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Solar Flux: Remaking landscapes, labor, and environmental politics in California

Environmental News Bits

From 2015-2020, massive booms in solar power and high speed rail reconstructed landscapes across California’s San Joaquin Valley. Globally rare alliances of construction unions with environmental justice and immigrant movements won breakthroughs in regional politics. Download the thesis.

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Analysis: Mapping the future of solar capacity in Southeast Asia

A Greener Life

Sunny Southeast Asia has made significant strides in solar energy, with solar farm capacity exceeding 20 gigawatts (GW) across ASEAN countries. These range from supply chain disruptions and political dynamics to issues like anti-dumping tariffs and internal instability. GW of floating solar and a 4.68 GW of solar power.

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Latest UN, IEA, WMO Climate Reports Show Global Emissions Dangerously High, Emergency Action Required

Union of Concerned Scientists

Methane emissions showed their biggest annual increase in 2020 and again in 2021. The WMO’s GHG bulletin’s headline takeaways are stark: Atmospheric concentrations of three major heat-trapping gases, carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), methane (CH 4 ) and nitrous oxide (N 2 O) hit all-time highs in 2021 (see table below).

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Analysis: Coal returns to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor

A Greener Life

The NDC also states: “From 2020, new coal power plants are subject to a moratorium.” No new Chinese-backed coal power overseas? In 2021, China’s president Xi Jinping announced that China would not build any new coal-fired power projects abroad. The 300 MW coal power plant will be a lifeline for Gwadar,” he asserted.

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An encroaching desert intensifies Nigeria’s farmer-herder crisis

Circle of Blue

By 2020, the village has disappeared. However, spatial analysis revealed that the wetlands, which stretched over an area of about 2,600 km² in 2000, had receded to about 1,800 km² by 2020. One farmer even recalls that, in 2020, he gave 30 bags of rice to charity but was not able to harvest even 10 the following year.

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New California law allows state to bypass local restrictions in siting large-scale renewables

Law Columbia

While those applying for a permit to construct a major renewable energy facility in New York must “consult[] with the municipality or political subdivision where the project is proposed to be located . . . e)(1) (emphasis added). 94-c(4)(g).

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France’s next president could ban wind turbines?

A Greener Life

Nuclear represents the core of her energy plan, in which she would build 20 EPR reactors, extending the life of existing plants to 60 years from more than 40 and re-opening the Fessenheim plant shut in 2020. Unsurprisingly, Macron has pushed back against the plans to ban wind turbines and solar farms calling it an “aberration”.