In an article on the BBC News website, Matt McGrath discusses Heathrow airport expansion and the credibility of the UK’s net-zero commitment. The Climate Change Committee is not saying Heathrow expansion is impossible; it is saying the economics must include the full cost of dealing with aviation’s emissions—and that some of the technology being relied … Continue reading Who pays the climate cost of Heathrow expansion?
Category: environment
COP31: The EU says climate promises are no longer enough
Marta Pacheco writes on the Euronews website that the draft EU position for COP31 says that current implementation is insufficient and calls for concrete progress on renewables, energy efficiency, electrification and moving away from fossil fuels. EU heads to COP31 with a blunt message: climate pledges are no longer enough EU ambassadors want COP31 … Continue reading COP31: The EU says climate promises are no longer enough
Drought knows no borders. The world’s response still does.
In an article on The Conversation website, Susan Ann Samuel, Postdoctoral Researcher, International Climate Politics, University of Leeds, discusses failure of international politics to keep pace with a problem that is already affecting virtually every part of the world. Climate, biodiversity and land degradation are treated institutionally as separate problems when, physically, they are deeply … Continue reading Drought knows no borders. The world’s response still does.
Electric cars aren’t carbon neutral — but they’re still much cleaner
In an article on the Deutsche Welle website, Martin Kuebler discusses the clash between claims that EVs are not really climate-friendly once their full life cycle is considered and evidence that, even after battery production and electricity generation are included, EVs still have substantially lower lifetime emissions than combustion-engine cars. Some German politicians are calling … Continue reading Electric cars aren’t carbon neutral — but they’re still much cleaner
Strong economic case for tackling pollution and climate change together, UN finds
Tackling air pollution and climate change together would boost global GDP by 2.8 per cent by 2035, according to a UN report, as the majority of the world continues to be exposed to air that remains below global quality standards. UN: Every US$1 invested in climate and clean-air action can return US$15 Every US$1 … Continue reading Strong economic case for tackling pollution and climate change together, UN finds
Energy in Demand News, September 6-7, 2026
Maersk, the integrated container logistics company, has signed a deal to install the first wind sail on a container ship, the Financial Times reports, noting that the maritime industry is returning “to an age-old technology to cut fuel consumption and comply with tougher environmental regulations. The sail, a 35m-high rotor sail designed by the British … Continue reading Energy in Demand News, September 6-7, 2026
UNEP: World set to cross 1.5°C global warming, but can still limit, adapt to and return from higher temperatures
Report puts best-case scenario peak temperature rise at 1.8°C; others suggest over 2°C Above 1.5°C, climate impacts and risks of tipping points intensify with every fraction of a degree ‘Overshoot, peak and decline’ pathway best remaining option to help vulnerable nations and communities cope and return to below 1.5°C Global temperature rise is set to … Continue reading UNEP: World set to cross 1.5°C global warming, but can still limit, adapt to and return from higher temperatures
Energy in Demand News, August 23-24, 2026
The Trump administration is doing everything possible to crush California’s environmental policies that have been respected world-wide, New York Times reports. “Mr. Trump and his Republican allies in Congress have blocked California from setting its own limits on automobile pollution, which federal law has permitted since the 1970s. The Energy Department has announced $75 million … Continue reading Energy in Demand News, August 23-24, 2026
Cooling AI in the ocean — solution or new environmental problem?
In an article on The Conversation website, Nir Kshetri, Professor of Management, University of North Carolina – Greensboro, discusses the tension between AI’s enormous infrastructure needs and the environmental consequences of moving that infrastructure into the sea. AI companies look to the ocean as a place to put more data centers The artificial intelligence … Continue reading Cooling AI in the ocean — solution or new environmental problem?
The ‘forever chemicals’ hidden in the clean energy transition
In an article on the Deutsche Welle website, Stuart Braun questions whether the technologies intended to solve one environmental crisis depend on chemicals that create another. As nations globally move to ban forever chemicals, should renewable energy technologies be exempt for the sake of saving the climate? Can we go green without forever chemicals? … Continue reading The ‘forever chemicals’ hidden in the clean energy transition
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