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Climate change salvation in a vat
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 09/12/2020
» We are putting a final end to the fossil era," said Denmark's climate minister, Dan Jorgensen, last week. What he meant was that the European Union's biggest oil and gas producer is officially getting out of the petrochemical business after 80 years.
Rich world raids development funds for climate
Oped, Bjorn Lomborg, Published on 27/01/2024
» Too many rich-world politicians and climate campaigners forget that much of the world remains mired in poverty and hunger. Yet, rich countries are increasingly replacing their development aid with climate spending. The World Bank, whose primary goal is to help people out of poverty, has now announced it will divert 45% of its funding toward climate change, shifting some US$40 billion annually away from poverty and hunger.
Is Asean ready for green hydrogen?
News, Published on 30/01/2023
» Climate change and the energy transition have made research and development (R&D) in clean energy a priority as countries aim to reach net-zero by 2050. Hydrogen has been categorically singled out as a possible source of energy in the not-too-distant future. Indeed, hydrogen has been widely used in many applications, including in refining ammonia and petroleum, and the production of methanol and synthetic fuels which have more emissions. These applications accounted for more than 93% of global hydrogen consumption in 2020.
An early look at the 2025 market
News, Published on 12/01/2024
» The 2024 oil market is still in its infancy, but attention is already shifting to 2025. If the global economy is starting to abandon its oil addiction, as optimists contend, the first signs of the energy transition should emerge by next year. Spoiler alert: early indications are that the beginning of the end of the fossil-fuel industry remains elusive.
Braving hurdles for green transport
News, Sumet Ongkittikul, Published on 10/01/2024
» 'Match your words with your actions." That was the message from teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg when she sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in 2019 instead of flying to attend the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York.
Is COP28 a boon or bane of the world?
News, Published on 08/01/2024
» The developments and challenges posed at the 28th annual Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change evoke the words of F Scott Fitzgerald on being "able to see that things are hopeless yet determined to make them otherwise".
Ripe time to look east to fix climate regimes
Oped, Published on 05/01/2024
» The Pulitzer-nominated play Other Desert Cities, set in Palm Springs, California, tells a tale about a fractured family's struggles to establish dialogue across political divides. More than a decade after the play premiered in 2011, the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28), held late last year in another desert city, offered a macrocosmic telling of the same story.
How to assess COP28's outcome
Oped, Published on 20/12/2023
» #Actionism". That word greeted arriving passengers at Dubai International Airport, the port of entry for the vast majority of the 100,000 or so climate negotiators, activists, industry lobbyists, and others attending this year's United Nations Climate Change Conference and the events around it.
COP28 won't admit real cost of net zero
News, Bjorn Lomborg, Published on 06/12/2023
» The spectacle of another annual climate conference is getting underway in Dubai. Like Kabuki theater, performative set pieces lead from one to the other: politicians and celebrities arrive by private jets; speakers predict imminent doom; hectoring NGOs cast blame; political negotiations become fraught and inevitably go overtime; and finally: the signing of a new agreement that participants hope and pretend will make a difference.
Boosting the clean energy push
Oped, Published on 05/12/2023
» The world stands at a critical juncture in the fight against climate change. Either we drastically accelerate the clean-energy transition, or our fast-dwindling chances of preventing global temperatures from surpassing 1.5° Celsius above pre-industrial levels will be destroyed. Few understand the stakes better than Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries.