Tag: Fossil fuels

Pictured: Twelve jaw-dropping projects that will revolutionise Saudi Arabia, from an upside-down skyscraper with a secret entrance to the world’s largest floating structure and a $500bn ‘vertical Manhattan’

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Tabuk Province, Saudi Arabia. A barren corner of the country, with little that’s apparent to recommend it as a destination but endless sunlight and abundant salt water.

Nevertheless, Mohammed bin Salman, crown prince and de facto leader of the region, saw this rocky landscape and envisaged something epic: a series of futuristic developments, space-age cities, and luxury resorts. A desert ‘utopia’ named Neom that encompasses an area of around 10,200 square miles and includes 12 named projects, from industrial

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The world needs urgent regulations to prevent ‘Wild West’ space race from spiralling out of control in to WAR, warns British expert who worked on NASA’s Mars mission

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The world needs urgent regulations to prevent the ‘Wild West’ space resources race from spiralling out of control in to war, a British expert who worked on NASA’s Mars mission has warned.

Several countries have recently set their sights on the Moon, which is a multi-quadrillion-pound hotbed of unearthed riches from rare Earth metals used in smartphones to helium that could perhaps provide an invaluable source of energy.

But there has been unease among scientists about how the moon’s resources

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Gen Z eco warriors who claim fossil fuels are UNCONSTITUTIONAL sue the Biden administration – along with lawmakers in three states over green ‘failings’: Hawaii, Utah and Virginia to hold trials

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Dozens of young Americans are challenging the Biden administration and state officials over their alleged climate policy failings through a series of explosive lawsuits. 

Civil cases launched by Gen Z plaintiffs are spreading like wildfire following a historic win by 16 kids and teens against Montana lawmakers last summer.  

Two federal complaints against the US government and the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) have been launched in Oregon and California respectively, along with three state-level cases in Hawaii, Utah and Virginia. 

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The ‘dirty dozen’ of Davos – POLITICO

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It’s that time of year again: Leaders, business titans, philanthropists and celebs descend on the Swiss ski town of Davos to discuss the fate of the world and do deals/shots with the global elite at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.

This year’s theme: “Rebuilding trust.” Prescient, given the dumpster fire the world seems to be turning into lately, both literally (climate change) and figuratively (where to

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The Green New Deal Is the Opiate of the Masses

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What kinds of measures are you taking, personally, to prevent global warming? Have you bought a reusable shopping bag to reduce your reliance on disposable plastic ones? Do you carry a thermos so you don’t end up buying drinks in plastic bottles? Did you buy an electric car?

Let me make one thing clear: These good deeds are meaningless. They can even cause more harm than good.

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Hawaii school students sue transport department over pollution crisis and claim ‘rising tides are washing up ancestors’ BONES’ – months after Montana youths won landmark climate change trial

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Fourteen Hawaiian school students are suing the transport department for infringing on their right to grow up in a healthy environment by polluting it with greenhouse gases. 

Ranging in age from 10 to 19, the plaintiffs claim they have been ‘seriously injured’ due to the government violating constitutional pledges to decarbonize the transport sector by 2045. 

Their complaint says global warming is threatening age-old agricultural industries in Hawaii, while rising sea levels are projected to wipe out entire communities within

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Germany chokes on its own austerity medicine – POLITICO

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BERLIN — Germans gave the world schadenfreude for a reason. And southern Europe couldn’t be more pleased.

For countries that spent years on the receiving end of Europe’s German-inspired fiscal Inquisition, there’s no sweeter sight than to see Germany splayed on the high altar of Teutonic parsimony. 

The irony is that Germany put itself there on purpose and has no clue how it will find redemption.

Last week’s jaw-dropping

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Oil industry rides into climate summit bigger than ever – POLITICO

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This article is part of the Road to COP special report, presented by SQM.

WASHINGTON — Eight years after Paris, the oil business is bigger than ever.

Profits are soaring. Production is climbing — and marking a record year in the United States. The industry is even poised to gain from the crusade to rein in climate pollution, including the billions of dollars in incentives that U.S. President Joe Biden is offering for wind farms, battery minerals and carbon-carrying pipelines.

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Anti-green backlash hovers over COP climate talks – POLITICO

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This article is part of the Road to COP special report, presented by SQM.

LONDON — World leaders will touch down in Dubai next week for a climate change conference they’re billing yet again as the final off-ramp before catastrophe. But war, money squabbles and political headaches back home are already crowding the fate of the planet from the agenda.

The breakdown of the Earth’s climate has for decades been the most important yet somehow least urgent of global crises,

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They’re talking, but a climate divide between Beijing and Washington remains – POLITICO

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This article is part of the Road to COP special report, presented by SQM.

Last week’s surprise deal between China and the United States may provide a boost to the climate talks in Dubai — but the two powers remain at odds on tough questions such as how quickly to shut down coal and who should provide climate aid to developing nations.

The world’s top two drivers of climate change are also divided by a thicket of disagreements on trade,

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