End-to-end attribution provides a vital scientific tool for making fossil fuel companies accountable, and could reshape climate litigation globally

Shashi Kant Yadav, Lecturer, Northumbria University, Newcastle and Gitanjali Nain Gill, Professor of Environmental Law, Northumbria University, Newcastle write on The Conversation website about significant advances made in climate science that enable researchers to understand how specific activities affect the climate, and contribute to wildfires, extreme heat and flash floods. Climate change: new method … Continue reading End-to-end attribution provides a vital scientific tool for making fossil fuel companies accountable, and could reshape climate litigation globally →

The US Department of Energy marginalises GHG emissions in new report

In an article on the New York Times website, Maxine Joselow and Brad Plumer discuss a new report developed by the 2025 Climate Working Group, a group of five independent scientists assembled by Energy Secretary Chris Wright with diverse expertise in physical science, economics, climate science and academic research. The agency asked the five climate … Continue reading The US Department of Energy marginalises GHG emissions in new report →

The Science Based Targets initiative says that, to be 1.5C-aligned, financial institutions must stop funding firms that are expanding fossil fuel production and use

This week, the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) launched a net zero standard for banks, asset managers and insurance companies, which requires them to end financing for firms that are expanding coal projects immediately and for those expanding oil and gas projects by 2030. In an article on the Climate Home News website, Joe Lo … Continue reading The Science Based Targets initiative says that, to be 1.5C-aligned, financial institutions must stop funding firms that are expanding fossil fuel production and use →

US President Donald Trump has decided to defund the Mauna Loa observatory recording CO2 data, as well as the widespread US GHG monitoring network and other climate measuring sites

Alex Sen Gupta, Associate Professor in Climate Science, UNSW Sydney; Katrin Meissner, Professor and Director of the Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW, UNSW Sydney; and Timothy H. Raupach, Scientia Senior Lecturer, UNSW Sydney write on The Conversation website about the expected changes in monitoring carbon dioxide in the US. Mauna Loa Observatory captured the … Continue reading US President Donald Trump has decided to defund the Mauna Loa observatory recording CO2 data, as well as the widespread US GHG monitoring network and other climate measuring sites →

Recent research into changing methane concentrations indicates that the Anthropocene began in 1592

In an article on The Conversation website, Vincent Gauci, Professorial Fellow, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham discusses his recent research about when the Anthropocene started. The Anthropocene is the name given to the specific period of Earth history during which humans have had a global effect on the planet’s climate … Continue reading Recent research into changing methane concentrations indicates that the Anthropocene began in 1592 →

Energy in Demand News, May 25-26, 2025

While there has been more environmental reporting, there have also been more academic studies that prove that there are serious grounds for doubt about the published environmental results. A Financial Times newsletter refers to one draft paper from King’s College London that uses data from Climate Trace, an open-access initiative that takes inputs from more … Continue reading Energy in Demand News, May 25-26, 2025 →

Trust alone will not solve the climate crisis, but it plays a crucial role in shaping how societies respond to scientific guidance

Omid Ghasemi, Research Associate in Behavioural Science at the Institute for Climate Risk & Response, UNSW Sydney and Ben Newell, Professor of Cognitive Psychology and Director of the Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW Sydney write on The Conversation website on the importance of trust in our climate scientists as we address climate change … Continue reading Trust alone will not solve the climate crisis, but it plays a crucial role in shaping how societies respond to scientific guidance →

The Trump administration is stripping away support for scientific research in the US and overseas that contains a word it finds particularly inconvenient: “climate”

Oliver Milman writes on the Guardian website about how the new US government is stripping funds from domestic and overseas research amid warnings for health and public safety. Is this affecting you? Outcry as Trump withdraws support for research that mentions ‘climate’ The Trump administration is stripping away support for scientific research in the … Continue reading The Trump administration is stripping away support for scientific research in the US and overseas that contains a word it finds particularly inconvenient: “climate” →

Energy in Demand News, February 9, 2025

The EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) aims to reduce carbon emissions, put a fair price on the carbon emitted during the production of carbon intensive goods imported into the EU, and encourage cleaner industrial production through a methodology for calculating embedded emissions according to the Paris Agreement and the EU Fit for 55 package. … Continue reading Energy in Demand News, February 9, 2025 →

Jeff Bezos’s $10bn Earth Fund cuts ties with Science Based Targets initiative

Phoebe Weston writes on the Guardian website about the decision of the Earth Fund to halt funding to the STBi. The decision to stop backing SBTi comes as Amazon founder seeks to curry favour with Donald Trump. Jeff Bezos fund ends support for climate group amid fears billionaires ‘bowing down’ to Trump Jeff Bezos’s … Continue reading Jeff Bezos’s $10bn Earth Fund cuts ties with Science Based Targets initiative →