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Environmental and Urban Economics
JULY 11, 2021
Another quote from JC; "But reducing carbon is thus, logically, just one item on the list of answers to "What can we do to raise GDP in 2100?," Asked that way, you can see that "lower carbon emissions" is about #100 on the list, even admitting the 5-10% of GDP thumb-on-the-scale estimates. Here is 2012 video where I elaborate.
Corp Watch
MARCH 8, 2024
Oil giant Total is being sued by cities and NGOs for not fighting climate change hard enough Francois de Beaupuy | Fortune | January 28, 2020 Oil giant Total SA is being sued by 14 local governments and a handful of non-governmental organizations in France for not doing enough to reduce its carbon emissions and fight global warming.
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HumanNature
APRIL 12, 2021
For example, biophysical scientists and engineers get in touch when looking for social scientists to help them understand barriers and opportunities to the adoption of a particular sustainability practice or technology. Industry, community groups, advocates, and policymakers often have similar interests. Sociologia Ruralis 56(1):74–95.
Greenbuilding Law
DECEMBER 12, 2021
It is one thing when a political leaders in a government make an ESG claim. In 2009 the King of Bhutan proclaimed his Himalayan country was ‘carbon negative’ because all of its power was hydroelectric or solar buttressed with large forested areas. carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases, all emissions?).
Legal Planet
MARCH 18, 2024
Reaching the Paris agreement goals would require a quadrupling of mineral requirements for clean energy technologies by 2040,” he said. “To Rather than start with the ongoing rush for minerals, Turner began “a long time ago in a galaxy far far away… in 2009” when the U.S. The goal of Panel One was to explain the state of the race.
Environmental Progress
JULY 29, 2020
Rather, they resulted in low-wage service sector jobs, greater dependence on imported Chinese technologies, and higher energy costs. And over the last decade, the technology used in the vast majority of installed solar panels has only become 2-3 percent more efficient. The problem with renewables is physical. Today, the US uses just 0.5
Cresforum
APRIL 22, 2021
A pessimistic track record The only times we have managed to reach that level of emissions reductions were during the COVID-19 pandemic last year and during the Great Recession in 2009. has never reduced emissions by that much in a single year. Otherwise, the U.S. economy, if we only look at years where the U.S.
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