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One Path to Better Affordability is Climate Change Action – Really

Enviromental Defense

Remember that in 2015 – ah, those heady days of climate action – the Paris Agreement estimated that the world would need to spend a paltry $6 trillion a year to meet climate thresholds signed there. The short story: Climate change is on track to cost the global economy $38 trillion a year in damages within the next 25 years.

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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. Their report, however, comes with a warning. That would be potentially disastrous.

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Interview with Inger Andersen, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Program

Environmental Progress

If we rely only on the current climate commitments of the Paris Agreement, temperatures can be expected to rise to 3.2°C Food and agriculture, and buildings and construction accounted for nearly 70% of the world’s total material footprint in 2015. C this century. Temperatures have already increased by 1.1°C,

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In the Race for Clean Energy, the United States is Both a Leader and a Laggard—Here’s How

Union of Concerned Scientists

The new global record in the generation of renewable energy was powered primarily by solar and wind. Solar power has been the fastest growing source of electricity in the world for 19 years in a row according to Ember’s Global Electricity Review 2024. percent of the globe’s electricity in 2015, solar now produces 5.5

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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Lawsuit Filed Challenging Solar Power Facility in California. A California community services district and a neighborhood group filed a lawsuit challenging San Bernardino County authorizations for a solar power generating facility across 3,500 acres. County of Kern , No. BCV-20-100080 (Cal.

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