The Year’s Worst Climate News You Haven’t Heard About
Carbon offsetting projects, India, and the oceans — a lot of troubling information has been drowned out by bigger stories in 2023.
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Photographer: Paul Hanna/BloombergIt was a year when the world experienced its hottest 12 months on record. When China connected more new coal plants than ever before. US oil production hit the highest level of any country in history, while shipment volumes for LNG reached an all-time high. The annual United Nations climate meeting in Dubai left fossil fuel producers grinning, and climate campaigners fuming.
There’s been no shortage of bad climate news in 2023 — but worse still is the amount of troubling information that’s been drowned out by the bigger stories. Here are three important issues that have flown below the radar over the past 12 months.