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Report Finds That a Clean Energy Standard Is the ‘Linchpin’ of US Achieving Climate Goals

GreenTechMedia

reach global climate targets to limit global warming to 1.5 In a Thursday report, Energy Innovation, whose co-founder Sonia Aggarwal recently joined the White House climate policy team, laid out a policy pathway to hitting the carbon and greenhouse gas emissions cuts needed to keep warming below the most dangerous levels.

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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

Renewable Energy World

Happy Earth Day 2021! When you’ve followed the evolving research of a leading clean energy expert and become a supporter of his vision for a global clean energy transition, it should come as no surprise that I was eager to crack open Mark Jacobson’s 2021 book release, 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything.

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The Meat Industry Is Advertising Like Big Oil

DeSmogBlog

On Earth Day and during the United Nations Climate Week, it published 85 letters to the editor in local newspapers on “behalf” of cattle farmers proclaiming that beef is sustainable. The audit also found that in 2010 and 2011 the NCBA charged the travel costs of at least 20 staffers traveling to D.C.

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28 Posts Commemorating the Seminal Efforts of Female Environmentalists

Green Market Oracle

She took over her post at the UNFCC in 2010 after the disappointing failure of COP15 in Copenhagen. Five years later she oversaw the signing of the historic accord at COP21 in which 195 countries agreed to limit global warming. She was instrumental in negotiations that led to the signing of the historic Paris Climate agreement.