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Tag: CLIM

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  • Japan

Japan needs steep emissions cuts from 2030, energy reforms for 2050 climate goal: IEA

 Japan needs steep emission reductions as soon as possible, and latest from 2030 onwards, to meet its 2050 net zero carbon targets, along with accelerated gas and power market reforms Continue Reading

Posted On : 4 Mar 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • USA

Biden faces steep challenges to reach renewable energy goals

President Joe Biden wants to change the way the U.S. uses energy by expanding renewables, but he will need to navigate a host of challenges — including the coronavirus pandemic Continue Reading

Posted On : 4 Mar 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate

In the Atlantic Ocean, Subtle Shifts Hint at Dramatic Dangers

IT’S ONE OF THE MIGHTIEST RIVERS you will never see, carrying some 30 times more water than all the world’s freshwater rivers combined. In the North Atlantic, one arm of the Continue Reading

Posted On : 4 Mar 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • USA

Historic drought worsens in the Southwest

The year 2020 is going to be remembered for a lot of things, many of them not so good. Included in the not-so-good list is the drought that has plagued Continue Reading

Posted On : 4 Mar 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Renewables
  • USA

Energy Secretary Ready To Unleash $40 Billion In Green Energy Funds

President Biden’s new Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm is ready to let loose $40 billion in Department of Energy loans, the former Michigan governor said on Wednesday at CERAWeek. Granholm has Continue Reading

Posted On : 4 Mar 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate

Bill Gates-Led Group Shows U.S. Grid Emissions Can Fall 45%

The U.S. could cut emissions from its electricity grid in half within the next decade through investments in renewables and transmission, according to a research team backed by Bill Gates. At Continue Reading

Posted On : 3 Mar 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate

Big Oil Clashes Over Fossil Fuel Future

Executives from major oil companies clashed over the prospects of oil and gas for the future at the first virtual edition of the CERAWeek conference in Houston. While BP’s Bernard Continue Reading

Posted On : 3 Mar 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate

Houston’s Big Oil Conference Goes Green as Energy Transition Accelerates

For years, Mark Brownstein of the Environmental Defense Fund felt a little foreign at Houston’s big energy conference, where fossil fuels were king and conversations about climate change and clean Continue Reading

Posted On : 3 Mar 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate

Global carbon emissions rebound to pre-lockdown levels

The pandemic resulted in the largest absolute drop in annual global energy-related C02 emissions in 2020, as economies gripped by the pandemic ground to a standstill, the IEA said. But Continue Reading

Posted On : 3 Mar 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • USA

Reversing Trump, Interior Department Moves Swiftly on Climate Change

 As the Interior Department awaits its new secretary, the agency is already moving to lock in key parts of President Biden’s environmental agenda, particularly on oil and gas restrictions, laying Continue Reading

Posted On : 3 Mar 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • Climate
  • USA

Kerry confident US can compartmentalize, work with China on climate

The US can compartmentalize its geopolitical tensions with China to work with the country on ambitious climate plans aimed at limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius, Special Presidential Continue Reading

Posted On : 3 Mar 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • USA

American Petroleum Institute move would recognize climate change, but undercut other measures

The American Petroleum Institute, the oil and gas industry’s top lobbying arm, is edging closer to endorsing a carbon tax, a tool that would make fossil fuels more expensive, boost Continue Reading

Posted On : 3 Mar 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • USA

Biden’s All-of-Government Climate Pledge Begins to Take Shape

The Biden Administration’s decision to throw out the Trump White House’s method for calculating the social cost of carbon was one of the first tangible actions on the president’s lengthy Continue Reading

Posted On : 2 Mar 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • Climate

China Chips Away at Coal Addiction to Chase Climate Goals

China’s use of coal in its energy mix continued to decline in 2020, but more aggressive measures may be needed to reduce emissions in order to meet Beijing’s climate goals. Continue Reading

Posted On : 1 Mar 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate

United Nations: Countries’ pledges to cut emissions are far too meager to halt climate change

Pledges made by so far by countries around the globe to cut greenhouse gas emissions fall strikingly short of the profound changes necessary to avoid the most catastrophic impacts of Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate

Gulf Stream system at weakest in a millennium due to climate change

The Gulf Stream system has weakened to its slowest pace in more than a thousand years, according to scientists, as global warming makes the powerful ocean current that controls much Continue Reading

Posted On : 26 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate

Scientists see stronger evidence of slowing Atlantic Ocean circulation, an ‘Achilles’ heel’ of the climate

A growing body of evidence suggests that a massive change is underway in the sensitive circulation system of the Atlantic Ocean, a group of scientists said Thursday. The Atlantic meridional overturning Continue Reading

Posted On : 26 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate

Record warmth swallows Western Europe as frigid weather chills Russia

Just weeks after a bitter cold blast that brought heavy snow to Germany, the Netherlands and Britain, much of Western Europe is enjoying a taste of spring. Temperatures some 25 degrees Continue Reading

Posted On : 25 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate

Investors push companies to come clean on climate

In the past, shareholder votes on the environment were rare and easily brushed aside. Things could look different in the annual meeting season starting next month when companies are set Continue Reading

Posted On : 24 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate

Capitalism Is Struggling With the Language of Climate Change

Larry Fink There’s now an overwhelming consensus behind zeroing-out emissions to slow down global warming. Nine of the 10 largest economies will soon align behind this goal, once President Joe Continue Reading

Posted On : 24 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate

FEATURE: Details slow to emerge for New York climate law set to upend power sector

The New York Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act’s renewable energy and other targets are among the most rigorous of any major economy in the world, according to Governor Andrew Continue Reading

Posted On : 24 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate

NREL releases comprehensive vision for deep decarbonization of transportation

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has released a comprehensive vision for deeply decarbonizing transportation . It is a strategy rooted in cross-cutting research and engineering to enable industry stakeholders, Continue Reading

Posted On : 24 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate

First Arctic Navigation in February Sends a Worrying Climate Signal

A tanker sailed through Arctic sea ice in February for the first time, the latest sign of how quickly the pace of climate change is accelerating in the Earth’s northernmost regions.The Christophe de Margerie Continue Reading

Posted On : 23 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • USA

Climate Threats Could Mean Big Jumps in Insurance Costs This Year

The cost of federal flood insurance will need to increase significantly in much of the country to meet the growing risks of climate change, new data suggests, creating a political Continue Reading

Posted On : 23 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Electricity

After Texas Blackouts, Biden’s Climate Agenda Focuses on Power Grid

The millions of people who struggled to keep warm in Texas, with blackouts crippling life inside a dominant energy hub, have laid bare the desperate state of U.S. electricity grids. To fix nationwide vulnerabilities, President Joe Biden Continue Reading

Posted On : 23 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Exxon

Exxon Pushed by Activist Investor to Set Net-Zero Climate Goal

Exxon Mobil Corp. has already upped its climate plans, only three months into an activist investor’s campaign to force change inside the company. Now the group, Engine No. 1, is pushing the Continue Reading

Posted On : 23 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • USA

Mapping Flood Damage: Millions More U.S. Homes At Risk Than Previously Thought

Millions of Americans just woke up in a flood zone that had never before been listed on U.S. government maps. The first-ever public evaluation of flood risk for every property in Continue Reading

Posted On : 23 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate

How Much Carbon Dioxide Is in the Atmosphere

Why this number Carbon dioxide pollution from humans—mostly burning fossil fuels and clearing forests—is the main driver of global warming. Not all of the CO2 that people emit ends up lingering in Continue Reading

Posted On : 22 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Air Quality

Eurogas urges dialog with gas suppliers over methane emissions

The EU should bring its external gas suppliers to the table for dialog over how best to manage methane emissions, rather than look to impose any kind of penalty on Continue Reading

Posted On : 19 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • USA

Blackouts Cascade Beyond Texas in Deepening Power Crisis

Blackouts triggered by frigid weather are spreading across the central U.S. and into Mexico in a deepening energy crisis that has already crippled the Texas power grid. After more than Continue Reading

Posted On : 16 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • USA

Top Economists Warn U.S. Against Underestimating Climate Damage

Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz and Lord Nicholas Stern published a paper on Monday excoriating the U.S. government—and many of their own peers in economics—for methods used to estimate the cost of Continue Reading

Posted On : 16 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • USA

Cold snap leaves 5 million in Texas, Mexico without power

A rare deep freeze in Texas that raised demand for power forced the U.S. state’s electric grid operator on Monday to impose rotating blackouts that left nearly 3 million customers Continue Reading

Posted On : 16 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • USA

Cold snap leaves 5 million in Texas, Mexico without power

A rare deep freeze in Texas that raised demand for power forced the U.S. state’s electric grid operator on Monday to impose rotating blackouts that left nearly 3 million customers Continue Reading

Posted On : 16 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • USA

EPA to jettison major Obama climate rule, as Biden eyes a bigger push – The Washington Post

The Biden administration indicated Friday it will not try to resurrect the Clean Power Plan, a controversial Obama-era policy that set climate pollution targets for every state’s electricity sector and Continue Reading

Posted On : 15 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate

National Oil Companies On Collision Course With Climate Targets

State-owned oil companies are on course to invest $400 billion in oil and gas projects that could only break even if the world exceeds the Paris Agreement targets, a think Continue Reading

Posted On : 10 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China

China Needs to Hit Peak Oil Long Before It Reaches Net-Zero Emissions

On a freezing December morning, hundreds of oil traders, industry researchers and government officials battled bumper-to-bumper congestion as they headed to a hotel north of Beijing’s Forbidden City for an annual Continue Reading

Posted On : 10 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate

The Dangers of Turning High-Stakes Climate Talks Into a Zoom Call

The defining agreement to limit global warming might not have happened without a drab meeting room. It was in December 1997 that officials from the U.S., European Union and Japan Continue Reading

Posted On : 10 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate

The World Is Moving Toward Net Zero Because of a Single Sentence

The District of Columbia city council held a public hearing on Oct. 9, 2018, to discuss legislation that would halve the U.S. capital’s greenhouse-gas pollution by 2032. The bill had gathered momentum over Continue Reading

Posted On : 9 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate

Alarming rise in global temperatures  

The past six years have been the warmest on record since 1880, with 2016, 2019 and 2020 being the top three, according to a World Meteorological Organization (WMO) press release on Continue Reading

Posted On : 9 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • USA

US Democrats fear ill wind from Biden’s climate policies in oil states

US President Joe Biden’s moratorium on drilling on federal lands has prompted lawmakers within his own party to warn that the policy threatens jobs and local budgets in states dependent Continue Reading

Posted On : 8 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • USA

China Brings Back Climate Envoy With Record of Deals With U.S.

For most of her young life, nine-year-old Gao Ximan dreamed of becoming a policewoman. But after attending an eight-week online workshop about climate change this summer, she decided being a Continue Reading

Posted On : 5 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • USA

GOP directs ire for Biden’s climate agenda at John Kerry

It feels like 2004 again. John F. Kerry has quickly become a punching bag for Republicans who object to President Biden’s agenda for addressing climate change. GOP lawmakers say the Continue Reading

Posted On : 5 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • India
  • Water

How a Water Crisis Hit India’s Chennai—One of the World’s Wettest Cities

Climate change is bringing rising sea levels and increased flooding to some cities around the world and drought and water shortages to others. For the 11 million inhabitants of Chennai, Continue Reading

Posted On : 4 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • USA

Bitter cold snap plunging into U.S. explained

The groundhog might have seen his shadow, but the upcoming blast of cold will have him scurrying to his burrow. Frigid air straight from the Arctic is set to the northern Continue Reading

Posted On : 4 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Germany

Germany says it beat 2020 goal to cut greenhouse emissions

Germany’s economy minister says the country beat its target of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 40% last year compared to 1990 levels. Peter Altmaier said figures show Germany’s emissions of Continue Reading

Posted On : 4 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate

Rising Arctic temperatures bring wild weather around the world.

This week’s winter storm is part of a pattern caused by disturbances to the upper-atmosphere phenomena known as the polar vortex that can send icy blasts from the Arctic into the middle Continue Reading

Posted On : 3 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate

A Surge From an Atmospheric River Drove California’s Latest Climate Extremes

Construction crews work at the scene where a section of Highway 1 collapsed into the Pacific Ocean near Big Sur, California on Jan. 31, 2021. Credit: Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Continue Reading

Posted On : 3 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China

China’s Covid Comeback Is Bad News for Climate as Emissions Rise – Bloomberg

China was likely the only major economy that grew last year after swiftly containing the coronavirus. It’s also the only major economy that saw carbon emissions rise. In December, emissions surpassed Continue Reading

Posted On : 3 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Climate
  • USA

G.M.’s Bold Move on the Climate

General Motors’ announcement last week that it will stop making gas-powered cars, trucks and sport utility vehicles by 2035 and become carbon neutral by 2040 is even bolder than it Continue Reading

Posted On : 3 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Sea Level Rise

Sea Levels Are Rising Faster Than Most Pessimistic Forecasts

A May 20 Sentinel-2 satellite image shows the Dutch province of Zeeland, including the Port of Rotterdam, Europe’s biggest seaport in the upper right. Much of the region lies below Continue Reading

Posted On : 2 Feb 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple

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