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Bitumen BubbleCanadaEuropeFinance & DivestmentFinance & InvestmentOceansOil & GasPost-Carbon TransitionTar Sands/Oil Sands
Norway’s Biggest Pension Fund Dumps All Tar Sands/Oil Sands Investment
Norway’s biggest pension fund, Kommunal Landspensjonskasse (KLP), has sold off US$58 million in stocks and bonds in Canadian tar sands/oil sands companies and declared ... -
Arctic & AntarcticaAsiaCitiesClimate Impacts & AdaptationClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsDrive to 1.5Energy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFood SecurityHeat & TemperatureHuman Rights & MigrationIce Loss & Sea Level RiseInternational Agencies & StudiesInternational Security & WarIPCC ReportMethaneMiddle EastOceansSevere Storms & FloodingSmall Island States
Warming Will Produce Rapid Sea Level Rise, Annual ‘100-Year’ Storms, Declining Fish Stocks, Shrinking Glaciers Without Fast Climate Action: IPCC
The world’s oceans will rise nearly one metre (three feet) by 2100, 100-year coastal storms and flooding will happen annually, fish stocks will see ... -
Biodiversity & HabitatClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsEnergy PoliticsFinance & InvestmentJobsMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionOceansOff-GridTravel, Leisure & RecreationUnited StatesWind
Trip to Block Island Test Site Shows U.S. Offshore Wind Has Arrived
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is out with a detailed, exquisitely-designed and -illustrated look at the offshore wind boom now getting under way ... -
BioenergyCarbon Levels & MeasurementDrawdownFood SecurityForests & DeforestationIce Loss & Sea Level RiseOceans
Small, Sustainable Ocean Farms Would Produce Food and Fuel, Capture CO2 and Nitrogen
Ocean farming is featured as one of Drawdown’s “coming attractions”—climate solutions that weren’t ready for prime time when the book appeared, but could make ... -
UK Takes Heat for Plan to Leave Abandoned Rigs in North Sea with Toxic Oil, Chemicals Onboard
The United Kingdom is running into outrage from the European Commission and five EU countries after allowing Shell to leave some of its decommissioned ... -
Arctic & AntarcticaAsiaClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsDrive to 1.5EuropeFailure Is Not An OptionFood SecurityHeat & TemperatureInternational Agencies & StudiesMiddle EastOceansSmall Island StatesSouth & Central America
New Analysis Shows ‘Enormous Area’ of the Earth Above 2.0°C
Some of the planet’s hot spots are already above the temperature agreed by scientists and politicians as the maximum allowable to prevent a disastrous ... -
Weathered Crude from Deepwater Horizon Disaster Could Take Decades to Biodegrade
Pollution from the deadly Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill in 2010 could take decades to biodegrade, with golf ball-sized clods of weathered crude ... -
Japan Nuclear Regulator Announces New Probe of Fukushima Disaster
Japan’s Nuclear Regulatory Authority is opening a new investigation into the triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in March, 2011 that forced ... -
Arctic & AntarcticaBitumen BubbleClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsDrive to 1.5Finance & DivestmentFinance & InvestmentInternational Agencies & StudiesOceansOil & GasPathways to 1.5Post-Carbon TransitionShale & FrackingTar Sands/Oil Sands
Fossils Could Lose $2.2 Trillion by 2030 if Countries Get Serious About Carbon Cuts
The world’s most colossal fossils have invested US$50 billion in less than two years in new oil and gas projects that undercut the fight ... -
Biodiversity & HabitatBitumen BubbleCanadaCollateral DamageDrive to 1.5Failure Is Not An OptionHeat & TemperatureOceansUnited States
Whales, Salmon, Sea Lions at Risk in West Coast Ocean Heat Wave
Whales, salmon, and sea lions are at risk as an ocean heat wave takes shape off the west coast of North America, the U.S. ... -
Arctic & AntarcticaDrive to 1.5Drought, Famine & WildfiresFailure Is Not An OptionFood SecurityHuman Rights & MigrationIce Loss & Sea Level RiseMethaneOceansSevere Storms & FloodingWater
Rising Seas, Catastrophic Storms to Deliver ‘Misery on a Global Scale’ by 2100 Unless Climate Action Accelerates
Rising sea levels and catastrophic storm surges could displace 280 million people from the world’s coastlines and produce “misery on a global scale” unless ... -
Eastern U.S. Gears Up for 19.3-GW Offshore Wind Boom
The east coast of the United States is on the verge of a 19.3-gigawatt boom in new offshore wind capacity by 2035 that would ... -
Biodiversity & HabitatEnergy PoliticsFinance & InvestmentHealth & SafetyLegal & RegulatoryOceansOil & GasSub-National GovernmentsUnited States
Newfoundland Regulator Takes Notice as Latest Offshore Oil Spill Points to Continuing Risk
The latest in a series of offshore oil spills has roused the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (CNLOPB) to express some displeasure at ...
