If things move at that pace, disclosure on nature issues could be almost as common as climate reporting in less than six years. Nature, in other words, could be the new climate when it comes to priorities for the world’s biggest financial institutions.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. made waves in May when it announced it would purchase $200 million of carbon dioxide removal. Though it’s a relatively small investment for a bank JPMorgan’s size, it’s one of the largest corporate buys of carbon removal and could be a huge boon to the nascent industry to pull carbon out of the air. …
Iran argues the Taliban reduced the water supply from the Helmand province, while probably a victim of climate change. The disagreement has now become so heated that the Taliban has sent thousands of troops and hundreds of suicide bombers to the border, according to a person familiar with the matter, who says the group is prepared for war.
Bloomberg newsletter that looks at changes to our seas. Swimmers in the Mediterranean this summer may have noticed the water is unusually warm — but the high temperatures are more shocking for marine life. And, learn about the sailors who are collecting climate data as they race around the world. Competitors in some of the toughest ocean sailing events are making sacrifices on speed to gather new intel on dying coral, trash and pollution.
Had to clip this one. Reminds me of an economy professor at IMD who said that fossil subsidies must stop, otherwise the capital market will not be able to reallocate money. Now, this looks like proof he’s right?
Solar energy has passed a key milestone that points to lower energy costs in future. As Corporate Knights associate editor Natalie Alcoba reports, research teams have succeeded in pushing the efficiency of perovskite and silicon “tandem” solar cells past the daunting 30% threshold – meaning they convert more than 30% of the sun’s energy into electricity.
Earth has already warmed 1.2C since the preindustrial era due to growing greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere. This has resulted in a clear trend: 22 of the last 23 years were the hottest ever, according to NOAA. The only way to stop this trend, climate scientists have repeatedly warned, is for people to dramatically and immediately cut their climate pollutants, mainly through ditching fossil fuels.
The cooler parts of the northern hemisphere are getting hotter. Europe is the world’s fastest-warming continent, and Canada is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world
Buffeted by waves as high as 10 meters (32 feet) in China’s Yellow Sea about 30 kilometers off the coast of Shandong province, two circular rafts carrying neat rows of solar panels began generating electricity late last year, a crucial step toward a new breakthrough for clean energy.
[Africa] has been experiencing some of the most intense heat waves in recent years, but in many cases they’ve been under-reported due to misconceptions about Africans’ ability to withstand them. While studies on heat impacts on health are limited in Africa, research published last year found that children younger than 5 years old are particularly vulnerable to the hotter weather as they are less able that adults to self-regulate their bodies’ temperatures. The authors estimated that heat-related child mortality was rising in sub-Saharan Africa due to climate change.
From: International Energy Agency <energymix@iea.org> Sent: Monday, July 10, 2023 6:04 AMTo: paul.olson@nordicheads.comSubject: the energy mix: China’s clean energy transition Plus, tackling methane emissions; what could unlock greater hydrogen investment; meetings with UK leaders; climate resilience in the Middle East and North Africa; and more… Newsletter of the International Energy Agency […]
