The COP28 climate summit in Dubai entered its final two days as Sultan Al Jaber, the Emirati oil executive who’s presiding over this year’s talks, sought to produce a text that would include a commitment to reduce the world’s consumption of oil and gas for the first time. Early on Monday, negotiators were awaiting a … Read more
A lot can change in a year. At this point in 2022, the world had yet to experience what has now become the hottest summer on record, Ukraine was just six months into combating a Russian invasion that permanently changed the world’s energy landscape, and the US Inflation Reduction Act’s promise of billions of dollars … Read more
How did the fossil-fuel era begin? With Europeans heating their houses in winter. The Industrial Revolution would likely never have started if medieval Britain hadn’t turned to coal swept from the beaches of Northumbria to replace firewood from its dwindling forests. One of the world’s first air pollution laws was a 1306 proclamation prohibiting the … Read more