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Ask a Scientist: The US Has to Do More to Meet Its Carbon Emissions Reduction Goals

Union of Concerned Scientists

The legislation committed nearly $400 billion to support, among other things, wind and solar power, battery storage, electric vehicles, and other clean energy technologies that will make a significant dent in US heat-trapping emissions. Last year, Congress passed the most ambitious climate bill ever enacted, the Inflation Reduction Act.

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Progress Possible at COP 28 Despite Fossil Fuel Industry Deception

Union of Concerned Scientists

These companies talk out of both sides of their mouths when it comes to climate polic y—many claiming to support the Paris agreement, while simultaneously funding business groups to lobby against policies to implement and enforce national commitments.

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G20 still paying billions in fossil fuel subsidies

A Greener Life

The G20 group of nations provided nearly US$200 billion in support of fossil fuels in 2021, despite the worsening impacts of the climate crisis and their pledge in 2009 to phase out “inefficient” subsidies. warming limit of the Paris Agreement within reach, the report notes.

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Congress Releases New Evidence of Big Oil Climate Disinformation

Union of Concerned Scientists

Yet an April 2016 internal memo reveals that the company has a less climate-friendly purpose for this technology, which was at the time (and still is) unproven at scale. Similarly, a draft presentation of the company’s 2018 Outlook for Energy admitted that algae fuel technology is “[s]till decades away from the scale we need.”.

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The EU’s challenge with renewable energy expansion: What is the way forward?

Environmental Europe

It has agreed to address climate change under the Paris Agreement , and put forward increasingly ambitious policy targets for 2020, 2030 and 2050. The EU’s 2020 Renewable Energy Directive (2009/28/EC) requires that the Member States must collectively achieve 20% of their energy consumption from renewables by 2020.

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Killing King Coal is the First Step Towards Halving Our Emissions

Edouard Stenger

More recently, another study showed it had to be done in OECD nations to comply with the Paris Agreement targets. To BNEF the onshore wind levelized costs decreased by 50 percent since 2009 and the price of solar PV modules have been slashed by a massive 80 percent since 2008. Demand response technologies.

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Book review: A grand survey of climate hope

A Greener Life

It is only in the penultimate chapter, on Unilever’s transformation under the leadership of its CEO Paul Polman between 2009 and 2019, that the business case for climate change is really made. Every one of Rathi’s examples is similar.