Articles include: The climate solution actually adding millions of tons of C02 into the atmosphere; Joanne Chory is harnessing plants to stop climate change; The Exxon of green power: A Spanish company and its boss set sky-high goals; Poland clinches ′historic′ deal to phase out coal by 2049; DOE unveils grid plans to unlock renewables; A warming world threatens Colombia’s coffee future; Study: Reversing warming quickly could prevent worst climate change effects; Study: ‘Life support’ measures could buy Great Barrier Reef another two decades.
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The Daily Climate, April 14, 2021
Articles include: clean energy focus; blue carbon credits; John Kerry off to China; Glacier in Alaska is moving; Mexico & coal; Cost of rechargeable batteries; Brazil & Indigenous land rights; Endangered American rivers; companies call on Biden to reduce GHGs.
The Daily Climate, April 6, 2021
Articles include: Orphan oil wells & climate change; lightning, wildfires, and the Arctic; farmland restoration; wage gap; alternatives for coal country; carbon flooding; O&G jobs disappearing; Texas winter energy disaster; diseases in Alaska; drought in Michigan and Arizona; fossil fuel subsidies.
Yale Climate Connections, April 9, 2021
Articles include: Wind and solar energy are job creators. Which states are taking advantage? Forecasters predict an above-average Atlantic hurricane season in 2021; How the nonprofit Green 2.0 is tackling the environmental movement’s diversity problem; Experts lay out their case against carbon pricing; Some insightful background pieces on Bangladesh; Extreme weather threatens internet infrastructure, broadband pioneer warns; How libraries are improving climate literacy in their communities; Georgia-based innovation lab works to speed the transition to clean transportation; Scholar-advocate Beverly Wright pushes for equity and justice in climate policy; Climate change is making it harder to grow the potatoes traditionally used for French fries
Fossil fuels get too many government handouts. Biden wants to cut them off.
Vox: Fossil fuels get too many government handouts. Biden wants to cut them off. The American Jobs Plan proposes taking away major tax breaks for the fossil fuel industry.
But prying away these perks from the industry has been challenging in the past. President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats tried in vain to slice out subsidies, ultimately hitting Republican roadblocks.
A 2018 study in Nature found that eliminating global fossil fuel subsidies would decrease carbon dioxide emissions by 0.5 to 2 gigatons by 2030 — the equivalent of Japan’s annual emissions.
The Daily Climate, March 26, 2021
Articles include: Canada’s Supreme Court ruling on carbon tax; US carbon tax on O&G; promises of net zero carbon emissions; solar entrepreneurs; biomass; Congressional Review Act to reinstate methane rules; pro-fracking columnist is a denier; Massachusetts climate law; wind capacity not being built quickly enough; abandoning buses and trains; East Kentucky flooding; Volkswagen & Tesla.
The Daily Climate, March 16, 2021
Articles Include: Maryland Senate passes climate act by wide margin; Canadian lobbyists attack Netflix children’s film for ‘anti-oil propaganda’; Poor and Latino neighborhoods endure hotter temperatures, Study finds; Maps reveal redlined areas face higher flood risks; Report: Renewable energy growth must speed up to meet Paris goals, agency says; Exclusive: U.S. Congress launches probe into multibillion-dollar ‘clean coal’ tax credit; Line 3: Stopping the next big climate threat crossing the U.S.-Canada border
The Daily Climate, March 8, 2021
Articles include: Big banks make a dangerous bet on the world’s growing demand for food; In call for environmental justice, Biden’s climate agenda reaches into neighborhoods; Can the market save the planet? FedEx is the latest brand-name firm to say it’s trying.; Mexico set to reshape power sector to favor the state; Oil giants prepare to put carbon back in the ground; NFTs are hot. So is their effect on the Earth’s climate; Porsche to produce fuel ′as clean′ as electric vehicles; Carbon taxes don’t reduce emissions but closing offshore tax havens can; Singapore builds huge floating solar farm at sea in bid to tackle climate crisis; Lake Huron is getting warmer: What that means for Georgian Bay
NYT Climate Fwd, December 16, 2020
The New York Times discusses: the Biden transition picks; wildfires destroying trees; research on white areas getting financial support after wildfires; emission cuts in the next decade; monarch butterflies; environmental justice; China and global warming; US fossil fuel subsidies; report on climate crisis.
EU says fossil fuel subsidies undermine its climate ambitions
Thomson Reuters Foundation discusses EU says fossil fuel subsidies undermine its climate ambitions.
A senior European Union official on Thursday urged member nations to stop subsiding fossil fuels responsible for greenhouse gases which are undermining the bloc’s policies to tackle climate change.
“The European Green Deal is clear: fossil fuel subsidies have to end,” EU Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson told the European Parliament on Thursday, referring to the EU’s plan to reach net zero emissions by 2050.
“They remain a major impediment to a cost-efficient energy and climate transition, but also to a functioning internal market.”
EU countries spent 159 billion euros ($188 billion) on energy subsidies in 2018, according to a Commission report published this month. Nearly a third of that went on fossil fuels.