Climate

SEC Chair: Big Companies Gave Us a Role on Climate Disclosure

While speaking with Bloomberg’s David Westin on Wednesday, Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler discussed the agency’s potential climate disclosure rule and stated that “we have a role to bring some consistency” because most of the biggest companies do

Climate - Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler (AFP)

Jet-Powered Hypocrisy: Richest 1% of Global Elites Emit as Much Carbon as Bottom Two-Thirds

Private jets. Private yachts. Multiple holidays a year. Garages full of luxury vehicles. Investments driving – and profiting from – fossil fuel industries. These are just some of the factors that combine to see global elites, who comprise one percent of the planet’s population, emit the same amount of carbon as the world’s poorest two-thirds, or five billion people, an analysis published Sunday by the nonprofit Oxfam International details.

Taylor Swift gives thumbs up inside a private jet.

Report: John Kerry Admits China Climate Trip Is a Failure

U.S. special climate envoy John Kerry concluded his flying three-day trip to Beijing on Wednesday with his reported admission no agreement with China, the world’s single largest producer of greenhouse gases, has been reached on further actions to slash carbon pollution.

BEIJING, CHINA - JULY 18: U.S. climate envoy John Kerry meets with Chinese Premier Li Qian