Reposted from Climate Progress: Tuesday is the confirmation hearing date for Energy Secretary nominee Ernest Moniz. The MIT professor will face the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee (webcast here starts at 10 am ET). I have known Moniz for 30 years. Turns out he was my professor for advanced electromagnetism in 1982. Then I worked … [continued]
Reposted from the Rocky Mountain Institute blog: By Albert Chan, Jesse Morris and Leia Guccione Germany is often cited as the king in solar, but its reign may soon be over. Driven by public and government support in the form of healthy feed-in tariffs, Germany is the proud owner of nearly … [continued]
Reposted from RenewEconomy: By Sophie Vorrath A carbon price of between $50 and $100 per tonne would make Australia’s coal- and gas-fired electricity less economical than renewable electricity, according to a new study out of the University of New South Wales. A peer-reviewed paper being published by a research group at the UNSW … [continued]
Reposted from Climate Progress: By Jeff Spross Between directly lowered prices, tax breaks, and the failure to properly price carbon, the world subsidized fossil fuel use by over $1.9 trillion in 2011 — or eight percent of global government revenues — according to a study released last week by the International Monetary … [continued]
Reposted from Medium: Until 2012, Europe was central to the global carbon market; heck, it was the only “real” market. Carbon offset project developers invested billions to earn Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and sold them to European companies and traders participating in the European … [continued]
Funny, if it weren’t so horribly, horribly sad: h/t Climate Progress Related Stories: 4.47 To 1 — Ratio Of U.S. Voters Who Would Prefer Carbon Tax To Cut In Spending US Senators Propose Carbon Tax China Announces Introduction Of Carbon Tax $20/Ton Carbon Tax Could Reduce US Deficit by $1.2 … [continued]
Another reminder why we do what we do, a must-see and must-share video from The Climate Reality Project:
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) held its 19th auction of CO2 allowances late last week and sold nearly 38 million allowances at a clearing price of $2.80, generating $105.9 million in revenue.
By Thomas Cheney and Geoff de Ruiter We are on the precipice of a carbon revolution! We will finally get our act together and decarbonize our energy systems, or we will blow past all carbon targets and completely destabilize our climate. So, how do we ensure the former? And more … [continued]
Looks like I’m turning this into a daily thing. Below are 13 more cleantech (or sort of cleantech) stories from around the interwebs. For an additional 81 from the past day or so, check out this Google Doc. Clean Transport Greenpeace Takes On The World’s Biggest Carmaker… And Wins! Study: … [continued]
