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New loss and damage fund boss urged to keep costs down

Spending on consultants, business class plane tickets and a deputy executive director...

Alabama’s Public Service Commission Shuts the Public Out While Setting Utility Fuel Cost Rates

The Alabama Public Service Commission has rejected the latest bid for public participation into how it sets electricity fuel cost rates, despite a state...

New loss and damage fund boss urged to keep costs down

Spending on consultants, business class plane tickets and a deputy executive director...

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New loss and damage fund boss urged to keep costs down

Spending on consultants, business class plane tickets and a deputy executive director...

With $800,000 in New Grants, Inside Climate News to Expand Local Environmental Journalism

Inside Climate News has been awarded three major new grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, The Meadows Foundation and Knight Foundation.  The Alfred P....

Alabama’s Public Service Commission Shuts the Public Out While Setting Utility Fuel Cost Rates

The Alabama Public Service Commission has rejected the latest bid for public participation into how it sets electricity fuel cost rates, despite a state...

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Guest post: The conflicting practices in using land to tackle climate change

Removing CO2 from the atmosphere using land-based mitigation...

This Low-Cost EV Battery (Kind of) Runs on Salt, and It’s Having a Moment

Sodium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and energy storage are moving toward the mainstream. Wider use of these batteries could lead to lower costs, less...

Big emitters accused of hiding behind climate treaties at international hearing 

The US, Saudi Arabia and others have pushed back against a global...

Texas Farmers Say Sewage-Based Fertilizer Tainted With ‘Forever Chemicals’ Poisoned Their Land and Killed Their Livestock

This article was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans—and engages with them—about public policy, politics, government...

A River in Washington State Now Has Enforceable Legal Rights

A Washington city has granted part of the Snohomish River watershed legal rights that can be enforced in court.  Voters in Everett, a community of...

Senate Democrats Push to Ease Process for Disaster Housing Aid

Kathryn Gaasch has worked to assist rural communities in western North Carolina for five years with the nonprofit support group MDC. But she found...

Cropped 4 December 2024: Climate talks omit nature; Land COP underway; ‘Frankenchickens’

Welcome to Carbon Brief’s Cropped. We handpick and explain...

Climate Finance, Carbon Trading, and Fossil Fuel Influence — A Deep Dive into the Outcome of the 2024 UN Climate Conference

The 2024 UN climate change conference put climate finance and carbon trading at the top of the agenda, but the big story was the influence...

New Jersey Is the Latest State to Consider Heat Protections for Workers

Road workers. Trash collectors. Factory employees. These are just some of those who could benefit from proposed legislation in New Jersey that would require...

Seagrasses Capture Carbon 35 Times Faster Than Tropical Rainforests. Scientists Are Working to Save Them

In late September, seagrass ecologist Alyssa Novak pulled on her neoprene wetsuit, pressed her snorkel mask against her face and jumped off an oyster...

Green reforms to energy investment treaty pass key hurdle

The reforms will allow governments to end protection for investments in fossil...

Droughts in Brazil and Vietnam Are Driving up Global Coffee Prices

Your morning caffeine fix could soon become a luxury in the face of climate change. Last week, coffee prices surged to a 47-year high...