The social cost of carbon is the number that undergirds all federal climate protections. It is the cost of damages incurred by carbon dioxide — the heat-trapping gas seeping from cars, planes and power plants that’s wreaking havoc on the climate.
The world of electric motorcycles is changing rapidly and it takes a nimble company to stay ahead of the competition. That means accelerating development cycles at a time when “new products, new segments, pop up constantly,”
NET Power is building what it claims is a no-carbon form of gas generation that’s better than all the rest. It’s broken ground on a 10 MW Texas plant in a consortium with Exelon Generation and Chicago Bridge & Iron (CB&I) to prove its technology.
Originally published on The Carbon Brief. By Sophie Yeo The “optimal” carbon price should be up to 200% more than economists currently estimate, according to a new study published in Nature Climate Change. This is because, says the study, climate change could have sudden and irreversible impacts, which have not, … [continued]
Turning off my computer at a little after 3 am this morning, I gave a silent thanks to Manuel Pulgar Vidal, the Peruvian environment minister and president of the just-completed 2014 UN COP20 meeting in Lima. Now I’ll be a little louder. Much of the credit for the newest internationally … [continued]
Originally published on Gas2. Southwestern States like Texas and New Mexico aren’t the only ones vying for a piece of the Tesla Gigafactory pie. Last week American Manganese Inc., a new Arizona company with the only domestic supply of electrolytic manganese metals (EMM), announced its interest in supplying the Tesla Factory with raw … [continued]
Originally published by The Climate Reality Project It’s just common sense. Each year, here in the U.S., we generate a certain amount of carbon pollution. And each year, climate change driven by carbon pollution impacts our lives in all kinds of waysfrom flooded homes to higher insurance rates, each of which … [continued]
Originally published on ClimateProgress by Joe Romm So there’s this new study in Nature Climate Change, “Intra- and intergenerational discounting in the climate game.” Sounds too wonky to get many eyeballs, no? That’s why editors at places like Time magazine have jazzed it up with this sort of headline: “Why We Don’t … [continued]
Originally published on Shrink That Footprint by Lindsay Wilson If you’ve ever been on the tube in London both the sign-writer and the conductor will have reminded you to ‘mind the gap‘. The gap in question is the one between the platform and the train. To board the train safely you … [continued]
Originally published on Shrink That Footprint. by Lindsay Wilson When we talk about a country’s carbon emissions we generally only consider those that occur within its borders. But where does the fuel for those emissions come from? And where do the products a country makes go? In this second part … [continued]
