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

Beyond B-loans? Development banks seek private money for climate change fight

BAKU (Reuters) - As officials from around the world strive this week to reach a deal on funding for poorer countries to tackle climate change, investment manager Rob Drijkoningen is the sort of person they're hoping will help get them there. Drijkoningen is head of emerging market debt at U.S

Nov 20, 2024

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

Summit host Azerbaijan warns COP29 cannot succeed without G20 boost

BAKU (Reuters) - Leaders of the world's biggest economies must send a clear signal on the need to tackle global warming, COP29 climate summit host Azerbaijan said on Monday

Nov 19, 2024

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

Denmark to convert 15% of farmland to forest to cut fertilizer use

Denmark will convert 15% of its farmland into forest and natural habitats in an effort to reduce fertilizer usage, which has resulted in severe oxygen depletion in Danish waters as well as the loss of marine life, lawmakers said on Monday

Nov 19, 2024

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

Seaweed farming brings hope to Kenyan villagers hit by climate change

KWALE COUNTY (Reuters) - The people of Kenya's coastal village of Mwazaro used to earn their living mainly growing cassava and maize, until the ravages of drought forced them to try a new crop - seaweed

Nov 16, 2024

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

Countries, companies lag in response to tackle methane emissions, UN says

BAKU (Reuters) - Since a U.N. initiative began monitoring for methane leaks from oil and gas infrastructure last year, it has issued 1,200 alerts to governments and companies. But only 12 of those alerts for major plumes - just 1% - garnered a "substantive response" with action taken to plug the leaks, according to a report by the U.N

Nov 16, 2024

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

JPMorgan Gives Green Energy Finance Ratio For The First Time

BAKU (Reuters) - The United States' biggest lender JPMorgan provided $1.29 in financing to green energy for every dollar backing high-carbon energy supply in 2023, executives told Reuters, the first time it has released the figure

Nov 15, 2024

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

Development bank financing pledge gives COP29 summit early boost

BAKU (Reuters) - COP29 negotiators welcomed a pledge by major development banks to lift funding to poor and middle-income countries struggling with global warming as an early boost to the two-week summit

Nov 14, 2024

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

COP29 host Azerbaijan hits out at West in defence of oil and gas

BAKU (Reuters) - The president of Azerbaijan, host of this year's U.N. climate summit, lashed out at Western critics of his country's oil and gas industry on Tuesday

Nov 13, 2024

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

Greece's mussel harvest wiped out by warming seas

THERMAIC GULF, Greece (Reuters) - When Anastasios Zakalkas pulled up the ropes of his mussel farm in the Aegean Sea last month, the devastation was clear: the lines were not heaving with molluscs as they should be at harvest time but were instead filled with cracked, empty shells

Nov 10, 2024

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

Spain records rainiest October ever, culminating in deadly floods

Spain has registered the rainiest October on record, culminating in the most deadly floods in decades in the country, the national weather agency AEMET said on Friday. More than 220 people died after torrential rains on Oct

Nov 09, 2024

Beyond B-loans? Development banks seek private money for climate change fight

Nov 20, 2024

Summit host Azerbaijan warns COP29 cannot succeed without G20 boost

Nov 19, 2024

Denmark to convert 15% of farmland to forest to cut fertilizer use

Nov 19, 2024

Seaweed farming brings hope to Kenyan villagers hit by climate change

Nov 16, 2024

Countries, companies lag in response to tackle methane emissions, UN says

Nov 16, 2024

JPMorgan Gives Green Energy Finance Ratio For The First Time

Nov 15, 2024

Development bank financing pledge gives COP29 summit early boost

Nov 14, 2024

COP29 host Azerbaijan hits out at West in defence of oil and gas

Nov 13, 2024

Greece's mussel harvest wiped out by warming seas

Nov 10, 2024