11 h. ago Make green great again: Can appeals to the wallet make climate policy an election

In this week’s newsletter: At a major gathering in New York, climate advocates say that language has to change• Don’t get Down to Earth delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereAt stuffy United Nations press conferences, in swanky auditoriums and at sticky socialist dance parties, one word was on everyone’s lips at this year’s Climate Week NYC: affordability.The US energy secretary, Chris Wright, said under that under President Trump the United States is “returning to commonsense energy policies that focus on affordability”. The former energy secretary, Jennifer Granholm, said Democrats must focus on renewable power’s ability to shrink power bills to win elections. And supporters of the almost certainly soon-to-be New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani, trumpeted their efforts to link green policies with efforts to lower city residents’ rent and make transit affordable.Revealed: Europe losing 600 football pitches of nature and crop land a dayUK fracking ban to be brought forward as Labour ...

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4 d. ago Labour must fight rightwing billionaires undermining net zero, says Ed Miliband

Exclusive: Energy secretary will hit out at the Tory and Reform ‘culture war’ and unveil target of 400,000 new jobs in clean energyLabour is in a fight against “global network of right-wing billionaires” who want to undermine net zero for their “vested interests”, the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, has said.He said that the Tories and Reform UK were “importing a net zero culture war” and that accelerating the green transition would be key to winning the argument with the public. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Xi sets out conservative climate goal for China over next decade

President contradicts US leader by calling the green energy transition ‘the trend of our time’

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8 d. ago China’s Xi sets out conservative climate goal for next decade

President contradicts Donald Trump by calling the green energy transition ‘the trend of our time’

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1 week ago ‘Something is working’: UN climate chief optimistic about green transition

Exclusive: Simon Stiell believes economic benefits will compel countries to speed up climate actionCleaning up industry and the global economy will produce massive economic dividends for countries that grasp the opportunity – as the example of China has shown, the UN climate chief has said, before a crunch summit of world leaders this week.In a last-ditch call to heads of government summoned to New York by the UN secretary general this week, Simon Stiell, the executive secretary of the UN framework convention on climate change, said governments would almost certainly fail to come up with the climate commitments needed to fulfil the Paris agreement before a deadline this month, but they could still reset their economies to reap the advantages of low-carbon growth. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Court rules Europe can call nuclear and natural gas sustainable investments for its green transition

A European Union court has ruled that nuclear energy and natural gas can be considered environmentally sustainable investments

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last month Finance for transition mineral mining is driving destruction and abuse, says report

Hundreds of billions of dollars invested in extractive mining for green transition with few safeguards, research findsThe financing of transition mineral mining is driving widespread environmental destruction and human rights abuses, according to a report.Banks and investors have ploughed hundreds of billions of dollars into companies mining for minerals for the manufacture of solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, energy grids and electric vehicles in the past decade, according to the research. Continue reading...

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