Spend Billions On Green Innovation, Not Trillions On Carbon-Cutting
Across the world, politicians are going out of their way to promise fantastically expensive climate policies. U.S. President Joe Biden has promised to spend US$500 billion ($630 billion) each year on climate — about 13 percent of total federal revenue….
More Green Blackouts Ahead As Biden’s Regulators Ignore Grid’s Vulnerability
You’d think the Texas blackouts would trigger some soul-searching about the vulnerability of America’s electrical grid. Not in today’s hothouse of climate politics. The Biden Administration is already moving to stop an examination of grid vulnerability to promote unreliable renewable…
Deb Haaland Would Be A Disaster As Interior Secretary
This week, President Biden’s nominee for secretary of the Interior, New Mexico congresswoman Deb Haaland, is up for confirmation in the Senate. Haaland, a self-described “progressive,” and a member of the Pueblo of Laguna, would, if confirmed, become the first…
More from the Climate Insights 2020 Survey – Resources Magazine
Our recent Climate Insights 2020 survey—a collaboration by researchers at Stanford University, Resources for the Future, and survey research company ReconMR—has yielded real-world insights about American public opinion on climate change and the policies that could help with its mitigation….
Biden Admin Approves A Pipeline For Russian Energy After Killing Keystone
President Biden blocked the Keystone pipeline from Canada to the U.S., ostensibly due to environmental concerns and claims about global warming, even though the long-planned project had cleared all environmental hurdles. Yet the Biden State department just effectively approved an energy pipeline…
AXA, Other Mega-Investors Seek to Avoid Portfolios with Global Warming Potential – Insurance Journal
Article 0 Comments All good money managers expect to outperform their benchmark, and by one such metric the French insurer and investor AXA SA recently scored a market-beating success. Not by delivering higher returns, but by generating a lower level…
Climate change is not priced into markets but its effect could be substantial, experts say – CNBC
A man uses a snow blower during a winter storm in New York, on February 18, 2021. ANGELA WEISS | AFP | Getty Images LONDON — Climate change could lead to a significant rerating in some financial markets the moment…
The Polar Bear Paradox
President Biden laid down a climate marker in his inaugural address: “A cry for survival comes from the planet itself. A cry that can’t be any more desperate or any more clear.” He returned to the theme in his speech…
Biden Climate Policy On Track To Punish Blue-Collar Workers, Prop Up Putin
In former President Donald Trump’s final month in office, the United States achieved something it hadn’t in more than a generation: In the final week of December, America didn’t import a single drop of crude oil from Saudi Arabia for the…
Team Biden And Climate – 5 Dirty Secrets Behind Their War On Energy
On Friday, President Joe Biden pledged climate action at the virtual G7 and teased an upcoming major summit on Earth Day, April 22, 2021. Deep decarbonization is what Team Biden wants – the complete end of carbon fuel for electricity,…
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