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Utopia is within our reach if we address the colonial, racist and oppressive roots of our current planetary crisis

Young people know that our generation already disproportionately feels the effects of the climate crisis. Almost all of the intense heatwaves that have hit Europe since 1950 occurred during my lifetime. It’s likely they will only get worse.

Unfortunately, Poland, where I live, has clung to an energy model driven by burning fossil fuels for too long. This irreversible destruction violates our right to life, health, property and values ​​of the natural world. That is why at 17 years old, I decided to take the Polish government to court in June 2021 over its failure to act on the climate crisis.

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Five things you need to know about COP26 - the United Nations climate change conference - on Thursday.

Papua New Guinea on Thursday became the second nation to join Australia’s Indo-Pacific Carbon Offset Scheme (IPCOS), which will primarily deliver credits to private-sector voluntary buyers.

It’s no use telling developing nations to decarbonise. The west must accept it bears the bulk of the blame for the climate crisis

A couple of hundred years ago Britain was not a lot different from many poor countries today. Life expectancy was low, infant mortality was high, living standards barely rose from year to year, water-borne diseases were rife. People worked long hours and life for the struggling was, as Thomas Hobbes put it, “nasty, brutish and short”.

Then the Industrial Revolution came along and Britain, followed by other countries in the world’s temperate zones, discovered the elixir of economic growth. After pretty much flatlining for more than a thousand years, incomes per head started to rise much more quickly.

Larry Elliott is the Guardian’s economics editor

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Day 4 of COP26 in Glasgow is energy day, while delegates continue technical negotiations on all issues in closed sessions.

China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has ordered most coal-fired power plants to improve their coal-burning efficiency, a move that could further increase the oversupply of allowances in the ETS unless the environment ministry adopts similar adjustments to the CO2 allocation benchmark.

Researchers take sticky beak at bin chicken DNA to see if city-dwellers could revive country populations

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City bin chickens could mutate – or they could save their dwindling country cousins, new research is suggesting.

Global heating, increasing drought, water extraction and habitat degradation have driven the Australian white ibis out of inland river systems.

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South Australia experienced four hours of "negative net load" on its distributed network on Sunday as rooftop solar met all demand, and more.

The post Rooftop solar pushes state’s entire local network into negative load for four hours appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A new report suggests Australia is a bad neighbour in the Pacific, using international aid to bully Pacific countries into silence over climate dissent.

The post “Pacific Bully:” Australia accused of greenwashing climate finance commitments appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Around 190 countries and organisations, including subnational governments, banks and utilities, expected to sign pledge to end coal use.

The post More than 40 countries to make pledge to end coal generation, but not Australia appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Nigel discusses how deep and long lasting relationships with technology suppliers can really make a difference to solar businesses with Lindsay Hart from Selectronic, who has over 35 years of experience in this ever-changing industry.

The post Great Solar Business Podcast: Surviving the solar coaster appeared first on RenewEconomy.

If we fail to balance the social impacts of climate change with responsible climate action, we risk substituting one kind of harm for another – and this would be a disaster of another kind. Nick Bainton, Associate Professor, The University of Queensland Deanna Kemp, Professor and Director, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Ever paused over the recycling bin, wondering whether to add a pizza box? You could be a wishcycler.

On the Greek island of Evia last summer an intense conflagration took almost two weeks to control.

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Global carbon emissions are set to get back close to the levels they were at before Covid.

Andrew Forrest continues spree of green energy deal-making, with massive renewable hydrogen hubs proposed for Jordan and Argentina.

The post Forrest’s relentless pursuit of green hydrogen deals extends to Jordan and Argentina appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Big coal users like Poland and Canada vow to phase it out, but key players China and India have not.

The BBC’s Roger Harrabin takes a look at the tech behind hydrogen energy and its green potential.

Australia’s policy at Cop26 is weak and unacceptable. It doesn’t give me any sense of hope

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I am 15 years old, and like so many young people across the world, I came to climate activism through protest. I don’t know exactly how to write a policy; what exact words or grammar should be used. I am not a scientist. I am a year 9 student. But through joining the School Strike for Climate (SS4C) movement, I have learned the basic science and policies, and I am doing my best to make a change in this world.

Earlier this year, I took to the streets of Milan to strike with Greta Thunberg, demanding climate justice. We were together at Youth4Climate, an event held in Milan preceding Cop26, the UN Climate Change Conference, that brought 400 young people from 200 countries together to draft a paper and present it to ministers from around the world.

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