China central bank first to finance emissions reductions gave the loan. China’s central bank announced on Thursday, December 30, 2021 that it has made an initial 85.5 billion yuan (US$18.2 billion) low-cost loan to financial institutions to promote... 

“Who’s Gonna End?”, a new song released today by Turkish Eurovision winner Sertab Erener and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Turkey, issues an urgent call for everyone to join hands to fight climate change, end poverty, promote... 

According to a new report by the Euro-Mediterranean Center for Climate Change (CMCC), the resulting climate impacts will cause irreversible devastation in G20 countries unless urgent action is taken to reduce emissions. The first study of its kind, the... 

Rolls-Royce is committed to reducing emissions from its own operations and facilities to net zero by 2030, and to play a leading role in helping industries in which it operates achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050. Rolls-Royce, which plans to completely... 

When President Obama conceived of the New Energy Economy in 2009, the opposition labeled it as radical — something that would bankrupt the country for an amorphous goal. But since 2005, the United States has reduced its annual energy-related CO2 levels... 

The G7 countries, which have reached a consensus on taking action on climate change, reiterated their decision to allocate $100 billion in annual financing that they had previously committed to help poor countries reduce emissions. The fact that the details... 

The ‘European Union Green Deal – EU Green Deal’, which was prepared by the European Union Commission and could not find a place on the agenda for a long time due to the pandemic, became law on June 24, 2021 after the surprise vote of the... 

There were 10m electric cars on the world’s roads at the end of 2020, following a decade of rapid growth. Electric car registrations increased by 41% in 2020, despite the pandemic-related worldwide downturn in car sales in which global car sales dropped... 

Today, we (and our customers) know a lot more about product safety than we did, say, 20 years ago. That knowledge is reflected in ever safer solutions. Cleaner oils, safer products As a society, we are well informed today. This trend will only grow stronger,... 

The US needs to commit to slashing its planet-heating emissions by at least half by the end of the decade to address the climate crisis and spur other countries to greater action, a coalition of American environmental groups has urged. Joe Biden’s administration... 

Company is going all-electric and funding a new Yale center for applied research focused on carbon-negative technologies. FedEx Corp. announced this week that it wants to achieve carbon-neutral operations globally by 2040. The company laid out three... 

Global energy-related CO2 emissions were 2% higher in December 2020 than in the same month a year earlier, according to IEA data, driven by economic recovery and a lack of clean energy policies. The Covid-19 crisis in 2020 triggered the largest annual...