Dutch Industry Buckles Under Energy Transition and Global Pressure
High energy costs in Europe, largely due to sanctions against Russia, has spread the gangrene of de-industrialization to the Netherlands
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Insurers Dump Catastrophe Risk of Climate Change and Earthquake to Chump Bond Investors. What Could Go Wrong?
Garden variety investors, including retail, are signing up to insure climate change and other disaster risk via catastrophe bonds.
Read more...FEMA’s Flood Maps Often Miss Dangerous Flash Flood Risks, Leaving Homeowners Unprepared
Even where FEMA identifies a flood risk, the overreliance on historical data and political influence leads to maps that don’t fully represent true risk.
Read more...That $20 Dress Direct from China Now Costs $30 After Trump Closed a Tariff Loophole – and the US Will Soon End the ‘De Minimis’ Exemption for the Rest of the World, too
How the Trump tariff attack on low-value shipments from Hong Kong and China (and soon elsewhere) is yet another tax on the poor.
Read more...Food Giants Graded a “D” on Sustainable Farming Practices
More fiddling as the planet burns and soil quality degrades, as big agricultural buyers give lip service to regenerative farming.
Read more...Trump Just Gave a Huge Gift to China’s Economy
The GOP’s huge new tax and spending law will make it even harder for U.S. companies to compete in clean technologies.
Read more...Global Carbon Emissions Reach Record High Despite Green Efforts
So much for “green energy will save us” hype. Carbon emssions keep rising.
Read more...Sustainable Investment Stumbles on Uncertain Pace of Energy Transition
Green energy investment goes wobbly….again.
Read more...Take Advantage of These Tax Credits Before Congress Kills Them
An alert: some energy efficiency tax credits are about to be terminated. See if you want to avail yourself of them while you can.
Read more...The Dark Side of Ecotourism: When Green Travel Exploits People and the Planet
As luxury eco-retreats and voluntourism surge, experts warn that without systemic reform, ecotourism may be doing more harm than good.
Read more...At Antarctica’s Midwinter, a Look Back at the Frozen Continent’s Long History of Dark Behavior
Sunlight is beginning to return to Antarctica, but are there warnings for us from the “Madhouse at the End of the Earth”?
Read more...The Senate GOP’s Great Western Land Heist
A buried budget clause could force the largest public land sell-off in modern history, without a vote, a hearing, or a warning.
Read more...The Ancients: What Can They Teach Us About Our World and How to Live in It?
I recently added a new volume to my Shelf of Little Books, some of which are not so little but all of which repay re-reading that helps me understand our world a little better with each successive encounter. The newest resident of the shelf was published earlier this year by Princeton University Press: Following Nature’s […]
Read more...Climate Adaptation and Inequality: Lessons from Cape Town’s Drought
Cape Town’s drought illustrated that when climate crises become acute, the rich care for themselves irrespective of bigger effects.
Read more...China’s Rare Earths Weapon Could Kill Europe’s Auto Industry
More on US and European car-makers’ vulnerability to China’s new rare earths licensing regime.
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