Michael Ball

Dec 13, 2023 | argusmedia.com | Michael Ball

US President Joe Biden on Wednesday lauded the agreement reached at the Cop 28 climate talks and its call for countries to transition away from fossil fuels. Biden called the outcome today in Dubai a "historic milestone" on the way to meeting the goals of the Paris climate agreement. World leaders committed "for the first time, to transition away from the fossil fuels that jeopardize our planet and our people, agreeing to triple renewable energy globally by 2030, and more," Biden said.

Dec 13, 2023 | argusmedia.com | Michael Ball |Jessica Dell

Updates with additional details, timeline from CARB official. California regulators say updates to the state's Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) are coming soon, after apparently missing a key deadline to have amendments ready for potential adoption next month. The program updates, which agency staff have been working on for well over a year, need to be available for a 45-day public comment before a potential board vote.

Dec 12, 2023 | argusmedia.com | Michael Ball |Bachar Halabi

The UN Cop 28 climate conference in Dubai could call for "transitioning away" from fossil fuel use to help achieve net-zero global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050, according to a new draft negotiating text obtained by Argus. The text, provided to Argus by a Cop observer, seeks to bridge the divide between countries calling for a phase-out of fossil fuels and those who oppose such language, as the talks went into overtime on Tuesday.

Dec 6, 2023 | argusmedia.com | Michael Ball

The US continues to push for language calling for a phase out of unabated fossil fuels in the final decision from the global stocktake at the UN Cop 28 climate summit in Dubai. Without a phase out, the world will not be able prevent a more than 1.5° C increase in global temperatures, US climate envoy John Kerry said today as the first week of the conference came to a close. "You have to do some phasing out.

Dec 6, 2023 | argusmedia.com | Michael Ball

The European Commission, Brazil, Panama and the US state of California are backing a global initiative to support the deployment of 2,000GW of offshore wind power generation. All four on 5 December joined the Global Offshore Wind Alliance (Gowa) at the UN Cop 28 climate conference in Dubai. The coalition aims to deploy at least 380GW of offshore wind capacity by 2030 and 2,000GW by 2050. The expansion adds 65GW of declared target capacity for 2030 to the alliance.