8 d. ago UK greenhouse gas emissions fell 3.5% in 2024, Government figures show

Emissions within the UK were 54.2% lower than 1990 levels, the Energy Department said.

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9 d. ago Tackling climate crisis will increase economic growth, OECD research finds

Third of global GDP could be lost this century if climate crisis runs unchecked, says reportTaking strong action to tackle the climate crisis will increase countries’ economic growth, rather than damage their finances as critics of net zero policies have claimed, research from the world’s economic watchdog has found.Setting ambitious targets on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, and setting out the policies to achieve them, would result in a net gain to global GDP by the end of the next decade, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), in a joint report with the UN Development Programme. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Climate change is spiralling out of control: Damning report reveals how records were smashed for greenhouse gas emissions, global temperatures and sea level rise in 2024

Climate change is spiralling out of control, with many of the consequences now 'irreversible', a damning report from the World Meteorological Organization has found.

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3 w. ago Britain's greenhouse gas emissions have FALLEN to their lowest level since 1872, promising analysis reveals

The UK's greenhouse gas emissions are now at levels not seen consistently since Victorian times, report experts at Carbon Brief.

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3 w. ago EPA considers pulling scientific study that shaped modern climate policy

The 2009 scientific finding says carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions threaten public health

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3 w. ago Climate change could affect Earth's orbit and litter space with 'millions of pieces of junk'

Scientists have warned that greenhouse gas emissions will result in less space junk being burned up – and more debris littering outer space

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3 w. ago Trump’s USAid cuts will have huge impact on global climate finance, data shows

Campaigners say funding halt is a ‘staggering blow’ to vulnerable nations and to efforts to keep heating below 1.5CDonald Trump’s withdrawal of US overseas aid will almost decimate global climate finance from the developed world, data shows, with potentially devastating impacts on vulnerable nations.The US was responsible last year for about $8 in every $100 that flowed from the rich world to developing countries, to help them cut greenhouse gas emissions and cope with the impacts of extreme weather, according to data from the analyst organisation Carbon Brief. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago US exits fund that compensates poorer countries for global heating

Trump pulls out of Cop28 loss and damage deal that recognises harms done by richer, polluting economies to vulnerable nationsThe Trump administration has withdrawn the US from a global agreement under which developed nations most responsible for the climate crisis pledged to partly compensate developing countries for irreversible harms caused by global heating.The loss and damage fund was agreed at the Cop28 UN climate summit in Dubai – a hard-won victory after years of diplomatic and grassroots advocacy by developing nations that bear the brunt of the climate crisis despite having contributed least to greenhouse gas emissions. The fund signalled a commitment by developed, polluting countries to provide financial support for some of the irreversible economic and noneconomic losses from sea level rise, desertification, drought and floods already happening. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Switzerland told it must do better on climate after older women’s ECHR win

Council of Europe says Swiss government failing to respect human rights court’s ruling on emissionsEurope live – latest updatesThe Swiss government has been told it must do more to show that its national climate plans are ambitious enough to comply with a landmark legal ruling.The Council of Europe’s committee of ministers, in a meeting this week, decided that Switzerland was not doing enough to respect a decision last year by the European court of human rights that it must do more to cut its greenhouse gas emissions and rejected the government’s plea to close the case. Continue reading...

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