LONDON — The International Maritime Organization, the obscure United Nations group that oversees the global shipping industry, agreed Friday to slash its greenhouse gas emissions in coming decades in an attempt to limit future global warming.
The landmark deak includes a standout pledge to reduce its emissions to net-zero “by or about 2050.” Previously, the IMO pledged to reduce its emissions by half by 2050,
To avoid climate change, we have to do two things: generate all of our electricity from clean sources, and retool nearly everything else that burns oil and gas — like cars, buses and furnaces. […] But utility companies are using their outsize political power to slow down the clean energy transition, and using your money to do it.
(from Bill McKibbin’s The Crucial Years substack.)
(See also, companion article in Las Vegas Sun)
Monday July 3 was the hottest day anyone had ever measured on planet earth.
True, our system for measuring the global average temperature—a network of weather stations, ocean buoys, and satellites—only dates back to 1979, but that means that at a bare minimum it was the hottest day a large majority of the earth’s population had ever been alive to witness. And in truth, we […]
LONDON — A rather obscure United Nations group is gathering this week to make a momentous decision that will influence whether the world can limit perilous global warming. Ocean transport contributes about 3 percent of humankind’s greenhouse gas emissions. (If the shipping sector were a country, it would be Germany — and among the top 10 polluters.)
A particularly deadly “heat dome” phenomenon was linked to dozens of deaths across the Pacific Northwest back in 2021, lending fresh urgency to the problem of rising city temperatures.
Zoom in: Average temperature increases from 1970 to 2022 were highest in Reno, Nevada (+11.1°F); Boise, Idaho (+5.8°F); Las Vegas (+5.8°F); Salt Lake City (+5.5°F); and El Paso, Texas (+5.3°F).
from Reno Gazette Journal A pair of proposed bills in Carson City are aiming to limit the impacts of rising temperatures in Nevada. Senate Bill 169 and Assembly Bill 131 look to address growing impacts…
Nevada has a new law that lowers the price upfront of medium- and heavy-duty electric trucks and buses for businesses and public fleets. Governor Joe Lombardo (R-NV) signed Assembly Bill 184 – the Nevada Clean Trucks…
Robert Litterman is a legend on Wall Street. He earned a doctorate in economics from the University of Minnesota in 1980. In his 23 years at Goldman Sachs he oversaw quants, managed risk and developed, with the great applied mathematician Fischer Black, the Black-Litterman model for portfolio allocation. Now he’s a founding partner […]
Featured chapter: CCL Carson City
CCL’s Carson City, Nevada, chapter has tabling down to a science. For the third year in a row, they are participating as a vendor at the local Carson Farmers Market, tabling every other Saturday from June through September […]
By the time I talked to Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, he was clearly frustrated. “This is ridiculous,” he said. “These guys write reports and they protest. But we need to build. You can’t be serious about climate and the environment without reforming permitting and procurement in this state.”
A financial official from an island that’s among the world’s most vulnerable to global warming has a plan to quickly increase the amount spent on climate solutions in developing nations. And his plan requires little additional spending…
.Editor’s Note: One of our Members of Congress found this document, derived from an analysis from the Biden administration in August 2022, helpful. The Inflation Reduction Act Delivers Affordable Clean Energy for Nevada The Inflation…
