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Climate Change Policy and Innovation
The absence of the U.S. federal government from the global climate policy scene has hardly had much real impact on the long term evolution of climate change issues, big picture experts assert, but incremental impacts on fossil fuel use and emissions may become part of the historical record. Momentum for climate change policy was building in late 2018 with key reports issued by the U.S. Global Change Research Program and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, followed by COP24 in Poland where the ‘rulebook’ for the Paris Agreement was hammered out.
Table of Contents in this Climate Change Policy and Innovation Edition:
The early 2019 news of the bankruptcy of California power utility PG&E may in retrospect be the biggest news of all this winter, however, as $25 billion in market value went up in more than just a puff of smoke but with similar suddenness, and was widely labeled the first of many climate change bankruptcies. History may define man-made climate change in two 100-year cycles, one of instigation and one of elimination, but significant reform of the global economic and resource system is required to achieve the latter….1-3
Four Twenty Seven says TCFD is moving financial & climate markets….4-6
Kedge Business School expert says focus on a circular economy risks unsustainable short-term consumerism….7-8
Climate Resilience Consulting highlights resilience trends in 2019….8-9
LevelTen declares victory for renewables: penetration rates will continue to exceed forecasts; A look at those forecasts….10-15
Green Growth an Illusion?; History of the Green GDP; Happiness Report….16-20
Reduction in bat fatalities achieved with NRG’s new technology…..20-21
NRDC Reports the positive economic effect of clean energy on employment in Midwestern swing states…..22
ITIF advocates carbon tax for growth and emissions reduction; ITIF report on carbon tax; Climate Leadership Council and the carbon dividends plan…..23-28
California Energy Commission counters Trump: Promotes a zero-carbon California, resiliency, EVs, buildings and a clean energy future; PG&E the first of many climate change bankruptcies; Climate justice is a new social issue…..28-31
KPMG acts as fund manager for UK Aid in Africa; Develops perspective on the impact of climate change…..32-35
