Glasgow (AFP) Nov 2, 2021 - Countries on Tuesday issued a landmark pledge to slash their methane emissions this decade, with US President Joe Biden chiding China's leader for skipping the make-or-break COP26 climate summit.
Toulouse, France (SPX) Nov 02, 2021 - Airbus, Dassault Aviation, ONERA, the French Ministry of Transports and Safran have launched the first in-flight study of a single-aisle aircraft running on unblended sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)
Glasgow (AFP) Nov 2, 2021 - India's economy will become carbon neutral by the year 2070, the country's prime minister announced Monday at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.
London (AFP) Nov 2, 2021 - Finance minister Rishi Sunak is to announce plans to make Britain the world's first net zero financial services centre by 2050, the Treasury said Tuesday.
Brasilia (AFP) Nov 1, 2021 - The government of Brazil, much criticized for its environmental policies, said Monday it would cut 2005-level greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 - up from a previous pledge of 43 percent.
Istanbul (AFP) Nov 1, 2021 - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday returned to Turkey from the G20 summit in Rome, cancelling his planned attendance at the COP26 conference in Glasgow, according to state media reports.
Washington (AFP) Nov 1, 2021 - IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva on Sunday urged world leaders gathered at the COP26 summit in Glasgow to show greater policy ambition, calling climate change a grave threat to macroeconomic and financial stability.
Glasgow (AFP) Nov 1, 2021 - Rich countries' failure to cough up a promised $100 billion a year to help vulnerable nations cope with climate change has deadly consequences, the prime minister of Barbados said Monday at the COP26 summit in Glasgow.
Riyadh (AFP) Oct 31, 2021 - Saudi Aramco's earnings rose 158 percent year-on-year in the third quarter on higher oil prices and volumes sold as the global economy recovered, it said on Sunday.
Rome (AFP) Oct 31, 2021 - G20 leaders meeting in Rome on Sunday committed to the key goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius and pledged action on the use of coal, but fell short on a target of zero emissions, according to a final draft communique.
Riyadh (AFP) Oct 29, 2021 - The climate crisis does not look like good news for the oil industry, but Saudi Arabia is sniffing an opportunity that could help retain its energy dominance for decades.
Beijing (AFP) Oct 29, 2021 - Days before the United Nations COP26 summit in Glasgow, China has submitted a renewed emissions-cutting plan that failed to include substantial new commitments to drastically reduce carbon output in the near future from the world's biggest polluter.
New York (AFP) Oct 29, 2021 - Profits at ExxonMobil and Chevron rebounded in the third quarter on strengthening oil and natural gas prices, according to results released Friday that underscored the industry's improved financial position compared with the darkest days of the pandemic.
Saint-Petersburg, Russia (SPX) Oct 28, 2021 - Researchers from Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) in collaboration with an industrial partner elaborated thermoelectric generator of new generation, which is ten times m
Paris (AFP) Oct 28, 2021 - China on Thursday submitted a renewed emissions cutting plan that promised to peak carbon pollution before 2030 but which experts said stopped short of the radical decarbonisation required of the world's largest polluter.
Paris (AFP) Oct 28, 2021 - Six years ago, nearly every country in the world set targets for reducing their carbon emissions - but the sum total of their pledges fell far short of what was needed to keep the planet from dangerously overheating.
