Bill Gates

How Bill Gates frustrates climate action and COP30

Is a billionaire's opinion important just because they are a billionaire? A new We Don’t Have Time analysis exposes how the world’s most influential philanthropist quietly shifted his climate agenda, bankrolled a think tank known for promoting climate delay, and released a well-timed message that eclipsed the UN Secretary-General’s most urgent warning yet.
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Can Brazil’s unorthodox COP30 reboot global climate diplomacy?

More than 50,000 people have descended on Belém, the small Amazonian city hosting this year’s COP30 climate summit. Cruise ships, school dormitories, and even army barracks have been turned into makeshift lodgings. It’s a logistical challenge — and a sign that this conference will be anything but ordinary.
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pesticides on food

EU banned pesticides return through the front door

The reappearance of banned pesticides through imported fruits and vegetables exposes the fragility of Europe’s food safety system. What was meant to protect people and the planet is being undermined by global trade loopholes. As long as the EU doesn’t apply identical standards to imported goods and domestic production, its promise of safe and fair food remains only partially fulfilled.
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While the world is burning, the super-rich keep flying

Oxfam’s new report, Climate Plunder, exposes how the world’s richest one percent are not only responsible for a disproportionate share of carbon emissions, but also for shaping the very policies meant to stop them. As the planet passes the 1.5 °C threshold, billionaires and big corporations continue to profit from an economy that is literally overheating.
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climate

The climate debate is approaching the red-hot core

The book, "What has gone wrong with Mitigation?", which has just been released, is a collection of 24 analyses I've written since 2018 on international decision-making and wrangling around climate change.
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quantum computers

Quantum Computing Emerges as Key Player in Climate and AI Race

A team at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has reached a new milestone in quantum computing: a functioning system with 6,100 qubits. These are so-called neutral-atom qubits held in place by optical “tweezers.” It is the most extensive and most stable qubit array ever built. For the global quantum community, this is considered a breakthrough: for the first time, scalability is being combined with high accuracy and long coherence.
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Governments Double Down on Fossil Fuels, Pushing Climate Targets Out of Reach

Instead of winding down coal, oil, and gas as promised, governments around the world are preparing to expand fossil fuel production — a move that scientists warn could blow past global climate goals.
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dehumanization

The Relentless Advance of Dehumanization

Several years ago, I argued that dehumanization had become an unstoppable force in our societies. Since then, the trend has only accelerated, climbing ever higher on the global index of misery. In the few independent media outlets and free forums that still exist, speculation about this phenomenon continues. Yet these discussions increasingly feel like rearguard battles. More and more media are being absorbed by owners who have no regard for free speech — and sometimes not even for truth itself.
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cars

Hybrid Cars Emit Up to Five Times More CO₂ Than Promised

In real-world driving conditions, the CO₂ emissions of plug-in hybrid cars are nearly five times higher than official tests suggest, according to an analysis by the European Environment Agency. Automakers often present plug-in hybrids as a more conventional alternative to fully electric vehicles, as they combine a gasoline or diesel engine with an electric motor and a battery that can be charged from the power grid.
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wind park

New blows to the Climate: Trump Freezes Revolution Wind Farm, Google Bets on Fossil Fuels

The Trump administration has moved to halt construction on the nearly finished offshore wind farm Revolution Wind off Rhode Island and Connecticut. At the same time, Google President and CIO Ruth Porat is steering the company toward fossil fuels to power its fast-growing AI operations. For Porat, it’s a déjà vu moment: during the financial crisis, she was at Morgan Stanley, deeply tied to the subprime mortgage bets that nearly sank the global economy. Now, critics warn, she risks repeating history — only this time with energy instead of housing.
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