UK families are paying £605 more for their food than they did two years ago, with climate change being the main reason for the high prices, according to researchers. Rising costs due to extreme weather have kept food inflation high throughout 2022 and 2023 even as energy prices decreased. Recent flooding in the UK left...
Here’s why carbon capture is no easy solution to climate change. Carbon capture technology is central to the climate strategies of many world governments. It is also expensive, unproven at scale, and can be hard to sell to a nervous public. This currently makes the model of capturing carbon dioxide emissions from the air and storing them...
Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber is not named on the website of the Abu Dhabi fund bidding for the Telegraph titles and his Wikipedia page contains no reference to his role in shaping the country’s censorship regime. Al-Jaber is, however, poised to become a prominent figure in UK media as chairman of International Media Investors (IMI) and...
The UAE is destroying the ecosystem of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and yet its oil company chief will preside over COP28. It is no joke; the man who will preside over the upcoming climate summit, COP28 (which will take place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), from November 30 to December 12), is the chief oil executive of...
Last month, a portion of the Negro River in the Amazon rainforest near Manaus, Brazil, shrank to a depth of just 12.7 metres — its lowest level in 120 years, when measurements began. In Lake Tefé, about 500 kilometres west, more than 150 river dolphins were found dead, not because of low water levels, but...
Read more: news.mongabay.com Photo: news.mongabay.com
BRUSSELS 21 November, 2023: Disclosed delegates tied to the world’s biggest polluting oil and gas firms and their trade groups have attended UN-led climate talks at least 7200 times over the last 20 years, according to a new analysis from the Kick Big Polluters Out (KBPO) coalition. Just days ahead of COP28, an event already mired in controversy in...
Should we boycott COP28? The question is increasingly being raised by a large number of French entrepreneurs. For 250 of them, the answer is clear: they will not attend. This positioning raises questions less than three weeks before the opening of this new climate conference, which will be held this year in Dubai from November...
With around two weeks to go before the start of the COP28 in the United Arab Emirates, the main priorities for those climate talks are coming into sharper focus. For industry, an important conversation to watch is the continuing, deepening push for agreement on phasing out fossil fuels. Expect this to be a major priority from...
How fossil fuel lobbyists are skewing climate talks towards false solutions Carbon capture will be a hot topic at this year’s COP28. Oil and gas companies say it’s a solution to the climate crisis – reducing emissions by removing carbon from the air, during industrial processes or when producing electricity. The problem is, it doesn’t work...