Tuesday, 4 March 2025

Focus on Climate

People cool off in misters along the Las Vegas Strip, Tuesday, June 4, 2024, in Las Vegas. Parts of California, Nevada and Arizona are expected to bake this week as the first heat wave of the season arrives with triple-digit temperatures. (AP Photo/John Locher)
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Southwest US to bake in first heat wave of season, ‘dangerously hot conditions’

The first heat wave of the season is bringing triple-digit temperatures earlier than usual to much of the Southwest U.S., where forecasters warned...

Climeworks sucks carbon dioxide from the air and stocks it underground in Iceland (AFP)
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Carbon capture must quadruple by 2050 to meet climate targets: report

By 2050, humanity must durably remove four times as much CO2 from the air as today to cap global warming below the crucial...

Green Tories call for their party to deliver environmental policies (Andrew Matthews/PA)
ClimateElectionsEnvironmentNewsPolitics

UK Green Tories urge their party not to cede environmental leadership to the left

Britain's Green Tories have urged their party to build on Conservative environmental successes with a raft of proposals to boost nature and tackle...

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CleanTechnica: How investors can get ready for a decarbonizing economy

The 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) highlighted the need for higher levels of climate finance, including to help emerging economies with...

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Boost energy efficiency, reduce energy poverty: Efficiency Canada report

A new report from Efficiency Canada contains recommendations for programs and policies that could help alleviate energy poverty through improving energy efficiency.

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Sanctioned tankers pose rising environmental risk in Mediterranean, Greece says

ATHENS (Reuters) – Unregulated tankers sidestepping Western sanctions are posing a bigger risk to the Mediterranean region and Greece is undertaking more protective...

FILE PHOTO: Claudia Sheinbaum, the presidential candidate of the ruling Morena party, gestures while addressing her supporters after winning the presidential election, in Mexico City, Mexico June 3, 2024. REUTERS/Raquel Cunha/File Photo
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Can Mexico’s Sheinbaum shake Lopez Obrador’s oil legacy?

Mexico's President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum, could struggle to fulfil environmental pledges due to predecessor who doubled down on fossil fuels

FILE PHOTO: Volvo EX90, the company's new electric SUV, is unveiled during a launch event in Stockholm, Sweden November 9, 2022. Anders Wiklund/TT News Agency/via REUTERS/File Photo
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Volvo to issue world’s first EV battery passport ahead of EU rules

Volvo is launching the world's first EV battery passport recording origin of raw materials, components, recycled content and carbon footprint

l Power’s Genesee Power Plant is seen near Edmonton in an Oct. 19, 2022, handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Capital Power-Jimmy Jeong, *MANDATORY CREDIT*
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Canadian carbon capture rollout lags – industry, Ottawa at odds

Question of who should bear the financial risk for pricey carbon capture projects is slowing the technology's adoption in Canada

An IEA analysis of policies, plans and estimates from nearly 150 countries found that they could reach 8,000 gigawatts of renewable power capacity in six years' time. (AFP)
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World falling short on 2030 renewables goal: IEA

Nations are falling short of the UN 2030 climate goal agreed as effort to curb global warming, International Energy Agency said Tuesday

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