U.N. Secretary General, French President, Hope Trump Will See the Climate Change Light
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Budget & Policy
CMA1 Opens to Much Fanfare, Little Substance
MARRAKESH, Morocco — The first meeting of the parties to the Paris Agreement on climate change (CMA) opened here Tuesday with much back patting and little substance. During the meeting’s brief opening plenary at the 22nd session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP and […]
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Budget & Policy
U.S. Climate Action Will Continue Regardless of Trump, Public and Private Sector Officials Say
MARRAKESH, Morocco — While federally mandated actions to address climate change may be a thing of the past under President-elect Donald Trump, states, cities, and businesses are not going to stop their own efforts, public and private sector officials said here Tuesday. “The United States is a federalist system, which means that the states have […]
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Budget & Policy
CCS Crucial for Paris Agreement Success, Not Inevitable: Report
Carbon capture and storage will be key to the success of the Paris Agreement on climate change, but widespread deployment of the technologies is by no means a done deal, the Global CCS Institute said on Tuesday. “It’s certainly not inevitable. It’s not a sure thing that carbon capture will take its place alongside wind, […]
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Budget & Policy
Energy Sector Faces ‘Uncharted Territory’ in Keeping Temperature Spike to 1.5 Degrees: IEA
The global energy sector much reach net-zero emissions no later than 2060 if the Paris Agreement’s most ambitious goal of limiting worldwide temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius is to be realized, the International Energy Agency said Wednesday in its World Energy Outlook 2016. The new report evaluates the outlooks for the coal, natural gas, […]
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Budget & Policy
Groups Warn Against Extending 45Q Tax Credit
The Kemper County Energy Facility carbon capture facility in Mississippi could receive hundreds of millions to billions of dollars in subsidies if the federal 45Q carbon sequestration tax credit is extended, Friends of the Earth and Taxpayers for Common Sense said in a report Tuesday. The 45Q tax credit is worth $20 per ton of […]