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Lawmakers Threaten to Sue EU if It Labels Gas Investments as ‘green’
Date: July 1, 2022
By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Some members of the European Parliament intend to take legal action against the European Commission if its plan to label gas and nuclear energy investments as climate-friendly becomes law, according to a lead lawmaker on EU green finance rules. The European Parliament will decide next week whether to accept...
China Urges U.S. To Fulfill Climate Duties After Supreme Court Ruling
Date: July 1, 2022
BEIJING (Reuters) – The United States must meet its international obligations on climate change and do more than “shout slogans”, China’s foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said on Friday following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling limiting Washington’s ability to cut power sector emissions. The Supreme Court voted to constrain the authority of the U.S.’s Environmental...
Carbon Planning
Date: June 30, 2022
We are all aware that something needs to be done to reduce our carbon footprint, but many of us have no idea where to start. Naturally the best place to start anything is from the beginning and in carbon planning the beginning is to measure where you are now – what your current carbon emissions...
Norway Must Prepare for Faster Drop in Oil Demand on Road to 2050 – Iea
Date: June 29, 2022
By Nora Buli OSLO (Reuters) – Norway must do more to prepare for a decline in its dominant oil and gas industry in the coming decades as other nations start to free themselves from petroleum dependence, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says in a new report. Western Europe’s largest oil and gas producer pumps more...
EU Countries Splinter in Hunt for Deal on New Climate Laws
Date: June 28, 2022
By Kate Abnett LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) -European Union countries struggled to agree on new legislation to help combat climate change on Tuesday, with disagreements over how tough the laws would be and how to help poorer citizens shift away from fossil fuels. Environment ministers from the EU’s 27 members met on Tuesday in Luxembourg to negotiate...
From Peru to Uganda, Activists Call on Deutsche Bank to Drop Fossil Finance
Date: June 28, 2022
By Tom Sims and Marta Orosz FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Climate activists from Peru to Uganda are descending on Deutsche Bank’s headquarters in Frankfurt this week to call on Germany’s largest lender to stop financing fossil fuel companies. The demand comes as Deutsche Bank markets itself as a lender that firms can turn to as they...