Innovative solar desalination system could provide low-cost drinking water for millions 11/10/2024

Scientists have built a solar-powered desalination system that does not need expensive batteries and which could produce vast amounts of low-cost drinking water for millions around the world. ...more

Foreign aid for fossil fuel projects quadrupled in a single year 11/10/2024

Foreign aid for fossil fuel projects quadrupled in a single year, a report has found, rising from $1.2bn in 2021 to $5.4bn in 2022. ...more

Carbon removal no solution if world overshoots warming target, scientists say 11/10/2024

Even greater efforts to strip carbon dioxide from the atmosphere will fail to avert climate change catastrophe as rising global temperatures threaten to cross a key threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit), scientists said on Wednesday. ...more

UN agency launching platform to help small farmers meet EU deforestation rules 11/10/2024

A United Nations trade agency is launching an online platform this month to help small farmers in developing countries maintain access to Europe once new deforestation rules kick in. ...more

Collapsing wildlife populations near ‘points of no return’, report warns 11/10/2024

Global wildlife populations have plunged by an average of 73% in 50 years, a new scientific assessment has found, as humans continue to push ecosystems to the brink of collapse. ...more

Global energy-related CO2 emissions set to peak this year, consultancy DNV says 10/10/2024

Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the energy sector will likely peak this year due to falling costs for solar and batteries which are encouraging less coal-fired power and oil use, a report by consultancy DNV suggested on Wednesday. ...more

Renewable energy to fall short of UN goal to triple by 2030, IEA says 10/10/2024

Renewable energy sources are set to meet nearly half of all electricity demand by the end of the decade, but to fall short of a U.N. goal to triple capacity to reduce carbon emissions, an International Energy Agency (IEA) report showed on Wednesday. ...more

Fitch says decarbonisation of world economy progressing far too slowly 10/10/2024

Decarbonisation of the global economy is progressing too slowly and while there has been improvement among big developed economies, emerging markets have failed to make reductions, Fitch Ratings warned in a report published on Wednesday. ...more

Lloyd's of London must stop supporting fossil fuel expansion says NGO 10/10/2024

The Lloyd's of London (SOLYD.UL) market is undermining climate action and should impose binding rules to prevent insurers supporting fossil fuel expansion, NGO Reclaim Finance said on Wednesday. ...more

Spanish olive trees find new home on Hungary's slopes as climate warms 10/10/2024

Wine maker Csaba Torok, who grows olives on Hungary's warm southern slopes near Lake Balaton, believes his trees from southern Europe have found a successful new home as Europe's climate gets warmer. ...more