Climate Change

Posted April 9, 2021 at 3:56pm The Biden administration underscored its focus on climate change in the first glimpse of its budget proposal, calling for tens of billions of dollars in new spending from Congress and framing the warming planet as a pervasive threat that seeps into daily life in…

WASHINGTON: US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Thursday warned of the risk of a permanent divergence in the global economy in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, and urged major economies to inject significant new fiscal support to secure a robust recovery. In a statement to the steering committees of…

Would you pay two percent more for the carbon-neutral version of the products you buy and use every day? In this innovative talk, climate pathfinder Jens Burchardt walks us through the costs and considerations of producing planet-friendly products -- from creation to purchase -- and explains why curbing climate change…

The newest addition to the C-suite talks climate change and hot tubs DEAR COLLEAGUES, This is my first memo as the newly appointed chief impact officer at Global United Financial Firms (GUFF) and I would like to thank everyone for welcoming me to the group. Some of you will be…

Governments should consider solar geoengineering for two reasons. The first is that other ways to avoid the worst effects of climate change may not prove achievable in the world as it really is. The other is that, if there is a risk that another government might attempt to transform the…

image copyrightGetty Images Bitcoin mining in China is so carbon intensive that it could threaten the country's emissions reduction targets, according to new research. China wants its emissions to peak in 2030, and has plans to be carbon neutral by 2060. The cryptocurrency's carbon footprint is as large as one…

Indian PM tells US climate envoy New Delhi is committed to meeting pledges under 2015 Paris climate change agreement and that it is on track to meet them. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has told the United States’s climate envoy, John Kerry, that India was committed to meeting its climate…

Eleven years ago, as President Obama was beginning to emphasize climate change as a potential legislative priority, utility companies began strategizing to survive the new age. In June 2010, then–Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers co-authored an op-ed in Politico with Eileen Claussen, a veteran of the Clinton administration and the…

 XELS, one of the leading startups tackling climate change by increasing participation and transparency in carbon markets, is listing its eponymous XELS token on Bittrex Global on 8 April 2021.  Tokenized Carbon Credits  XELS will provide both businesses and individuals access to a blockchain-based carbon offset platform, initially focused on…

Cai Yijun spent the end of March sneezing. With Shanghai and much of eastern China blanketed by dust and sand, the 23-year-old marketing consultant’s chronic rhinitis, or nose inflammation, took a turn for the worse. The air quality index for the region topped out at 500, its worst possible reading,…