I read closely Nathaniel Bullard’s Sparklines (in Bloomberg Green Daily). Always learn something, including how to reconceptualize solving a problem. Exhibit A is this piece on current trends in electrifying India’s transportation sector. It begins by pointing out the rush of well-resourced “green” investment funds toward large scale projects, illustrating it with recent $1 billionContinue reading “Electrifying India and shifting paradigms”
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55 Saves Lives
Fit for 55, the EU’s plan to reduce its 27 members’ greenhouse gas emissions 55% from 1990 levels by 2030, was adopted by the EU Commission yesterday. While the “jumbo package” is indeed comprehensive (as shown in the schema below), at core it ramps up lessons learned from the Emissions Trading System (ETS) in placeContinue reading “55 Saves Lives”
Gore on Greenwashing
As sustainable investment has moved from fringe to mainstream, Al Gore warns of a new “inconvenient truth.” “We must be vigilant about the rising threat of greenwashing or risk derailing hard-won progress.” Bloomberg Green, July 13, 2021 Gore, the former U.S. Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize recipient along with the IPCC, now serves asContinue reading “Gore on Greenwashing”
Are we building back better?
The pandemic-era mantra of climate progressive countries sees the health-turned-economic crisis as an opportunity to “build back better” via Covid recovery packages. The shutdowns drove down global GHG emissions in 2020 as unemployed and virtual workers flew and drove less, and manufacturing and service demand slowed. In the US, for example, emissions in the secondContinue reading “Are we building back better?”
China takes notice of Biden’s climate change agenda
President Biden campaigned on a promise to have the United States rejoin the Paris Agreement. On inauguration day, he signed an executive order doing just that, which should become effective on February 20, 2021. United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres welcomed the U.S. back, saying “We look forward to the leadership of United States inContinue reading “China takes notice of Biden’s climate change agenda”
Just transition opportunity in West Virginia
West Virginia coal miners have been the object of political debates about the renewable energy transition needed to address climate change in the US. Candidate Hillary Clinton offered a retraining plan in 2016 that got lost in Donald Trump’s promises to grow these jobs by doing away with the Clean Power Plan. While West VirginiaContinue reading “Just transition opportunity in West Virginia”
Why you have to understand COP24 to unpack COP25
Copenhagen. Paris. COP15. COP21. These are the most recent international climate change meetings that everyone knows. COP15 in Copenhagen marked a low point in multilateral environmental cooperation, with the “back room” deal by the top global emitters not accepted by the 197 Parties who must agree on its actions by consensus at its closing plenary. Continue reading “Why you have to understand COP24 to unpack COP25”
Engaging Climate Change 