Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 30, 2023

Solar capacity grew by almost 17 percent, while wind capacity finished the year more than 6 percent higher than in 2021. How climate change plays a role One of the reasons to be so excited about tangible renewables progress is its implications for addressing climate change.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Today’s climate change headlines often seem at odds with each other. One day, it’s catastrophic wildfires wreaking havoc around the world; the next, it’s an optimistic piece on the rapid scale-up of solar and wind power. Read the full story from the World Resources Institute. degrees C

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

These projections show that without additional policies or incentives, the US is very much in danger of not meeting our climate goals. We’re risking more impacts from climate change due to continued reliance on natural gas and oil. Renewable energy generation increases faster than any other technology.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2023

The public was thankfully not harmed by the Nebraska incident, but this was unfortunately not an isolated incident in terms of flood risks posed to the US nuclear power fleet. Spring in a warming world means a broadened focus The link between climate change and tornado activity is an active area of research.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

trillion in avoided climate change-related damages. EN: UCS’s analysis looks at various ways the United States could meet its climate targets. The United States needs to accelerate this momentum and ramp up renewables to much higher levels to meet climate goals. What are the main solutions? Your thoughts?

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Clean renewable electricity – such as wind and solar power – is the lowest cost source of new electricity supply. Clean electricity is absolutely integral to efforts to decarbonize the economy and fight climate change. And it is a competitive advantage for the province.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2022

Minnesotans are facing concurrent crises of climate change, high energy prices and inflation, and the inequitable public health impacts of fossil fuel air pollution. Renewable energy will help with all of that—but we need a grid that is designed for wind and solar instead of having to rely on expensive coal and gas plants.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Drawdown is one of my favourite climate books, an extensive study into the top fifty ways to reverse climate change, edited into an accessible and inspiring book by Paul Hawken. Perhaps most importantly, Regeneration breathes life into the climate conversation. What’s good for wildlife is good for climate change.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 22, 2022

We all know that to successfully address climate change we need to phase out fossil fuels and switch to electric power. A s we transition our homes and vehicles to electric power, it’s imperative that the electricity sector be clean. The costs of wind and solar power have been dropping like a stone.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 30, 2022

The flagship wind farm made headlines as the operator, Swedens’s Vattenfall in 2018 won the concession to build it without government subsidy. The Netherlands plans to connect more than 20 GW of wind power before 2030. 20 GW before 2030. The Dutch are also trialling a cluster of floating solar panels named ‘Oceans of Energy’.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 25, 2024

This has been the biggest difference, with the cost of net zero a recurring theme – despite the fact that well-insulated homes will save households money, and onshore wind power is the cheapest form of electricity. Then there are the rising energy prices. First published in the Earthbound Report.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 3, 2024

For example, our report examines the common misconceptions that electric vehicles have a net harmful effect on climate change ( they do not ); that electromagnetic radiation from wind turbines poses a threat to human health ( it does not ); and that solar energy development negatively impacts U.S. jobs ( it does not ).

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Acoel

JANUARY 5, 2024

China recently overtook Europe as the world’s largest producer of offshore wind power. All of this should contribute to lower prices for wind generation. India , too, is ramping up production. And let’s step back from our U.S.-centric centric view for a minute. is lagging.

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A Greener Life

JULY 26, 2021

In order to make their portfolio more sustainable and respond to lower fossil fuel demand, oil majors are increasingly snapping up renewable energy projects as the pressure grows to take action on climate change. This has incentivized oil and gas majors such as BP, Equinor and Shell to invest in wind power generation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2022

To help avoid the worst possible consequences of climate change, however, the alliance states need to reach that 100-percent objective much more quickly. Below is an abridged version of our conversation. EN: What prompted you and your team to conduct this study now? Ultimately, however, renewables should lower electricity costs, right?

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2024

By next year, Pennsylvania will get 50 percent of its electricity from ten new solar arrays around the Commonwealth – making Pennsylvania the first state in the country to commit to getting half of its energy from solar power.

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A Greener Life

MAY 5, 2022

Solar increased its generating capacity by 19% and wind power by 13%. He did however have some concerns, remarking: ” However, despite the encouraging global trend, our research shows that the energy transition is far from being fast or widespread enough to avert the dire consequences of climate change.”.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

And CO 2 emissions are a primary driver of global climate change, which is exacerbating the type of extreme weather that killed 474 people and caused $165 billion in damages in the United States last year alone. GW of gas capacity set to retire, but also slightly outpacing the planned additions of wind power.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In discussing the late December winter storm that nearly led to rolling blackouts in the MidAtlantic region of 65 million people, Yaw suggested that increasing amounts of renewable energy were to blame for the near-miss and condemned neighboring states for adopting policies that “emphasize solar and wind power over natural gas.”

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

It is prompted in large part by low gas storage capacity, the COVID-19 pandemic, a power plant coming offline and low wind speeds responsible for a downturn in wind power output. Now such a crisis has arisen again. UK’s unhealthy reliance on gas.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The Ocean Conservancy team advanced several ocean-climate solutions at COP27 to help countries meet their goals under the Paris Agreement. We focused on the following priorities : The Ocean in the Climate Change Dialogue. It is critical that the world address the effects of climate change and work to prevent its worst impacts.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 21, 2022

When the Paris Agreement was celebrated in 2015, no one was talking about hydrogen as a climate solution, the idea of net-zero targets had not been invented yet, and offshore wind power was mainly a European venture. But in this space particularly, innovation and advancements are moving faster than most sectors.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 2, 2024

But there’s also a lot we can do, and this graphic should help to help make clear that, while climate change is serious, we are mounting serious responses too. So, this spring, enjoy sunshine and the wind as heralds of the new season.

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Edouard Stenger

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Not anymore as the IEA now states that global renewable power capacity growth is set to double over the next five years. In other words, between now and 2027, we will collectively install as much wind power and solar pv capacity than we did in the past twenty years, or 2,400 GW.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

I was told that large-scale solar and wind power facilities are being installed throughout the country, as part of an ambitious program, aimed at supplying at least fifty percent of Morocco’s electricity from renewable sources by 2050. Like much of Africa, Morocco has a lot to lose from climate change. According to Ms.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

China is intent on using the Winter Olympics to showcase how they’re at the forefront of implementing low-carbon technologies and thereby tackling climate change. China is currently the world’s largest carbon polluter but has pledged they want to be a leader in tackling climate change with a net-zero target set for 2060. .

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The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

This action proposes strategic collaboration across Louisiana state agencies and the federal government, transmission planning agencies, energy regulators, and the private sector, to take additional steps to advance development of offshore wind power generation. (Associated Submitted Action Proposals: n/a).

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Forecasts of cool weather and expectations of lower wind power output had driven up demand for more fossil-fuel produced energy. The EU’s emissions trading system forces manufacturers, power companies and airlines, to pay for each tonne of CO2 they emit, in an effort to reduce emissions and to meet climate targets.

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Cresforum

JANUARY 16, 2024

Introduction One of the main messages coming out of the recent COP28 meetings in the UAE concerns the role that nuclear power can play in the future of clean energy development around the world. A declaration was issued by 20 countries at COP28 with a goal of tripling nuclear energy capacity by 2050 to help address climate change concerns.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 6, 2022

And between 2009 and 2016, Ontario built over 2000 MW of solar power and about 3000 MW of wind power. Between 2005 and 2017 Ontario phased-out coal plants, reducing greenhouse gas pollution from our electricity system by 93 per cent. But it’s not too late to make the investments now. .

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Frontiers

APRIL 24, 2023

In the case of climate change, there is unequal access to the knowledge, technology, and finances that would help to combat it. Keeping with the topic of climate change, one part of the inequality is evident and it’s the discussion about carbon debt. In other words, most people are lowering their carbon emissions.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Years ago I read a short article on how bringing more ice to the poles could help slow down climate change. He and a team of colleagues from Arizona State University want to replenish the region’s shrinking sea ice – by building 10 million wind-powered pumps over the Arctic ice cap.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 25, 2021

In a statement the company said: “IKEA wants to build the biggest renewable energy movement together with co-workers, customers and partners around the world, to help tackle climate change together.

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Edouard Stenger

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Earlier this month, the scientists of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a report on limiting global warming to 1.5C. A 2C warming is the upper limit we should not reach as beyond that Mankind and life on Earth would face a very real risk of runaway climate change. of savings.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2023

Some commentators suggested that the wording also left the door open to renegotiating contracts and pursuing alternatives to coal, such as gas, solar and wind power projects. It also stated that projects already under construction should proceed “steadily and cautiously”.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2023

It seems obvious that we should remove the middle process and use solar and wind power for our electricity needs directly. Even if and when hydrogen from renewables becomes more available, it doesn’t make sense to produce it just to use in gas plants. Why would we make electricity, to make hydrogen, to make electricity?

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Activists concerned about climate change seek to help wean the U.S. from fossil fuels by impeding the construction of pipelines that feed fossil fuel power plants. The siting of energy infrastructure has emerged as a new and complex legal and policy battlefield in the United States.

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