Articles 2020

The nation’s top banks are quietly advising their clients on how to build a financial life raft — or perhaps life yacht — from the wreckage of runaway climate change. Make no mistake: The forecasts coming from Wall Street’s leading financial institutions are bleak. But they also point their clients to potential profit-making opportunities from the havoc spreading across the planet, writes Corbin Hiar.

Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and an international banking group have quietly concluded that climate change will likely exceed the Paris Agreement’s 2 degree goal.Top Wall Street institutions are preparing for a severe future of global warming that blows past the temperature limits agreed to by more than 190 nations a decade ago, industry documents show.

One of the world’s most climate-ambitious governments is about to fall, replaced by a likely chancellor who says green policy went too far.

An updated threat assessment warns of the consequences of a divided NATO and an absent U.S.

Op woensdag 15 november om 15 uur verstoorden activisten van het GrowthKills-collectief [1] het "re-use v. recycle"-panel op de jaarlijkse Sustainability Future Week van Politico in Brussel, een evenement waar verslaggevers en redacteuren belangrijke politici, wetenschappers, campagnevoerders en bedrijfsleiders interviewen over het energie- en klimaatbeleid van de EU [2].

Watchdogs warn of rights violations as governments crack down on disruptive protests.

Que penser d’une loi sur le climat saluée aussi bien par Shell et ExxonMobil que les ONG et une partie des militants écologistes ? Côté pile, le « plan climat » comporte d’importants investissements publics dans le domaine du renouvelable, financés par des taxes sur les profits des entreprises – qui, pour une fois, paieront. Côté face, il refuse toute logique coercitive face aux pétroliers, et demeure dans une logique d’incitation. Pire : d’importantes concessions ont été faites aux lobbies du pétrole, du gaz et du charbon.

The Bootleg Fire is raging through a project in southern Oregon, where 400,000 acres of forest owned by Green Diamond Resource Co. are being preserved to compensate for greenhouse gas emissions elsewhere. Microsoft in February paid Green Diamond to offset a quarter million tons of the tech giant’s 2021 carbon emissions.Two other wildfires are active within a Colville Indian Reservation carbon project in eastern Washington.

A Belgian climatologist surveys the wreckage of his hometown. Pierre Ozer has been expecting these floods for decades.