Looking back at 2022, what happened around our environment.
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The oil industry operating on a different planet.
Greenpeace activists board a Shell platform headed for the North Sea to expand existing oil and gas on 6th February (AFP via Getty Images) It increasingly feels like the oil industry is operating on a different planet. Profit-wise, things have never been better for the fossil-fuel titans. Exxon, Chevron, BP, Shell and TotalEnergiesContinue reading “The oil industry operating on a different planet.”
The first week of August 2022 as seen by the Week
August 01 1st ship containing Ukrainian grain leaves port under deal The first ship carrying Ukrainian grain left the Odesa port on Monday under a deal seeking to get a backlog of crops out of the country to ease a growing global hunger crisis. The ship was headed to Lebanon with more than 26,000 tonsContinue reading “The first week of August 2022 as seen by the Week”
What you might have missed the first week of August 2022 in The Independent on Climate
What you might have missed At least 24 dead after intense flooding hits eastern Uganda Four dead in California’s largest wildfire of the year so far; entire town is wiped out BP is ‘laughing all the way to the bank’ with bumper profits while households face poverty, say campaigners Amazon’s carbon emissions have risenContinue reading “What you might have missed the first week of August 2022 in The Independent on Climate”
The Independent’s view for the first week of August 2022
August 01 1 / England beat Germany to win Euro 2022 after dramatic Chloe Kelly goal Some 56 years ago, when England last won a major international tournament, they thought it was all over. This time, you sense it is just the beginning. How else to characterise the scale of this achievement by theseContinue reading “The Independent’s view for the first week of August 2022”
How to Think About Your Carbon Footprint
Today the framework of the individualized carbon footprint seems to be everywhere. We have to ask what we can do to create the conditions under which the world is capable of the big systematic change that we so urgently need.
The link between extreme weather and extreme inequality
As the climate crisis escalates it will have an impact on most aspects of our lives wherever we are living, from security to the cost of living, from where and how we live and move around, to our diets and even our jobs.
Charities demand radicalism in face of officials’ delay
Placing faith in net-zero targets and attempting to offset future carbon emissions with “business as usual” would condemn the world to catastrophe, a coalition of green and human rights groups warned on 8 November.
Some View on the World 