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World Moving On Without USA As It Declines

November 9, 2024 admin Canada, carbon emissions, carbon pricing, China, clean power, clean transport, climate change, Coal, Donald Trump, Electric vehicles, Energy, Europe, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, investment, Manufacturing, natural gas, Oil, policy & politics, renewable energy, Solar energy, usa, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 19:26:38 +0000

For the past eight years, the United States has been missing in action in climate leadership globally. Biden’s climate policy experiments, aimed as much at attempting to deal with the root causes of working class and middle class grievance as at useful emissions reductions, will persist in some diminished form. … [continued]

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Methane Expert Rob Jackson Of Global Carbon Project Talks Solutions

October 26, 2024 admin Agriculture, air quality, buildings, carbon emissions, carbon pricing, cattle, clean power, climate change, Energy, Fossil Fuels, HEALTH, heat pumps, Landfill, methane, natural gas, policy & politics, research, shale oil, usa

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 18:21:39 +0000

Recently I had the opportunity to sit down with Rob Jackson, scientist, author, and director of the Global Carbon Project to talk cow burps, landfills, and shale oil, all in aid of the very big global warming problem that is methane. This is the second half of our conversation, lightly … [continued]

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$360M Discrepancy In Brampton Transit Study: Hydrogen Mix Falsely Positioned As Lower Cost Option

October 22, 2024 admin Canada, carbon emissions, carbon pricing, clean transport, climate change, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Energy, Europe, ev batteries, Fossil Fuels, fuel cell, green economy, green hydrogen, grid, hydrogen, mass transit, mass transit / public transit, natural gas, Ontario, policy & politics, subsidies

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 23:17:29 +0000

In recent days I’ve become aware that a purportedly neutral and data-centric transit organization, the Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC), has been advancing hydrogen for urban transit in contradiction of global evidence of failure. A contact forwarded me a more detailed study that they’d done for the … [continued]

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Volvo Trucks Pushes For Price On Carbon Emissions

October 4, 2024 admin carbon pricing, clean transport, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, policy & politics, volvo, volvo trucks

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2024 13:01:32 +0000

Volvo Trucks is a leader in battery electric trucks in Europe and the US and making plans to continue leading the field.

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China Likely To Have Lower GHG Emissions Than USA By 2035

October 3, 2024 admin buildings, carbon pricing, China, clean power, clean transport, climate change, Coal, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, Fossil Fuels, ghg emissions, green economy, green jobs, greenhouse gases (ghgs), grid, hydroelectric, investment, Manufacturing, mass transit / public transit, policy & politics, Shipping, Solar energy, trains / rail, usa, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:37:08 +0000

China’s electrification, renewables, and infrastructure trajectories mean coal demand is going to plummet, and emissions with it. The USA? Not so much.

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Is The USA Becoming A Free Rider On Other Countries’ Climate Action?

October 2, 2024 admin air quality, carbon emissions, carbon pricing, China, clean power, clean transport, climate change, Coal, crude oil, Diesel, electric trucks, Energy, Europe, Fossil Fuels, gasoline, green economy, grid, India, natural gas, Oil, policy & politics, renewable energy, subsidies, usa

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2024 00:41:50 +0000

The free rider problem in climate action arises when some countries or actors benefit from the efforts of others to mitigate climate change without contributing their fair share. Since the atmosphere is a global common good, actions taken by one country to reduce greenhouse gas emissions benefit the entire world, … [continued]

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Is British Columbia Looking at a Black Swan Event? The Complete Stupidity of BC Politics & the Carbon Tax.

September 26, 2024 admin British Columbia, Canada, carbon pricing, carbon tax, letters to the editor, policy & politics

Credit to Author: Letters to the Editor| Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2024 21:59:03 +0000

First, according to Wikipedia, a black swan event is a high-impact event that is difficult to predict under normal circumstances but in retrospect appears to have been inevitable, or an event that comes as a surprise, has a major impact, and is often rationalized with the benefit of hindsight as … [continued]

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US Election 2024: Harris/Walz Ticket A Big Upgrade For US Climate Action

August 19, 2024 admin carbon emissions, carbon pricing, clean power, clean transport, climate change, Donald Trump, Energy Storage, Fossil Fuels, green economy, hydroelectric, Joe Biden, kamala harris, methane, methane leaks, national security, policy & politics, Solar energy, tim walz, us election 2024, usa, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2024 10:31:57 +0000

Recently, I published a seven-part series on the Trump/Biden matchup, focusing on climate-relevant actions in Trump and Biden Administrations, and the campaign rhetoric and promises in 2024. Of course, Biden dropped out as the series was closing out and Harris became the candidate. Further muddying the waters, Tim Walz was … [continued]

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No, Carbon Pricing Maritime Shipping Won’t Push Freight To Airplanes

August 6, 2024 admin Aviation, carbon emissions, carbon pricing, carbon tax, cargo, cargo shipping, China, clean transport, climate change, electric trucks, Fossil Fuels, green economy, heat pumps, investment, Logistics, natural gas, Oil, policy & politics, Shipping, supply chain

Credit 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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Carbon Pricing Is Coming To Maritime Shipping

August 5, 2024 admin air quality, boats, carbon emissions, carbon pricing, cargo shipping, China, clean power, clean shipping, clean transport, climate change, Coal, container shipping, electric shipping, Fossil Fuels, green economy, India, investment, marine energy, natural gas, Oil, policy & politics, Shipping

Credit 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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