Electric vehicle and renewable energy technologies aren’t enough on their own to give countries a means of achieving the goals of the Paris climate change accord, according to the CEO of DNV GL’s energy consulting business, Ditlev Engel.
A set of questions tends to circle around human-caused global warming and climate change. Will it be bad for us? Won’t it be good for anything?
Our #FakePresident has removed the United States from the Paris climate accords, leading some Americans to experience ecoanxiety. That’s a relatively new term that the American Psychological Association has used to describe the feelings of dread and helplessness that follow from “watching the slow and seemingly irrevocable impacts of climate change unfold, and worrying about the future for oneself, children, and later generations.” As it turns out, there is something any one of us can do and it involves no marches on Washington or angry letters to elected officials. All we have to do is eat beans instead of beef.
While Norway has something of a reputation internationally as being “progressive” and “green,” the country’s well fed economy and society is largely the result of a highly productive fossil fuel extraction industry.
The National Climate Assessment, prepared by 13 US agencies, is ready for release. Many scientists are concerned the Trump administration will bury the report or simply alter its findings to suit their agenda.
Global asset manager Schroders has launched its own Climate Progress Dashboard which it has designed to provide investors “a unique insight” into the global progress towards limiting global warming to the 2°C target and the overall progress of the transition to a low-carbon global economy.
All heads of the European Union, from EU Member States through to the EU Presidents of the Council and Commission, last week reaffirmed their strong commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement, and their desire to “swiftly and fully” implement the goals therein.
Coal continues to fall hard as renewables surge worldwide (including in China), all despite the Trump administration wanting to go back to the “good old days.”
Just days after California Governor Jerry Brown ended his week-long California-China Climate Mission, the Governor signed and issued a joint statement on climate cooperation between the state and Germany.
Less than a week after Donald Trump announced that he was planning to withdraw the United States from the important Paris Climate Agreement, more than 1,000 mayors, governors, state attorneys general, CEOs, and other prominent US persons have joined in a movement called We Are Still In that does exactly what you think it does — assure the world that they still recognize the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement.
