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At a grim UN General Assembly, there were sparks of climate hope

Business Green

UN Secretary General Guterres cuts a lonely figure these days, if only because he seeks to speak truth to powerful leaders who - in turn - appear deaf to his warnings. goal narrows, the world needs to urgently come together as one," the Portuguese told delegates. "The

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Climate Related Excerpts from the Ninth Democratic Primary Debate

Green Market Oracle

The debate included Democratic 2020 presidential candidates, Mike Bloomberg and Elizabeth Warren, from the ninth Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate In Las Vegas three days before the Nevada Caucuses Mike Bloomberg, Sen. Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.

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Unpredictions for the green economy in 2024

Business Green

The global economy is currently defined by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity, but ahead of what is set to be a hugely eventful year there are some certainties green businesses can cling to I am a big fan of all the articles and Twitter threads offering predictions for the year ahead. The UK provides one such example.

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America's Turning Tide: The Inflection Point that will Take us from Darkness to Light

Green Market Oracle

Democratic Vice Presidential Nominee Kamala Harris who offered us an intimate portrait of her life and career and the Democratic Presidential Nominee Joe Biden, whose speech earned praise from both the left and the right. Biden's DNC speech, which is widely regarded as the best of his career, started as follows: "Give people light.

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The search for the source of plastic pollution

Grist

This story was published in partnership with InvestigateWest. On an overcast Saturday in Seattle, a group of volunteers combs a small section of the beach at Golden Gardens Park for trash. But groups like this cleanup crew are helping answer a more basic question: Where is this stuff coming from?

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In With The New, Then Out With The Old – A Managed Transition Is Key To Maintaining Resource Adequacy

Energy Innovation

This post is the second in a series titled “Real Talk on Reliability,” which will examine the reliability needs of our grid as we move toward 100 percent clean electricity and electrify more end-uses on the path to a climate stable future. It was written by Michelle Solomon, Senior Policy Analyst in the Electricity Program.

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From Climate Exhortation to Climate Execution

Mosaic

That’s what American prosperity looks like: since the end of the Second World War, our extraordinary wealth has been devoted, above all, to the project of building bigger houses farther apart from one another. So far, the climate debate has gone on mostly in people’s heads and hearts. This is one object at a time.”.