If CCS operations leak, they can pose significant risks to water resources. That’s because pressurized CO2 stored underground can escape or propel brine trapped in the saline reservoirs typically used for permanent storage.
There's a growing conflict between ambitious climate action and retrograde investment treaties that indemnify foreign investors from government decisions that cut into their future profits.
A new draft released Monday afternoon on what's known as the global stocktake — the part of talks that assesses where the world is at with its climate goals and how it can reach them — called for countries to reduce “consumption and production of fossil fuels, in a just, orderly and equitable manner."
Negotiators at a critical United Nations climate conference prepared on Wednesday to wrap up their first week of work with moderate progress on some issues, with little time to make a bit more headway before government ministers return for a final week that will shape the planet's path forward in the face of crisis.
COP28 delegates must realize gender equity in the food system is a gateway to achieving human rights, environmental sustainability and economic prosperity.