China Has a Grand Carbon Neutrality Target But Where Is the Plan?
China’s new long-term targets, to reach peak emissions before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060, are yet to be matched with a consistent short-term action plan.
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Take the Train: France Moves to Ban Short-Haul Domestic Flights
In a bid to lower carbon consumption, France takes first step tpwards banning short-haul flights where rail alternatives exist.
Read more...Experts Lay Out Their Case Against Carbon Pricing
Climate change policy advocates have turned against market approcaches like carbon offsets, which have clearly failed. But what next?
Read more...Lessons from the First New Deal for the Next One
Whether it is called “Build Back Better” or a Green New Deal, it is imperative to reject the false dichotomy of “jobs against climate.”
Read more...It’s Time For a Green Social Contract
The green transformation will have far-reaching socio-economic implications. Action is needed to ensure domestic and international social equity and fairness.
Read more...Revealed: The Climate-Conflicted Directors Leading the World’s Top Banks
65% of directors from the banks analysed had connections to polluting industries and obstructive lobby groups.
Read more...Italy Bans Cruise Ships from Entering Venice’s Historic Center
Environmentalists take a victory lap, but much more must be done to ensure the survival of Venice, especially with sea levels rising.
Read more...Life in a Remote Alaskan Community on the Front Line of Climate Change
Whittier, Alaska, copes with a pandemic and climate change, and confronts the daunting prospects of a Prince Williams Sound tsunami.
Read more...Coal Is In Terminal Decline, But China’s Consumption Is Climbing
Sadly, King Coal will be with us for a very long time.
Read more...Rising Temperatures, Melting Ratings
Taking a stab at how global warming will affect bond ratings in the intermediate and long term.
Read more...Bitcoin, Easter Island-ism, and the Cowardice of Green New Dealers
A pox on hypocritical environmentalists who are nowhere to be found in demanding a stop to pointless, energy profligate Bitcoin.
Read more...Will Clean Energy Kickstart A New Resource War?
Why the transition to green energy is likely to be geopolitically destabilizing .
Read more...Why Would Anyone Buy Crypto Art – Let Alone Spend Millions on What’s Essentially a Link to a JPEG File?
Trying to make sense of crypto art.
Read more...Meet the “New Koch Brothers” – the Hedge Fund Activists Wrecking America’s Green New Deal
Wealthy predators are playing stock market games with companies needed to develop and produce clean technology.
Read more...$1 Million Nurdle Spill Settlement Shines Light on Plastic Pollution During Shipping
Nurdles are manufactured pieces of plastic resin, which pose hazards to wildlife and contaminate the environment as they breakdown into microplastics.
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