Financial firms that control around 40% of global assets will align themselves to the Paris Agreement 1.5 degree warming limit, Chancellor Rishi Sunak will say on Wednesday at critical UN climate talks. On “finance day” at COP26 on Wednesday, Mr Sunak will laud the “historic” climate commitment from global firms that control $130tr (£95tr) of
Chinese EV automaker XPeng Motors has taken a play out of Tesla’s book and will implement a ‘Smart Driving Points’ scoring system to ensure future owners don’t abuse its self-driving technology. The safety monitoring system has launched in beta form ahead of a 2022 rollout, and appears to be eerily similar to Tesla’s recent ‘Safety
In this article BLK LONDON — Larry Fink, chair and CEO of BlackRock, says the so-called energy transition toward greener power has to be radically rethought and blasted oil firms for selling out to private companies. Speaking at the Green Horizon Summit chaired by CNBC’s Julianna Tatelbaum during the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland,
A woman has died after actor Alec Baldwin discharged a prop firearm on the set of new Western movie Rust. The incident happened on location in New Mexico where a man has also been injured. SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http://www.youtube.com/skynews Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/skynews Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/skynews Follow
A woman pleaded for help to an Ohio police dispatcher while her alleged abductor slept just feet away. CNN’s George Howell reports.
The Basalt Vista community, nestled high in the mountains in Basalt, Colorado, is about to get a whole lot smarter in the pursuit of energy efficiency and renewable energy integration. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is installing its R&D 100 Award-winning foresee™ software in local homes to field-test smart energy management and community-level energy aggregation and
[Editor’s note: It is good to remember that because many places, such as many parts of India, are behind in development, they are able to develop green infrastructure at a point before more damage is done. This is the one blessing of underdeveloped countries. As they play catchup in development, they can start more originally
One of Britain’s top scientists has quit the government’s pandemic advisory body, warning the COVID crisis is “a long way from over” and that the situation in the UK is “concerning”. Sir Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust, quit the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) at the end of October. Sky News can
In this article FB Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies at a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington, October 23, 2019. Erin Scott | Reuters Facebook on Tuesday announced that it will be putting an end to its facial recognition system amid growing concern from users and regulators. The social network, whose parent
Three of Britain’s biggest high street lenders will this week join an alliance aimed at phasing out the world’s dependence on coal power amid a blizzard of efforts by multinationals to demonstrate their green credentials at the COP26 summit. Sky News has learnt that HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group and NatWest Group will be among 10
António Guterres, UN Secretary General, uttered those forthright remarks above in the opening speech to the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. The mood was somber as dignitaries from across the world gathered to assess the state of the climate crisis and to commit to achieving additional zero emissions goals. In the midst of scrutiny and
Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and his ex-UEFA counterpart Michel Platini have been charged with fraud in Switzerland. It follows a six-year investigation into a payment of two million Swiss francs (£1.6m) from FIFA to Platini. Blatter, 85, and French football legend Platini, 65, could now face a trial within months. “This payment damaged FIFA’s
A British scallop trawler detained by French authorities as part of a fishing feud with the UK is still being held, despite a cabinet minister earlier telling Sky News it had been released. The impounded Cornelis Gert Jan, a Scottish-registered scallop dredger that was seized by officials near Le Havre last week, will continue to
World leaders have made a series of climate pledges at COP26 culminating in an agreement to strengthen emissions-cutting targets for 2030 by the end of next year. A lot has happened over the past two weeks in Glasgow. Here is a look back at all the key agreements. Follow the latest coverage in our COP26
Eternals was never intended for release while the COP26 climate summit was taking place, but the timing does seem strangely appropriate. Pushed back from hitting cinemas in 2020 due to the pandemic, the latest big-budget film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe tells the story of a disparate group of superheroes who find that, with the
The help of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been deployed by tech firms and NGOs worldwide to fight the climate change crisis. Gadgets 360 caught up with some, including the team at Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society (SEEDS) — a New Delhi-based NGO — and IBM India, to talk about their efforts to apply tech
NASA has shared a stunning image of a giant eye-shaped nebula that is among the brightest and closest to Earth. The image, captured by the agency’s Spitzer Space Telescope, showed a deep vacuum surrounded by a sparkling cloud of dust and gas. The dust and gas are spread over a two-light-year diameter around a central
Two Metropolitan Police officers have pleaded guilty to misconduct in a public office after sharing photos of the bodies of two murdered sisters on WhatsApp. PC Deniz Jaffer 47, and PC Jamie Lewis, 33, appeared before Judge Mark Lucraft at the Old Bailey on Tuesday morning charged with committing misconduct in a public office between
Tesla has updated Model 3 and Model Y ranges with the 2022 model year and most of them got higher ranges – though it depends on the wheels. In an overnight update to its online configurator, Tesla changes the ranges of several of its most popular Model 3 and Model Y trims. The update seems
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND – NOVEMBER 01: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi presents his national statement on day two of COP26 at SECC on November 1, 2021 in Glasgow, United Kingdom. 2021 sees the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference. Pool | Getty Images News | Getty Images LONDON — Some of the world’s largest polluters were