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Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 10, 2023
Instead of investing in clean energy, the fossil fuel industry perpetuates the problem and erodes public trust. The industry has shown its true colors, it loves to talk about green energy, but it doesn’t put its money where its mouth is. Greenwashing is incredibly problematic because it works to slow and prevent climate action.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 23, 2023
With the clean energy transition already under way, the US electricity mix is set to continue changing this year. Solar power is expected to make up about half of all additions of US electric generating capacity in 2023, according to data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).
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A Greener Life
JUNE 30, 2023
They still account for 82% of the global energy supply according to the industry’s Statistical Review of World Energy released this week. 2022 was dominated by turmoil in energy markets , as Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine helped to boost gas and coal prices to record levels in Europe and Asia.
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
In response to the report, the bank told TBIJ that its investments remain “science-based,” under a presumption that “net zero-aligned scenarios require continued, though declining, financing of fossil fuel supplies to meet energy demand, security, and affordability during the transition.” It was another corporate spit in the face of science.
Enviromental Defense
JUNE 21, 2021
In a remarkable new report, the International Energy Agency (IEA) finds that in order to limit warming to 1.5 For example, it has stubbornly underestimated the growth in renewables for years, leaving much more room in its analysis for oil and natural gas. 2) Drive a “massive clean energy expansion” over next decade.
Enviromental Defense
MAY 31, 2022
Reduce Ontario’s GHG emissions by at least 50 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030 and achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, targets consistent with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the most ambitious aspects of the Paris Agreement. Restoring the powers of the Environment Commissioner of Ontario.
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 8, 2022
To get an assessment of the progress thus far, as well as an idea if what has to happen next, I turned to two of my colleagues in the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) Climate & Energy Program: Principal Climate Scientist Rachel Licker and Transmission Policy Manager Sam Gomberg. percent; natural gas, 38.3 Another 18.5
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