UK Environment Minister Slams Conservative Attacks on Climate “Wokeness”
Zac Goldsmith in 2020.Paul Ellis/AP This story was originally published by Canada’s National Observer and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Rightwing Tory MPs should stop portraying concerns over the climate and nature as “woke”, and understand that voters are deeply concerned about the crisis, the Conservative minister Zac Goldsmith has warned. “What I’m trying to persuade…
GOP’s Weak Midterm Showing Is Great News for Biden’s Climate Plans
House Democrats celebrate their passage of the Inflation Reduction Act in August. The bill included substantial funding to help reduce carbon emissions.Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA via AP This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For weeks, some Republicans have been preparing to wield control of Congress as…
US Midterms Cast a Long Shadow Over Cop27 Climate Summit
COP 27 in Sharm el-Sheikh Egypt world cloud.Getty Images For Joe Biden, the United Nations climate summit in Egypt is the crowning stage to trumpet the US finally passing major legislation to slow dangerous global heating. But the thoughts of the US president and delegates from around the world are likely to nervously flit to events…
Planting Trees to Offset Emissions Sounds Great, but There’s a Catch
Soeren Stache/dpa/ZUMA This story was originally published by the Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Countries’ climate pledges rely on “unrealistic” and “extensive” amounts of land for carbon removal projects like tree planting schemes, a new report from the University of Melbourne said. A landmass larger than the entire United…
UK Study Reveals Huge Emissions Gap Between Top 1% and Poorest
Getty Images This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The top 1 percent of earners in the UK are responsible for the same amount of carbon dioxide emissions in a single year as the bottom 10 percent emit over more than two decades, new data has…
Biden Threatens Windfall Tax on Excessive Oil Profits
President Biden talks about oil profits and gas prices on Monday, October 31.Alex Brandon/AP This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. President Joe Biden on Monday threatened to pursue new legislation that would tax the windfall profits made by fossil fuel companies this year if…