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Media Brief: COP26 and the implications for Canada

Clean Energy Canada

The Paris Agreement indicates that wealthier nations should pay an increasing amount to less wealthy countries to assist with climate-related investments like flood defense from sea level rise, clean energy development, or the use of energy efficiency retrofits. These are: Article 6.2, CLEAN TRANSPORTATION.

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A Window into Louisiana’s Continued Embrace of the Fossil Fuel Industry

DeSmogBlog

.” Heerden was hired by three Louisiana-based environmental groups — The Deep South Center for Environmental Justice (DSCEJ), Sierra Club, and Healthy Gulf — that are suing the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources for exempting Venture Global LNG from needing a coastal use permit to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal.

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Louisiana LNG Could Be ‘Nail in the Coffin’ for Local Fishermen

DeSmogBlog

By ships, Dyson is referring to the massive tankers carrying liquefied natural gas (LNG). Many LNG terminals were built with the aim of shipping the tidal wave of cheap American shale gas overseas, a trend that was supercharged after Russia’s war in Ukraine, which sent global LNG prices skyrocketing. But people are not boxes.”

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A North-Pole, How Much Longer?

Mr. Sustainability

Sea level rising (not because of melting). Naturally the ice which is ‘floating’ in the Arctic will not directly impact sea levels when it melts. This ‘active ingredient’ in natural gas, is up to 28 to 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas. Lot’s of Methane.

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May 2021 Cleantech Roundup: How Oil and Gas Companies Will Tackle Climate | Electric Trucks =…

Clean Energy Trust

While the election of board members more concerned about cutting emissions may not have any immediate impacts, it represented a sea change moment, as some of the institutional fund managers like Blackrock and Vanguard supported the new board members (against the wishes of Exxon management).

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Climate change is an infrastructure problem – map of electric vehicle chargers shows one reason why

Renewable Energy World

C , shows that minimizing future climate change and its most damaging impacts will require transitioning quickly away from fossil fuels and moving instead to renewable, sustainable energy sources such as wind, solar and tidal power. The new assessment, like its predecessor Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C The infrastructure bill.