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Friday, November 11, 2016 - 03:30 • Mat Hope
Energy access is critical to lifting people out of poverty, but not if it is coal-powered.
That’s the message campaigners from 120 development agencies brought to the international climate talks in Marrakech ahead of a day dedicated to business voices.
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Saturday, November 12, 2016 - 08:20 • Mat Hope
Saudi Arabia and members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are generally an obstructive force at the annual international climate change talks. But that rarely stops them trying to present a green front to the world.
Today, two British academics stood alongside representatives of state-owned oil company Saudi Aramco and chemical giant SABIC to help present a picture of low carbon progress.
Friday, November 11, 2016 - 05:43 • Antoaneta Roussi
Electricity will be the most efficient form of energy in the future, powering everything from food production to transportation and replacing traditional sources, said experts speaking on Thursday at the Economist’s Energy Summit in London.
Irrespective of the appointment of Donald Trump as president-elect — a fierce climate denier — the panel was optimistic that long-term economic growth and market demand would necessitate a supply of energy with a smaller carbon footprint.
Dr Lawrence Jones, Vice President of International Programmes at Edison Electric Institute, called electricity the “fuel of the future”, stating that its evolution would likely be a mix of centralised and decentralised systems.
Thursday, November 10, 2016 - 07:33 • Mat Hope
It has been a frustrating few months for young people struggling to get their voices heard in a political system that must seem designed to alienate them.
There is a sense that their future is being ravaged by an electorate too old to live out the consequences of their choices. A trepidation that is particularly keenly felt on issues that disproportionately affect younger generations, such as climate change.
Wednesday, November 9, 2016 - 04:11 • Mat Hope
Just as the international climate talks in Marrakech were getting underway, the ground shifted beneath negotiators’ feet. While delegates are putting a brave face on matters, there is no hiding the anxiety in the halls of COP22 in the wake of Donald Trump’s election victory.
Given Trump’s history of climate denial, participants are quickly manoeuvring to find a straw to grasp onto. And they seem to be coalescing around one simple truth: Trump is inconsistent.
Until proved otherwise, negotiations will continue in the hope that the President Elect is more climate friendly than he’s been letting on.
Tuesday, November 8, 2016 - 14:27 • Kyla Mandel
With temperatures soaring above normal seasonal levels across most of America on 8 November, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump waited out the hours of nail-biting vote counting in their respective election night headquarters in midtown Manhattan, only about a mile and a half apart.
During the early hours of the UK's morning, the results were in and Donald Trump was announced to the world as the next president of the United States.
The election results reverberated around the world, and with it a tsunami of questions, including: what does this mean for energy and climate change in the US and beyond?
Tuesday, November 8, 2016 - 06:24 • Mat Hope
The UK’s position within the international community has become somewhat uncertain since its decision to leave the EU this summer. As long as the government continues to pursue its domestic climate agenda, EU officials say it will not be sidelined at the international talks currently ongoing in Marrakech, however.
The UK has traditionally been seen as a climate leader within the bloc. But since June’s referendum, the country’s climate policy has been in a state of flux.
It has delayed the release of a consultation on a promised coal phase-out, is yet to release its new plan to meet the UK’s emission reduction commitments, and hasn’t detailed how it will enshrine key goals from the Paris Agreement in UK law.
Monday, November 7, 2016 - 08:13 • Mat Hope
It’s that time of year again. Thousands of delegates are descending on Marrakech for the latest round of climate negotiations. After last year’s blockbuster in Paris, how does Marrakech compare?
Early impressions of the 22nd Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – or the much more manageable ‘COP22’ – are that it is certainly different.
Inevitably, there is not the same buzz as in Paris.
