A Plague of Locusts, Failed States, and Climate Change
How locusts swarm, create food insecurity, and how climate change means more swarms, absent state intervention.
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Climate Risks to European Banks: A New Era of Stress Tests
Several European central banks have begun assessing the impact of adverse climate scenarios on banks’ capital. Comparable work at EU or euro area level has evolved more slowly. Supervisors need build up a distinct and more complex type of analysis, and should engage with banks now.
Read more...Breakdown or Breakthrough? Degrowth and the Great Transition
We have already surpassed the known limits to growth, so degrowth is our only option.
Read more...The Paris Agreement Set an Unrealistic Target for Global Warming. Now What?
Is the 2 degree global warming target unrealistic? What now follows?
Read more...Trump Drops Antitrust Probe of Four Automakers Which Adopted Tougher Cal Tailpipe Emissions Standards
Trump drops antitrust investigation of emissions agreeemt between four automakers and state California.
Read more...EU Plans to Measure True Climate Impacts of LNG Imports From US Fracked Gas
With climate impacts comparable to coal, the European Commission is planning to study methane reductions emission, with implications for fracked gas US producers.
Read more...The Race For Arctic Oil Is Heating Up
Despite climate concerns and environmentalist backlash against exploration for oil and gas in pristine sensitive regions of the Arctic, companies continue to explore for hydrocarbon resources in the Arctic Circle, in Russia and Norway in particular.
Read more...Yet More Finance Profiteering: Green Bonds
Count on Wall Street to find a profit angle in actual or pending disaster. Green bonds are becoming a hot idea.
Read more...Climate Change Needs To Be on the Balance Sheet
Serious people are finally calling for serious climate change accounting.
Read more...Obama Helped Make Cars More Efficient, but Now They Spew Black Carbon
How regulations to tame cars’ emissions created a new problem.
Read more...How CEOs, Experts and Philosophers See the World’s Biggest Risks Differently
Trying to understand CEOs’ blinkered view of risks.
Read more...This Problem With Fracked Oil and Gas Wells Is Occurring ‘at an Alarming Rate’
Well casing failures are a growing problem for an industry chasing profitability by cutting corners for its shale gas fracking operations.
Read more...Local Climate Policy Run Amok, Bellingham Edition
Bellingham, Washington tries to take on climate change….and their well-intentioned plan misses an elephant in the room.
Read more...Wolf Richter: The Great American Shale Oil & Gas Bust: Fracking Gushes Bankruptcies, Defaulted Debt, and Worthless Shares
A surge in frcking bankruptcies is fueled by collapsing prices for oil and natural gas; no end to the pain is in sight.
Read more...Could Sleeper Trains Replace International Air Travel?
After years of decline, night train services are again expanding, in part to cater to passengers who try to avoid air travel for environmental reasons.
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