Portugal on track to become coal-free by year end
The Sines coal plant in Portugal went offline at midnight yesterday evening (14 January), leaving the country with just one remaining coal power station in operation, which is scheduled for closure in November
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Global food producers 'failing to face up to role' in climate crisis
The world’s biggest producers of meat, dairy and seafood are failing to tackle the enormous impact they are having on the planet through deforestation, the routine use of antibiotics and greenhouse gas emissions
Decades of progress ‘can be wiped out overnight,’ UN chief laments at climate session in Yokohama
“Little undermines development like disaster,” UN Secretary-General Guterres told attendees at a thematic session on Africa and climate change, on day two of the Tokyo international Conference on African Development
Switzerland to become climate neutral by 2050, says government
Switzerland should become climate neutral by 2050, the Swiss government has declared. It has tightened its target based on new scientific findings published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Human impacts on oceans nearly doubled in recent decade
Over the recent decade, total human impacts to the world's oceans have, on average, nearly doubled and could double again in the next decade without adequate action
Japanese consortium to build world’s first electric tanker
Reducing carbon emissions means more than just every car on Earth being a Tesla. As bad as the amount of carbon pouring into the atmosphere from millions of gasoline and diesel powered vehicles is, the emissions from shipping are far worse
World ‘off track’ to meet most Sustainable Development Goals on hunger, food security and nutrition
Key parts of the Global Goals agenda linked to achieving zero-hunger are “off-track”, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Thursday, in an appeal for much greater public investment in farming
