Analysis: Pandemic debt adds to challenge of funding world’s climate goals
Huge spending by governments kept the world economy afloat during the pandemic as officials mobilized a fiscal response not seen since World War Two to bolster household incomes and give businesses a fighting chance to survive the health crisis.
Analysis: Debt in a warm climate: coronavirus and carbon set scene for default
Where COVID-19 has precipitated unprecedented debts, climate change could trigger defaults across a planet which a United Nations panel says is dangerously close to runaway warming.
U.S. House Democrats seek at least $160 billion in new EV funding
A group of 29 U.S. House Democrats want congressional leaders to include at least $160 billion in additional funding for electric vehicles as part of a $3.5 trillion spending measure, according to a letter seen by Reuters.
Analysis: EU industry hands Brussels headache over carbon border levy
Brussels policymakers, about to unveil the world’s first carbon border levy, are caught between industry demands to twin it with free carbon permits worth billions of euros, and analysts’ warnings that doing so could expose the EU to legal challenges at the WTO.
Climate change is a major source of concern in the UK! These steps can be taken to avoid it!
Changes in the natural climate are visible, and they are a source of real concern not only for the United Kingdom but also for the rest of the world. The government should tighten regulations concerning pollution, carbon emissions, and other issues. Every individual should step forward and accept responsibility for reducing pollution as much as […]
