Kerry urges “First Movers Coalition” to buy low-carbon products
Before November’s COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, major global enterprises are committing to buy low-carbon products in hard-to-abate sectors like cement, steel, aviation and shipping.
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School Busses Start to Electrify
Of the approximately 480,000 school busses in the US, 1,164 are electric. The Infrastructure bill (aka The American Jobs Plan) has $20b to convert the first 100,000 busses to EVs.
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The Bill That Could Truly, Actually Bring Back U.S. Manufacturing
The new technologies we need will come from R&D and venture-capital funding to create prototypes and “proof of concept” demonstrations. This proposed federal program will support the next stage of financing.
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Exxon Considers Pledging ‘Net Zero’ Carbon by 2050
Remember the recent shareholder meeting, where 2 “environmentalist investor candidates” were elected to the Board? Well, it’s having an impact.
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2020 Record: Renewables Now Create More Power Than Coal!
Things happen fast once you “fix the economics,” Imagine what happens to these curves if carbon pricing were imposed on natural gas!
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Europe Releases Plan to Cut GHGs by 55% – Analysis
As the EU announces “Fit for 55,) a plan to cut GHGs by 55% by 2030, Bloomberg analysts map next steps, including regs, market incentives, border carbon adjustments … and enforcement.
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Senate Passes Growing Climate Solutions Act
Note: CCL supported this legislation as a “secondary ask” in March Lobby meetings. Creating certified carbon markets, is it a model for bi-partisan, market-based solutions?
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Will Carbon Labels Matter?
“We think of carbon as the new calorie,”
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The US Is Already Decarbonizing; But We Need to Move Faster
Summary: The green vortex describes how policy, technology, business, and politics can all work together, lowering the cost of zero-carbon energy, building pro-climate coalitions, and speeding up humanity’s ability to decarbonize. It has also already gotten results.
