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Is Peak Oil Dead and What Does it Mean for Climate Change?

By Asher Miller, James W. Murray, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

This session seeks to bring together fossil fuel experts and climate experts for a daring exploration of the new landscape created by fracking and other unconventional methods of fossil fuel recovery.

Beyond Paris: Avoiding the Trap of Carbon Metrics

By Camila Moreno,

Until recently terms like “carbon accounting,” “carbon footprint,” and “carbon offsetting” would have raised some quizzical eyebrows among the general public. Today, such carbon-based metrics are everywhere, but are they helpful or unhelpful in motivating the necessary action on climate change?

Renewable Energy Redoubles its Global Reach

By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network

A significant threshold has been crossed by renewable energy as analysts report that the sectorʼs size last year reached double the level it was at just 10 years earlier.

Returns on Divestments?

By Justin Ritchie, Seth Moser-Katz, The Extraenvironmentalist

I believe we’re at a point where renewables are going to continue becoming more affordable while fossil fuels continue to get more expensive, and more risky.

EPA Carbon Rules, Climate Progress? – headlines

By Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org

•Here’s Why The Carbon Regulations EPA Will Announce Monday Are So Important •A guide to Obama's new rules to cut carbon emissions from power plants •EPA unveils far-reaching climate plan targeting power plants •Obama's New Plan To Fight Climate Change Is A Really Big Deal

UN Panel Looks to Renewables As the Key to Stabilizing Climate

By Fred Pearce, Yale Environment 360

In its latest report, the IPCC makes a strong case for a sharp increase in low-carbon energy production, especially solar and wind, and provides hope that this transformation can occur in time to hold off the worst impacts of global warming.

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