"Real progress on climate change requires an honest brokerage of the issues, and a willingness to work on the nuts and bolts of pragmatic progress that can yield more benefits than costs.”
Joe Biden’s Green Dreams Mean Greater Dependence on China
"Even if Biden were able to encourage America automakers to rethink their production lines, China still controls the parts.”
States and companies are now hotbeds of climate action
“Numerous states, cities and companies have pledged aggressive climate change goals over the past several years."
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“[Biden will] focus on reversing all the environmental regulatory rollbacks by President Trump, but beyond that Biden is expected to incorporate climate policies into other agencies. Two I’m watching closely are independent but nonetheless traditionally pursue policies the sitting president supports.”
China plans clean energy future
"China has mastered the technology to design and construct gigawatt-class nuclear power plants with pressurized water reactors, it adds. Breakthroughs have also been made in ‘multiple frontier technologies including those associated with fast reactors and advanced small modular reactors.’"
A way forward on climate change: Focus on reducing heavy industry’s carbon emissions
“Heavy industry like iron, steel and cement production has an outsized impact on trade, job growth and the environment, which make it an alluring opportunity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions."
Japan adopts green growth plan to go carbon free by 2050
“Japan aims to eliminate gasoline-powered vehicles in about 15 years, the government said Friday in a plan to achieve Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s ambitious pledge to go carbon free by 2050 and generate nearly $2 trillion growth in green business and investment.”
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Real climate solutions won’t happen without natural gas and oil
"The U.S. has driven carbon emissions down to generational lows, even as U.S. energy production and energy demand have grown."
7 Things You Should Know About Biden’s Environmental Picks
Biden has lofty environmental goals, and his picks echo this. Conservatives will have plenty to oppose but will also have an opportunity to respond to Biden’s ambition with proposals of their own.