Shuli Goodman talks a lot about building the next generation of clean energy, but she doesn’t just mean erecting fields of solar panels and wind turbines. As the director of Linux Foundation Energy (LF Energy), launched by the nonprofit Linux Foundation in 2018, she’s interested in another kind of infrastructure that she says will be... Continue Reading →
With time running out to head off the worst damage from climate change, the United States government is starting to quantify the cost of inaction – for taxpayers. The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released the first ever accounting of how unchecked global warming would impact the federal budget, looking at its... Continue Reading →
The future cost of climate inaction? $2 trillion a year, says the government
InfluenceMap analysis says 11 large U.S. utilities are ‘obstructive’ to climate policy. Almost half of the largest investor-owned utilities in the U.S. are actively pushing back against climate policy, slowing government efforts to combat global warming, according to a report by climate research group InfluenceMap. Eleven of the 25 biggest U.S. utilities are viewed by InfluenceMap as “obstructionist” to... Continue Reading →
Big U.S. Utilities Are Undermining Climate Goals, Study Says
The planet has already warmed by 1.1 degrees C (2 degrees F) due to human-induced climate change, and millions of people are today facing the real-life consequences of higher temperatures, rising seas, fiercer storms and unpredictable rainfall. Rapidly reducing emissions is essential to limit temperature rise and secure a safer future for us all, as... Continue Reading →
What Is “Loss and Damage” from Climate Change? 6 Key Questions, Answered
Fossil Fuel Finance Report 2022 See for yourself which banks are saying one thing and doing another. How much they are funding the fossil fuel. Amazing site! Continued at BankingonClimateChaos.org
Banking on Climate Chaos
Peter Dykstra: We could all use some good news right now The environmental beat can be a real downer and we often focus on the problems—but there are signs of progress in our fight against climate change and pollution. From renewable projects to plastic treaties, here are some dashes of hope for our planet. Changing... Continue Reading →
Environmental headlines can be bleak, but good news is out there, too.
For companies like BlackRock, the climate crisis is a valuable investment opportunity. They've positioned themselves to make money no matter how — or whether — governments address climate change. In his 2020 letter to CEOs, Larry Fink, the chairman and CEO of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, proclaimed that “climate risk is investment risk.” A... Continue Reading →
BlackRock Is Profiting Off the Climate Crisis
The Secretary General of the UN models how to think about climate change I can remember when some of us organized what may have been the planet’s first truly huge climate march, with 400,000 people descending on New York in 2014. Then UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon came to walk with us for a few... Continue Reading →
The World’s Top Diplomat Has Had It Up to Here
It’s not the end of the world. It only seems that way. Climate change is going to get worse, but as gloomy as the latest scientific reports are, including today’s from the United Nations, scientist after scientist stresses that curbing global warming is not hopeless. The science says it is not game over for planet... Continue Reading →
No obituary for Earth: Scientists fight climate doom talk
White House science office to hold first event on countering climate change denial and delay
Leading climate scientists will meet with officials in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy will hold a first-of-its-kind roundtable with some of the nation’s leading scientists on Thursday to discuss the urgent need to combat the climate crisis and to counter arguments for... Continue Reading →
Renowned author, social critic, and philosopher Noam Chomsky believes that human civilization is rapidly "approaching the most dangerous point" in its collective history, citing a conflagration of global crises that threaten to shatter the foundations of modern society. Chomsky, a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,... Continue Reading →
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