The Daily Climate

Photo by American Public Power Association on Unsplash

Global warming: Renewable energy needs to be twice as cheap as fossil fuels

Renewable energy costs need to be at least twice as cheap as those of fossil fuels to ensure a clean transition globally, Steven Chu, a Nobel laureate in physics and former US secretary of energy, told a forum in Hong Kong on Monday.

en.wikipedia.org

Investors stress importance of biodiversity as much as climate change in their investment approach

Biodiversity is gaining importance with investors, with an increasing number saying it is important or central to their investment policy, and find the loss of nature as great a threat as climate change, according to a report by Dutch asset manager Robeco.

Opinion

commons.wikimedia.org

Quentin Parker: Oil giants must wake up to the urgency of climate change

Oil companies’ record profits for 2022 give them a chance to pivot faster away from fossil fuels to renewables. At a time when public opinion and political pressure are turning against them, they must seize that opportunity.

Opinion

commons.wikimedia.org

David Dodwell: Raging wildfires call into question carbon trading’s role in climate change fight

Carbon trading has been called ‘a false solution to the climate crisis’, while forest offset schemes in the West are in peril as wildfires rampage.

Solutions

Photo by Taylor Vick on Unsplash

Why data centres, 5G networks are at the forefront of climate-change fight in China

Big data centre operators like GDS and ChinData are working to reduce emissions from their digital infrastructure. Can China cut its dependence on coal-fired plants and accelerate the transition to clean energy?

Photo by SpaceX on Unsplash

How this company is making spaceflight greener with biofuels

Billions of dollars of investment capital are poured into spaceflight creating greater demand for rockets and in turn an increase in pollution. bluShift Aerospace is looking to be part of the solution by manufacturing bio-derived fuel-based rockets.

Solutions

Photo by David Levêque on Unsplash

China should stop building more coal power plants soon, climate change think tank says ahead of Glasgow summit

China has shrunk its coal power projects pipeline by 74 per cent since committing to the Paris Agreement on climate change, but it should do more to curb new construction, according to a think tank that has called for a total ban on new projects.

ORIGINAL REPORTING

business of climate change

Global warming: Renewable energy needs to be twice as cheap as fossil fuels

Investors stress importance of biodiversity as much as climate change in their investment approach

Quentin Parker: Oil giants must wake up to the urgency of climate change

David Dodwell: Raging wildfires call into question carbon trading’s role in climate change fight

Why data centres, 5G networks are at the forefront of climate-change fight in China

How this company is making spaceflight greener with biofuels

China should stop building more coal power plants soon, climate change think tank says ahead of Glasgow summit

Insurers leave Maui wildfire survivors in unsafe homes, families say

Seafood testing project aims to safeguard Indigenous food traditions

Texas debates over new oil and gas waste rule heat up

Op-ed: “I’m sorry, I can’t hear you” — disabling environments in Cancer Alley and the Ohio River Valley

Op-ed: We mobilized to defend the EPA in Trump's first term. This time the stakes are even higher.

Scientists warn that 2023's extreme ocean heat may signal a major climate shift

Trump plans to dismantle climate funding from key law if elected

Australia weighs delay on 2035 climate goals amid US election uncertainty