Originally published on Sustainnovate. [Update: I’ve changed the video to a shorter video that just includes questions I posed and a couple that friends posed.] I had the great pleasure of participating in a long roundtable interview with IRENA Director General Adnan Z. Amin during Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week. Above is … [continued]
Originally published on Sustainnovate. For 4 hours on the opening day of the World Future Energy Summit and Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week, I attended a high-level event aimed at turning the ambitious goals of COP21, the Paris Climate Agreement, and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development into practical and innovative … [continued]
For the past few decades, the simple message “no time to lose” has fallen on deaf ears, leaving many of us pushing for climate action feeling like Eric Idle in the homonymous Monty Python skit, in which he goes out of his way to help Michael Palin utter the four … [continued]
The current headline on the Los Angeles Times reads “Supreme Court deals blow to Obama by putting his climate change rules on hold.” Wrong interpretation again, young ostriches of the media. Today’s 5–4 decision by the Supreme Court to put the Clean Power Plan on ice while coal producers and … [continued]
Editorial note: If, like many Brazilians, you were on holidays for most of January, you might have missed two important international summits of relevance for climate and energy. Luckily for you, CleanTechnica was there to cover them while you were out and about on your first full-electric road trip (or whatever … [continued]
Editorial note: If, like many Brazilians, you were on holidays for most of January, you might have missed two important international summits of relevance for climate and energy. Luckily for you, CleanTechnica was there to cover them while you were out and about on your first full-electric road trip (or whatever … [continued]
Originally published on Sustainnovate. I was honored for the second year in a row to have a meal with Michael Liebreich, founder and chairman of the advisory board of what is now Bloomberg New Energy Finance (originally named New Energy Finance), and to be able to interview him “during” that … [continued]
Advice submitted to the UK government by its own Climate Change Committee has come under heavy fire, and been labelled as “desperately disappointing.” The UK Climate Change Committee (CCC) was due to provide updated recommendations to the UK government this week following in the wake of the climate accord struck … [continued]
Originally published on Sustainnovate. I was lucky to spend a lot of time with Clint Wilder, senior editor at CleanEdge, while in Abu Dhabi for the World Future Energy Summit, Zayed Future Energy Prize Awards Ceremony, and other Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week events. One morning, Clint set aside approximately 45 … [continued]
Originally published on CSRtist and Masdar.ae. By Melissa Schweyer In 2015, we witnessed what is possible when large groups of people come together to change the world. But with the adoption of both the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement, we have a lot of promises to keep and … [continued]
