High level meetings between the US Energy Secretary, Special Presidential Climate Envoy, World Bank President, prominent Senators and other senior figures have underscored the need for greater international cooperation.
A new IEA report shows a 5% rise in electricity demand in 2021 with almost half the increase met by fossil fuels, notably coal, threatening to push CO2 emissions from the power sector to record levels in 2022.
Giant pandas are no longer classified as endangered but are still vulnerable, Chinese officials say.
The UN has drafted a Paris-style agreement that focuses on curbing biodiversity loss by eliminating plastic pollution, reducing pesticide use by two-thirds, halving the rate of invasive species introduction, and eliminating £360bn of harmful environmental government subsidies a year.
Eight of the world’s leading insurers and reinsurers have made an historic commitment to play their part in accelerating the transition to a net-zero emissions economy, as required by the Paris Agreement.
Across UK cities, a meadows revolution is rising. City councils are letting the grass grow as a means to create ‘managed messiness’ for wildlife to thrive.
Conflict between people and animals, from China’s famed wandering elephants raiding farms for food and water to wolves preying on cattle in Idaho, is one of the main threats to the long-term survival of some of the world’s most iconic species, warns a new report from World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the UN Environment Program (UNEP).
Accelerating the green energy transition could help grow the world’s economy by an additional 2.4pc over common expectations in the next decade, new analysis shows.
Portugal’s equitable and well-balanced plans for reaching a carbon-neutral economy should support the country’s economic growth and energy security, according to a new energy policy review by the International Energy Agency.