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Renewable Energy Set to Overtake Coal Power Globally by 2025
Renewable power capacity will double in the next five years, says a new International Energy Agency report.
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UN Climate Change Meeting ‘Looks Like a Fossil Fuel Industry Trade Show,’ Activists Say
A new analysis found that there are even more polluter representatives at this year’s meeting than in 2021.
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There’s a Big Problem With Countries’ Plans to Plant More Trees
Countries will need close to 3 billion acres (1.2 billion hectares) of land to fulfil their current climate pledges, thanks to their focus on techniques like planting new trees over tougher but less land-intensive methods of reducing greenhouse gasses, a report released Tuesday finds. That’s roughly half the amount currently used for all global agriculture…
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Oil Companies Want You to Buy Their New ‘Green’ Image
Five of the world’s biggest fossil fuel giants aren’t putting their money where their mouths are. Shell, BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, and TotalEnergies are all spending hundreds of millions of dollars each year to look better on climate change — while at the same time investing a relative pittance in their own company-identified, low-carbon or renewable…