Climate

A Senate committee published the latest instalment of a multi-year investigation after obtaining a vast trove of internal documents from oil industry giants ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, and Shell. The report alleges the efforts to slow climate action continue to this day.

An African Climate Foundation report highlights the challenges for African petrostates in leveraging their gas resources and suggests prioritising renewables due to the transition risks.

Several federal agencies rolled out multiple landmark regulations on the energy sector. Campaigners hailed the “green blitz” as Biden scrambles to finish up work before the U.S. election in November.

Hopes for faster progress on implementing limits on plastic production were dashed in Ottawa. Campaigners blame large oil producers — including the United States.

Plastics and petrochemical producers are vehemently opposed to limits on plastics production. They are working overtime in Ottawa this week to weaken the treaty, civil society groups warn.

As the 4th round of talks get underway this week in Ottowa, scientists, campaigners, and a coalition of countries are calling for substantive progress on a global plastics treaty that would place restrictions on production. Plastics and petrochemical producers are trying to prevent that outcome.

A new satellite, just launched into space by Carbon Mapper, can even detect methane leaks at specific pieces of equipment. Experts say it will bolster methane monitoring and may accelerate climate action.

The Supreme Court decision severely curtails the ability of federal agencies to regulate in areas of public health and the environment. Experts said the decision could ‘paralyse’ the ability to govern.

A new report commissioned by the Brazilian G20 presidency finds that a minimum ‘billionaire tax’ on the world’s wealthiest individuals could generate $250 billion annually.

Emissions-sensing satellites are among the pioneering technologies that have started to remodel the oil and gas sector, writes Kenzie Huffman, Director of Partnerships at Carbon Mapper, the California-based NGO.

New research says that the health risk to mothers and newborns posed by global warming is a “blindspot” in the majority of national climate plans. It must not be sidelined by COP29 negotiators.

The news this week that European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will not be present at COP29 in Baku is an unsettling development just days before the talks open.

Once-fertile farmlands of the Niger Delta, that have supported families for decades, have turned barren due to oil pollution, say locals.

Shell’s decision to end nearly nine decades of operations in the Niger Delta has sparked concern over accountability for environmental damage in Nigeria.

Big LNG plans on Mexico's Pacific Coast could make it the fourth-largest exporter but would worsen climate change and damage one of the world’s most biologically diverse marine environments.

Already scarred by climate change, southwest Louisiana is on the frontlines of the rush to build new LNG.

The proposed Woodfibre LNG project has seen costs soar, and is not competitive with larger LNG projects on the U.S. Gulf Coast, despite generous public subsidies. Critics say it will not offer the economic benefit for which British Columbia is hoping.

The scenic Howe Sound, in British Columbia, has seen a stunning improvement in marine life. But this “success story” is under threat from the proposed Woodfibre LNG project, critics say.