Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2024 16:44:01 +0000
China this week adjusted its emissions policies to prioritize more renewable energy and a more robust electrical grid.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2024 18:23:47 +0000
Under the auspices of the India Smart Grid Forum, the think tank founded as an umbrella organization over India’s 28 state utilities to provide thought leadership, share leading practices, and bring international insights to India, I’m delivering bi-weekly webinars framed by the Short List of Climate Actions That Will Work. With the … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2024 13:10:44 +0000
Wind energy returns to the global shipping industry, with a futuristic assist from motorsports and yacht racing.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2024 15:25:21 +0000
Big Oil spends a lot of time fighting lawsuits, as dozens of cities and states over the last decade have sued these major climate polluters. Claimants want to hold fossil fuel producers accountable for their role in causing the climate crisis. Companies like Exxon and Chevron, the applicants argue, knowingly … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2024 15:55:31 +0000
Ember, a European clean energy group, says renewables displaced fossil generation in the EU in the first half of 2024.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2024 16:34:43 +0000
Recently I sat down with Laurent Segalen and Gerard Reid, European cleantech investors, on their podcast Redefining Energy to talk about Breakthrough Energy Venture’s big misses. This followed our conversation about the cognitive biases of the billionaires such as Bill Gates which have persisted due to a bubble of confirmation … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2024 13:33:08 +0000
In Q2 2024, electric vehicle (EV) sales grew 11.3% in the US, according to a report from Kelley Blue Book. A record-high 330,463 units were sold in the quarter. Yet, due to internal US political divisions, the rising success of EVs has been masked by bickering, misinformation, and controversies. Take … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2024 15:41:38 +0000
Recently I published on the International Maritime Organization’s commitment to introduce carbon pricing for all maritime shipping in 2028. One of the comments echoed something I’d seen elsewhere, the odd premise that this would drive freight to much higher emissions airplanes, and hence be counterproductive from a climate perspective. The … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2024 16:05:28 +0000
In my regularly iterated Short List of Climate Actions That Will Work, there’s a big broom: Price Carbon Aggressively. In the maritime shipping world, it would be a big trawler net that scoops up emissions regardless of technology, allowing the market to figure out the cheapest way to achieve decarbonization. … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2024 16:21:20 +0000
Ethnobotany, which is the study of how people of a particular culture and region make use of indigenous plants, has become a go-to method to examine human life on earth and the role of plants in historical and current day cultures. Plants can help to reduce air pollution and lower … [continued]
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