This push for dirty power comes despite the country’s vast wind and solar alternatives identified by the World Bank and others.
We are writing to express our concern about the nomination of Barry Myers, the chief executive of AccuWeather, to become the next Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
The world must address its addiction to fossil fuels, but not just coal – oil and gas too.
Industrial ocean fish farming is the mass breeding, rearing, and harvesting of seafood in the ocean. Mainstream, industrial offshore aquaculture practices are essentially underwater factory farms with devastating environmental and socio-economic impacts.
65 Environmental, human rights and Indigenous Peoples’ organisations today sent an open letter to the Steering Committee of the Equator Principles Association (EPA), calling for new and much stronger commitments to be made by its 91 member banks on combating climate change and respecting Indigenous Peoples’ rights and territories.
Long Phu-1 violates a broad set of environmental and social policies, including the Equator Principles, to which BTMU adheres
The declining ability of antibiotics to cure diseases they once easily vanquished is a growing public health crisis.
The 2017 Chain Reaction III Report and Scorecard ranks America's 25 largest fast food and fast casual restaurant chains on their antibiotics policies.
This briefing aims to provide an initial assessment of whether the GCF is living up to its mandate. It looks at whether funds are being equitably disbursed, “country ownership” is being enhanced (encouraging devolved management rather than control by multilateral institutions), and vulnerable countries and communities are being targeted.
The hype and investment around algae biofuels has not resulted in commercially viable biofuels. Worse yet, they distract attention and resources from more promising, less risky and proven solutions to climate and energy concerns, such as efficiency, solar and wind energy, relocalization, expanded public transportation, dietary shifts and regenerative agriculture.