President Biden and a group of bipartisan senators announced a $1.2 trillion Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework (with $579 billion in new spending). While the proposal includes some investments in climate priorities, it cuts key climate action provisions that would benefit the economy, jobs and public health. Biden’s original American Jobs Plan, including the Made in America […]
Countries With New Fossil Fuel Projects Should Zero Out Emissions -U.S. Climate Envo
WASHINGTON : Countries developing new oil, gas and coal projects should make sure they come with technology that can reduce the emissions to zero, John Kerry, the U.S. special presidential envoy for climate, told reporters on Thursday. “It’s a real challenge and nobody can duck it,” Kerry said in a news conference. “There’s an incumbent […]
How negative emissions can help organizations meet their climate goals
As governments and businesses take up the urgent task of reducing carbon emissions, they should also consider another essential means of limiting the rise in global temperatures: removing carbon from the atmosphere through the creation of negative emissions. As is now well known, keeping warming below 1.5°C by stemming the buildup of atmospheric CO2 is […]
Electric Car Sales Surge as Europe’s Climate Targets Bite
The uptick in electric car sales caused a 12% drop in average CO2 emissions of new cars sold in Europe last year, compared with in 2019, reversing a trend that had seen such emissions increase for three consecutive years. BRUSSELS: One in every nine new cars sold in Europe last year was an electric or […]
South Australians Embrace Sustainable Living in an Effort to Combat Rising Energy Costs
GREEN housing is more front of mind than ever in South Australia, driven largely by our state’s exorbitant electricity prices. South Australian representative of the Australian Passive House Association, architect Brett Aylen, said green practices were more commonplace in SA housing. “One of the main drivers is that the cost of electricity and energy has […]
LG Launches New Solar Range Fit to Endure Aussie Climate
Soaking up the benefits of solar in Australia just got a whole lot easier as LG Electronics launched its new range of panels, claiming to be a good match for our climate down under. The LG NeON range is set to stir up the solar market with its latest award-winning products, designed to withstand harsh […]
World ‘Way Off Track’ On Climate: UK Business Lobby
Britain, which hosted the weekend G7 leaders’ summit, will also anchor the COP26 UN climate gathering in Glasgow in November. World efforts to tackle climate change are “way off track”, the head of Britain’s main business lobby group said Monday after a G7 pledge to step up action. Tony Danker, director-general of the Confederation of […]
With Trump gone, NATO wages war on climate change threat
Trump called climate change a “hoax” and pulled the United States out of the international Paris Agreement to fight climate change If the U.S. military were a nation state, it would be the world’s 47th largest emitter of planet-warming greenhouse gases, a 2019 study found. Though the British universities of Lancaster and Durham took account […]
Sembcorp Industries Announces Inaugural S$400 Million Green Bond Offering to Support Its Growing Renewables Portfolio
First Certified green bond under the Climate Bonds Standard by a Singapore-based energy company Competitive pricing achieved with a “Greenium” that reflects strong interest for Sembcorp’s Green Bonds Sembcorp Industries (Sembcorp) today announces the successful pricing of its inaugural S$400 million green bond offering (Green Bonds). Through its wholly-owned subsidiary Sembcorp Financial Services (SFS), Sembcorp […]
EU Wants to Loosen State Aid Rules For Renewable Energy Projects
The EU executive said the revised rules would allow EU countries to introduce new aid instruments and projects in clean transport, energy efficiency in buildings and biodiversity could also be fully funded by EU countries. EU countries will have to consult all interested parties on subsidized projects as one of several safeguards to ensure that […]