Dubai (AFP) Dec 3, 2023 - Most countries which have committed to a target of net-zero carbon emissions have not announced any plans to phase out fossil fuels, putting those pledges at risk of being little more than a bumper sticker, a climate monitor warned Monday.
Hanoi (AFP) Dec 3, 2023 - Vietnam has laid out a $15.5 billion dollar blueprint to transition away from coal power, but environmentalists warned Sunday the plan fell far short of what was needed.
Dubai (AFP) Dec 3, 2023 - The UAE's COP28 president says there is no science to show that phasing out fossil fuels would achieve the world's climate goals, but acknowledge that it is inevitable, a report said on Sunday.
Dubai (AFP) Dec 2, 2023 - Vice President Kamala Harris told the UN's COP28 conference on Saturday that the United States will contribute $3 billion to a global climate fund - its first pledge to it since 2014.
Dubai (AFP) Dec 2, 2023 - Fifty oil and gas companies representing 40 percent of global production pledged to decarbonise their operations by 2050 at the UN's COP28 climate talks in Dubai on Saturday.
Dubai (AFP) Dec 2, 2023 - Brazil will tell oil producers to get ready to reduce fossil fuels when it joins OPEC+ next year, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said at the COP28 climate talks on Saturday.
Boston MA (SPX) Dec 01, 2023 - A new study suggests that universities have an essential role to fulfill in the continued growth and success of any modern high-tech industry, and especially the nascent fusion industry; however, th
Paris (AFP) Dec 1, 2023 - Western energy firms are the usual suspects when it comes to criticism about the sector's role in climate change, but a less visible lineup of powerful state companies dominates the industry.
Dubai (AFP) Dec 1, 2023 - The World Bank will operate an ambitious new climate change fund, but donors and recipients will likely control how the money is actually spent, the head of the development lender said Friday.
Dubai (AFP) Dec 1, 2023 - UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced Friday plans by UAE state-owned renewables firm Masdar and German energy giant RWE to invest up to 11 billion pounds ($14 billion) in a giant offshore windfarm.
Tokyo (AFP) Dec 1, 2023 - The world's biggest experimental nuclear fusion reactor in operation was inaugurated in Japan on Friday, a technology in its infancy but billed by some as the answer to humanity's future energy needs.
Paris (AFP) Dec 1, 2023 - If we are to save the planet, we are going to have to use energy far more efficiently.
Dubai (AFP) Nov 30, 2023 - The Emirati host of the UN climate conference said Thursday that fossil fuels must be part of any deal as the crucial negotiations on global warming opened in Dubai.
Dubai (AFP) Nov 30, 2023 - The UN climate conference opens in Dubai on Thursday with nations urged to increase the pace of action on global warming and phase out fossil fuels, amid intense scrutiny of oil-rich hosts UAE.
United Nations, (AFP) Nov 30, 2023 - The COP28 climate conference should aim for a complete phaseout of fossil fuels, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told AFP on Wednesday, warning of total disaster on humanity's current trajectory.
Paris (AFP) Nov 30, 2023 - The UN's former climate chief said she was giving up hope that fossil fuel firms will be part of the solution to warming as pivotal COP28 talks start Thursday in oil-rich United Arab Emirates.
