South Africa sees 5,500 MW more renewable energy online by 2026

JOHANNESBURG – South Africa expects more than 5,500 megawatts (MW) of additional renewable energy projects to come online by 2026, electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa said on Tuesday. South Africa is in the midst of its worst electricity crisis ever, with households and businesses facing hours… Read More

Investors may exit consumer goods firms over EU deforestation law

LONDON – As a new European Union zero-tolerance deforestation law looms, several major investors told Reuters they are concerned about their exposure to the issue, with some saying they could quit consumer goods makers with “risky” supply chains. The EU agreed in December a new rule to… Read More

Fossil fuel company net zero plans ‘largely meaningless,’ report says

LONDON – The number of fossil fuel companies setting net-zero emissions targets has risen sharply over the past year, but most fail to address key concerns, making them “largely meaningless”, a report showed on Monday. Some 75 of the world’s largest 112 fossil fuel companies… Read More

UAE looks to salty, muddy mangroves in climate change fight

Climate Change – ABU DHABI – Against the heat, urbanisation and sand of the United Arab Emirates, the placid, muddy waterways of the Gulf state’s coastal mangroves are being restored and planted in an ambitious fight against climate change. Tropical mangrove forests are complex ecosystems… Read More

EU to try again for renewable energy deal after nuclear row

Climate Change – European Union countries will try again next week to pass a deal on new renewable energy targets, which have been stalled by concerns from France and other states that the law sidelines nuclear energy. A group of countries including France lodged last-minute opposition to… Read More

Washington quiets as Canadian smoke blankets U.S. capital

WASHINGTON – The shroud of polluted air emanating from Canadian wildfires pushed further down the Atlantic Seaboard on Thursday, blanketing Washington, D.C., in an unhealthy haze and prompting many residents of the nation’s capital to stay indoors. Traffic was light and trains less crowded than… Read More

Earth Rally : United to creat true change

WE UNITED CAN AND WILL MAKE THAT IMPORTANT CHANGE NEEDED. IT is CLEAR that The COP events did very little to actually focus on the real issues harming our great planet. For this reason I am asking Organisations, Activity Groups, NGO to UNITE as ONE… Read More