Climate Policy & Regulation, Environment Protection, Climate Change

Walmart says it is likely to miss 2025, 2030 climate change targets

Walmart said it is likely to miss its 2025 and 2030 targets for reducing planet-warming emissions due to challenges related to energy policy, infrastructure and availability of cost-effective low-carbon technologies. The U.S

Dec 20, 2024

Climate Policy & Regulation, Climate Change, Environment Protection

US sets new Paris climate target that Trump is expected to ignore

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's administration has set a new U.S. target under the Paris climate agreement to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 61%-66% below 2005 levels by 2035, a goal officials called achievable by states even if President-elect Donald Trump follows through on vows to reverse federal policies

Dec 20, 2024

Environment Protection, Climate Change

Tata Steel's Dutch plant gets year to clean up coke oven

Dutch regulators on Thursday threatened to close down one of Tata Steel's main ovens at its massive plant in IJmuiden if it doesn't limit pollution within a year

Dec 20, 2024

Climate Change, Climate Policy & Regulation, Environment Protection, Technology

Chile's giant 'living fossil' frog faces threat from climate change and humans

A giant frog species that hopped alongside dinosaurs and is considered a "living fossil" is now losing ground in its native Chile as climate change and human intervention damage its habitat

Dec 19, 2024

Environment Protection, Climate Change, Climate Policy & Regulation

ECB proposes EU scheme to expand climate insurance uptake

LONDON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Europe's businesses and homes need to increase their insurance cover to better withstand climate catastrophes, the European Central Bank and the EU's insurance regulator said on Wednesday as they proposed policies that could boost uptake

Dec 19, 2024

Environment Protection, Climate Change, Climate Policy & Regulation

Trump advisers urge ending environmental reviews for mines receiving US funds

Reuters) - Advisers to incoming U.S. President Donald Trump are recommending he waive environmental reviews for federally funded critical minerals projects to boost domestic production of materials used in electric vehicles, electronics and weapons, according to a document seen by Reuters

Dec 19, 2024

Energy Management, Environment Protection, Climate Change

'Oil is everywhere': Russians tackle Black Sea spill

An oil spill from damaged tankers has contaminated a long stretch of sandy beaches along the Russian Black Sea shoreline, polluting the air and threatening wildlife in one of the worst ecological disasters to hit the region in years

Dec 19, 2024

Environment Protection, Climate Change, Climate Policy & Regulation

Cyclone compounds French Mayotte's problems of poverty, overcrowding and dwindling resources

PARIS (Reuters) - Mayotte was already struggling with overcrowding, illness and poverty before a devastating cyclone hit the French island territory at the weekend

Dec 19, 2024

Climate Change, Environment Protection, Climate Policy & Regulation

EU under pressure to weaken more climate policies, Denmark says

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union is under fresh pressure from some governments within the bloc to weaken its laws to fight climate change, after already watering down some in response to political pushback, Denmark's climate minister said on Tuesday

Dec 18, 2024

Climate Policy & Regulation, Environment Protection, Climate Change, Technology

Climate tech firms get $80 million to pull carbon from paper mills, sewage plant

SAN FRANCISCO - Google, H&M, Stripe and other members of the climate-focused Frontier coalition will buy $80 million of carbon credits from a firm using oil industry technology to capture paper mill emissions and another using rocks to do the same at sewage plants. While U.S

Dec 18, 2024

Walmart says it is likely to miss 2025, 2030 climate change targets

Dec 20, 2024

US sets new Paris climate target that Trump is expected to ignore

Dec 20, 2024

Tata Steel's Dutch plant gets year to clean up coke oven

Dec 20, 2024

Chile's giant 'living fossil' frog faces threat from climate change and humans

Dec 19, 2024

ECB proposes EU scheme to expand climate insurance uptake

Dec 19, 2024

Trump advisers urge ending environmental reviews for mines receiving US funds

Dec 19, 2024

'Oil is everywhere': Russians tackle Black Sea spill

Dec 19, 2024

Cyclone compounds French Mayotte's problems of poverty, overcrowding and dwindling resources

Dec 19, 2024

EU under pressure to weaken more climate policies, Denmark says

Dec 18, 2024