Disappointments at COP30…. But something Big is Bubbling from Belem!
Introduction – COP30 background This is the 30th anniversary of the founding the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change…
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UNEP’s 2025 Emissions Gap: Slow Progress and Failing Natural Sinks Signal a Dangerous Turn
Introduction The 2025 Emissions Gap Report from UN Environmental Programme (UNEP) is out and basically says emissions are stuck…
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A bonfire of the sciences – trump’s dismantling of climate policy
It has been 6 months or 184 days to be exact since 20 January 2025 when Donald J Trump formally took office as the 47th President of the United States of America. Those days may feel like years to many. But e
ven with another 42 months to go it seems like the shape of his policy objectives for his term in office is becoming clearer and none more so than in relation to his energy and climate and environmental agenda which has been the focus of so much of this frenzied demolition job. -
India’s development – a climate conundrum?
India coal expansion risks massive methane growth: report (msn.com) AFP showing near term development plans by India include the…
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The stickiness of Fossil Fuels
– what is slowing the transition to clean energy? credit: pexels- ron lach Oil Industry responsibilities for slowing transition…
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Local opposition to geoengineering water experiment stops testing.
Cape Cod scientists delay controversial climate change project after feds raise concern (phys.org) A division going to the heart…
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Mind the (Emissions) Gap – 2024
The 2024 Emissions Gap Report from UNEP. In brief – The United Nations Environmental Protection agency (UNEP) annual Emissions…
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Going Electric – World Energy Outlook 2024
World Energy Outlook 2024, Three themes stands out in this year’s World Energy Outlook (WEO) 2024, published annually by…
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COP29 – Disappointment in Bacu
Conference of the Parties (COP) 29 in Bacu, Azerbeijan ends with poor results Gloom descends Towards the end of…
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EU: Energy and Climate Commitments – laggard or leader?
Clean Energy – Industrial policy The EU has been accused of being an industrial laggard and its true that…
