Tag: Climate change
Electrification: A Key Strategy for Achieving Net-Zero Goals
Standing inside a purpose-built laboratory at the University of Salford is a red-brick terraced house, Energy House 1, located on Joule Terrace in the northern English city of Manchester. At first glance, it looks...
COP30: Addressing the Elephant in the Room – Fossil Fuels and Climate Change
Andreas Sieber, who's the associate director of global policy and campaigns at 350.org, and Stela Herschmann, a Climate Policy Specialist at Observatório do Clima, are gearing up for COP30. This conference is shaping up...
US Foreign Energy Funding Redirected to Fossil Fuel Expansion
From Africa to Southeast Asia, the Trump administration is cancelling US support for projects designed to replace coal, oil, and gas with clean energy, pushing instead for the use of American taxpayers’ money to...
Indigenous Activists Demand Oil Drilling Ban at COP30
Jonas Mura, the big boss of the Mura Indigenous people, is all like, "Peace out!" because oil and gas companies crashed the party around ten years ago. He's been fighting tooth and nail against...
Workers Demand Climate Action on May Day
Anabella Rosemberg, who is a senior advisor on Just Transition at Climate Action Network International (CAN-I), is really passionate about workers' rights and climate justice. She believes that these two important issues need to...
Sen. Collins Criticizes Trump for Cutting Scientific Research
So, like, Sen. Susan Collins, the one from Maine, started this hearing on Wednesday, right? And she was totally bashing the Trump administration for cutting science funding, firing federal scientists, and causing all this...
US Advocates Gas Over Renewables in Energy Security Discussions
So, like, at this energy security summit in London, around 60 government officials were super opinionated about fossil fuels and renewable energy, you know? The US was all about fossil fuels, while the UK,...
Repeal of America’s First Greenhouse Gas Tax by Trump
Republicans in the House and Senate have recently voted to repeal a crucial Biden-era rule concerning America's first greenhouse gas tax on methane pollution. This decision was met with strong opposition from environmentalists and...
UK Carbon Emissions Hit Historic Low – Eco-Friendly Trend
In a groundbreaking analysis by Carbon Brief, it has been revealed that the United Kingdom's carbon emissions in 2024 plummeted to an extraordinary low of 409 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO2e), marking...
Past Pollution Ignored in Rich Nations’ 1.5C Climate Plans
Wealthy nations' claims that their emissions reduction targets for 2035 are in line with limiting global warming to 1.5C have sparked skepticism among experts concerned about fairness. In recent months, countries such as the...
