World’s richest 1% are emitting more carbon, says Oxfam report

When you’re a celebrity or a millionaire, hopping onto your sleek private jet for a 17-minute journey to avoid a 45-minute car ride might seem like a perfectly reasonable thing to do. In the past, big names like Taylor Swift, Kylie Jenner, Steven Spielberg, and more, have all come under scrutiny after their flight emissions

Stopping new offshore drilling can deliver 40% global emissions

Stopping new offshore drilling, along with other ocean-based solutions, can deliver nearly 40% of the global emission reductions needed by 2050, an analysis by Washington-based ocean advocacy group Oceana shows. The analysis released ahead of the 27th UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt, has estimated that halting the expansion of offshore drilling, combined with

Huge spending needed to decrease methane from the world

According to a report from the Climate Policy Initiative, a tenfold increase in methane abatement spending is needed to sharply cut global emissions of the potent greenhouse gas and avoid the worst of climate change. The world needs to dramatically ramp up spending tenfold to $110 billion a year to curb methane releases. The potent

Methane in atmosphere increased by record high in 2021

Atmospheric levels of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, increased by a record amount for the second year in a row in 2021, according to US government data. The concentration of methane in the Earth’s atmosphere jumped by 17 parts per billion (ppb) in 2021, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) monitoring found, the largest annual