NGOs seek climate trial of French oil giant TotalEnergies
Paris (AFP) - NGOs filed a criminal complaint against French oil giant TotalEnergies and its top shareholders in Paris on ...
Thursday, March 13, 2025
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US, Japanese banks lead fossil fuel financing
Paris (AFP) - The world's biggest banks financed fossil fuels to the tune of $705 billion in 2023, with US ...
Cambodia’s famed Kampot pepper withers in scorching heatwave
Kampot (Cambodia) (AFP) - Farmer Chhim Laem shakes his head as he walks between long rows of dead bushes, their ...
Iceland’s ‘Mammoth’ raises potential for carbon capture
Hellisheidi (Iceland) (AFP) - With Mammoth's 72 industrial fans, Swiss start-up Climeworks intends to suck 36,000 tonnes of CO2 from ...
US lawmakers accuses oil giants of climate ‘doublespeak’
New York (AFP) - The oil industry's public relations strategy has evolved from climate science denial to "disinformation and doublespeak" ...
G7 to phase out coal-fired power plants by mid-2030s
Turin (Italy) (AFP) - G7 ministers agreed a timeframe Tuesday for phasing out coal-fired power plants, setting as a goal ...
G7 reportedly agrees end date for coal-fired power plants
Turin (Italy) (AFP) - G7 energy ministers have agreed a time frame for phasing out coal-fired power plants, a British ...
Climate change, Brexit threaten to wilt Dutch tulips
Spierdijk (Netherlands) (AFP) - Arjan Smit gazes out over his tulip fields, a riot of red and pink flowers he ...
‘Extreme’ climate blamed for world’s worst wine harvest in 62 years
Paris (AFP) - World wine production dropped 10 percent last year, the biggest fall in more than six decades, because ...
Biden targets fossil fuel power sector with tough new carbon rules
Washington (AFP) - The United States on Thursday announced sweeping new rules requiring coal-fired plants to eliminate nearly all their ...
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