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CitiesClimate Action/"Blockadia"Climate DenialClimate Impacts & AdaptationCoalFinance & InvestmentHealth & SafetyIce Loss & Sea Level RiseMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionOil & GasSevere Storms & FloodingSub-National GovernmentsUnited States
Conservative U.S. States Take Tentative Steps, But Won’t Call it Climate Action
Across major swaths of the United States, legislators in some of the country’s most conservative enclaves are making tentative moves to take action on ... -
Fossils Devote 0.8% of Investment to Climate Solutions, New IEA Figures Show
The oil and gas industry only devoted 0.8% of its capital investment in 2019 to clean energy, a category that combined renewable energy with ... -
CCS & Negative EmissionsClimate Action/"Blockadia"Climate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsDrive to 1.5Energy PoliticsFinance & InvestmentInternational Agencies & StudiesNational Plans & Responses
Thunberg Demands Action, Fossils Tout Carbon Capture as Greenpeace Calls Out Fossil Investors at Davos Forum
The annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland was a study in contrasts yesterday, with #FridaysforFuture founder Greta Thunberg slamming the world’s governments and ... -
Bitumen BubbleCanadaCanada's Pipeline-Climate Policy ParadoxFinance & InvestmentFirst PeoplesPipelines/Rail Transport
Ottawa Won’t Offload Trans Mountain to First Nations While Legal, Political Risk Remains
The federal government won’t try to sell off the Trans Mountain Pipeline to the new Indigenous owners it hopes to attract as long as ... -
CanadaEnergy SubsidiesFinance & InvestmentFirst PeoplesPipelines/Rail TransportShale & FrackingSub-National Governments
Scott and DeRochie: Coastal GasLink Buy Undercuts Pension Fund’s Duty to Alberta Retirees
Buying a 65% stake in the C$6.6-billion Coastal GasLink pipeline in northeastern British Columbia was the wrong way to invest Alberta’s public pension fund, ... -
Carbon-Free TransitionClimate Action/"Blockadia"Climate DenialDemographicsEnergy PoliticsFinance & InvestmentJobsLegal & RegulatoryUnited States
Harvard Students Protest After Exxon’s Law Firm Tries to Recruit Them
An elite U.S. corporate law firm flopped badly in its recent bid to recruit Harvard law students, when nearly a third of the invitees ... -
Auto & Alternative VehiclesBuildingsCarbon-Free TransitionCitiesDemand & EfficiencyElectricity GridEnergy PoliticsFinance & InvestmentHealth & SafetySolarTransit
Nottingham Delivers Home Comfort, Rooftop Solar in Drive to Be UK’s First Carbon-Neutral City
Nottingham, England is setting out to transform housing, transportation, energy use, and waste management in a bid to become the country’s first carbon-neutral city ... -
AsiaAustraliaBioenergyBrazilCarbon-Free TransitionChinaDrive to 1.5Energy SubsidiesEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFinance & InvestmentHydroIndiaPathways to 1.5SolarSouth & Central AmericaUnited StatesWind
Mixed Results for 2019 Show Slight Rise in Renewable Energy Investment
World renewable energy investment hit US$282.2 billion last year, slightly higher than 2018’s total of $280.2 billion, with investment declining in China but hitting ... -
AfricaDrive to 1.5Drought, Famine & WildfiresFailure Is Not An OptionFinance & InvestmentFood SecurityInternational Agencies & StudiesSevere Storms & Flooding
45 Million in Southern Africa Face ‘Critical Levels of Hunger’
Climate-induced drought and severe flooding, coupled with economic woes, have left 45 million people across Southern Africa facing critical levels of hunger and in ... -
Carbon-Free TransitionCCS & Negative EmissionsEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFinance & InvestmentForests & DeforestationOil & GasSoil & Natural SequestrationSupply Chains & ConsumptionUnited States
Microsoft Pledges $1 Billion to Become Carbon-Negative by 2030
Software giant Microsoft is embarking on a four-year, US$1-billion effort to pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, aiming to remove more CO2 than ... -
BioenergyCanadaFinance & InvestmentFirst PeoplesGeneral RenewablesOil & GasShale & FrackingSub-National GovernmentsWind
Chetwynd, B.C. ‘Renewable Hydrogen’ Plant Gets $200M Cash Injection from Macquarie
A new C$200-million “renewable hydrogen plant” is about to get off the ground in Chetwynd, British Columbia with a boost from the green energy ...
