"[I]f these tariffs are likely to prove pointless from an environmental point of view, they are even more likely to prove destructive from an economic point of view."
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Bezos says space flight reinforced commitment to fighting climate change
"'We live on this beautiful planet. You can't imagine how thin the atmosphere is when you see it from space. We live in it, and it looks so big. It feels like this atmosphere is huge and we can disregard it and treat it poorly. When you get up there and you see it, you see how tiny it is and how fragile it is.'"
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Pivot Bio, a startup using microbes to replace synthetic fertilizer, raises $430 mln
Pivot Bio's products use microbes to create and feed nitrogen to corn and wheat crops.
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We’re conservatives and we’re fighting against climate change: Here’s how.
"Quite simply, we are committed to efforts that will reduce America’s emissions, not our economy; cut energy prices, not energy choices; and export American innovation, not American jobs."
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Generate Capital unveils one of the largest single private sustainability investments
"A suite of new and existing investors are behind Generate Capital's $2 billion, led by AustralianSuper and QIC with new investment from Harbert Management Corporation, Aware Super, and CBRE Caledon and others."
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Made to measure: Sustainability commitment progress and updates
"At Microsoft we have a long-term vision that we refer to as 100/100/0 – that on all the world’s grids, 100 percent of electrons, 100 percent of the time, are generated from zero carbon sources."
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Carbon Capture: The Key Answer on Climate Change
"It’s absolutely critical that U.S. energy policy recognizes that American climate leadership will come directly from coal country and advanced fossil fuel technologies along with innovative nuclear reactor designs."
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More Tariffs Won’t End Pollution or Solve Global Warming. They’ll Just Make Stuff More Expensive.
"The carbon border tax or polluter import fee can therefore be understood as an attempt to solve that problem—and to universalize whatever carbon policies developed nations might impose in coming decades. But it runs up against a serious practical problem. Taxing one's own citizens is a poor way of getting other nations to change their behavior."
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Large wildfires have burned more than 1 million acres in a dozen states
"In the midst of a relentless series of heat waves taking place in a region plagued by the worst drought so far in the 21st century, the forests and grasses located in western states are a tinderbox. The fire season is only expected to get worse from here."
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Why Bill Gates Is Banking On Small Modular Nuclear Reactors
And Bill Gates, at least, thinks that small modular reactors may be the most practical step forward while public-private initiatives are working to take the concept out of the lab and into the field. If the current tests come to fruition, the country’s bet will have paid off.
