Europe had most widespread floods for more than a decade in 2024, scientists say
Brussels, Belgium Reuters Europe faced its most widespread flooding last year since 2013, with 30 per cent of the continent’s river network hit by significant floods, scientists said on Tuesday, as fossil fuel-driven climate change continued to prompt torrential rain and other extreme weather. Flooding killed at least 335 people in Europe in 2024 and […]
Raising concerns: SEC clears investor nuns to file Indigenous rights resolution against Citigroup
Sister Susan Francois and other faith-based investors won an SEC case, pushing banks to confront their role in fossil fuel financing. FIONA MURPHY, of Religion News Service, reports…
COP29 host Azerbaijan hits out at West in defence of oil and gas
Baku, Azerbaijan Reuters The president of Azerbaijan, host of this year’s UN climate summit, lashed out at Western critics of his country’s oil and gas industry on Tuesday. In his keynote address at the COP29 climate summit, where nearly 200 nations are negotiating global action on climate change, President Ilham Aliyev described his country as […]
COP29: US climate envoy says work will continue despite Trump’s return
Baku, Azerbaijan Reuters US climate envoy John Podesta on Monday urged governments to keep faith in the country’s promise to combat global warming, saying Donald Trump can slow, not stop, the transition from fossil fuels when he returns to office in January. The annual UN climate summit began on Monday in Baku, Azerbaijan, with many […]
African faith leaders and environmentalists push for fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty
Nairobi, Kenya RNS Faith leaders and climate activists in Africa announced their support on Friday for an international treaty to halt the production and use of fossil fuels, the main cause of climate change, analogous to non-proliferation treaties governing the production of nuclear weapons. “As people of faith, we have a moral duty to protect […]
Fossil fuel use, emissions hit records in 2023, report says
London, UK Reuters Global fossil fuel consumption and energy emissions hit all-time highs in 2023, even as fossil fuels’ share of the global energy mix decreased slightly on the year, the industry’s Statistical Review of World Energy report said on Thursday. Growing demand for fossil fuel despite the scaling up of renewables could be a […]
Nations strike deal at COP28 to transition away from fossil fuels
Dubai, United Arab Emirates Reuters Representatives from nearly 200 countries agreed at the COP28 climate summit on Wednesday to begin reducing global consumption of fossil fuels to avert the worst of climate change, signalling the eventual end of the oil age. The deal struck in Dubai after two weeks of hard-fought negotiations was meant to […]
COP28 clashes over fossil fuel phase-out after OPEC pushback
Dubai, United Arab Emirates Reuters Countries clashed on Saturday over a possible agreement to phase-out fossil fuels at the COP28 summit in Dubai, jeopardising attempts to deliver a first-ever commitment to eventually end the use of oil and gas in 30 years of global warming talks. Saudi Arabia and Russia were among several countries insisting […]
Stop posturing and aim high, UN climate chief tells COP28
Dubai, United Arab Emirates Reuters Countries at the COP28 climate talks need to stop posturing, aim high and agree on a way to end the “fossil fuel era as we know it”, UN climate chief Simon Stiell said on Wednesday, as tension over the future of coal, oil and gas came to the fore. Stiell […]
Filipino priest on mission in Europe to halt fossil fuel financing
Frankfurt, Germany/Manila, The Philippines Reuters A Filipino priest is touring top European banks to demand they curtail ties with companies behind new fossil fuel projects in a region of his home country that is rich in fish and coral. But he is leaving his meetings with bankers feeling frustrated. The priest, Edwin Gariguez, and the […]