India skeptical of US pledge to combat climate changeCarbon-emissions targets set at Copenhagen seem unlikely to be reached, given America's political realities. That makes developing nations less eager to meet their own goals.Arnoldy, Ben
told the conference, referring to plans to phase out fossil fuels to combat climate change. Moreover, he claimed the green policies only served "the interests of our adversaries" and had been "harming human lives".What
The climate change and clean energy investments are the single largest component in the package, out of the many issues that the IRA addresses. When President Biden signs it, the IRA will be the single largest action ever taken by Congress and the US government to combat climate change. In ...
United States are dangerously close to betraying the Paris Agreement," Dr. Rachel Cleetus, policy director for the Climate and Energy Program, Union of Concerned Scientists, said. "This is nowhere near the robust and desperately needed funding lower income nations deserve to combat climate chang...
In a separate report by the Tencent Research Institute, “AI and Sustainable Development Outlook,” we examine how AI and large language models (LLMs) can be a game changer in efforts to combat climate change. It can boost the accuracy of weather forecasts, refine climate models, improve carb...
The European Union should phase out its funding of oil, gas and coal projects, EU finance ministers said in a joint statement on Friday (8 November), in a move that could mark a major shift in the bloc's efforts to combat climate change. ...
The move reflects the growing realization in Washington that efforts to combat climate change will be moot unless the U.S. boosts its production of lithium, cobalt, and other critical minerals and curbs reliance on China and other overseas rivals. Washington last December issued proposed...
“This will have an impact everywhere in the country,” said Andrew Light, professor of philosophy, public policy and atmospheric sciences, and director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at George Mason University. Although climate change is expected to affect the country as a w...
Climate change is contributing to more storms, flooding, and wildfires thus underscoring the need for policy to combat rising temperatures. Without effective carbon dioxide removal technology, limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius requires a phaseout of fossil fuels by 20501,2. However, such ...
Trump's potential dismantling of federal climate actions through executive orders, in order to promote energy independence and economic growth, could pose challenges to federal leadership on climate policy. Climate policy is now predominantly in the hands of state and local governments, which have take...