Policy & regulation
Biden administration takes aim at the financial risks of climate change
The executive order directs federal agencies to identify climate risks and set disclosure rules for private industry and finance.
Climate crisis
Solar
He couldn’t install solar at home, so he helps nonprofits do it instead
This solar champion shows community groups how to tap Inflation Reduction Act incentives so they can afford solar panels.
John Smillie started helping nonprofits get solar panels after he found couldn’t install them on his own roof. (Photo courtesy of John Smillie)
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Climate crisis
IEA: World still has ‘narrow’ path to reach net-zero carbon by 2050
Adding clean energy capacity at unprecedented rates and halting all fossil fuel investment could avert the worst climate change impacts — if governments can commit to action.
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Climate crisis
Newsletter: Banking on "technologies that we don't yet have"
Something to keep in mind while processing the comments from Climate Envoy John Kerry that kicked up a ruckus over the weekend.
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Climate crisis
Priming the pump for high-priced, high-promise carbon removal tech
South Pole and Mitsubishi want investors for $800 million worth of direct air capture, mineralization and biochar projects.
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Guest Essay
The US must ally with Canada to tackle climate change
A plan to replace "Buy American" with "Buy North American" provisions to strengthen cross-border collaboration.
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Utilities
PG&E’s $7.5B securitization: A bellwether for utility efforts to cover the costs of climate change?
Wildfire liability financing under scrutiny in California could presage efforts in other states to offset costs of coal plant retirements and climate-change mitigations.
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Nuclear
Biden going nuclear with a tax credit? Plus, an advanced reactor news roundup
A production tax credit for nuclear power generation could make its way into the $2.3 trillion jobs and infrastructure plan.
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Guest Essay
What to watch for in the IEA’s forthcoming report
The most critical factors for a rapid transition are the hardest to model.
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Climate crisis
New satellites can mitigate methane’s outsize impact on climate change
MethaneSat and Carbon Mapper could give governments and industry new ways to find methane emissions — and to determine the value of stopping them.
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Guest Essay
Net-Zero Banking Alliance’s carbon commitment: The good, the bad and the missing-in-action
The latest global banking coalition aligned with the Paris Agreement lacks the ambition required to reach net-zero emissions.
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