As US-EU trade tensions rise, conflicting carbon tariffs could undermine climate efforts
The two visions for climate policy tariffs involve different paths toward somewhat different goals, so they cannot easily be reconciled.
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The Energy Crisis, Renewable Energies and RR+E
There are already plenty of economic and political actors defending the hyper-technological renewables. The time has come to shift our discourses toward technics that will enable us to change the energy matrix while also achieving an ecosocial transition.
Oil companies and the windfalls of war
Do oil companies and their investors have a paramount right to profits earned through no sweat of their brows over families who, through no fault of their own, are forced to make decisions between food and fuel, between keeping the lights on and life-saving medicines?
Fusion Energy: A Different Take
Indeed, one thing seems indisputable: Unleashing fusion in an unbounded, growth-driven economy would be a wholesale disaster.
Why gas stoves matter to the climate – and the gas industry: Keeping them means homes will use gas for heating too
As I see it, if “cooking with gas” keeps us tethering new homes to natural gas grids for decades to come, our health, climate and wallets will pay the price.
How the UK’s push to reach net-zero could deliver key health benefits
Of the separate actions we modelled, the greatest contribution to health improvement was from home energy efficiency measures, such as wall and loft insulation (over 800,000 life years gained by 2050), assuming that adequate ventilation requirements are met.
Nuclear Fusion Won’t Save the Climate But It Might Blow Up the World
Sadly, fusion won’t save the Arctic from melting, but if we don’t put a stop to it, that breakthrough technology could someday melt us all.
Greta Thunberg’s arrest shows why we must abolish the Energy Charter Treaty
If we are to have a fighting chance for a future free from catastrophic climate change, we need 21st-century solutions. Finally abolishing the Energy Charter Treaty is a good place to start.
A review of One Hundred Years of Insanity, by Bob Lloyd
This book – and others it references, particularly Donella Meadows’ Thinking in Systems’ – should be a standard read for university students, but I suspect it will only be read by those who are already-there, or at least already well-on-the-way.
2022 Was a Big Year for Climate Action in the Courts
It was another busy year in the courts for climate-related cases. From challenges to fossil fuel and petrochemical expansion to climate lawsuits against Big Oil and national governments, there were notable victories for climate action and accountability in 2022.
Climate Change Will Supersede Everything
Why should climate change be included in a Department of Defense report on security developments in relation to the People’s Republic?
What Caused Alberta’s Record Quake? Check Drilling, Experts Say
A cluster of tremors, including the largest recorded earthquake in Alberta’s history, may have been due to oil and gas activity in the region.
