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Trump’s ‘America First’ and what it means for us
As his own inauguration speech made it clear – we can no longer expect America to deal with the crises that beset us.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury has called on world leaders to be “bolder” in tackling the climate crisis when they meet for the UN’s COP26 summit in Glasgow, saying the era of fossil fuels must come to an end. But before he became ordained and heard, as he puts it, “God calling”, the Archbishop spent more…
With the upcoming COP26 climate summit there was some good news from China, which announced that it will no longer be involved in new coal power projects overseas.
Protesters blocked one of London’s busiest junctions by plonking a large pink table there at the start of two weeks of planned demonstrations by Extinction Rebellion.
Hydrogen is our most abundant element and emits just water when it’s burned, so it could well play a role in helping us to reach net zero.
Today’s announcement that energy bills are to rise, again, is difficult news for families already worried about their finances as autumn approaches.
The chief executive of a North Sea oil company has said the climate emergency is “fake” in now deleted tweets from his personal account, despite his company’s claims it is working towards a net zero carbon emissions target, Channel 4 News can reveal.
A hedge fund with a tiny stake in the massive oil giant that is ExxonMobil has pulled off a boardroom coup by persuading Exxon shareholders to vote to put two new directors on the board.
In an exclusive interview with Channel 4 News, the Governor of the Bank of England said climate change posed both a risk and a ‘huge opportunity’.
The Russian Embassy put forward some stats in response to the former foreign secretary. But we’re not convinced their argument is as strong as it appears.
Now to some good news about green energy. The National Grid has announced that electricity powering UK homes and businesses across the summer was the greenest on record, with solar, wind and nuclear power creating more energy than fossil fuels. But there have long been complaints that renewable energy only works with massive public subsidies.…
CO2 levels have not been this high for at least three million years.
As his own inauguration speech made it clear – we can no longer expect America to deal with the crises that beset us.
It’s less than a month now before climate change sceptic Donald Trump takes over the White House.He won the US presidential election partly on a platform of using more fossil fuels with fewer environmental rules. Now President Obama has announced climate protections which his successor might not be able to reverse.
Almost every country in the world has signed up to the “historic” agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions and slow global warming.
The chief executive of electric car maker Tesla launches a networked battery harnessing solar power, which he thinks could herald the end of the conventional power-sharing grid.