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Climate change is generating major economic problems in the United States, the Biden administration said in an annual report published this week. The assumptions that higher-income countries like the U.S. would …
Climate change could spur severe economic losses, Biden administration says Read More
French President Emmanuel Macron snatched an unexpected win from his U.S counterpart during a visit to Washington on Thursday, getting Joe Biden to suggest that European companies could benefit from a …
Trade war averted? Macron gets Biden to ‘tweak’ his industrial subsidies Read More
Herman E. Daly, an economist who envisioned a new practice of his field, a discipline known as ecological economics in which growth is not an unquestioned good and the impact …
Herman Daly, professor who introduced ecology to economics, dies at 84 Read More
India today is the world’s fourth largest renewable energy (RE) country and fifth largest in terms of installed solar capacity. In early February, solar installations crossed the 50 GW milestone, …
A transformational budget for transitional economy Read More
Two controversial new projects propose laying thousands of miles of pipe through America’s Corn Belt, carrying liquid carbon dioxide across five states, from Iowa to the Dakotas, where they’d wind …
The Oil Industry’s New Climate Change Solution Is More Pipelines Read More
The huge amount of money poured into the pandemic recovery—around $16 trillion, by the latest count—could have helped launch the world on a path to cut emissions quickly enough to …
Only 2% of the pandemic recovery goes to clean energy Read More
Huge amounts of post-pandemic stimulus packages are mostly failing to support action to tackle climate change or halt the loss of biodiversity, but the amount of green spending is slowly …
Spending on green economic stimulus is slowly rising, study finds Read More
Thanks to Portugal’s high sun exposure, the nation has the potential to produce green hydrogen for Europe. The EU-backed Green Flamingo initiative may enable it to ship the green gas …
Green Flamingo: Portugal hopes to export green hydrogen to EU Read More
Innovation centres in London, Loughborough and Exeter secure £22.5m to develop waste-cutting techniques for textiles, metals, electronics, construction and chemicals. Several state-of-the-art circular economy research and innovation centres are to …
Government funds five ‘state of the art’ circular economy R&D centres Read More
For the first time in history, the price of US oil turned negative in April 2020. While the oil and gas sector has faced downturns before, the collapse of demand during lockdowns …
We want green energy jobs, say North Sea oil and gas workers – what they need to make the leap Read More