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Mass Education and the Climate Crisis: Lessons from the Pandemic (Part 3)
Mass Education and the Climate Crisis: Lessons from the Pandemic (Part 3) This is part three of a five-part essay that highlights lessons from the coronavirus pandemic which could advance the fight for a Green New Deal. Part one (published on Resilience.org here) argues that money is not scarce. Part two argues that control of government policy by […]
Leaked Document Reveals Exxon’s Plan To Increase Emissions As Energy Space Prepares For Decarbonization
Leaked Document Reveals Exxon’s Plan To Increase Emissions As Energy Space Prepares For Decarbonization As oil majors prioritize their own decarbonization goals, an internal document viewed by Bloomberg reveals Exxon Mobil Corp. is planning to increase annual carbon-dioxide emissions output by as much as a small country like Greece. Exxon is one of the biggest corporate emitters of greenhouse gasses […]
The Political Economy of Deep Decarbonization: Tradable Energy Quotas for Energy Descent Futures
The Political Economy of Deep Decarbonization: Tradable Energy Quotas for Energy Descent Futures Abstract This paper reviews and analyses a decarbonization policy called the Tradable Energy Quotas (TEQs) system developed by David Fleming. The TEQs system involves rationing fossil fuel energy use for a nation on the basis of either a contracting carbon emission budget […]
The National Infrastructure Commission’s plan for a renewable UK
The National Infrastructure Commission’s plan for a renewable UK The National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) was launched by then-chancellor George Osborne in October 2015 to “think dispassionately and independently about Britain’s long-term infrastructure needs in areas like transport, energy, communication, flood defence and the like.” Well, the NIC has now thought dispassionately and independently about energy […]
The Myth Of An Imminent Energy Transition
The Myth Of An Imminent Energy Transition 100 million. It’s a number that drowns comprehension; it’s more jelly beans than can fit in an average-sized swimming pool. Within a year, world oil consumption will top 100 million barrels of oil per day. Over the same time period, close to 100 million new piston-firing vehicles will […]
Pathways to Deep Decarbonization
Pathways to Deep Decarbonization As energy transition proceeds we’ll need to move well beyond decarbonizing electricity generation and into transportation and space heating powered by renewables. But we’re only beginning to figure out the pathways by which we might do that, and since each region has its own particular sources of renewable energy and its […]
Can economic growth continue without fossil fuels? The IPCC thinks so — here’s why its decarbonisation models are broken
Can economic growth continue without fossil fuels? The IPCC thinks so — here’s why its decarbonisation models are broken (Source: VICE) Published by INSURGE INTELLIGENCE, a crowdfunded investigative journalism project for people and planet. Support us to keep digging where others fear to tread. In this third contribution to our symposium, ‘Pathways to the Post-Carbon Economy’, biophysical economist Graham […]
From Good Intentions to Deep Decarbonization
From Good Intentions to Deep Decarbonization NEW YORK – In the run-up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris, more than 150 governments submitted plans to reduce carbon emissions by 2030. Many observers are asking whether these reductions are deep enough. But there is an even more important question: Will the chosen […]
Zero Carbon Emissions: The New Language Of Climate Change
Zero Carbon Emissions: The New Language Of Climate Change This is a guest post by David Suzuki. If nothing else, the G7 countries’ recent agreement to end fossil fuel use for energy by 2100 signals a shift in the way we talk and think about global warming. Previous agreements were about reducing carbon emissions from burning coal, […]
Fighting Extinction
Fighting Extinction “This is a true challenge. If the story is told as one of avarice, private gain and exceptionalism, the human race will go extinct.” At the G7 last week, the leading industrial nations agreed to cut greenhouse gases by phasing out the use of fossil fuels by the end of the century. While […]
