French President Emmanuel Macron and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva met this week in Belém — host of the 2025 United Nations COP30 climate talks. The leaders agreed to launch a $1.1 billion green investment plan for the Amazon rainforest. The four-year plan would be financed by public and private funds. “Gathered in […]
France will roll out a series of measures to accelerate President Emmanuel Macron‘s goal of reaching 100 percent plastic recycling by 2025, a government official said Sunday. “Declaring war on plastic is not enough. We need to transform the French economy,” Junior Environment Minister Brune Poirson told French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche. Here are […]
President Trump, notorious for his views on climate change, again said something about the topic that’s the opposite of what’s actually happening. “The ice caps were going to melt, they were going to be gone by now, but now they’re setting records,” POTUS told host Piers Morgan during an interview on UK television network ITV […]
By Andy Rowell With a swagger and a wave, President Donald Trump has arrived at the World Economic Forum in Davos and is expected to push his “America First” agenda on Friday in a self-congratulatory speech. “A lot of people are coming back to the United States. We are seeing tremendous investment,” said Trump Thursday […]
France will shut down all of its coal-fired power plants by 2021, President Emmanuel Macron announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The deadline is two years ahead of his predecessor Francois Hollande’s goal of shutting down France’s coal-powered plants by 2023. France only produces around 1 percent of its energy from coal-fired […]
By Andy Rowell Many East Coasters will be returning to work today in bitter cold conditions after the second-coldest New Year on record. The low temperatures over the festive period did not go unnoticed by President Donald Trump who tweeted in late December: “In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year’s Eve on […]
This was a year of tug-of-war for the environment. With Donald Trump becoming president of the U.S. at a time when wildfires, hurricanes, and floods were devastating the country, it was challenging for scientists, activists and concerned citizens to get their voices heard. But several stood out as global leaders on climate and helped give […]
In effort to bolster a global shift to clean energy, the World Bank—which provides financial, advisory and technical support to developing countries—announced it will “no longer finance upstream oil and gas, after 2019.” The announcement was made Tuesday at the international One Planet climate summit called by French President Emmanuel Macron, President of the World […]
French President Emmanuel Macron will announce the first recipients of the “Make Our Planet Great Again” grants Monday evening. The winners will receive all-expenses-paid grants to relocate to France and to conduct their climate research through the remainder of President Donald Trump‘s current term. According to the Associated Press, the campaign was initially aimed at […]
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