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Donald Pols (right), director of Milieudefensie, and Channa Samkalden (left), a lawyer for Milieudefensie, celebrate following a Dutch court’s ruling against Shell. (Photo: Remko de Waal / AFP via Getty Images)

Big Oil Takes Huge Loss in a Day of Game-Changing Climate News

Dutch court ruling and two shareholder revolts bring new hope against climate emergency.

Mark Hertsgaard ·

Climate activists on Wednesday celebrated a Dutch court's ruling that Royal Dutch Shell must cut its carbon emissions 45% by 2030.

'Landslide Victory for Climate Justice': Court Rules Shell Must Cut CO2 Emissions 45% by 2030

"This is a turning point in history," said an attorney who noted that the ruling "may also have major consequences for other big polluters."

Jessica Corbett ·

A gas flare from the Shell Chemical LP petroleum refinery illuminates the sky on August 21, 2019 in Norco, Louisiana. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

The IEA—the World's Most Influential Energy Modelling Agency—Closes the Door on New Fossil Fuel Extraction

This is huge. An agency that has consistently boosted new oil and gas development in its flagship annual World Energy Outlook (WEO) is now backing up the global call to stop the expansion of fossil fuel extraction.

Kelly Trout ·

If we are to stabilize the climate system, we will need a global Green New Deal. (Photo: Shutterstock)

What's Missing From Biden’s Climate Agenda?

A fair-shares approach to global climate justice could help save the "net zero 2050" strategy.

Tom Athanasiou ·

A gas flare is seen at an oil well site on July 26, 2013 outside Williston, North Dakota. Gas flares are created when excess flammable gases are released by pressure release valves during the drilling for oil and natural gas. (Photo: Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

New UN Report Highlights 'Absolutely Critical' Need to Dramatically Slash Global Methane Emissions

"Reducing human-caused methane emissions is one of the most cost-effective strategies to rapidly reduce the rate of warming and contribute significantly to global efforts to limit temperature rise to 1.5°C."

Brett Wilkins ·

Three Gentoo penguins on top of an iceberg at Yellow Point Beach on January 1, 2020 in King George Island, Antarctica.

Study Warns of 'Rapid and Unstoppable' Sea Level Rise If World Misses Paris Climate Targets

"Once you put enough heat into the climate system, you are going to lose those ice shelves, and once that is set in motion you can't reverse it."

Jake Johnson ·

Spending at such a colossal scale presents an opportunity not simply to rebuild the global economy, but to do so better. (Photo: Mark Kerrison/In Pictures via Getty Images)

World Must Move From Pledges to Actual Green Recovery Spending

In the wake of a once-in-a-generation pandemic and economic crisis, spending on green recoveries is less than an average year's worth of subsidies on fossil fuels.

Steven Stone ·

Greenpeace activists projected a message to world leaders to demanding urgent action to turn the tide on the worsening climate emergency on April 21, 2021 in Seoul, South Korea—the eve of U.S. President Joe Biden's Climate Leaders Summit.

Highlighting Need for World Leaders to Go Into 'Emergency Mode,' Analysis Finds Earth on Track for 2.4˚C of Warming

"The fact that current global warming is now at 1.2°C above pre-industrial levels only serves to reinforce the urgency of further NDC updates," says a new analysis from Climate Action Tracker.

Andrea Germanos ·

President Joe Biden delivers remarks during day two of the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate at the East Room of the White House April 23, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Anna Moneymaker-Pool/Getty Images)

Biden 'Has Not Yet Done Enough' on Climate Emergency in First 100 Days, Campaigners Say

"Now is the time for Biden to back up his progressive messaging with climate action that will actually stop the crisis at the scale that science and justice demand."

Jessica Corbett ·

Slashing Methane Emissions Must Play Larger Role in Fighting Climate Crisis, UN Says

The report confirms that "natural gas is the precise opposite of a climate solution," wrote author and activist Bill McKibben. 

Julia Conley ·

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