Global Demand for Coal is Stalled, IEA Finds
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Innovation & Infrastructure
Breakthrough Energy Launches $1 Billion Venture Fund
Just more than a year after its inception, the Bill Gates-led Breakthrough Energy Coalition appears to be putting its money where its mouth is. Gates and his fellow millionaire and billionaire investors announced Monday the formation of the Breakthrough Energy Ventures fund, a $1 billion fund committed to making “risk-tolerant investments in next generation technologies […]
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Innovation & Infrastructure
Policy for Negative Emissions Tech Needed Sooner Rather Than Later
Negative emissions technology will be necessary if the international community is to meet the Paris Agreement on climate change’s goal of keeping global temperature rise well below 2 degrees Celsius, the independent German Institute for International and Security Affairs said in a report Monday. However, most climate policy frameworks, at the international and national level, […]
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International
Paris Agreement Has its First Birthday
The Paris Agreement on climate change on Monday officially turned 1 year old. One year ago today the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was in overtime it adopted the agreement during the evening of Saturday, Dec. 12, 2015. The crowd went wild. A […]
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Budget & Policy
Manhattan Institute Offers Energy Policy Transition Tips to Trump Team
The incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump has the opportunity to reshape U.S. energy and environmental policy, but it should keep a few things in mind when doing so, the Manhattan Institute said in a report Monday. “An agenda that maximizes the potential of America’s natural resources while striking a better balance between industry and […]
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Budget & Policy
RFF to Head NASA Earth Science Project
The nongovernmental Resources for the Future (RFF) will receive $700,000 annually for the next five years to and evaluate the socioeconomic benefits of NASA’s Earth science activities. “The five-year agreement will enable experts to advance the valuation of the applied benefits linked to information from space-based observations of Earth, catalyze a community of research and […]