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Energy Monitor: Is Microsoft’s AI push collapsing its carbon commitment?
Microsoft’s data centre expansions have increased its emissions by 30% since 2020. Read HERE Image: K2boy3/Creative Commons
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Irene Casado Sanchez, Jackie Botts – A program meant to help developing nations fight climate change is funneling billions of dollars back to rich countries
‘Climate finance’ from the global north to the global south is just high-interest loans, sometimes tied to obligations to source materials for green projects from rich countries. In ‘Reuters’. Read the article HERE.
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Orsetta Causa, Maxime Nguyen, Emilia Soldani – Lost in the green transition: Measurement and stylised facts
This data on green and high-polluting jobs explains a lot about the politics of the green transition. To put it simply, it’s materialism, stupid: most people need to see the green transition make a material […]
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John Feffer – The Race to End Fossil Fuel Production
Everyone talks about ending fossil fuel production, but almost no one is doing anything about it. John Feffer is the director of Foreign Policy In Focus, where this article originally appeared. Cross-posted from Counterpunch Jordan Oil […]
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Carbon Brief – What are the biggest geopolitical risks to climate action in 2024?
Carbon Brief has asked a range of scientists, policy experts and campaigners from around the world what they think the biggest geopolitical risks to climate action will be in 2024. Cross-posted from Carbon Brief Photo: […]
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Kate Mackenzie, Tim Sahay – Great Green Wall
Insightful analysis of Biden’s new tariffs on China. In ‘Phenomenal World’. Read the article HERE.
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Fausto Corvino: Europe’s climate laws could spell the end to low-cost flights – but what about private jets?
Private flights in Europe have increased from just under 120,000 in 2020 to more than half a million in 2022, yet the European Commission has no plans to do anything about it. Fausto Corvin is […]
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Daniel Bleakley – Nearly all major car companies are sabotaging EV transition, and Japan is worst, study finds
A damning new report has shown that nearly all major car companies are actively sabotaging the world’s efforts to avoid catastrophic global warming. The lobbying strategies being used by the world’s largest automakers are putting […]
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Alejandro González, Bart-Jaap Verbeek: The EU’s critical minerals crusade
How the EU trade policy on raw materials deepens the environmental and inequality crises Alejandro González is Senior Researcher at SOMO Bart-Jaap Verbeek is Researcher at SOMO Read HERE
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Doloresz Katanich – European ports turned into car parks as EV makers hunt buyers
What should be considered a major asset in the low-carbon transition is Ursula Von Der Leyen’s worst nightmare. In ‘EuroNews’. Read the article HERE.