Climate Update

POLITIK

A lucrative tax credit for renewable energy could be hard to kill because it applies to a technologies favored by Republicans, not just wind and solar.

POLITIK

Turns out, it’s surprisingly hard to spend government cash.

POLITIK

Some fear Donald Trump could freeze the Energy Department’s loan office, which supports electric vehicles, geothermal, nuclear and other novel technologies.

WIRTSCHAFT

They grew up on Biden-era climate regulations and tax credits. What happens now?

POLITIK TECH. & ENERGIE

Conditions have changed.

ANTI-KLIMA

President-elect Donald J. Trump promised to delete climate policy. He could face pushback from Republicans benefiting from a boom in clean energy.

POLITIK

The Environmental Protection Agency just finalized one of the Biden administration’s only outstanding climate rules, aimed at cracking down on leaks of methane — a potent planet-warming gas with an outsized impact on the climate.

POLITIK

UN climate summit kicks off in Baku, with governments approving carbon market rules and US climate envoy saying emissions to keep falling

POLITIK

John Podesta, President Biden’s clean energy adviser, said agencies were racing to deliver money from the 2022 climate law before Donald Trump arrives.

ANTI-KLIMA

The former congressman from New York is a strong supporter of Donald Trump and voted against certifying the 2020 election.

WIRTSCHAFT

Trevor Higgins, du think tank Center for American Progress, salue le changement de paradigme provoqué par la loi Inflation Reduction Act. Selon l’expert, une nouvelle présidence Trump serait inquiétante pour le climat, même si l’avènement d’une économie verte paraît inéluctable

POLITIK

POLITIK

If elected, Trump could slow down Biden’s progress, but the shift to clean energy is unstoppable.

POLITIK

In the Senate, Kamala Harris backed an expansive climate plan. Young activists want her to embrace it again, but so do Republicans.

TECH. & ENERGIE

Der Plan des US-Präsidenten funktioniert, die Herstellungs­kapazitäten im Land steigen kräftig an. Gleichzeitig werden sie hierzulande weiter abgebaut. Hilfen für die deutsche Solarindustrie hatte Finanzminister Lindner blockiert.

POLITIK

A conversation with Rebecca Dell of ClimateWorks and Evan Gillespie of Industrious Labs.

URSACHEN

Download the full report. A new report, “Biden’s Fossil Fuel Fail: How U.S.

POLITIK

The US will provide $1 billion to the UN’s flagship climate fund – its first such contribution in six years. Joe Biden made the commitment as he hosted a virtual meeting of world leaders on Thursday to spur high-level leadership to limit global warming to 1.5C.

POLITIK

President Joe Biden and other U.S. officials think they finally have a winning climate message to share with the world — even if not everyone agrees.

POLITIK

Texas Would Profit From Biden’s Climate Bill — But Politicians Prefer ‘Cheap, Plentiful’ Fossil Fuels Activists predict relying on state implementation will cause ‘a comprehensive total failure.

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Democrats in Congress have had to scale back their legislative ambitions since last year, but the Inflation Reduction Act, passed by the House on Friday and signed by President Joseph R. Biden Jr.

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Laurence Tubiana, October 2, 2020.

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China rebuffed a call to resume climate cooperation with the US on Tuesday, instead criticising the US’ record on climate finance and asking for an end to sanctions against Chinese solar panels.

POLITIK

The new climate law is more than just tax credits. President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law today, making it official that the US will spend a historic $370 billion to tackle climate change over the next decade.

POLITIK

The bill will cut U.S. emissions, but not nearly enough. It’s “like losing 20 pounds when you need to lose 100 pounds” one expert said.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

Dr. Harvey is a professor of environmental engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. House is the chief executive officer of KoBold Metals, a metals exploration company. The technology called carbon capture and storage is aptly named.

POLITIK

Aug. 7, 2022, 2:40 p.m. ETAug. 7, 2022, 2:40 p.m. ETSenator Joe Manchin III, a centrist Democrat protective of his state’s oil and gas industries, forced his party to set aside many of its climate proposals.Credit...

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The landmark climate legislation passed by the Senate after months of wrangling and weakening by fossil-fuel friendly Democrats will lead to more harm than good, according to frontline community groups who are calling on Joe Biden to declare a climate emergency.

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A major climate and energy package passed by Congress on Friday would put the United States much closer to its goal of cutting global warming pollution in half by 2030, several independent analyses have concluded. U.S.

POLITIK

Welcome back to A Matter of Degrees! While we’ve been hard at work producing season three of the show, the climate movement has been going through a lot of twists and turns.

POLITIK

The climate bill is also a health care bill (and it does a few things on taxes, too). It turns out that Democrats’ agenda in Congress was only mostly dead.

TECH. & ENERGIE

The Senate’s proposal aims to accelerate electric car sales and promote domestic battery manufacturing at China’s expense.

POLITIK

Along the way to the $369 billion package, the West Virginia senator secured an array of concessions for his state and for the fossil fuel industry.

POLITIK

Although Senate leaders have included plenty of favors for the fossil fuel industry in the big climate package they hope to advance this week, most analysts have concluded these concessions amount to consolation prizes in a deal where clean energy is the clear winner.