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Worldwide Highlights

• The Net-Zero Banking Alliance is now all but dead, with JPMorganChase confirming they are leaving, following Citi, BofA, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo who have all left in the last 3 weeks.

  • Net-Zero Banking Alliance is part of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), a UN-backed group that formed as part of the Glasgow Cop26 in 2021. With all the departures GFANZ is now restructuring.

• Biden bans offshore drilling across vast area of US (and perhaps Trump will have challenges to reinstate it)

• German greenhouse gas emissions fell by three percent in 2024 - reflecting a 48 percent drop from 1990 levels.

• Thailand reaffirms green pledges despite disappointment with COP29

• Microsoft launch SPARROW: AI to measure and protect biodiversity in the most remote places

• Norway-based energy company Equinor has secured $3 billion for the Empire Wind 1 project - the 80,000 acre wind project off the coast of New York.

• Climate crisis ‘wreaking havoc’ on Earth’s water cycle, report finds

• Worst climate disasters of 2024 that caused billions in damage

UK Highlights

• UK electricity cleanest on record in 2024 with renewables responsible for 45% of generation and final coal power station closed

• UK government scraps plan to ban sale of gas boilers by 2035

• Government accused of ‘bullying’ to get pylons built under Ed Miliband’s net zero drive [Paywall - view cached copy]

• Millions of homes to get grants and cheap loans for solar panels

• Average Briton causes 23 times more CO2 on Christmas Day

The Daily Climate Sceptic

• Devils in the Machine – driving an electric car is fake environmentalism

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