Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 18:22:13 +0000
Oil giant BP is turning away from its sustainability goals to maximize its short term profits, a new trend in the oil business.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 22:41:16 +0000
In the past couple of months, an idea has been percolating through Washington and entities dependent on the United States’ good will that the US should reach back into history and create a Clean Energy Marshall Plan for developing countries. This idea is US economic wunderkind Brian Deese’s brainchild, or … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 15:15:47 +0000
Fracking is big business in West Texas, but irreparable damage to the Earth and groundwater is a result. Who pays to clean up the mess?
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Read moreCredit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2024 15:20:06 +0000
California has passed a new amendment that adds to its original plastic bag ban. The state banned single-use plastic bags beginning in 2016 but allowed thicker “reusable” plastic bags to be sold for a 10 cent fee. Officials there thought that the original legislative design, with a few caveats, would … [continued]
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Read moreCredit 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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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 23:15:41 +0000
Recently John Haffner, responsible for sustainability at Hong Kong’s US$1.4 billion annual revenue Hang Lung Property Group, reached out to me. ReThink HK, which bills itself as Hong Kong’s best-attended and most ambitious business event for sustainable development, was hosting a debate he would be part of in front of … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 22:34:19 +0000
A coalition of environmental and health groups has called on Microsoft to rely on clean energy generation instead of a proposed expansion of methane-fueled power for its planned Racine County data center — projected to become Wisconsin Electric’s “largest electric load.” In an open letter to Microsoft, the groups charge … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 12:48:22 +0000
A recent article at Outside tells us the story of a really beef-headed lawsuit the State of Utah recently filed against the federal government. In the lawsuit, the state claims that the feds (specifically the Bureau of Land Management, or BLM—not to be confused with the other BLM) are unlawfully … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 03:30:13 +0000
For three years, the International Chamber of Shipping has been running a survey of ship owners, covering multiple domains, including biggest risks to shipping, changes in shipping patterns with initiatives like friendshoring and most relevantly for this discussion, decarbonization. Recently they dropped their 2023-2024 survey, and the results indicate ongoing … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:45:36 +0000
The latest installment of the ongoing seminar series on global decarbonization that I’m leading for India’s utility professionals under the auspices of the India Smart Grid Forum was on carbon capture and sequestration (CCS). It’s an overly hyped, overly hoped for solution that isn’t and won’t scale remotely economically. When … [continued]
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