IEA says Indonesia policy reform needed for clean energy transition 5/9/2022

Indonesia needs to ensure policy reforms to pave the way for renewable power and to reduce reliance on coal, as part of a goal to achieve net-zero emissions by 2060, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in a report released on Friday. ...more

Norway to extend life of its last Arctic coal mine to meet demand 5/9/2022

Norway's state-owned coal company will extend production at its last mine in the Arctic Svalbard archipelago by two years until mid-2025 to help ensure supplies to European steel-makers at a time of war, the government said on Friday. ...more

U.S. is seriously underestimating the consequences of CO2 - study 2/9/2022

The U.S. government is drastically underestimating the social cost of carbon dioxide emissions, which is 3.6 times higher than the estimate currently used to inform many of Washington's key climate policies, a study suggested on Thursday. ...more

Low rate of flood insurance cover spells danger as climate crisis deepens 2/9/2022

Insured losses from floods doubled to $80 billion globally during 2011-2020 compared to the previous decade, while insurance penetration lingered at just 18%, according to Swiss Re Institute's economic insights report focused on floods. ...more

Switzerland's vanishing glaciers threaten Europe's water supply 2/9/2022

Switzerland's glaciers have lost more than half their volume in less than a hundred years, and the long hot summer this year has accelerated the thaw, a new study shows. ...more

Carbon capture is not a solution to net zero emissions plans, report says 2/9/2022

Carbon capture and storage schemes, a key plank of many governments’ net zero plans, “is not a climate solution”, the author of a major new report on the technology has said. ...more

England had its joint hottest summer on record - Met Office provisional data 2/9/2022

England had its joint hottest summer on record, the Met Office national forecaster said on Thursday, citing provisional data in a series which goes back to 1884. ...more

G20 climate talks in Indonesia fail to agree communique 1/9/2022

Officials from the Group of 20 major economies meeting on Wednesday for climate talks in Bali have been unable to agree a joint communique, amid objections over language used on climate targets and the war in Ukraine, two sources told Reuters. ...more

Global fossil fuel subsidies almost doubled in 2021, analysis finds 1/9/2022

Global public subsidies for fossil fuels almost doubled to $700bn in 2021, analysis has shown, representing a “roadblock” to tackling the climate crisis. ...more

Brazil's Amazon sees worst August fires in over a decade 1/9/2022

Fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest surged in August to the highest for the month since 2010, government data showed on Wednesday, surpassing the blazes in August 2019 that drew global attention soon after President Jair Bolsonaro took office. ...more