Dear Friends:
Climate news -post-Glasgow, post-House passage of Build Back Better Act, late in 2021 fire season- is voluminous. Here, we single out articles focusing on major decisions and trends.
Belle, Victoria and the Climate Team
Links to Articles
COPE 26 (most recent)
COP26 left the world with a climate to-do list: Here are five things to watch for in 2022, by John Kerry.
· Bending the curve to 1.5°C
· More South Africa deals, please
· Getting climate finance flowing
· Finance pledges and cries of ‘greenwashing
· The third leg of a wobbly stool: Loss and damage
Countries agreed to return for the next round of climate talks in November 2022 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, with stronger commitments to put the world on track for 1.5°C.
The Climate Action Tracker estimates the global average temperature increase based on national policies.
Build Back Better Act and Infrastructure Law
The $555 billion package is designed to lure the country away from fossil fuels. It faces an uncertain path in the Senate.
By Paul Krugman
Here’s how I read the Biden program as it now stands. Total new spending would be about $2.3 trillion over a decade. This total would include $500 billion to $600 billion of spending on each of three things: traditional infrastructure, restructuring the economy to address climate change, and children, with the last item mainly consisting of pre-K and child care but also involving tax credits that would greatly reduce child poverty.
The West Virginia Democrat told the White House he is firmly against a clean electricity program that is the muscle behind the president’s plan to battle climate change.
The new strategy could deeply cut greenhouse gases that are heating the planet but it will still face considerable political, logistical and legal hurdles.
By Coral Davenport, Oct. 22, 2021
WASHINGTON — After losing the centerpiece of his climate agenda just a week before heading to a major global warming summit, President Biden intends to make the case that the United States has a new plan that will still meet its ambitions to sharply cut greenhouse gases that are warming the planet.
Climate Education
Climate change and national security
Intelligence and defense agencies issued reports warning that the warming planet will increase strife between countries and spur migration.
Wildfires
What It's Like to Fight a Megafire, New Yorker, Nov. 2021
The research adds to a growing body of work finding that climate change is increasing fire risk in California and elsewhere in the West.
Criminal charges were recommended, but not filed, over private crew’s alleged backfire in Napa Valley
By Matthias Gafni
By Kurtis Alexander
California extreme weather
By Ben Horenstein
Global Extreme Weather
The continent is especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, despite its population contributing little to the problem
Geneva, 22 October 2021 (WMO) - A historic World Meteorological Congress has concluded with landmark resolutions to prioritize water and to dramatically strengthen the world’s weather and climate services through a systematic increase in exchange of observational data and data products.
The State of the Climate in Africa 2020 Report provides a snapshot of climate change trends and impacts, including sea level rise and the melting of the continent’s iconic glaciers. It highlights Africa’s disproportionate vulnerability and shows how the potential benefits of investments in climate adaptation, weather and climate services and early warning systems far outweigh the costs.
Global climate impacts
By Anton Troianovski, Photographs by Sergey Ponomarev
SAKHALIN ISLAND, Russia — Sixteen wind turbines are slated to go up amid the winding coast and wooded hills of this Russian island in the Pacific, creating a wind park bigger than any that currently exists in the vast reaches of the country’s Far East.
The clean energy generated by the new wind park will go toward mining more coal.
Glasgow - COP 26
Some activists called the agreement in Glasgow disappointing, but it established a clear consensus that all countries need to do much more.
In Washington, Beijing, New Delhi and beyond, governments face conflicting forces — political, social and economic — that will shape their next steps in the effort to avert a climate crisis.
For decades, vulnerable countries and activist groups have demanded that rich polluter countries pay for irreparable damage from climate change. This year, there may be a breakthrough.
Cities present exciting opportunities for sustainability and solutions — but they’re also intensely vulnerable to the growing effects of climate change
One of world’s biggest oil exporters more than doubles its annual target to reduce carbon emissions
Fossil Fuels and Glascow
By Angela Dewan, Amy Cassidy, Ingrid Formanek and Ivana Kottasová, CNN
In a historic hearing, the leaders of some of the most powerful energy companies in the world appeared before a House panel to face questioning on climate change.
Plastics
Just before world leaders began negotiations at COP26, Break Free From Plastic (BFFP) launched its 2020 brand audit report. Through their citizen science documentation engaging over 55 countries, they recognised the top four global plastic polluters—the Coca Cola Company, Pepsico, Nestle, and Unilever. How does this plastic waste impact those who live close to New Delhi’s Bhalswa landfill and also earn a living from it? How can corporations be held responsible for their waste?
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PUBLISHED THU, NOV 25 202110:22 AM EST
Why Putting Solar Canopies on Parking Lots Is a Smart Green Move
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