Climate Change

Climate change is ‘biggest challenge’ for US power industry

Climate change and its accompanying costs are the most pressing challenges confronting the electricity industry, according to the chairman of a key utility advocacy organization on Jan. 20. However, Edison Electric Institute President and CEO Tom Kuhn, as well as executives from other industry trade organizations, emphasized the need of considering the costs and reliability …

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Copernicus Climate Change Service Says 2021 5th Warmest Year on Record

The year 2021 ended up being the fifth warmest on record, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service of the European Union, which dates back to 1979. This conclusion is based on publicly accessible data examined by climate scientist Zeke Hausfather who tweeted his findings, Bloomberg Green reports. This is one of the first temperature …

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Electric grid needs to be redesigned in order to solve climate change crisis

A way to solve the climate crisis became clear as the world saw more extreme heat waves, droughts, wildfires, and storms. Switch the electric grid to carbon-free wind and solar and convert most fossil fuel users in transportation, buildings, and industry to electricity. The U.S. is going that way, says Renewablenergyworld.com. There was a record …

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Carmakers in China are not meeting their “net zero” goals, Greenpeace says

China’s enormous automobile industry is on course to reach a peak in climate-warming carbon dioxide emissions by 2027, but on present trends, the country’s 2060 “net zero” objective is unlikely to be met, according to environmental organization Greenpeace. Greenpeace projected in a study analysis that the sector’s overall carbon emissions would likely level at 1.75 …

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