the target as “extremely challenging”. Even as California leads the nation in electric vehicle…
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Environmental campaigners have launched a legal challenge against the government’s food strategy for England, arguing its lack of plans to cut meat and dairy consumption breaks laws including the Climate Change Act. Lawyers at Leigh Day, acting on behalf of the campaign group Feedback, on Tuesday filed a claim for judicial review at the High…
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Federated Hermes, a champion of environmentally friendly investment strategies, is coming under increasing pressure to explain its sponsorship of a coalition of senior US public officials which opposes action on climate change. Three Danish pension fund clients of Federated Hermes are demanding to know why it agreed to act as a gold sponsor for the…
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