‘Whole Generation Is Damned’: Biden Warns People ‘Can’t Deny’ Climate Change
President Biden gave a dire warning about the future while talking about climate change in a new interview. While a guest on “The Daily Show,” Biden told former Obama aide Kal Penn that young people between 18 and 35 years…
Biggest carbon credit certifier to replace its rainforest offsets scheme
The world’s leading carbon credit certifier – used by Disney, Shell, Gucci and other big corporations for climate claims – has said it will phase out and replace its rainforest offsets programme by mid-2025 after a Guardian investigation found it…
Lebanese Man Builds Wind Turbine from Recycled Plastic–Producing Electricity for his Family and Neighbors
In Lebanon’s windy northwest governate of Akkar, a literature student taught himself engineering to build a wind turbine on his grandmother’s roof. With government-supplied electricity more of a nice theory than a daily reality, solar panels have become ubiquitous in the region. However 25-year-old Mohamad Sabsabi used old water drums, steel beams, and a cart […]
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Opinion: More legislation needed in global warming fight – Austin American-Statesman
Climate activists celebrated the Aug 2022 passage of the Inflation Reduction Act for its many provisions dealing with climate. True, those provisions were watered down in order to secure passage, and they are far less than what is needed. But that it…
‘We create changemakers’: the new UK college dedicated to climate crisis
The lecture theatre was once a cowshed, the study centre is an old farmhouse living room and the classrooms are mostly outdoors: welcome to the newest higher educational college in Britain. The former farm that is Black Mountains College campus…
If California Is Our Energy Future, Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid
When Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom called a special legislative session in December to tax California’s oil refiners out of their “excessive” profits, he was following a well-trod path of Golden State governors blaming the oil and gas industry for…
Brother Of Top Biden Aide Seeing Green As Prez Gives ‘Free Publicity’ To Client
Critics slammed President Joe Biden on Monday for giving “free publicity” to General Motors with a tweet featuring the company’s electric Hummer. But the president’s promotion actually cost the company a pretty penny. General Motors has paid Jeff Ricchetti, the…
The Guardian view on carbon offsetting: a model with dangerous flaws | Editorial
The strong reaction to the Guardian’s joint investigation into carbon offsetting shows how much is at stake when the effectiveness of market mechanisms in combating global heating is challenged. Already, in Australia, politicians and scientists have renewed their criticism of…
Methane comes front and center in climate change policy – Brookings Institution
Climate scientists have long recognized methane as “carbon dioxide on steroids,” a short-lived but highly intensive climate pollutant that possesses more than 80 times the warming power of carbon during its first two decades in the atmosphere. It is responsible…
EUâs Carbon Border Tax: Is it regressive and protectionist or an incentive for global decarbonisation?
This measure is being imposed in an already uneven context, say experts
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