UN climate conference suggests reducing measures to combat global warming

A new draft agreement at the UN climate conference in Dubai waters down possible action on limiting global warming. The text does not directly mention phasing out fossil fuels - the main stumbling block. The draft calls instead for reducing consumption of fossil fuels. A climate activist stormed onto the stage in protest. Some participants including the EU and the US have rejected the provisional agreement as not going far enough.

Freedom of speech: How COP28 offers some people a rare luxury in Dubai

Climate activists staged a protest at the COP28 summit, accusing oil exporters of urging countries to reject any international agreement that would phase out fossil fuels.

COP28: UN climate talks go big on ending fossil fuels

Countries and oil companies at the UN climate talks have promised to make major progress in tackling global warming in a large new energy pledge. Around 100 countries promised to treble world renewable energy use by 2030.

COP26: New global climate deal struck in Glasgow

 

A deal aimed at staving off dangerous climate change has been struck at the COP26 summit in Glasgow.

The Glasgow Climate Pact is the first ever climate deal to explicitly plan to reduce coal, the worst fossil fuel for greenhouse gases.

Climate change: Can gas and oil companies change their ways?

 

Global climate agreements mean hitting net zero emissions by 2050 - so what does the future hold for big oil companies?

Can governments give up using fossil fuels to save the climate?

IAE calls for a ban on new coal, gas and oil projects to reach zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050.

The world’s leading energy agency warned global carbon dioxide emissions are expected to rise at their second-fastest pace ever this year.

Now the International Energy Agency has released a landmark report listing ambitious steps that are needed to cut carbon dioxide emissions to zero in 30 years.

 

Germany: The Coal War

 

Germany is gradually closing down its coal industry, but will it happen fast enough to meet climate change targets?

A country that has relied on coal as an energy source for hundreds of years has had enough.

Germany has declared the industry must end.

The country's last black coal mines were closed in 2018, and now Chancellor Angela Merkel's administration has decided to phase out all remaining brown coal mines and coal-fired power plants.

Is this the end of the Middle East's oil rush?

Crude oil exporters are struggling to balance budgets with low oil prices. Plus, South Africa could face a debt crisis.

 Oil revenues in the Middle East and North Africa fell from more than $1 trillion in 2012 to $575bn in 2019, according to the International Monetary Fund.

The pandemic has meant demand for fossil fuels has been decimated and may not return. Have oil-exporting countries done enough to diversify their economies?

Alaska: At the Edge of the Earth

Why are some Indigenous peoples trying to stop a Trump administration plan to allow oil drilling in northern Alaska?

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a protected region in Alaska's far north, is one of the world's last few unspoiled environments - a remarkable wilderness that is home to endangered polar bears, grey wolves and wild caribou.

But now the Trump administration, brushing aside objections from Democrats in Congress, is pressing ahead with plans to let oil and gas companies drill in the refuge.

Germany: The Coal War

Germany is gradually closing down its coal industry, but will it happen fast enough to meet climate change targets?

A country that has relied on coal as an energy source for hundreds of years has had enough.

Germany has declared the industry must end.

The country's last black coal mines were closed in 2018, and now Chancellor Angela Merkel's administration has decided to phase out all remaining brown coal mines and coal-fired power plants.