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Scientists Discover A Cheap Way To Recycle Plastic
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Study Suggests A Link Between Air Pollution And Depression
This week’s Current Climate, which every Saturday brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability. Sign up to get it in your inbox every week. Getty Images There was an interesting stu...
How Are The Leading Countries Faring On The Path To Net Zero?
Authored by Wood Mackenzie’s Prakash Sharma and David Brown In the run-up to the COP27 climate conference in Egypt, more than 80 countries announced pledges to reach net zero emissions around mi...
Report Finds That Replacing Coal Plants With Renewables Saves A Lot Of Money
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Mr. Powell, Drop The Sledgehammer And Start Innovating
The US Federal Reserve System is living in the past and undoing the future. Chairman Jerome Powell and his colleagues have wielded interest rates like a sledgehammer, hoping to crush inflation the way...
Sea Level Rise Will Lead To Faster-Than-Expected Flooding On The Coasts
This week’s Current Climate, which every Saturday brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability. Sign up to get it in your inbox every week. getty One of the most well-known impacts ...
Two Ways Canada Can Advance Green Growth And Accelerate Climate Change Efforts
Vieux port de Montreal and downtown skyline with promenade pier on a clear May Springtime day with … [+] people walking in the distance getty In March 2022, the Government of Canada unveiled its...
Greener Gas Plants, Glass Onion’s Hydrogen Goof And The High Cost Of Disasters
This week’s Current Climate, which every Saturday brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability. Sign up to get it in your inbox every week. This combined cycle gas plant produces po...
Net Zero Asset Management And The Fiduciary Duty Dilemma
Beyond the political theatre surrounding the Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative, the investment … [+] industry is grappling with genuinely tough questions around fiduciary duty. (Photo by Johann...
Solar Power From Space, Tesla Misses Expectations And New EVs For 2023
This week’s Current Climate, which every Saturday brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability. Sign up to get it in your inbox every week. CalTech In the 1941 short story “Reason,”...
A Fusion Power Milestone, A South Carolina Battery Plant And Fuel-Cell Powered Semis
This week’s Current Climate, which every Saturday brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability. Sign up to get it in your inbox every week. Getty Images Earlier this week, scientist...
ESG Efforts Ramp Up, Tesla Semis Hit The Road And Reaping Billions From Clean Energy Bonds
This week’s Current Climate, which every Saturday brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability. Sign up to get it in your inbox every week. getty A new survey from Deloitte finds th...
A Clean Energy Fund’s Challenges, How Twitter Antics Hurt Tesla’s Brand And 30 Under 30 Innovators
This week’s Current Climate, which every Saturday brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability. Sign up to get it in your inbox every week. Tim Taddler for Forbes Earlier this week,...
A Guide To The Paris Agreement And Intl. Climate Negotiations (Part 2)
Then U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry holds his two year-old granddaughter for the signing of the … [+] Paris Agreement in 2016. Getty Images This is the fifth article in a series exploring th...
A Guide To The Paris Agreement And Intl. Climate Negotiations (Part 1)
The Eiffel tower is illuminated in green with the words “Paris Agreement is Done” on November 4, … [+] 2016 in Paris, France. Getty Images This is the fourth article in a series expl...
A Green Hydrogen Bet, GM Expects EV Profits By 2025 And The World’s Population Hits 8 Billion
This week’s Current Climate, which every Saturday brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability. Sign up to get it in your inbox every week. getty Earlier this week, the United Natio...
Biden At COP27, A Tesla Bull Goes Bearish And Carbon Emissions Keep Climbing
This week’s Current Climate, which every Saturday brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability. Sign up to get it in your inbox every week. Anadolu Agency via Getty Images President...
Net Zero Needs Fusion. What Should Investors Be Asking The Frontrunners?
The urgency for fusion energy cannot be overstated. On October 27, the UN warned that there is “no credible pathway to 1.5° C in place,” and current policies point to a catastrophic 2.8° C of warming ...
Elon Musk’s Personal Mouthpiece, Raging Arctic Wildfires—And A Simple Emissions Solution For Coal Plants
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How the UN’s Global Climate Conference First Started
The Rio Earth Summit established the UNFCCC and began the COP process. Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images This is the first article in a series exploring the global climate meetings, the Conference of the P...
Heat Batters The Economy, Unanswered Questions About Tesla Semi And Pollution-Killing Houseplants
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Edison’s Solar Power Prediction, Elon Musk’s $100 Billion Loss And Green Gas From Landfills
This week’s Current Climate, which every Saturday brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability. Sign up to get it in your inbox every week. Bettmann Archive One of the perks of work...
Future Shock Is Here For The Electric Utility Industry
WESTMINSTER, CO – FEBRUARY 4 : Duane Highley, CEO of Tri-State Generation and Transmission, poses … [+] for a portrait in front of the headquarter building in Westminster, Colorado on Thur...
Charging An Electric Vehicle In 10 Minutes, Making Construction Greener And Becoming Nature-Positive
This week’s Current Climate, which every Saturday brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability. Sign up to get it in your inbox every week. Getty Images The World Wildlife Fund rele...
Greener Industrial Chemicals, EV Fleet Challenges And Tesla’s Record Deliveries
This week’s Current Climate, which every Saturday brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability. Sign up to get it in your inbox every week. Anadolu Agency via Getty Images In the 19...
A Billionaire From Clean Energy, Musk Vs Fisker And How To Get Sustainability Tax Breaks
This week’s Current Climate, which every Saturday brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability. Sign up to get it in your inbox every week. In Pictures via Getty Images Among the pr...
An Investment Risk By Any Other Name …
Rain and flood due to climate change ©2022 MSCI INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED MSCI To ask whether climate change investment risk is a risk worth considering is to miss the point. Whether you, as an individ...
How Do We Transition To Clean Transportation? ‘MOVE – Mobility Re-Imagined’ Answers
A New York city subway train on May 17, 2021 (Photo by Angela Weiss / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA … [+] WEISS/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images What’s the tipping point to clean transportatio...
More Lithium Mining, Wells Running Dry In California And EV Charging Infrastructure
This week’s Current Climate, which every Saturday brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability. Sign up to get it in your inbox every week. Forbes This past week we held the inaugur...
A National Charging Network, Ethereum’s Going Green And How Electric Cars Could Protect The Grid
This week’s Current Climate, which every Saturday brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability. Sign up to get it in your inbox every week. Getty Images for Alok This Monday marks t...