Chinese EVs to benefit Canada’s green efforts
With Chinese electric vehicles set to enter the Canadian market, the move could bring significant benefits for consumers, the climate and public health, experts say.
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While presenting a series of executive orders conceived to increase electricity generation from coal, President Donald Trump misleadingly suggested that environmental regulations were to blame for the industry's decline, wrongly said that coal plants are being opened “all over Germany,” and misleadingly, and repeatedly, referred to coal as "clean."
The Resilient Energy Economies (REE) initiative, a collaborative project of the Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) at Columbia University SIPA, Resources for the Future (RFF), the University...
En 2015, l'Accord de Paris sur le climat à la COP 21 fixait l'objectif de réduction des émissions carbone à "zéro net" dans la seconde moitié du 21e siècle. Dix ans plus tard, les actes n'ont pas suivi les belles paroles et une partie du monde assume désormais la réhabilitation des énergies fossiles.
The decline of domestic fossil fuel production in the United States poses serious economic risks for communities that rely on fossil fuel industries for jobs and public revenues. Many of these communities lack the resources and capacity to manage those risks on their own. The absence of viable economic strategies for affected regions is a barrier to building the broad, durable coalitions needed for an equitable national transition to cleaner energy sources.
CGEP scholars reflect on some of the standout issues of the day during this year's Climate Week
Human-caused methane emissions have contributed to at least one quarter of global warming since the preindustrial era. Since methane is 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide (CO2) in trapping heat over the first two decades after its release, abating methane is considered a critical near-term strategy for reducing emissions.[