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What to watch for, and ignore, at the upcoming climate talks in Dubai

Legal Planet

Other pathways to increase funding for climate change efforts, especially for adaptation and for renewable energy and energy efficiency transformations. Alex Wang will be tracking China’s willingness to increase its ambition, perhaps by accelerating peaking and neutrality goals or via speeding up clean energy and EV deployment.

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Why is Congress’s Climate Breakthrough Such a Big Deal? Because Without It, We’d Be Irreparably Off Course.

Union of Concerned Scientists

How the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 will accelerate necessary change. Its power lies in its breadth—in all the many and varied ways it accelerates the transition to clean energy across our economy, from inputs, to access, to jobs and manufacturing, plus beginning to reckon with how best to cope with present and pending climate impacts.

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New York Climate Action Council Approves Draft Scoping Plan to Achieve the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions

Law and Environment

The Council’s draft plan recommends a broad array of regulatory measures, legislation, and other state actions across every sector of the state’s economy – any and all of which could have significant implications for New York’s clean energy markets for decades to come. state energy] plan.”.

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Governing Emissions Trading in California and China

Legal Planet

One of the key lessons from the California approach to emissions trading is the importance of a portfolio approach, where cap-and-trade is one among an array of climate policies, including the Renewable Portfolio Standard, the Low Carbon Fuel Standard, energy efficiency policies, advanced clean car and truck programs, and methane control policies.

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Renewables are cutting back the EU’s gas demand

A Greener Life

In addition, the increase in renewables also helped mitigate the reduction in hydroelectricity generation caused by this summer’s waves of droughts and heatwaves, as well as the decline in French nuclear production caused by maintenance, and a series of failures in the French nuclear fleet. Wind and solar help European citizens.

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Will World Leaders Step Up to Deliver at the UN Climate Ambition Summit?

Union of Concerned Scientists

On September 20, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres is hosting a Climate Ambition Summit seeking to galvanize greater climate action from world leaders. What is the Climate Ambition Summit? The three tracks for the Acceleration Agenda are Ambition , Credibility and Implementation , outlined in more detail here.

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Taking Stock Ahead of UN Climate Conference: Five Things to Watch for at COP28 in Dubai

Union of Concerned Scientists

A parade of scientific reports lay bare the problem—and the solutions Ahead of the annual climate talks, a series of reports have been released that, once again, underscore the unforgiving contours of the challenge we face. Committing to tripling renewable energy and doubling energy efficiency globally by 2030. billion in 2021.