Authored by Wood Mackenzie’s Prakash Sharma and David Brown In the run-up to the COP27 climate conference in Egypt, more than 80 countries announced pledges to reach net zero emissions around mi...
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A Surprising Way To Improve The Environmental Footprint Of Plastics
A sampling of everyday items made of plastic getty Modern societies use a tremendous amount of plastic and most of it is made from feedstocks derived from the refinement of either natural gas or petro...
The Growing Climate Risks Of A Climate Solution
Low water levels at the Lake Oroville reservoir in May, 2021 due to California’s drought. A few … [+] months later the hydropower plant shut down for the first time since the dam was compl...
COP27 Is Over, But Egypt’s Climate Struggles Are Just Beginning
A sunset over one of the three pyramids of Dashur in Egypt. (Photo by Barry Iverson/Getty Images) Getty Images Last month, the COP27 conference, which brings together leaders from across the world to ...
COP27 Leaders Aim To Slow Global Deforestation Via Sovereign Carbon Credits
COP27 President Sameh Shoukry of Egypt greets the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Vice Prime Minister … [+] Eve Bazaiba. Coalition for Rainforest Nations A gloomy forecast hung over the rainfores...
The World Wants Israel’s Energy And Environmental Innovations
Israeli Climate Envoy Gideon Behar meets with President Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla of Andalucia at … [+] COP27. Ken Silverstein About 10 minutes into my interview with Israel’s special envoy for...
Reports Of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated (apologies To Mark Twain)
An Early Colliery Locomotive’, circa 1930. From ‘The Splendid Book of Locomotives’, by C. Gibbard … [+] Jackson. [Sampson Low, Marston Co Ltd London, circa 1930]. Artist Unknow...
Energy Security Versus Climate Security – See How Your Country Ranks Among Others — Some Are Predictable, Some Are Surprises.
German Minister of Economics and Climate Protection Robert Habeck forecasts gas storage levels as … [+] part of energy supply security in June 2022. AFP via Getty Images Energy security is a sou...
COP 27 – Five Key Takeaways
Wood Mackenzie’s Energy Transition team. The lead-up to COP27 was inauspicious. Only 26 out of 193 countries had tightened pledges – made a year ago in Glasgow – for 2030 emissions reductions, while t...
COP27: Leading Technology Companies Launch “Ethereum Climate Platform” Initiative to Address Ethereum’s Former Proof of Work Carbon Emissions
Partners include a still growing list of prominent stakeholders from the Web3 ecosystems, as well as civil society leaders. Convened by ConsenSys and climate tech firm Allinfra, this collective will e...
Is Green Hydrogen The Fuel Of The Future? This CEO Is Betting On It
Plug Power’s long-time CEO is repositioning the fuel cell maker to be a producer of hydrogen fuel made from water and renewable power to cut climate-warming industrial carbon pollution from the steel,...
Oil Producers Deliver Reality Check At COP27 Climate Summit
US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry speaks at the opening of the US Pavilion during … [+] the COP27 climate conference at the Sharm el-Sheikh International Convention Centre, in...
Groundbreaking Nutrition-Climate Initiative Launched At COP27
Contributing to the growing momentum around food and agriculture at COP27— and in a groundbreaking moment for the Conference of the Parties— Egypt (in its role as COP27 Presidency) and the World Healt...
Biden At COP27, A Tesla Bull Goes Bearish And Carbon Emissions Keep Climbing
This week’s Current Climate, which every Saturday brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability. Sign up to get it in your inbox every week. Anadolu Agency via Getty Images President...
How Agriculture Is Returning To Its Roots
Lee Jones is a farmer in Huron, Ohio. He’s also a devotee of John Steinbeck, whose depression-era masterpiece “Grapes of Wrath” sang to him of soils robbed of value and people robbed of homes and live...
Our First Climate Targets- Why Kyoto’s Legacy Still Matters
Citizen activists in Kyoto, Japan hold up signs to celebrate the implementation of the Kyoto … [+] Protocol in 2005, 8 years after COP 3 in Kyoto. AFP via Getty Images This is the second article...
DECARD and Africa Investor Announce Partnership at COP27
COPENHAGEN, Denmark–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Current finance flows are insufficient to achieve a net-zero emission and resilient economy by 2050 (UNFCCC, 2021). DECARD and Africa Investor partner up to mobilis...
Bahrain Announces Two ‘Significant’ Gas Discoveries
A Bahraini man examines a natural gas pipe in Manama, Bahrain on November 3, 2002 (Photo: Joe … [+] Raedle/Getty Images) Getty Images The small Gulf country of Bahrain said it had made two natur...
Officials Issue Stern Warnings At COP27 Summit
Topline As hundreds of world leaders descend on Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, for the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, officials are calling on rich nations to do more to stop climate change, ...
Two Easy Wins, Three Challenges And A US$65 Trillion Bill
Prakash Sharma, Vice President, Multi-Commodity Research at Wood Mackenzie This year’s climate event comes at a time of uncertainty like no other. The pillars of the energy trilemma – affordability, s...
Here’s What Oceana’s CEO Wants The World To Know In Time For COP27
The CEO of Washington-based ocean advocacy group, Oceana has a message that he wants to share with the international community before the 27th UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt. Andrew Sha...
Africa’s Chance To Break From Climate Colonialism
French colonial empire under the 3rd Republic, Madagascar, Mr. Le Myre de Villers in Tananarive, … [+] 1894, France – Colonization. (Photo by: Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Imag...
Bringing Food and Agriculture Leadership to COP27
The U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP) brings together decision-makers from 200 national governments to discuss how to address the climate crisis. But since the first COP in 1995, the role of food a...
The Time Has Come For Transformation
Earlier this year,Mulberry launched its first carbon neutral collection from field to shop floor, … [+] Lily Zero – a collection that has gone on to bclome a best seller. Mulberry It is no...
Turkey For Thanksgiving 2022 Isn’t Looking Cheap, How Inflation Works, More On Strike
Inside the fence of a Lower East Side garden, I worked the late shift at my New York City neighborhood’s community-supported agriculture share last night. I loved every minute. I weighed out potatoes ...
Drought’s Toll On Farmers, Food At Cop27, And Why Direct-To-Consumer Is Nowhere Near Over
Drought wears on you mentally. Nebraska organic farmer Kevin Fulton told me that earlier this week, as I asked him about his 28 years in the business for my latest feature, out this morning. What he s...
Are Customers Experiencing Eco Fatigue? Meet The B-Corp Wanting To Make A Difference
Sam & Ted (the dog) at the kitchen counter where Wilton was born – a cleaning products with green … [+] creds from a partnership of advertising executives who admit they became fed up ...