Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 27, 2024
Announcing recently that the world broke a record by generating 30 percent of all electricity from renewable sources in 2023, the British think tank Ember said the data proves we are in a “new era” of energy in which a permanent decline in fossil fuels is “inevitable.” degrees Fahrenheit) limits of the 2015 Paris Agreement.
A Greener Life
AUGUST 2, 2023
The country’s new energy transition plan targets an estimated US$7.4 By Fermín Koop New government plan says US$86 billion of spending needed to boost energy transition – while backing natural gas too. These targets represent a potentially significant shift in Argentina ’s energy mix. billion of hydropower investments by 2030.
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Legal Planet
MAY 19, 2021
“Renewable Energy Development in the California Desert” by mypubliclands is licensed under CC BY 2.0. Below the federal level, it’s difficult to discern the impact that the Trump Administration had on energy policy. Because of this decentralization in energy policy, it’s hard to see the complete picture.
Legal Planet
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Those talks have had ups and downs through the years and have resulted in (among other things) the adoption of the Paris Agreement. Other pathways to increase funding for climate change efforts, especially for adaptation and for renewable energy and energy efficiency transformations. will also be on his radar.
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
The IEA World Energy Outlook 2023 , International Energy Agency’s annual report, which makes clear that without concerted action, current global energy choices are causing us to hurtle toward a 2.4˚C Committing to tripling renewable energy and doubling energy efficiency globally by 2030. billion in 2021.
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 4, 2024
As I show below, their cumulative emissions have continued to rise over the decades even as international efforts to confront climate change have been enacted through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement. I’ve marked these important years with dotted lines in Figure 2.
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
In response to the report, the bank told TBIJ that its investments remain “science-based,” under a presumption that “net zero-aligned scenarios require continued, though declining, financing of fossil fuel supplies to meet energy demand, security, and affordability during the transition.” It was another corporate spit in the face of science.
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