Environment

The world needs to ditch coal in order to tackle climate change and save the planet, former UK business secretary Alok Sharma, who is now president for this year’s global climate summit COP26, said on Friday. In a speech in Glasgow, the city that will host the 26th United Nations …

China’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2019 exceeded those of the U.S. and other developed nations combined, with the nation of over 1.4 billion people being responsible for more than 27 percent of total global emissions. The findings are in a report published on Thursday by the research and consulting firm, …

Power generation accounts for roughly a third of global greenhouse gas emissions. So when Japan’s biggest power producer, Jera Co., announced last October that it aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 — but not by relying exclusively on renewable power — it took even some energy experts by surprise, …

Officials in Japan are set to allow state-owned Jogmec to provide financial support for local companies investing in overseas plants that produce hydrogen or ammonia as part of a push to decarbonise, reported the Nikkei. This will be a departure for Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corp, known as …

Saudi Arabia and other top oil and gas producers have teamed up to help implement the Paris Agreement on climate change and move towards achieving net zero emissions. Other countries who are part of the Net Zero Producers Forum are the US, Canada, Norway, and Qatar. The Saudi energy ministry …

The United States is still putting the finishing touches on its plan to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, ahead of a summit this week with world leaders, including Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and China’s President Xi Jinping. President Joe Biden’s administration has been pressing other countries to make …

Global CO2 emissions from energy are seen rising nearly 5% this year, suggesting the economic rebound from Covid-19 could be “anything but sustainable” for the climate, the International Energy Agency says. The IEA’s Global Energy Review 2021 predicted carbon dioxide emissions would rise to 33 billion tonnes this year, up …

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have received a lot of negative attention in recent months and years for their absolutely staggering energy consumption. Bitcoin alone consumes approximately the same amount of energy the Netherlands thanks to the extremely energy-intensive “mining” process in which miners hook up computers–in some cases entire warehouses …

China has taken the global lead in nuclear energy construction capacity, as the installed capacity of nuclear power generating units under construction remained the world’s largest in the past few years with 17 units currently under construction, according to the Blue Book of Nuclear Energy 2021 released by China Nuclear …

China’s electricity-guzzling Bitcoin mines, which power nearly 80 per cent of the world’s cryptocurrency trade, could undermine the country’s climate goals, according to a study published on Tuesday in the scientific journal Nature. While the terminology cunjures up images of digging up precious minerals from a hole in the ground, …