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Goodbye Mr Kerry, farewell Mr Xie: end of an era in global climate politics
As the final fraught hours of the Cop28 UN climate summit approached last December, a small but vital meeting was missing from the official agenda. While thousands of grumpy delegates trooped the vast and glitzy Dubai…
To Win in 2024, Biden Must Highlight Consumer Benefits of Clean Energy
President Joe Biden’s climate accomplishments thus far owe much to his framing of clean energy policy as an economic strategy. “When I hear climate, I think jobs,” he often says…
White House clean-energy spending boom puts Biden in the crosshairs
The Biden administration raised the stakes on its politically fraught bet on massive subsidies for nascent clean-energy technologies Friday, rolling out a plan for awarding billions of dollars in tax credits to the makers of…
A quick fix from COP28 to address climate change? Mandatory methane cuts
After nearly three decades of negotiations, the annual United Nations climate talks concluded this week with a first: Its delegates finally mentioned the words “fossil fuels” in an agreement and the need to “transition away” from them…
‘The future is renewable’: How a huge gamble sealed Cop28 deal
Not long before the crucial final meeting of Cop28 climate summit, a seemingly chance meeting took place in the heavily guarded VIP lounge next to the main conference hall in Dubai. John Kerry, the US climate envoy…
Trump’s Comeback Bid Haunts Climate Talks in Dubai
As US officials at COP28 try to convince other nations the world’s biggest economy will support them by cutting carbon emissions and building renewables, they’re being undermined by someone who isn’t even at…
Major Foundations Provide $450 Million for Methane Mitigation
One of humanity’s best chances of rapidly slowing climate change is to slash emissions of methane and other super pollutants — and a growing pile of philanthropic funding is being devoted to the cause…
Before China’s coal is even burned, its mines are warming the planet
To get a sense of the scale and severity of China’s addiction to coal, look no further than the scores of deep industrial mines and uncounted smaller pits dotted across the country’s north-central region, churning out more of the black rock than…
To avert climate disaster, we need firm commitments on cutting methane at COP28
The key goal of the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) negotiations beginning in Dubai this week must be to limit fast-rising temperatures, to prevent runaway warming that could destabilize the…
‘Enough of endless delays’: will Cop28 force a course change for the world?
If current growth in renewable energy continues, and if countries take action on cutting greenhouse gases such as methane, then next year could be the year in which greenhouse gas emissions at last reach their peak…
COP28: What to expect at UN climate talks The future of fossil fuels and the question of who pays for climate damage will be up for debate
Tens of thousands of people are expected to descend on Dubai in the United Arab Emirates in the next few days for the UN’s COP28 climate summit where, during the next two weeks, negotiators will spend long hours haggling over…
Kings and Popes Attending COP28 Is Good — But Climate Crisis Requires Powerful Grassroots Movements
It’s important that older figures of religious and cultural influence like Pope Francis and the UK’s King Charles will be attending the United Nations COP28 climate change negotiations in Dubai beginning this week. However, their attendance…
Biden Must Confront China’s Xi on Looming Climate Disaster
As Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping prepare to meet in San Francisco today, extreme weather events caused by rising temperatures are increasingly wreaking havoc at home and around the world, with new studies indicating that…
Sizing up Manchin’s legacy on energy, climate policy
Joe Manchin’s announcement Thursday that he plans to retire from the Senate caps off an extraordinary tenure marked by substantive policy wins but also high-profile clashes with fellow Democrats on energy and climate…
China announces plan for curbing methane emissions
China yesterday released an action plan for reducing methane emissions, pledging more “forceful” measures to tackle the potent greenhouse gas before the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Dubai later this month…
China releases plan to tackle methane emissions
China said Tuesday it would bolster efforts to crack down on emissions of methane, the greenhouse gas that is one of the top two drivers of rising global temperatures. If successful, China’s efforts to curb methane could have one…
Republicans’ climate stance sets up new 2024 election frontline
Republican lawmakers’ election of Mike Johnson as speaker of the US House of Representatives this month marks another shift by the party away from Democrats on the issue of climate change, political analysts say…
China Is Winning in Solar Power, but Its Coal Use Is Raising Alarms
China is installing about as many solar panels and wind turbines as the rest of the world combined, and is on track to meet its target for clean energy six years early. It is using renewables to meet nearly all of the growth in its electricity needs….
How Major League Baseball undermined the regular season and the winningest teams, including the Orioles
The trait that separates major league baseball from every other game on earth is the sheer length of its regular season. At 162 games, the baseball season is twice as long as basketball and hockey, and 10 times that of pro football…
Podcast: Labour’s Climate Policies, US Dems and the Coming Elections
Former environmental aide to US President Bill Clinton, Paul Bledsoe, the Telegraph’s environmental editor Emma Gatten, and the economist and former treasury advisor to Rishi Sunak, Tim Leunig, join Sam and Ayesha to discuss the economics and…
O’s must step it up to beat Yankees for AL’s best record
The Orioles are off to another fantastic start this year. More than a third of the way through the season they are, amazingly, on pace to win even more games than last year’s AL-leading 101. Their biggest problem comes from the…
How Biden is outflanking Trump on China trade, clean energy and climate change
When it comes to China, President Biden is taking a series of actions to explicitly contrast his trade and climate policies from those of his predecessor, Donald Trump, in the razor-tight 2024 election campaign. If successful, Biden’s actions can…
Angst Grows in US Over China’s EV Dominance
China’s surging exports of cheap electric vehicles (EVs) have emerged as a focal point in already fraught US-China tensions, putting Washington on the defensive over safeguarding US industry. As China boasts EV sales of…
Biden’s fight against Juliana climate case is alienating young voters
President Joe Biden is struggling to regain his popularity with young voters who helped put him in the White House in 2020. A group of youth climate activists say they have an answer to the president’s dilemma: Biden’s Department of…
One way to get China to clean up faster: build a ‘climate club’
The world needs a climate club. Next year will mark a decade since diplomats gathered in Paris, promising to cut the greenhouse gas emissions relentlessly warming the atmosphere. The resulting national policies bent the emissions curve…
It’s easy to be romantic about this Orioles team
In “Moneyball”, the best movie about modern baseball, Brad Pitt portrays Oakland Athletics General Manager Billy Beane who cleverly uses analytics and shrewd talent judgment to propel his low-rent A’s to the playoffs…
Biden’s climate playbook: Propose strong rules, then soften them
As the Biden administration’s climate rules near the finish line, a pattern is emerging: The final regulations are weaker than the initial proposals. Last month, EPA removed existing natural gas plants from upcoming…
Biden’s new energy rules must stop an existential climate threat: Donald Trump
In his first three years in office, Joe Biden has done more through legislation, regulation, and diplomacy to combat catastrophic climate change than any president in history. But Biden knows all too well that much of this…
Biden should push plug-in hybrids, not just EVs
The battle for the climate will require electrifying America’s transportation system. But the Biden administration’s effort to push drivers into electric vehicles is unrealistic – and it risks setting back the country’s…
Fossil fuel firms must plug methane leaks to meet climate targets, warns watchdog
Fossil fuel companies must pay tens of billions to reduce the emissions of methane from their operations or it will be almost impossible to meet global climate targets, the world’s energy watchdog has warned…
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