Tag: climate policy
Why Nature-Based Investments Produce Results
Nature-based solutions work. They’re cost effective. They advance climate mitigation, adaptation, and biodiversity protection. They do need more financing strategies, however. To meet global biodiversity, climate, and land restoration targets, nature-based investment must increase 2.5 times to $571 billion annually by 2030—equivalent to just 0.5% of global GDP, states the … [continued]
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Europe Must Not Let Airlines Sabotage Clean Aviation Fuels
Some of Europe’s biggest airlines are playing with the future source of our energy security. The first to show its hand was Lufthansa. Last week the airline publicly criticised one of the few European policies aimed at decarbonising aviation: the targets for replacing kerosene with Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAFs). We have seen … [continued]
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Dilemmas About Food Systems In Times Of US Federal Government Mayhem
President Donald J. Trump is causing irreconcilable harm to the US environment. His administration is abandoning clean energy investments. Freezing climate, clean air, and clean water federal policies. Rejecting limits on PFAS in industrial wastewater. Eliminating consumer protections. Sabotaging major treaties on plastic production and shipping emissions. With all of … [continued]
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Green energy boosters stress long-term savings
By Madison Merrell
Upfront costs of clean energy projects such as wind and solar may be high but the long-term savings on fuel and increased reliability more than offset those initial costs, experts say.
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How China Is Avoiding The Straits Of Hormuz Curse
China has insulated itself from market disruptions like the closure of the Straits of Hormuz by building renewable energy resources.
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