According to a report by Zion Market Research, the global AI in oil and gas market was around USD 1.75 billion in 2018 and is expected to reach around USD 4.01 billion by 2025. On January 16th 2019, Microsoft announced the company will be carbon...
Climate scientist Michael Mann is on sabbatical stay in Sydney, Australia where he studies the correlation between climate change and catastrophic weather events. Home to one some of the greatest natural wonders of this planet, like the Great Barrier Reef and lush temperate rainforests, Australia has...
"The transformation ahead of us is unprecedented," said EU chief Ursula von der Leyen, announcing the investment plan. The European Green Deal Investment Plan will mobilise EU funding and create an enabling framework to facilitate and stimulate the public and private investments needed for the...
World's biggest asset managers are facing enormous pressure over the role they (do not) play on climate change. Public opinion, shareholders and governmental institutions are urging JPMorgan, Vanguard and BlackRock to substantially change their strategies over climate change. What the last two months of 2019 showed...
“I am disappointed with the results of COP 25” The UN Secretary-General António Guterres sentenced on Twitter on 15 December, 2019, at the end of the COP 25 closing plenary. “Time For Action” was the slogan unrolled at the start of the 25th UN Climate Change Conference (COP 25). The...
Millions of people are taking into the streets in an effort to save the planet. Despite that, public mobilisation has had very little impact on governments’ leaders so far. Talks between world's leaders have not evolved into actions as people wish, and the...
Will the EU be able to reach its 2050’s environmental targets? If so, at what costs for the international trade market? As President of the EU Commission, Ms. Ursula von der Leyen, is preparing to unveiling EU’s Green New Deal later this Wednesday (11 December), debates about the impacts of...
The European Environment Agency’s (EEA) latest State of the Environment (SoE) Report gives hope for future, despite EU climate change transition actions are not sufficient to fully achieve all 34 policy objectives. According to the SoE Report, Europe has to scale up its climate measures. ...
Day one of the UN COP 25 in Madrid closed yesterday, 2 December 2019. Over the next two weeks to 13 December, the 196 delegations will negotiate to find a common ground to tackle climate change. So what is at stake at COP 25? We have highlighted...
Bank of England Governor Mark Carney will be the 2020 UN special envoy on climate action and climate finance. The Canadian economist and banker will replace billionaire Michael Bloomberg taking on the UN role to push finance to act on climate change. However, Mr. Carney’s successor at...
While actions are need to tackle a major global challenge like climate change, time is running out. "Time for action" is the slogan of the 25th UN Climate Change Conference (COP 25). The aim of the conference is to take crucial steps towards a full...
Vanuatu is exploring an unprecedented path to protect its population against natural disaster: suing world’s biggest polluters. After Cyclone Pam destroyed the South Pacific island in 2015, Vanuatu’s minister for foreign affairs Ralph Regenvanu is considering the option to take world’s biggest polluters to the International...
Ahead of the Madrid COP 25, António Guterres urges governments of the world to keep up with the urgency of the climate change. According to the Secretary - General of the UN, the lack of a global political will is compromising the quality and the...
The EU Parliament has declared a global “climate emergency” ahead of next week’s international COP25 climate summit and backed raising the EU’s emissions reduction targets from 40 to 55% by 2030. In a separate resolution, Parliament urges the EU to submit its strategy to reach climate neutrality...