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UK Launches Europe's First Next-Gen Nuclear Fuel Production Plan To End Russian Fuel Dominance

The UK has launched a unique nuclear fuel production programme called the HALEU programme which powers nuclear reactors previously fueled by Russian fuel, fulfilling its COP28 promise of reducing Russian fuel dominance.

International Business Times UK

Hottest year ever, what can be done? Plenty: more renewables and nuclear, less methane and meat

The shattering of global annual heat records last year is prompting people to ask: what can be done

The Independent UK

Meat and dairy industry's attempt to change how we measure methane emissions would let polluters off the hook

Lobbyists from major polluting industries were out in force at the recent UN climate summit, COP28. Groups representing the livestock industry, which is responsible for around 32% of global methane emissions, want to increase their use of a new way of measuring these emissions that lets high polluters evade their…

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'Pushes us closer to the abyss': Former Azerbaijani oil executive to head COP29

Azerbaijan's ecology minister and former oil executive Mukhtar Babayev was on Friday appointed to lead the United Nations' annual climate talks in a move that has sparked concern among NGOs and environmentalists who voiced similar worries over last year’s COP28 chair Sultan Al Jaber, chief of the United Arab Emirates’…

France 24

Central banks should be fighting the climate crisis – here's why

Climate finance was a major focus at the recent COP28 summit, but one set of game-changing institutions remains largely missing in such conversations: central banks.

The Conversation

Tony Blair think tank linked to countries with poor human rights records

TONY Blair’s think tank is being paid to advise countries with poor human rights records, it has been revealed.

The National (Scotland)

Measuring methane intensity is a key step on the path to net zero

After Canada and the United States both announced new policy measures to address oil and gas methane at the COP28 climate summit — just weeks after the EU agreed to extend its methane intensity standards to imported natural gas — it is clear that global policy to address the potent…

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The weasel words of Cop28 can be easily twisted

Letters: It is well past time to find radical alternatives to this failed process, says John Foster, and Peter Allen backs citizens’ action

The Guardian - UK

Huge increase in spread of climate misinformation on Twitter/X

ANALYSIS of climate misinformation during the COP28 climate summit has revealed that the number of people reached by misleading tweets could have…

The National (Scotland)

John Kerry: Greed is the Only Hurdle in Combating Climate Change

Join John Kerry, President Biden's top climate envoy, as he talks about the tough negotiations at COP28 and why only greed can hinder climate change soluti...

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Hafta letters: Climate policy, COP28 and Zionism

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Newslaundry

California Wants to Make More Carbon, New Mexico Looks to Overhaul How It Regulates the Oil and Gas Industry

Meanwhile, post-COP28, banks pull back from fossil fuels and investors seek opportunities in transition steps like carbon capture storage.

Capital & Main

UK ban on boilers in new homes rules out hydrogen as a heating source

Boilers will be banned in new-build homes in the UK from 2025, according to a long-awaited government consultation on energy efficiency standards in the housebuilding industry. The report said that there is “no practical way” that installing boilers of any type will “deliver significant carbon savings and ‘zero-carbon ready’ homes”.

The Conversation

After COP28, how companies can close the trust gap on environmental action

Consumers think governments and business leaders aren’t doing enough to tackle climate change.

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The Conversation

How fossil fuel companies won COP28

Another climate summit has come and gone. The 28th Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28 to you and me) took stock of the world’s progress in limiting global heating to 1.5°C. This is the guardrail scientists have advised world leaders to make every…

The Guardian - UK

Environmental campaigners filmed, threatened and harassed at Cop28

Indigenous campaigners, human rights defenders and climate activists say they are being silenced by fear of reprisals

The Conversation

Why the COP28 climate summit mattered, and what to watch for in 2024

Reading down the lengthy final agreement of the COP28 United Nations climate conference held in December 2023, you’ll go a long way before finding a strong, active verb. The lengthy recitation of climate impacts “notes with concern” and occasionally with “significant concern” glaring gaps in countries’ current policies. But while…

The Independent UK

Dutch bank ING says it is accelerating its shift away from funding fossil fuels after COP28 deal

Dutch bank ING says it is accelerating its phasing out of funding for oil and gas exploration and production activities while it increases financing for renewable energy

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The Hindu

Was the COP28 climate summit a milestone or a mirage? | Explained

COP28 provided a mixed bag of outcomes. The commitment to ramp up renewable energy targets is a significant step forward – whereas issues on L&D metrics, fund management and disbursal, market mechanisms, risky technologies, the room left for continued use of fossil fuels in many sectors, and natural gas as…

The Guardian - AU

‘Not conducive to our survival’: Pacific islands on the climate frontline respond to Cop28 deal

The agreement was hailed as a win for climate action, but Pacific campaigners say it fails to grapple with the reality of a warming world

The Guardian - UK

A battle for interpretation of the Cop28 deal on a fossil fuel phase-out

Letter: Michael Jacobs on the use of the ambiguous term ‘energy systems’ in the agreement, and how it should be understood

The Independent UK

Watch: Sunak questioned by MPs after confirming 2024 general election

Watch as Rishi Sunak is questioned by parliament’s select committee chairs regarding global affairs, economic issues, COP28 and energy concerns.

WEKU

Afghan student made a plea for his uninvited homeland at U.N. climate summit

Afghanistan is one of the countries most affected by climate change. But it was not invited to COP28. A young Afghan student came and advocated for his homeland. Did he make any progress?

The Guardian - AU

Cop28 has finally named fossil fuels as the climate problem. But do leaders have the will to act?

The UN summit’s deal heralds the end of coal, oil and gas. The real test is whether producers back it up with action

The Guardian - UK

Cop28 leaves the highway to climate hell wide open

Letters: Readers reflect on the failures of the Dubai climate summit and suggest what needs to be done to avert a climate catastrophe

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