by ccccc | Sep 13, 2020 | Climate Reports, News
Efficient and climate friendly cooling is a crucial piece of the climate and sustainable development puzzle. We need cooling to protect vulnerable populations from heatwaves, keep vaccines viable and food fresh, and workforces productive. It is essential for equity...
by ccccc | Sep 13, 2020 | News, News
Looking for a shot of positive thinking and hope for the future? Vox’s Ezra Klein sat down for a conversation with Saul Griffith, who knows the US energy system better than just about anyone on this planet. He’s an inventor, a MacArthur genius fellow, and the...
by Janet Williams | Sep 13, 2020 | News, News
Dave Roberts at Vox has put together a fascinating – and very useful – set of charts (borrowed, he notes, from Morgan Stanley) that present different ways of looking at and thinking about the climate crisis, depending on what question you are asking at...
by ccccc | Sep 11, 2020 | Climate Reports, News, News
US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) recently released a major new report: “Managing Climate Risk in the US Financial System.” The report presents 53 specific recommendations to mitigate the risks to financial markets posed by climate change. It concludes...
by ccccc | Aug 24, 2020 | Climate Reports, News, News
More than 50% of the world’s oceans could already be affected by climate change, with this figure rising as high as 80% over the coming decades, a new study has shown. Scientists at the University of Reading, used climate models and observations in deeper areas...
by ccccc | Aug 19, 2020 | News, News
A recent article in Huffington Post summarizes all the things that show that while our attention is diverted by presidential politics and the pandemic, climate change is continuing to ravage our planet. The real question is not will we muster the willingness to take...
by Janet Williams | Aug 17, 2020 | News
Utilities have been using dark money to undermine canditates supporting climate change action and support candidates who support the utilities. This is legal under the disastrous 2010 Supreme Court decision Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310,...
by Janet Williams | Aug 11, 2020 | News
Listen to Katherine Hayhoe lay it out for you. Then go do it!...
by ccccc | Aug 10, 2020 | Climate Reports, News
Two separate studies looking at additional deaths and economic impacts from climate change, and the benefits of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, were in the news this week. One study looked at global impacts, while the other focused on the US. According to a...
by ccccc | Aug 10, 2020 | News, News
Energy researchers say in a recent report, “Mobilizing for a Zero-Carbon America,” that, “rapid and total decarbonization” of the US economy would triple the size of the electric grid and replace almost every fuel-burning machine with an...
by ccccc | Aug 1, 2020 | News, News
The Pew Research Center survey has found that (63%) of Americans, and 70% of those living within 25 miles of a coastline, say climate change is currently affecting their local community either a great deal or some. When asked what specific effects of climate change...
by CommunicationsTeam | Aug 1, 2020 | Climate Reports, News, News
It seems like such a simple question: How hot is Earth going to get? Yet for 40 years, climate scientists have repeated the same unsatisfying answer: If humans double atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) from preindustrial levels, the planet will eventually warm between...
by ccccc | Jul 30, 2020 | News, News
Yale Environment 350 reports that global investment in offshore wind more than quadrupled in the first half of 2020, with financing approved for 28 new offshore wind projects totaling $35 billion. According to a new report from Bloomberg NEF titled ” Colossal...
by CommunicationsTeam | Jul 18, 2020 | Climate Reports, News, News
Middlebury College’s Center for the Blue Economy has partnered with Blue Frontier to bring together thought leaders from across industry, government, academia, and the conservation community with a goal of crafting the Ocean Climate Action Plan or OCAP (final...
by CommunicationsTeam | Jul 17, 2020 | Climate Reports, News, News
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released a report that finds coastal communities across the country have continued to set records for flooding during high tides, which have damaged homes, destroyed roads, and imperiled drinking water and sewer...
