With the release of the legislation, “Spain joins a handful of countries to have set out a legally binding strategy to end their contribution to global heating in the next 30 years,” Climate Home News reports, based on draft text that had been open for public consultation since February 2019.
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Canadian oil is now a U.S. election issue | CBC News
McConaghy warned that there will be more lawsuits if Biden
tries killing it, and he cautioned the pipeline fight could last well
past the election.
tries killing it, and he cautioned the pipeline fight could last well
past the election.
Why that announcement
One
possible reason for the announcement now: Biden is currently working to
consolidate the support of skeptical progressives as he moves into the
general election.
He’s
set up task forces to build the party platform with supporters of Sen.
Bernie Sanders; the climate-change group, for instance, includes Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the first-term lawmaker who’s boosted the so-called Green New Deal and blasted Keystone XL.
Biden
has also promised to rejoin the Paris climate accord on his first day
in office, and might now point to his anti-pipeline position in the
context of that debate.
Coal industry will never recover after coronavirus pandemic, say experts
The global coal industry will “never recover” from the Covid-19
pandemic, industry observers predict, because the crisis has proved
renewable energy is cheaper for consumers and a safer bet for investors.
pandemic, industry observers predict, because the crisis has proved
renewable energy is cheaper for consumers and a safer bet for investors.
A long-term shift away from dirty fossil fuels has accelerated during
the lockdown, bringing forward power plant closures in several
countries and providing new evidence that humanity’s coal use may
finally have peaked after more than 200 years.
That makes the worst-case climate scenarios less likely, because they
are based on a continued expansion of coal for the rest of the century.
Energy Transition Index 2020: from crisis to rebound
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg told Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau last Fall he’s not doing enough to protect the environment from the threat of runaway climate change. He agreed with her and said we need to do more. More of what? Compared to other countries, we are either stagnant, or declining in our efforts to transition away from fossil fuels.
The Energy Transition Index (ETI) is a fact-based ranking intended to enable policy-makers and businesses to plot the course for a successful energy transition.
The benchmarking of energy systems is carried out annually across countries. Part of the World Economic Forum’s Fostering Effective Energy Transition initiative, it builds on its predecessor, the Energy Architecture Performance Index. The ETI does not only benchmark countries on their current energy system performance, but also provides a forward‑looking lens as it measures their readiness for the energy transition.
Sweden leads the overall rankings for the third consecutive year, followed by Switzerland and Finland. The performance of G20 countries is mixed. France and United Kingdom are the only G20 countries in the top 10. China, India, and Italy made consistent improvements on overall ETI score since 2015, while Russia, Japan, South Korea and Germany made moderate gains. Scores for United States, Canada, Brazil and Iran were either stagnant, or declining.
According to the The Energy Transition Index (ETI), Canada’s transition away from fossil fuel energy is either stagnant, or declining.
Guilbeault, McKenna, Wilkinson to Chart Post-COVID Green Recovery – The Energy Mix
The three ministers’ planning for the “green reboot” is still in its earliest stages, at a moment when the machinery of government is preoccupied with the immediate response to a global health emergency, La Presse says. “For the moment, the federal cabinet’s absolute priority is to manage the crisis and support families, workers, and businesses.” After that, the government will look at gradually lifting shelter-at-home restrictions before implementing a follow-up recovery plan.
At that point, La Presse says the recovery agenda could include faster electrification of transportation, support for lower-emitting, more resilient infrastructure, and funding for home energy retrofits.