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‘They’re Destroying Our Coastline’: Activists at the Americas Energy Summit Protest Fossil Fuel Expansion

DeSmogBlog

Morial Convention Center, a small but dedicated group of environmental activists affiliated with Sunrise Movement New Orleans protested the start of the 20th edition of the Americas Energy Summit & Exhibition. It’s methane gas, which is 80 times more warming in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. It’s not new.”

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

Renewable Energy World

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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Nobody is listening to climate scientists. What if they went on strike?

Grist

It’s been a wild start to 2022: Omicron cases are surging around the world, the oceans are hotter than ever , and a group of climate scientists are suggesting that the world’s leading global warming experts stop doing science. Scientific information is always viewed through a vortex of ideology, politics, and power.

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Rescuing net zero – how a digitally-enabled nuclear industry can help us get back on track

Smart Energy International

Given the current economic and political turmoil, so soon after the global pandemic, it’s clear that achieving our net zero targets has become even more complex and challenging. But there’s a growing consensus that a resurgent nuclear industry can play a vital role in bringing our efforts to limit global warming back on track.

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Britons put planet before profit in their personal savings and expect more action from pension funds and banks, says survey

Envirotec Magazine

Four years after the world’s governments signed the Paris Agreement, thousands of people are taking to the streets in school strikes and Extinction Rebellion protests calling for greater action to meet its target of keeping global warming as close to 1.5 degrees as possible. However, government support could generate much more action.

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'Lost decade': CCC slams government failure to prepare UK for worsening climate impacts

Business Green

That is the stark conclusion from the Climate Change Committee (CCC) today, which has once again laid bare the glaring failure of successive governments to prepare society - businesses, homes, infrastructure, resources, the natural world, and beyond - for the increasingly damaging impacts of the climate crisis.

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'We urgently need to prepare': Green figures react to the CCC's climate risk warning

Business Green

All the top reaction from leading figures across business, politics, academia, think tanks and green groups to the CCC's latest assessment of the UK's preparedness for climate change. Here, BusinessGreen rounds up all the top comments from business, politics, academia, think tanks and civil society.