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Wildfires and Power Grid Failures Continue to Fuel Each Other

Union of Concerned Scientists

Both fossil fuel and utility companies bear some responsibility for wildfires’ damage, and must be held accountable to ensure disadvantaged and low-income communities aren’t left to shoulder the costs and impacts of these disasters. Emissions traced to fossil fuel companies, on the other hand, have contributed to 19.8

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Dear Oil and Gas CEOs: Here’s How You Should Spend Those Record Profits

Union of Concerned Scientists

Companies are spending millions fighting lawsuits that would hold them accountable for the costs that fossil fuel extraction has imposed on people and the planet. Further, these efforts are focused on carbon capture and storage, hydrogen, and biofuels—technologies that aim to stash carbon emissions away, not reduce their production.

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Opinion: Unrest underlines need to reform Kazakhstan’s energy sector

A Greener Life

With most energy investments still in fossil fuels, significant reform is needed to modernise the sector and meet Kazakhstan’s pledge to become net-zero by 2060. The government had abruptly stopped subsidies, dramatically increasing the price for consumers. The direction of Chinese investment will be key.

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Jayati Ghosh – It’s not just analysis, it’s a call for action

Frontiers

Recent publications include When Governments Fail: Covid-19 and the Economy , Informal Women Workers in the Global South , and Demonetisation Decoded. Keeping with the topic of climate change, one part of the inequality is evident and it’s the discussion about carbon debt.

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Germany’s early nuclear shutdown came with a heavy carbon price?

A Greener Life

Germany has six remaining nuclear reactors which are due to be closed down next year which will remove a huge source of zero-carbon electricity from the German economy unable to be taken up by other clean energy sources such as solar and wind. Around 75% comes from fossil fuels: burning coal, natural gas and oil.

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A Cap on Vegetable Oil-Based Fuels Will Stabilize and Strengthen California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Union of Concerned Scientists

Getting this right is important, both for California and to ensure the LCFS remains a workable model for other states and the federal government. Moreover, absent reform, the LCFS is not a replicable model for other states or the federal government. However, these apparent benefits result from faulty analysis.

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Solar Panels Are More Carbon-Intensive Than Experts Admit

Environmental Progress

Information unearthed by Environmental Progress points to a gaping oversight in how the figures influencing government net zero policy and investments in solar worldwide are compiled and collated due to the difficulty of collecting accurate information out of China, especially for the purification processes used to create silicon wafers.