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Relief, Some Disappointment After EU Climate Pact (VIDEO)
In Friday’s wee hours, the 28-nation European Union committed itself to fight climate change by rolling back dangerous carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 to at least 40% less than their benchmark 1990...
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Climate Change Now, Fossil Fuels Must Go By 2100
With the release this morning in Copenhagen, Denmark, of the final world Synthesis Report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel, it has become evident that all peoples of Earth need to take action...
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Chicago 2030: Green Or Ashen?
Editor’s Note: This article is one submission in a live Masdar blogging contest (find out the entry requirements here). Very simply, the focus of the contest submissions is to: “Describe your city in...
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IEA Details Post-Lima Energy Decarbonization Routes
With a new report on energy decarbonization, the International Energy Agency has just made a major contribution toward implementing the greenhouse gas reduction agreements outlined at the recent UN...
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Decarbonization Takes The Fast Lane: Universal Dividends (VIDEO)
Despite grindingly slow progress in the United States with decarbonization by means of energy adaptation, the world has actually moved a few steps ahead in the past year. That makes it time to revisit...
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Largest Australian Utility Polluter AGL Set To Decarbonize By 2050
AGL Energy, one of Australia’s largest energy utilities and one of the country’s largest polluters, has announced Friday that it intends to start on a path that will conclude in 2050 with complete...
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WRI Report Outlines US Carbon Pricing Alternatives
This May, the World Resources Institute, a global research organization spanning over 50 countries, released Putting a Price on Carbon: A Handbook for U.S. Policymakers, an important reference guide...
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California Leads Unprecedented International Climate Agreement—“Under 2 MOU”
Late yesterday, California sealed a Memorandum of Understanding (“Under 2 MOU”) with 11 other states and provinces in the Americas and Europe to limit their greenhouse gas emissions to 80-95% by 2050...
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G7 Nations Pledge Decarbonization By 2100!
The top seven industrialized countries (Group of Seven, or G7)—whose carbon dioxide emissions total 25% of the world’s output—decided at a meeting in Germany today to phase out their use of fossil...
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Big Letdown From A Top Emitter: Japan’s Tardy INDC
At long last, Japan has entered its official Intended Nationally Determined Contribution into the pool of national climate pledges for the UN’s Paris COP21 talks in December. The Paris summit aims for...
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World Must ‘Almost Completely’ Decarbonize In Next 35 Years To Tackle Climate...
Originally published on RenewEconomy. By Sophie Vorrath The world must almost completely decarbonize in the next 30-35 years, and the vast majority of fossil fuels be left in the ground, if we are to...
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EU Opts For ‘Transformation’ Rather Than ‘Decarbonization’ For COP21
Originally published on Energy Post. By Sonja van Renssen European environment ministers have agreed a negotiating mandate for the EU for the UN climate conference in Paris in December (COP21). Under...
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UN Climate Talks: Bungling It Up All Over Again?
Okay. So the UNFCCC/ADP (international group in charge of climate mitigation and adaptation) is meeting again this week in Bonn. As always, at the climate talks they’re trying to cobble together a...
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New Energy Model Pinpoints Cost-Effective US Decarbonization Strategies (VIDEO)
How can we take control of our energy future in the United States? Unstable policies in the past have placed the American nation in quite a precarious position today. By solidifying policy and adopting...
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Take The US Navy’s Word For It: Clean Energy Creates Jobs
A new partnership between the US Navy and four universities aims to spur clean energy innovation and create new pathways for conservation and efficiency Take The US Navy’s Word For It: Clean Energy...
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SCOTUS Clean Power Decision NOT Just “A Blow To Obama”
The current headline on the Los Angeles Times reads “Supreme Court deals blow to Obama by putting his climate change rules on hold.” Wrong interpretation again, young ostriches of the media. Today’s...
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Gates & Thiel Are Wrong On Energy, But Thiel Is More Wrong
The major causes of climate change and air pollution are the burning of fossil fuels for electrical generation and transportation. Bill Gates accepts that but thinks that technical solutions don’t...
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G7 Leaders Meeting In Japan Must Commit To Decarbonization, Says Greenpeace
Leaders of the G7 nations meeting in Japan must use this opportunity to build on decarbonization commitments, says Greenpeace. This year’s G7 summit, currently being held in Shima, Japan, is an...
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The Future Belongs To Decentralized Renewables, Not Centralized Hydrogen &...
How we envision the future of our energy systems is important as this tends to drive our policies and decisions. In a new scientific paper, “Competing principles driving energy futures: Fossil fuel...
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Climate Adaptation Is King In The New Anti-Normal
Many governments and companies have spent months, and in some cases years, taking serious steps to become resilient in the face of these climate impacts, which threaten to overwhelm any and all...
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