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China’s plans to cut emissions too weak to stave off global catastrophe, say experts
China announced its plans for future cuts to greenhouse gas emissions on Wednesday, producing a scathing response from experts who said they were much too weak to stave off global catastrophe…
Unmasking Climate Action at UN
As global climate leaders, including dozens of heads of state, gather at the UN in New York this week, it is time to admit that current climate approaches are failing. Already expensive and deadly climate impacts are increasingly…
Trump’s War on Renewables Risks Power Price Backlash
Rising US electricity costs are grabbing headlines, with demand from artificial intelligence data centers expected to increase to record highs this year and next. The Trump administration has until now focused…
PAUL BLEDSOE on what is needed to address the climate crisis
channel news asia | november 25, 2024
China’s plans to cut emissions too weak to stave off global catastrophe, say experts
China announced its plans for future cuts to greenhouse gas emissions on Wednesday, producing a scathing response from experts who said they were much too weak to stave off global catastrophe…
Unmasking Climate Action at UN
As global climate leaders, including dozens of heads of state, gather at the UN in New York this week, it is time to admit that current climate approaches are failing. Already expensive and deadly climate impacts are increasingly…
Trump’s War on Renewables Risks Power Price Backlash
Rising US electricity costs are grabbing headlines, with demand from artificial intelligence data centers expected to increase to record highs this year and next. The Trump administration has until now focused…
Dems go all-in on energy price messaging. Will it work?
After seeing Republicans gut their signature climate law, Democrats have embraced a strategy they think will make the GOP pay in next year’s midterm elections. During the August recess, Democratic lawmakers have.
America is moving backward on climate policy — here’s how Democrats can right the ship
Every week brings a new headline about the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress repealing climate protections. The latest is a shocking proposal to overturn the landmark scientific…
‘Keeping us hooked on fossil fuels’: how can we negotiate with autocracies on the climate crisis?
When it comes to the climate crisis, how do you negotiate with an autocracy? It is the case today, and it is almost certain to remain so for the dwindling number of years in which we can hope to stave off the worst of climate breakdown, that…
Trump’s budget bill sells out America’s future — soon, Republicans will pay
Elon Musk is right: the massive cash giveaway to the richest at the expense of the poorest that Senate Republicans passed this week is “utterly insane and destructive.” Average Americans, and soon…
Republicans consider eliminating many green energy initiatives
“For the first time in about 20 years, electricity demand in the United States is growing very rapidly, principally due to data centers and artificial intelligence,” said Paul Bledsoe, a lecturer at American University Center for…
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Paul Bledsoe is a former Clinton White House, US Senate, and Interior Department official, and a leading political and policy expert whose writing regularly appears in the New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times and other leading outlets.
Paul is President of Bledsoe & Associates, a strategic public policy firm specializing in tax policy, energy, natural resources and climate change. He is also a Professorial Lecturer at American University’s Center for Environmental Policy.
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