Countries agree to deal at COP28 climate summit

COP28 president Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber speaks during the Transforming Food Systems in the Face of Climate Change event on the sidelines of the COP28 climate summit at Dubai Expo on December 1, 2023. Ludovic Marin | Afp | Getty Images Government ministers representing nearly 200 countries on Wednesday agreed to a deal that calls … Read more

Bill Gates warns the world is likely to overshoot 2 degrees of warming

Bill Gates arrives for a press conference to launch the Global Polio Eradication Initiative at the European Commission’s Berlaymont headquarters in Brussels on October 11, 2023. Simon Wohlfahrt | Afp | Getty Images Dubai, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates on Friday said the world is likely to overshoot a critical temperature threshold … Read more

Exxon Mobil CEO urges COP28 climate summit to focus on emissions

Dubai, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods on Saturday said the “problem statement” that countries need to focus on at the COP28 climate summit is reducing emissions, in contrast to calls for a collective commitment to phase out all fossil fuels. For many at the summit, which is being held in the … Read more

A fossil fuel fight takes center stage at the COP28 climate summit

Sultan al-Jaber, president of the UNFCCC COP28 climate conference, speaks during day two of the summit on Dec. 2, 2023 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Sean Gallup | Getty Images News | Getty Images Dubai, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — A fight over the future of fossil fuels has been thrust into the global spotlight at … Read more

Oil CEO rejects fossil fuel industry to blame for the climate crisis

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates —The chief executive of UAE-based energy firm Crescent Petroleum on Tuesday claimed that blaming the oil and gas industry for the climate crisis “is like blaming farmers for obesity.” His comments come at the mid-point of the U.N.’s biggest and most important annual climate conference, with many at the COP28 talks … Read more

Observers see OPEC ‘panicking’ as COP28 climate talks focus on possible fossil fuel phase-out – Daily News

By SETH BORENSTEIN, DAVID KEYTON, SIBI ARASU and JAMEY KEATEN DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Veteran negotiators at the United Nations climate talks Saturday said that the push to wean the world from dirty fossil fuels had gained so much momentum that they had poked a powerful enemy: the oil industry. Late Friday, multiple news … Read more

Stellantis and Ample partner on EV battery swapping

Fiat Stellantis is partnering with California-based startup Ample on EV battery swapping, potentially allowing EVs to swap depleted battery packs for fully charged ones in just a few minutes. On Thursday, the two companies announced a binding agreement to integrate Ample’s battery-swapping tech into Stellantis EVs. That will start with a fleet of 100 Fiat … Read more

Taxation must be friendly for green energy: Razdan

NEW DELHI: Achieving the target of 500 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy is imminent, experts and industry leaders said at The Times of India’s Right To Excellence – Energy Summit 2023. They said the government and industry have stepped up their efforts to achieve the green energy target to reduce the country’s dependence on thermal … Read more