Big Oil backpedals from clean energy
Faced with three strategic possibilities for how to use their surplus, the five largest oil companies have returned cash to investors rather than investing in renewables. […] It may remove a percent or two of total investment in the energy transition, in a world where other investors abound.
What Paris did for climate finance
The recent Paris meeting to overhaul the global financial system to tackle climate change, with more than 40 world leaders who assembled in Paris, made limited progress on reforms that could increase support from rich countries to poor countries facing crises.
The negotiations resulted in an eight-page summary full of dense verbiage, as is the custom in international climate negotiations. So what did they achieve?
India battles heat
In the western Indian city of Ahmedabad, unbearable heat keeps arriving earlier and earlier in the year, making it more difficult for many women who work outdoors to provide for their families. Local labor union, the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), […has a solution:] women can buy insurance against peak daily temperatures and receive payouts whenever heat makes it impossible to work outdoors. The industry calls this “parametric insurance,” with protection triggered by a particular metric [such as 400 Celsius].
Golden opportunity for green jobs
Two trades key to the US construction sector, engineering and electrical, are already in record employment territory. Heavy and civil engineering employment has rebounded from its pandemic-era low to more than 1.1 million last month. As of April, electrical contractors number more than a million as well.
How to improve team dynamics
June 10 – 17:00 – 18:30
Dr Paul O Olson discusses: Different schools of thought; different kinds of diversity incl. personality; Typical caveats and fault lines that we may not notice and why we sometimes need to be two facilitators in the room; and Methods/tools that work in practice. Click to access the seminar link or copy: https://pauloolson.kartra.com/page/emcc_tcw
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USA Now Back in Paris!
In 2015, 195 countreis signed the Paris agreement. Thank you, President Biden for getting USA back.