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CanadaClimate DenialClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsEuropeFinance & InvestmentInternational Agencies & StudiesMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionMiddle EastOil & GasPost-Carbon TransitionShale & FrackingTar Sands/Oil SandsUnited States
Colossal Fossils Plot 35% Oil Production Increase Through 2030
With climate scientists, the United Nations, and millions of #ClimateStrike protesters around the world demanding faster, deeper carbon cuts, the world’s colossal fossils are ... -
Batteries/StorageCoalElectricity GridFinance & InvestmentOil & GasPost-Carbon TransitionSolarUnited StatesWind
U.S. Renewables+Storage to Wipe Out Coal in 10 Years, Mega-Utility CEO Tells Analysts
Unsubsidized renewable energy and battery storage are so much less expensive than conventional electricity generation that they will likely replace all coal generation in ... -
Big Investment Funds BlackRock, Vanguard Resist Shareholder Resolutions for Climate Action
Two of the biggest investment funds in the United States, BlackRock Inc. and Vanguard Group, are consistently voting against shareholder resolutions calling for faster, ... -
New Vancouver Venture Capital Fund Raises $145 Million for Environmental Technology, Sustainable Products
A Vancouver venture capital firm, Renewal Funds, has raised nearly C$145 million to invest in environmental technology and sustainable consumer products. -
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 ... -
Bitumen BubbleCanadaEuropeFinance & DivestmentFinance & InvestmentOceansOil & GasPost-Carbon TransitionTar Sands/Oil Sands
Norway’s Biggest Pension Fund Dumps All Tar Sands/Oil Sands Investment
Norway’s biggest pension fund, Kommunal Landspensjonskasse (KLP), has sold off US$58 million in stocks and bonds in Canadian tar sands/oil sands companies and declared ... -
Abu Dhabi Wealth Fund Considers Investing in Coastal GasLink Pipeline
The hotly-contested Coastal GasLink pipeline in British Columbia may be in line for investment dollars from a multi-billion-dollar sovereign wealth fund in Abu Dhabi, ... -
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 ... -
CoalElectricity GridFinance & InvestmentPost-Carbon TransitionSolarSub-National GovernmentsSupply Chains & ConsumptionUnited States
Colorado Utility Inks Landmark Deal to Shift Major Steel Plant from Coal to Solar
U.S. utility Xcel Energy has announced a landmark, US$250-million deal to replace coal-fired electricity with a 240-megawatt solar power plant to power a steel ... -
Carbon Levels & MeasurementClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsFinance & InvestmentInternational Agencies & StudiesPost-Carbon Transition
How the ‘Lionesses’ of Global Climate Diplomacy Brought Net Zero Targets to Life
Six years ago, a group of about 30 “lionesses” of international climate diplomacy gathered at a country estate in the borders region of Scotland ... -
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 ... -
Batteries/StorageClimate Action/"Blockadia"CoalElectricity GridEnergy SubsidiesFinance & InvestmentPost-Carbon TransitionSolarSub-National GovernmentsUnited StatesWind
U.S. Utility Aims to Save $600 Million Over 20 Years by Replacing Coal with Cheaper Renewables
Big U.S. utility PacifiCorp is laying out a strategy that relies heavily on solar, energy storage, and wind and speeds up the phaseout of ... -
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 ...
