Climate Change

Image copyright AFP Image caption "We don't need Britain to show disunity," said France's Emmanuel Macron An EU budget summit ended without agreement on Friday following a stand-off between wealthy "frugal" member states and other countries.The so-called "frugal four" of Denmark, Austria, Sweden and the Netherlands said they would not…

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Workers clean up an oil spill after Hurricane Dorian.Photo: GettyOur weather is becoming more extreme, litigation is targeting fossil fuel companies—and our whole economic system is at risk of imploding if the energy sector doesn’t prepare for climate change, financial experts warn.In a series of commentaries published in Nature Energy…

Image copyright Getty Images Ten billion dollars - or £7.7bn - sounds like a serious amount of money. It's how much the world's richest man Jeff Bezos has said he'll spend to fight climate change. But what do you even spend $10bn on? And is it anywhere near enough?According to…

Waiting for takeoff... Image: Jingying Zhao / Getty Images By Mark Kaufman2020-02-18 17:42:17 UTC If the airline industry were its own country, it would emit more heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the air than nearly every nation on Earth. To quell these prodigious emissions, and to prepare for a future where…

The streets of Beijing are empty on February 10, 2020, as residents attempt to avoid catching the Wuhan coronavirus.Photo: GettyOver the past few decades, the world has become connected in unprecedented ways. And in 2020, we’re living with those impacts in full force.The most in-your-face example is COVID-19, which has…

(NEW YORK) — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said Monday that he plans to spend $10 billion of his own fortune to help fight climate change. Bezos, the world’s richest man, said in an Instagram post that he’ll start giving grants this summer to scientists, activists and nonprofits working to protect…

Jeff Bezos (one of the world’s richest men) announced on one of the world’s largest social media platforms (Instagram) that he’s creating a $10 billion fund to combat climate change. In a post on Monday morning Bezos announced that the Bezos Earth Fund will finance “scientists, activists, NGOs — any…

Jeff Bezos (one of the world’s richest men) announced on one of the world’s largest social media platforms (Instagram) that he’s creating a $10 billion fund to combat climate change. In a post on Monday morning Bezos announced that the Bezos Earth Fund will finance “scientists, activists, NGOs — any…

Today, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced that he would be committing $10 billion to fight climate change through a new fund called the Bezos Earth Fund. He announced new fund in a post on Instagram. Amazon confirmed the existence of the fund to The Verge: Bezos said that the money…