Topline At least six Ukrainian civilians are dead following overnight missile strikes across Ukraine Thursday, with the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant—Europe’s largest—shifting to emergency power as...
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U.N. Chief Says World Is ‘300 Years Away’ From Gender Equity And Women’s Rights Are ‘Vanishing Before Our Eyes’
Topline Decades of global progress on women’s rights are “vanishing before our eyes,” United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned in an emotional speech at a U.N. Security Council meeting...
Rhetoric From Davos Dominated The Week In Energy
Al Gore, chairman of Generation Investment Management LLP, center, on day two of the World Economic … [+] Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023. The annual Davos gatheri...
Manatee Cousins, Coral And Abalone Among 10% Of Marine Life At Risk Of Extinction
Topline Nearly one in ten marine plants and animal species are at risk of extinction according to a new report from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which found that climate ...
Over A Period Of 16 Days, More Than 2,000 Women Will Be Killed By A Partner Or Family Member
November 25 marks the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, a U.N. day designated to highlight the issue of violence against women and girls and to call for action to combat...
Global Carbon Emissions Showed No Signs Of Decline This Year, Scientists Warn
Topline Global carbon emissions continued to rise this year and have shown no signs of slowing down, the Global Carbon Project said Thursday, as world leaders push for new initiatives to halt climate ...
A Parade Of Climate Hypocrisy
Every year, global climate summits feature a parade of hypocrisy, as the world’s elite arrive on private jets to lecture humanity on cutting carbon emissions. The current UN climate summit in Egypt of...
Electric vehicle (EV) sales set to hit an all-time high in 2022, IEA says
Tesla electric cars photographed in Germany on March 21, 2022. According to the International Energy Agency, electric vehicle sales are on course to hit an “all-time high” this year. Sean ...
Jamie Dimon’s Testimony Caps A Confrontational Energy Week
JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon testifies before a House Committee on Financial … [+] Services Committee hearing on “Holding Megabanks Accountable: Oversight of Ameri...
UN warns of ‘uncharted territories of destruction’
Boys, victims of the flood, reach out for food from a relief worker, following rains and floods during the monsoon season in Nowshera, Pakistan August 30, 2022. Fayaz Aziz | Reuters The United Nations...
Enverus Lowers Oil Price Forecast, Rig Count Drops Amid Record Industry Profits
A new report from energy analytics and intelligence firm Enverus projects oil prices to continue to … [+] decline through the end of 2022. getty In the latest signal of a faltering oil market, e...
UN chief slams new fossil fuel funding
In remarks delivered to the Austrian World Summit in Vienna via video, Antonio Guterres issued a sobering assessment of the planet’s prospects. “Most national climate pledges are simply no...
Coal is a ‘stupid investment’: UN chief Antonio Guterres
UN Secretary General António Guterres photographed at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland on Nov. 11, 2021. Jeff J Mitchell | Getty Images News | Getty Images The U.N. Secretary General issu...
Climate Change Worse Than Expected, UN Report Finds
Topline Human-driven climate change is already causing widespread devastation and the world has a “brief and rapidly closing window to secure a liveable future,” according to the latest assessment of ...