Tag: climate resilience
A Second Golden Spike for an Electrified Canada: Using Carney’s Budget to Link the Provinces
Mark Carney’s first budget as Finance Minister quietly provided Canada with the ingredients for something the country has lacked for a century: a truly national electricity backbone. The Clean Electricity Investment Tax Credit, a 15% refundable credit on new generation, storage, and the transmission of electricity between provinces and territories, … [continued]
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Greenhushing: When Companies Don’t Want To Publicize Their Climate Progress
At first glance, it seems as if lots of companies are reneging on their original net zero goals. But a closer look reveals that many organizations haven’t given up at all — in fact, they’re just de-emphasizing their climate progress in public communications. It’s a phenomenon known as greenhushing, and … [continued]
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Supporting New York’s Clean Energy Workforce
The New York City Employment and Training Coalition (NYCETC) and The Green Launchpad recently announced the NYC Energy Efficiency Workforce Coalition. Workforce development is critically important for supporting clean energy and energy efficiency jobs. Even though at the moment, the social media sphere and news appear to be nearly dominated … [continued]
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Hidden Costs of Climate Change Fueling Affordability Crisis in California — New Report
Analysis from the Center for Law, Energy & Environment at the University of California, Berkeley shows that disaster costs, health impacts, lost wages and more are disproportionately affecting California households, businesses and the public sector, with no sign of abatement. San Francisco — While costs in the immediate aftermath of … [continued]
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Fossil Fuel Subsidies Are Just Stupid — Bloomberg
The title of new report by the Grantham Institute at London’s Imperial College says it all: “Summer heat deaths in 854 European cities more than tripled due to climate change.” “Extreme heat is the deadliest type of weather and officially reported heat deaths remain significantly underestimated,” the researchers wrote. “We … [continued]
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