Posts Tagged ‘renewables’
Mobilizing Climate Action in the Face of “Planet of the Humans”
We are in a climate emergency. That means we all need to do everything we can to get the world to stop burning fossil fuels and chopping down trees. And we need to do it as quickly as possible. Getting to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 will take everything we have. That’s why…
Read moreClean Energy and Prosperity: We Can Have Both
The global economy grew but carbon emissions didn’t. Climate experts believe a worldwide shift towards renewable energy has kept greenhouse gas emissions level for a second year running, even as the global economy grew 3%.This uncoupling of economic growth and emissions has never been seen before, and represents a rare bit of good news in…
Read moreNotes from CERES' Investor Summit on Climate Risk
On January 27, several hundred distinguished investors and government officials gathered at UN headquarters in New York for CERES’ 16th “Investor Summit on Climate Risk.” Building on the momentous agreements reached at the COP21 Climate Summit in Paris, the focus was on “Advancing the Clean Trillion” — finding ways to increase investment in clean energy…
Read moreShell games in Alaska
In Alaska, there’s good news and there’s bad news. The good news first: last week Royal Dutch Shell shut down its drilling rig in the Chukchi Sea and gave up its immediate dream of a great Arctic oil bonanza. After seven billion dollars of failed investment in a single dry well, Shell has now followed the lead…
Read moreReasons for hope, reasons for action
The climate movement is snowballing! Well, perhaps we should find another metaphor, one that doesn’t melt in the heat. Blossoming? Springing up? Taking off? Whatever your choice of image, there are many reasons to be optimistic about the recent shift in how people perceive climate change. Technological advances are making non-carbon energy cheap and accessible. And political…
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