Spurring private sector innovation requires supporting carbon removal technologies in their early stages, and that means supporting the vital work that programs like the Carbon Negative Shot aim to accomplish.
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Is There a Climate Benefit to Reducing Packaging Materials?
“From an emissions perspective, incremental improvements to recycling rates may yield bigger gains than attempts to cut consumption, and some materials have a bigger recycling benefit than others."
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Nuclear Is Big Part of Duke Energy’s Carbon Plan: Summit Update
Saijel Kishan and Alastair Marsh of Bloomberg report that nuclear energy is going to be a major part of Duke Energy’s plan moving forward. “Nuclear energy is a key part of Duke Energy Corp.’s plan to eliminate carbon emissions by 2050, according to CEO Lynn Good. As the company moves to retire coal-fired power plants,...
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Shattering Barriers to Address Environmental Challenges
Shattering the policy barriers to innovation and economic freedom is one the most effective ways to address our environmental challenges.
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China unveils new emissions and clean energy pledges
“Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday pledged to cut carbon emissions per unit of economic output by over 65% by 2030 and boost the share of nonfossil fuels in energy consumption to roughly 25% by then.”
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Every Day is Earth Day
When we reach for higher ground, we find common ground and never lose the light.
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These Oxford Scientists Just Created Carbon-Neutral Jet Fuel From CO2
“A team of researchers at the University of Oxford have revealed what they say is a cost-effective and efficient way of producing jet fuel from carbon dioxide, offering hope that one day vacationers might be able to jet off abroad without the cost—and associated guilt—of a hefty carbon footprint.”
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Clean Energy Attracts Half A Trillion Dollars Of Funding For First Time
“BNEF says that companies, governments and households invested $303.5 billion in new renewable energy capacity in 2020, up 2% on the year, helped by the biggest-ever build-out of solar projects and a $50 billion surge for offshore wind. They also spent $139 billion on electric vehicles and associated charging infrastructure, up 28% and a new record.”
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How PG&E Is Reducing Wildfire Risks Using Satellite Imagery
"'Parsing through these different sources of variability is one of the real value-adds of artificial intelligence,' Anderson said. 'We’ve been working on developing finer and finer metrics of forest structure and forest health to be able to quantify some of those patterns, and then provide those metrics of forest health to PG&E’s team to help them better characterize these patterns and help them identify where these potential failure modes may occur.'"
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Hurting the Economy without Helping the Climate? We’ve Got this Inside-Out
“While such decisions are undoubtedly popular with radical environmentalists and their well-funded allies, it is hard to see how they — or anyone likely to follow them — will achieve the reductions in CO2 emissions necessary to make any difference to the climate."
