Russia’s largest companies have killed off plans to introduce individual emissions quotas and a carbon trading system.  The Russian government has drastically watered-down its new package of climate change legislation after push-back from the country’s leading businesses, the Kommersant business _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/good-bye-paris-russia-rejects-climate-change-plan-after-business-uproar/

SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) – Approvals for new coal mine construction in China have surged in 2019, government documents showed, with Beijing expecting consumption of the commodity to rise in the coming years even as it steps up its fight against smog _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/chinas-new-coal-boom/

The Paris Agreement never had a chance of seriously denting global CO2 emissions. Two years ago, President Trump announced he would begin the formal process of withdrawing the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement. At the time, the media and climate _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/forget-paris-on-the-second-anniversary-of-trumps-pullout/

According to reports the EU is preparing to negotiate trade agreements with the Trump Administration, abandoning its pledge to only strike trade deals with countries committed to the Paris Agreement. A committee of the European Parliament on Tuesday endorsed opening talks. _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/eu-ready-to-give-up-climate-pledge-for-us-trade-deal/

Not a single EU state is meeting Paris climate targets, a new analysis finds. It’s been close to three years since countries worldwide signed the Paris Agreement, which obligates nations pledge to commit themselves to intending (or something like that) to _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/forget-paris-not-a-single-eu-state-is-meeting-paris-climate-targets/

India has decided to cut its planned nuclear power plant construction by two-thirds. This will further expand the country’s use of coal for electrical power generation The Financial Express, one of India’s major newspapers, reports that the Narendra Modi government, which had _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/coal-boom-india-slashes-plans-for-new-nuclear-reactors-by-two-thirds/

This year’s BP Energy Outlook is now out: https://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/energy-economics/energy-outlook.html These are the highlights: The speed of the energy transition is uncertain and the new Outlook considers a range of scenarios. Its evolving transition (ET) scenario, which assumes that government policies, _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/forget-paris-global-fossil-fuel-consumption-to-rise-by-20-by-2040-bp-energy-outlook/

Coal would remain at the centre stage in India with its share in energy mix not declining below 46% in 2047, claimed a report titled ‘Energising India’, jointly prepared by the NITI Aayog and the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan. _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/forget-paris-coal-to-remain-king-in-india-until-2050-report/

India’s biggest domestic source of public funds to push renewable energy and protect the environment has become a victim of the Goods and Services Tax. “Basically, the fund is now dead wood,” a senior finance ministry official said. In April, the _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/forget-paris-india-diverts-10-billion-climate-renewable-energy-fund/

Japan may not achieve its carbon emissions target if an ambitious plan to build more coal-fired power plants moves ahead, the environment minister said, underlining Tokyo’s struggle to meet globally agreed goals to halt climate change. Even as it champions _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/forget-paris-japan-to-build-40-new-coal-power-plants/

1,600 new coal-fired power plants are planned or under construction in 62 countries. When China halted plans for more than 100 new coal-fired power plants this year, even as President Trump vowed to “bring back coal” in America, the contrast seemed to _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/forget-paris-1600-new-coal-power-plants-to-be-built-around-the-world/

Public funds from Europe’s carbon trading programme – set up to help poorer countries reduce emissions – will help build two plants that will emit about 7m tonnes of CO2 a year Greece appears on track to win access to a _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/greece-set-to-win-e1-75-billion-from-eu-climate-scheme-to-build-two-coal-plants/