by faster | Aug 14, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: Bloomberg DATE: August 14, 2018 SNIP: It’s sinking in that Germany’s 500 billion-euro ($580 billion) push to promote renewable energy isn’t enough to meet its ambitious climate goals. A look at key targets Germany wants to reach by 2020 by William...
by faster | Feb 15, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: Alaska Highway News DATE: February 15, 2018 SNIP: B.C. will not meet its 2020 greenhouse gas emission targets and is not adequately prepared to mitigate the impact of fire, flooding, and drought precipitated by climate change, B.C. Auditor General Carol...
by faster | Nov 16, 2017 | Blog
SOURCE: The Economist DATE: November 16, 2017 SNIP: The Paris agreement assumes, in effect, that the world will find ways to suck CO2 out of the air. That is because, in any realistic scenario, emissions cannot be cut fast enough to keep the total stock of greenhouse...
by faster | Aug 8, 2017 | Blog
SOURCE: BBC DATE: Aug 8, 2017 SNIP: Potent, climate-warming gases are being emitted into the atmosphere but are not being recorded in official inventories, a BBC investigation has found. Air monitors in Switzerland have detected large quantities of one gas coming from...
by faster | Aug 1, 2017 | Blog
SOURCE: Nature DATE: Aug 1, 2017 SNIP: Beyond US President Donald Trump’s decision in June to withdraw the United States from the 2015 Paris climate agreement, a more profound challenge to the global climate pact is emerging. No major advanced industrialized...