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London to working to situate itself at the center of the climate economy—particularly when it comes to finance.
A Paris court has ruled that energy giant TotalEnergies must account for its consumers’ greenhouse gas emissions.
Former NOAA staffers have launched a new website that provides climate information. It replaces a government site that was shut down when the Trump administration took office.
Barbara Buffaloe from Columbia, Missouri, saw the global event as a chance to show that, despite federal cuts, “our cities are working together on climate action.”
Climate action has entered a new phase where the focus must shift from ambitious pledges to mobilising finance and delivering results, N.K. Singh said at London Climate Action Week. He stressed that affordable capital and stronger global cooperation will be critical to accelerating the green transition in emerging economies.
By America Hernandez PARIS, June 25 (Reuters) - French oil major TotalEnergies must disclose the climate risks linked to emissions from its oil and gas products and set out plans to mitigate them, a Paris court ruled on Thursday.
In a landmark climate case against TotalEnergies, a French court said the company could not hide behind consumers and needs to account for the full range of its emissions, including those from the use of its products.
The database of federal global warming research recreates a website that was closed amid the administration’s broad retreat from climate science.
Future research products previously housed under Climate.gov will be available at NOAA.gov/climate and its affiliate websites. Climate.gov was essentially gone, and the team that deleted implied that it happened because climate research somehow failed to uphold what the administration was calling “gold standard science.
France's development minister issued an eleventh-hour plea to the World Bank on Thursday, urging it to resist pressure from its largest shareholder, the United States, and stick with a climate finance target due to lapse at the end of the month.
The financial industry faces evolving regulations and government expectations in the push to advance the green transition. Green finance policy updates below highlight regulatory and policy insights available to Bloomberg Terminal subscribers.
