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India Plans New Solar, Wind Tenders to Hit 175-Gigawatt Target by 2022
India is planning to issue tenders for 60 gigawatts of new solar and 20 GW of new wind capacity over the next two years, ... -
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Falling Cost of Renewables, Batteries Allows Countries to Boost Their Paris Commitments
The falling cost of renewable electricity and lithium-ion batteries will make it “substantially cheaper” for countries to fulfill their carbon reduction commitments under the ... -
Auto & Alternative VehiclesBatteries/StorageBiodiversity & HabitatDrawdownPost-Carbon TransitionSolar
Smart Highways Would Turn Roads Into a ‘Positive Social, Environmental Force’
A shift to smart highways is one of the 20 carbon reduction options that Drawdown lists as Coming Attractions—strategies that weren’t ready for prime time when ... -
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Rising Oil Use, GHG Emissions Will Mean ‘Faster, More Furious’ Climate Change
A pair of new studies coinciding with the opening of this year’s UN climate conference in Katowice, Poland shows oil consumption increasing, greenhouse gas ... -
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Schumer to Trump: No Infrastructure Bill in 2019 Without Action on Climate
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is demanding a novel quid pro quo from Donald Trump as the 2019 legislative session looms—if the ... -
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Greenpeace Energy Co-op Offers to Buy Germany’s Lignite Mines, Shut Them Down by 2025
A utility co-op set up in 1999 by Greenpeace Germany is proposing to take over the open cast lignite (brown coal) mines now operated ...
