Boris Johnson failing on UK plan to reach net zero, say MPs
Public accounts committee report says despite green rhetoric, government policy is falling short
Public accounts committee report says despite green rhetoric, government policy is falling short
A report from the PAC said there was no co-ordinated plan, with clear milestones, to achieve net-zero by 2050
The Public Accounts Committee says "at present, there is no coordinated plan", despite the government making the target in 2019.
The plan could allow for emissions to keep growing through 2025.
Target is in line with previous trends and could lead to greenhouse gas emissions continuing to rise
BEIJING (AP) — China, the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, announced generally moderate new energy and climate targets on Friday that give little sign that it will step up its pace in...
We can't save the climate by ramping up logging and simply planting new trees to replace existing forests, writes Dogwood Alliance Executive Director Danna Smith
The boreal forest is threatened by climate change and human activity. Without urgent action, it could reach a terrifying tipping point.
The United Nations Secretary-General on Wednesday called on people and governments everywhere to step up efforts to protect forests and support forest communities, under increasing threat from unsustainable use of forest resources and wildlife trafficking.
If you’ve ever overstuffed your fridge and let some leftovers go bad in the back of it, you’re not alone. People toss more than 1 billion tons of food in the trash every year, according to a new United Nations report. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
Around a fifth of all food produced worldwide was thrown away in 2019, study suggests
A United Nations report estimates 17% of food produced each year is wasted. That's 931 million metric tons of food, doubled from a decade ago.
They do an even better job than forests on land
Scientists say restoring the lush habitats would boost wildlife, protect coasts and store carbon
Greenhouse gas stored in country’s marine world heritage sites about same as four years of emissions
The American Petroleum Institute is considering endorsing a carbon price. That’s a big shift, but a carbon price alone is not good climate policy.
The American Petroleum Institute, the top lobbying group for the oil and gas industry, is moving toward endorsing a carbon tax. But analysts debate whether API sees it as a way to undercut other policies or as a step forward on climate change.
The American Petroleum Institute, which is the nation’s largest lobbying group for the oil and gas industry, is planning to endorse levying a price on carbon pollution. But it's political giving includes millions to ensure climate legislation never passes.
Party says bank announced in budget needs ‘watertight’ environmental mandate
The final Budget before the UK hosts a key round of global climate talks was a ‘missed opportunity’ to put forward world-leading green measures, experts tell Daisy Dunne
Chancellor gave few details about net zero plans and did not mention his flagship policy
The company's chief executive tells Sky News that Volvo will contribute to charging infrastructure to ensure 2030 readiness.
"There is no long-term future for cars with an internal combustion engine," Volvo's chief technology officer said.
Volvo Cars becomes the latest firm to detail plans for a future centered around electric mobility.
Conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Thursday authored her first ruling since joining the U.S. Supreme Court in October as the court handed a defeat to an environmental group seeking access to government documents.
The European Union's top court ruled on Thursday that Britain had breached the bloc's air pollution limits for years and ordered it to comply with the rules, raising the possibility that the country may be fined even though it has quit the EU.
BERLIN — A man in Austria with a temperature-dependent form of multiple sclerosis is taking his government to court in an effort to force it to do more against climate change, his lawyers said Tues…
Backroom deals, undemocratic processes, shutting out local voices in favor of industry interests. There’s soap-opera level drama happening in an unlikely space: the world of building codes. But the outcome could have devastating effects on the climate.
The nonprofit consortium that oversees much of the nation's building codes just gave the construction and gas industries more control over the process.
States and municipalities around the country want to curtail the use of natural gas to fight climate change. Conservative and industry groups want to block them.
Behold A-74, an enormous iceberg that broke away from the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica late last month. British Antarctic Survey scientists reported the birth of the iceberg on Feb. 26. Here’s what we know about the new ‘berg and where it could go.
A massive iceberg, larger than New York City, has broken off from an ice shelf in Antarctica, according to researchers on Friday. The 490-square mile iceberg broke away from the Brunt Ice Shelf ab…
An iceberg more than 20 times the size of Manhattan split off from the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica this week because our planet is totally having a normal one.
‘Ending coal use, whether for power generation or for industry, is crucial for facing down the climate emergency,’ said one campaigner
The world still has a “fighting chance” to limit global warming by ending dependence on coal, UN Secretary-General António Guterres told representatives from governments, local authorities and the private sector, meeting online on Tuesday.
Call comes at event hosted by UK government, which is under pressure over planned coalmine in Cumbria
As the climate in the American West grows hotter and drier, butterfly populations are disappearing, new research shows. Butterfiles, along with bees that are also in declines, are important pollinators, and scientists worry that their decline will harm crops and other plants.
Butterflies play essential role in pollinating wild plants and crops. Which makes a new study published in Science on Thursday such bad news. It shows the climate crisis is posing an existential threat to their survival, particularly in the American West.
Monarch butterflies migrating to Mexico's forests for the winter are down by 26% since last year.
Though the spotlight is on Texas, it’s clear that the infrastructure across the South is in crisis after last month's cold snap. Jackson, Mississippi is emblematic of statewide suffering after decades of government disinvestment and aging infrastructure.
A Texas power grid oversight official who held the spectacularly wishful belief that he could keep his job after the state's power grid nearly failed and led to dozens of deaths has been fired and utility bills Texans will be paying for decades.
PORTLAND, Maine — President Joe Biden wants to change the way the US uses energy by expanding renewables, but he will need to navigate a host of challenges — including the coronavirus pandemic and …
Scientists thought the decades-long cycle of active and slower hurricane seasons was a natural pattern – but new research suggests otherwise.
Remember the movie, "The Day After Tomorrow," in which a catastrophic series of global disasters strike after climate change causes the world's ocean currents to stop?
Researchers say circulation is in its "weakest state in over a millennium."
MOSCOW – Russia launched its space satellite Arktika-M on Sunday on a mission to monitor the climate and environment in the Arctic amid a push by the Kremlin to expand the country’s activitie…
Russia launched its space satellite Arktika-M on Sunday on a mission to monitor the climate and environment in the Arctic amid a push by the Kremlin to expand the country's activities in the region.
The Northern Sea Route is a shortcut across the Arctic that can save shipping companies a lot of cash, but was never passable in the winter, until now.
Global emissions must be reduced by roughly 45% by 2030 to limit devastating impacts of climate change, but nations are on track to reduce emissions by less than 1%, report says.
The planet is on "red alert" because governments are failing to meet their climate change goals, the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said Friday.
The Paris agreement target for CO2 reduction is 45% of 2010 levels by 2030. The report found just a 0.5% fall estimated.
A new United Nations report finds that countries are not promising to do enough carbon-cutting to keep global warming from hitting dangerous levels.
U.N. says global pledges to cut greenhouse gases aren't even close to what's needed to stem global warming
The newest pledges by countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions are falling far short of what's needed to limit global warming to what the Paris climate accord seeks, a new United Nations report...
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) cast a surprise vote in favor of Rep. Deb Haaland as interior secretary, becoming the only Republican on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee to support her.
The Senate energy committee voted along near party lines to advance President Joe Biden’s Interior secretary nominee, over the objections of Republicans who said Deb Haaland’s past opposition to fossil fuels made her unfit to serve as the chief U.S. manager of hundreds of millions of acres of federal land.
As Deb Haaland, President Biden's choice for Interior secretary, heads toward a showdown vote, the department she would head is moving ahead on environmental policies.
If the US and Canada want to be climate leaders, here’s how they can collaborate.
"It’s nice when the Americans are not pulling out all the references to climate change and instead adding them in," added the Canadian prime minister.
President Biden on Tuesday said that he and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau agreed to work together to counter China’s influence and to combat racism and global warming. Biden and Trud…
UNITED NATIONS — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned world leaders Tuesday that climate change is a threat to security of all nations and sharply criticized people across the globe who say …
John Kerry’s remarks stood in sharp contrast to the American stance under the previous administration, which tried to block even general mentions of global warming at the world body.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned world leaders Tuesday that climate change is a threat to security of all nations and sharply criticized people across the globe...