In Climate Swan Song, Kerry Offers Advice to World Leaders, Trump
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Budget & Policy
U.S. Submits Mid-Century Strategy to United Nations
MARRAKESH, Morocco — The United States can by 2050 decrease its carbon emissions 80 percent below 2005 levels, according to the U.S. Mid-Century Strategy for Deep Decarbonization (MCS) submitted Wednesday to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The submission of national mid-century strategies is called for, but not required, by the Paris Agreement […]
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Budget & Policy
Businesses to Trump: Preserve the Paris Agreement
MARRAKESH, Morocco — More than 365 companies of varying sizes Wednesday sent a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump, calling for continued U.S. participation in the Paris Agreement on climate change. “Implementing the Paris Agreement will enable and encourage businesses and investors to turn the billions of dollars in existing low-carbon […]
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Budget & Policy
Adaptation Finance Likely to be Sticking Point in COP22 Decision Negotiations
MARRAKESH, Morocco — Inadequate public financing for climate adaptation will likely be the issue that keeps negotiators up late the last few nights of the 22nd session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, civil society leaders told reporters Thursday morning. “Finance has always been an issue […]
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Budget & Policy
Report: Six G20 Nations, Including U.S., Already Failing at Paris Agreement Pledges
MARRAKESH, Morocco — Just one year after the adoption of the Paris Agreement on climate change, six of the Group of 20 nations have fallen short of their commitments, according to a report released here at the United Nations climate change summit by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and the […]
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Budget & Policy
NGO-Biz Coalition Calls for Sustaining Carbon Capture Tax Credit
A coalition of businesses and nongovernmental organizations on Wednesday urged Congress to sustain the 45Q tax credit for carbon dioxide sequestration. In a letter to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), 28 signatories called for extending and enhancing the tax credit “in any year-end legislative vehicle for tax […]