Record sums were invested last year in coal power – the most carbon intensive form of energy on the planet – by the World Bank, despite international commitments to slash the carbon emissions blamed for climate change. The World Bank said this week that a total of US$3.4bn ย – or a quarter of all funding for energy projects – was spent in the year to June 2010 helping to build new coal-fired power stations. Over the same period the bank also spent $1bn ย on looking and drilling for oil and gas.
The worldโs largest outdoor advertising company warned city councillors of โfar-reaching consequencesโ hours before the landmark vote.
For decades, ExxonMobil argued consumers, not oil giants, should take responsibility for fossil fuel pollution. Itโs now backing Carbon Measuresโ accounting scheme, which moves pollution โliabilitiesโ to buyersโ books.
For some separatists, ignoring Indigenous rights is not only a side effect of an independent Alberta, but an explicit goal.
Democratic innovation as a pathway for revitalising global climate action.
