Energy/Carbon Pricing & Economics
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CitiesEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsHuman Rights & MigrationJobsPost-Carbon TransitionUnited States
Warren Releases Environmental Justice Platform
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) released a new environmental justice plan this week as she continued her quest for her party’s 2020 presidential nomination. -
CanadaCarbon Levels & MeasurementEnergy PoliticsEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsJobsMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionPost-Carbon Transition
Analysts Pan ‘False Equivalencies’ Between Liberal, Conservative Climate Plans, Cite Massive Public Support for Off-Carbon Transition
The false equivalencies being drawn between the Liberal and Conservative parties’ climate plans, the importance of this month’s election result to Canada’s clean energy ... -
CanadaClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsEnergy PoliticsEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFinance & InvestmentPost-Carbon Transition
Business Coalition Urges All Federal Parties to ‘Renew Canada’s Climate Leadership’
A group of nearly four dozen Canadian business leaders has sent the parties running in the federal election an eight-point plan that calls on ... -
UK Needs Distance-Based Fees as EVs Drive Down Gas Tax Revenues
The United Kingdom stands to lose billions of pounds per year in gas tax revenues as drivers increasingly shift from internal combustion to electric ... -
Electricity GridEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFinance & InvestmentLegal & RegulatorySub-National GovernmentsUnited States
New York Grid Looks to Carbon Pricing to Support Zero-Emission Target
The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) is looking to carbon pricing as an option to reduce the otherwise “astounding” cost of bringing the ... -
CanadaClimate Action/"Blockadia"Energy PoliticsEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsMedia, Messaging, & Public Opinion
Election Wrap: #VoteScience Week Kicks Off, Carbon Tax Fades as Election Issue, and Fossil Ad Works Around Election Advertising Rules
With just two weeks to go in Canada’s federal election, a week of national leader’s debates gets under way tonight, Evidence for Democracy kicked ... -
Batteries/StorageCanadaChinaElectricity GridEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFinance & InvestmentOil & GasPipelines/Rail TransportPost-Carbon TransitionSolarTar Sands/Oil SandsWind
Canada Risks Missing the Cleantech Revolution as Politicians, Fossils Haggle Over Climate Policy
While Canadian politicians and fossil executives haggle over national climate and energy policy, a global wave of technological disruption is emerging as a “real ... -
Carbon Levels & MeasurementCoalElectricity GridEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsNuclearPost-Carbon TransitionShale & FrackingSub-National GovernmentsUnited States
Pennsylvania Moves to Join Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
Pennsylvania is moving to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), making it the biggest carbon emitter in what would now become a nine-state ... -
CoalElectricity GridEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFinance & InvestmentPost-Carbon TransitionUnited States
U.S. Coal Giant Murray Energy Slides Closer to Default
The U.S. coal baron and avid Donald Trump donor who begged his influential friend for an industry bailout, after suing TV comedian John Oliver ... -
More Than 10,000 Attend Environment Debates in 95 Ridings Across Canada
More than 10,000 voters attended nearly 100 all-party environment debates last night in federal ridings across the country. Ottawa Centre took early honours as ... -
Arctic & AntarcticaAsiaCitiesClimate Impacts & AdaptationClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsDrive to 1.5Energy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFood SecurityHeat & TemperatureHuman Rights & MigrationIce Loss & Sea Level RiseInternational Agencies & StudiesInternational Security & WarIPCC ReportMethaneMiddle EastOceansSevere Storms & FloodingSmall Island States
Warming Will Produce Rapid Sea Level Rise, Annual ‘100-Year’ Storms, Declining Fish Stocks, Shrinking Glaciers Without Fast Climate Action: IPCC
The world’s oceans will rise nearly one metre (three feet) by 2100, 100-year coastal storms and flooding will happen annually, fish stocks will see ... -
BuildingsCanadaDemand & EfficiencyEnergy PoliticsEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFinance & InvestmentPipelines/Rail TransportPost-Carbon TransitionShale & Fracking
Election Roundup: Parties’ Promises, Fossils Collect Campaign Data, and Climate Protesters Tread Carefully
Week three of Canada’s federal election saw a flurry of climate, energy, and environment promises from the four national party leaders, coinciding with a ... -
CitiesClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsDrive to 1.5Energy PoliticsEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFinance & InvestmentFood SecurityInternational Agencies & StudiesLegal & RegulatoryNational Plans & ResponsesPost-Carbon TransitionTravel, Leisure & RecreationUnited States
All Eyes on 2020 After UN Climate (Action) Summit Fails to Deliver
The tepid results of last week’s United Nations Climate Summit pointed to the need for political will to match the urgency of the climate ... -
Climate Action/"Blockadia"Electricity GridEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsEuropeFinance & InvestmentPost-Carbon TransitionSolarSouth & Central AmericaUnited StatesWind
Google Announces 1.6 GW in New Renewables Projects as U.S. Solar Procurement Hits 37.9 GW
Global tech giant Google announced a cluster of renewable energy deals totalling 1.6 gigawatts last week, just days after an analyst report placed the ...
