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VIDEO: UN Warns Code Red for Climate Change
‘A code-red for humanity.’ That’s the dire warning from a new United Nations report on climate change. CGTN’s Asieh Namdar spoke to Paul Bledsoe from American University’s Center for Environmental Policy about the report…
Worst polluting countries must make drastic carbon cuts, says Cop26 chief
The world’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases must produce clear plans to cut their carbon output drastically, the president of vital UN climate talks has urged, after scientists warned there was only a small chance of escaping the worst ravages of climate breakdown…
Window closing to stop worst effects of climate change
World leaders are rapidly running out of time to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. And without dramatic action, even less ambitious goals — such as checking climate change at 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels — soon could be out of reach…
Get a grip: government censured for gaffe after gaffe in run-up to Cop26
Alok Sharma stepped off the plane from Brazil on Friday, the latest stop in a punishing travel schedule that has taken him to 30 countries in seven months, and into the eye of a media storm…
Reduce methane or face climate catastrophe, scientists warn
Cutting carbon dioxide is not enough to solve the climate crisis – the world must act swiftly on another powerful greenhouse gas, methane, to halt the rise in global temperatures, experts have warned…
Can Biden’s energy plans withstand the heat of his own party?
Joe Biden entered office with sweeping promises to overhaul America’s energy landscape even though the politics of doing so were never going to be simple. Much has been made of the bipartisan infrastructure bill set to be passed by the Senate in the coming days…
Biden strikes EV deal with carmakers, offers carbon rule
President Biden is set to announce twin policies today aimed at slashing car emissions and accelerating widespread electric vehicle adoption in an effort to tackle climate change and out-compete Chinese manufacturers, according to senior administration officials…
Radio: Infrastructure bill carries funding potential for clean energy
The infrastructure bill that cleared a Senate hurdle last week included some big spending for clean energy, like electric buses, hydrogen power, and charging stations for electric vehicles. However, some clean energy sectors want more…
The climate measures in the bipartisan infrastructure deal
The Senate voted yesterday to advance a $1.2 trillion infrastructure package ($550 billion in new spending) after weeks of stalled efforts to reach a bipartisan deal, with 17 Republicans supporting the agreement…
Letter: Autocratic states are thwarting climate action
Leslie Hook’s insightful story on G20 climate action (July 26) noted that autocratic regimes in China, Russia and Saudi Arabia deliberately prevented a decision to end fossil fuel subsidies…
Radio: Climate change, China and Global Emissions
Paul Bledsoe discusses China’s vulnerability to climate change on BBC Radio…
New carbon market in China, world’s biggest polluter, unlikely to curb emissions quickly
China launched the world’s largest carbon-trading system on Friday in a step toward ratcheting up its fight against climate change, but it’s unlikely to help the top-polluting nation reduce its emissions in the near future…
Democrats push sweeping climate legislation amid a scorching summer
The far-reaching set of climate measures that Senate Democrats outlined this week came as a scorching summer brought deadly heat waves, deepened droughts and fueled wildfires across the American West…
Democrats push to impose carbon tariffs
Senate Democrats are proposing to impose tariffs on carbon-intensive imports to help pay for their $3.5 trillion tax and spending infrastructure proposal, in a surprising move that opens up a web of complex questions…
The EU’s biomass dilemma: can burning trees ever be green?
Brussels is updating climate legislation but the controversy over wood-burning…
Biden plans push to enact clean electricity standard
President Joe Biden is making a new effort to enact elements of his climate agenda left out…
VIDEO: Paul Bledsoe discusses extreme heat and climate change
California State Senator Melissa Hurtado and former Communications Director for the White House Climate Change Task Force Paul Bledsoe talk to Kendis Gibson and Lindsey Reiser about the dangerous new reality of extreme heat.
Radio Interview: Reality Check
Paul Bledsoe joined Charles to discuss his op-ed, It’s Time to Build the Clean Grid of the Future.
‘Not enough for clean power’ in US infrastructure plan
President Joe Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure agreement with centrist senators does not include enough for clean power, says the American Clean Power Association (ACP). Late last week, Biden and a group of centrist senators from both major parties had agreed to an…
The Hill’s Sustainability Report – Biden infrastructure bill hides covert climate compromise; leading Democrats say they’ll push for more
A bipartisan deal that Biden reached with senators yesterday afternoon will be the biggest infrastructure package in a century — if it makes its tricky way through the trials to come…
Amid war, Biden reluctant to unleash clean energy rhetoric
Republicans are calling for more oil drilling. Europe says it’s doubling down on clean energy. But as the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues into its second week, President Biden has stayed mum about how..
Ukraine war prompts European reappraisal of its energy supplies
ladimir Putin is using Russia’s hold over fossil fuel supplies to Europe as “a political and economic weapon” in the war in Ukraine, the world’s foremost energy adviser has said, presenting western governments…
On Two Continents, War and Politics Complicate Attempts to Slow Warming
War and politics are complicating the efforts of the two biggest polluters in history — the United States and Europe — to slow down global warming, just as scientists warn of intensifying hazards…
SOTU: What Biden said — and didn’t say — on climate
President Biden used his first State of the Union address to reset his administration after a year of inflation and crises at home and abroad that has left him with nearly record-low approval ratings…
Biden to call for global unity on Ukraine in first State of the Union speech
President Joe Biden will call on America and the world to remain united in confronting Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, during his first State of the Union speech that will be heavily devoted…
Biden wanted to use the State of the Union speech to pivot to his agenda. Then Russia started a land war.
President Biden’s team has revised his first State of the Union to portray Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine as a major crisis facing the West, according to a person familiar with the text, shifting the tenor of the speech…
Oil and gas facilities could profit from plugging methane leaks, IEA says
Plugging methane from leaky oil and gas facilities would be free of cost almost everywhere in the world, and in many cases would produce a significant profit, at today’s soaring gas prices…
Democrats hit the road to promote green projects
President Biden recalled yesterday that Ohio Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur handed him a note just after his first joint address to Congress last year, touting the virtues of the Great Lakes that are an economic driver in her district…
UK urged not to abandon climate goals amid net zero row
Senior figures in climate diplomacy, including the key architect of the Paris climate agreement, have urged the UK government to maintain its commitments to climate action, amid escalating…
E.U.-U.S. meeting today has big implications for climate, energy
Top officials on the E.U.-U.S. Energy Council are set to meet today in Washington, as the United States warns that Russia could invade Ukraine within days…
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