How Americans Can Lead in Combating Climate Change: From Trees to EVs
Discover how America can lead in combating climate change through innovation, community engagement, and environmental stewardship
How Rapid Melting of Alaska’s Juneau Ice Field Signals Climate Alarm
The Juneau Ice Field in Alaska is melting twice as fast as before 2010, raising global sea-level concerns. Reducing carbon emissions is crucial to preserve these glaciers
Expanding Energy-Efficiency Rebates: More States to Follow New York’s Lead
New York leads the way in energy-efficiency rebates under the Inflation Reduction Act, with up to $24,000 in incentives for homeowners. More states to follow soon.
ADB Announces New Programme to Fight Climate Change
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Tuesday announced the Innovative Finance Facility for Climate in Asia and the Pacific (IF-CAP), a landmark program which could significantly ramp up support for the region in the battle against climate change.
EXCLUSIVE German parties agree on 2030 coal phase-out in coalition talks -sources
Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD), Greens and Free Democrats, who are negotiating to form a new government, have agreed to commit to a coal phase-out by 2030 in a coalition deal, sources involved in the talks told Reuters on Tuesday.
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.
Biden to tout ‘largest investment’ in climate in Glasgow
President Joe Biden on Monday will try to assure world leaders that the United States can keep its promise to slash greenhouse gas emissions by more than half by the end of the decade, even as the key policies to ensure those reductions remain uncertain, his top climate aides said.
Reducing oil use to meet climate targets is tougher than cutting supply
NEW YORK/LONDON, June 25 (Reuters) – Governments around the world have been slow to take uncomfortable decisions to persuade consumers to cut energy consumption to help achieve climate targets, often because consumers are not ready to pay up or compromise their lifestyles. Researchers, policy makers and energy executives told a Reuters Energy Transition conference this […]
Climate finance targets top agenda for this week’s G7 meetings
Targets for climate finance and girls’ education will top the agenda at a meeting this week of foreign ministers from the Group of Seven advanced economies, this year’s chair Britain said on Sunday. The London summit will be the first attended in person by G7 foreign ministers for two years. Britain has also invited representatives […]
California program overestimates climate benefits of forest offsets -study
California’s forest carbon offset program has generated tens of millions of credits that have questionable value in fighting climate change, a nonprofit group of scientists said this week. CarbonPlan, a group that researches the integrity of programs designed to offset carbon emissions, said that 29% of the forest carbon offsets it analyzed in California’s cap […]
