Saudi Arabia’s energy minister is rejecting complaints that the oil kingdom is working behind the scenes to undermine global climate talks
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Foundations commit billions to fight climate change
Global warming is an area many think philanthropy has neglected.
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U.N. chief says global warming goal is on ‘life support’
Guterres said the negotiations in Glasgow, Scotland, set to end Friday, will ‘very probably’ not yield the carbon-cutting pledges he has said are needed to keep the planet from warming beyond the 1.5-degree threshold.
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Serious about climate change? Get serious about peat.
These waterlogged, acidic, low-nutrient ecosystems are the most carbon-dense lands on Earth.
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Draft deal at U.N. climate talks calls for end to coal use
The early version of the document circulating at the negotiations in Glasgow, Scotland, also impresses on countries the need to cut carbon dioxide emissions by about half by 2030.
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Renewable energy in the U.S. nearly quadrupled in the past decade, report finds
The proportion of electricity that the United States gets from solar and wind nearly quadrupled from 2011 to 2020.
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Despite pledges at COP26, world likely on track to warm 2.5 degrees Celsius, U.N. report says
In a preliminary analysis released Tuesday, researchers found a massive gap between countries’ long-term promises to zero out carbon emissions and the official, short-term plans they have submitted to U.N. officials.
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Commentary: Tech startups could close greenwashing loopholes
Better carbon accounting tools will make it possible to see which companies are truly green.
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Developers of former South Portland Shipyard focus on sustainability
Owners of the prime 30-acre coastal site have hired a world-renowned sustainability expert to help them shape its redevelopment.
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Letter: Film has much to teach about small steps leading to big gains
I just watched a documentary called “1833: The Year Britain Abolished Slavery,” about the end of slavery in the British empire circa 1807-1833 or, more specifically, between the ban on the transatlantic shipping of Africans to British plantations in the Caribbean in 1807 to the actual emancipation of said Africans in 1833. The interim, 26 […]