Obama’s Crucial Step on Climate Change
President Obama’s Clean Power Plan has rightly been hailed as the most important action any president has taken to address the climate crisis. The new rule…
Climate Change
Obama’s new emissions rules likely to help shape White House race
With Monday’s release of landmark rules to combat global warming, President Obama is putting into place what probably will be the last piece of his…
Pope Francis Sounds the Alarm on Climate Change
[…] Earlier in June, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, took the spiritual leader of the world’s 1.2 billion…
Stalling increase in emissions: a new trend or a temporary blip?
Spring, the season of new beginnings, also marked the beginning of something new. In March came data from the International Energy Agency (IEA) indicating global…
China agree to fight carbon emissions
Diplomats in Paris were beaming when the world’s most populous country announced plans to start cutting its net CO2 emissions “around 2030”. But environmentalists were…
Harvard measured impact: path to healthier, more sustainable campus
Inside the brick walls of an electricity plant built along the banks of the Charles River more than a century ago, Harvard is demonstrating just…
IEA’s four pillars to make COP21 a success
A peak in global energy-related emissions could be achieved as early as 2020 and at no net economic cost, the International Energy Agency said in…
Apple, Facebook, Google progress toward a green internet, but coal-heavy utilities stand in the way
San Francisco, 12 May, 2015 – Major internet companies including Apple, Facebook and Google continue to lead efforts to build an internet that is renewably…
4 Ways to Invest in the Low-Carbon Economy
Citigroup Inc. recently pledged $100 billion for lending, investing, and facilitating deals related to sustainability, renewable energy, and climate change mitigation. This is yet another…
New report highlights huge eco-impact of everyday products
A new report today from Friends of the Earth estimates for the first time how much land and water well-known brands such as Apple, Kraft…
7 Questions For Energy Entrepreneur Felipe Gomez
At the White House earlier this week, President Obama announced new efforts to support emerging entrepreneurs who develop solutions to some of the world’s toughest…
Global warming slowdown: No systematic errors in climate models, comprehensive statistical analysis reveals
Skeptics who still doubt anthropogenic climate change have now been stripped of one of their last-ditch arguments: it is true that there has been a…
Nuclear Power Needs to Double to Meet Warming Goal
The International Energy Agency and the Nuclear Energy Agency suggest in a report released Thursday that nuclear will have such a significant role to play…