Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Aussie government has slashed $500 million from the domestic ARENA renewable energy budget, instead of $1.3 billion – but the government has also just given away $300 million to “climate affected” Pacific Islanders. The budget cut; Australian Renewable Energy Agency handed lifeline after threat of closure The Australian Renewable…
EPA funded Sociologist Sabrina McCormick has some advice for city officials trying to push their climate projects past the legislature; The best way to fight climate change? Don’t call it climate change. American cities from Boston to Baton Rouge are getting hammered by hurricanes, torrential downpours, and blizzards amped up by climate change. Maybe that’s…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Wall Street Journal has written a fascinating explanation for why venture capitalists have given up on renewables. Why Venture Capitalists Abandoned Clean Energy Two experts say high costs and low returns sent venture capitalists fleeing. A new funding model, they say, is crucial. A decade ago, clean-energy companies were the…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Nigeria, which exports forty-one billion dollars of petroleum products every year, is considering an issue of green bonds to cover their Paris climate commitments. Nigeria needs $142m to tackle global warming Nigeria needs 142 million US dollars between now and 2030 to finance its Intended Nationally Determined Commitment (INDC) toward…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall A group of biologists have demanded more resources for data collection, so they can fill in the missing pieces of biodiversity models which forecast ecological catastrophe. Forecasting climate change’s effects on biodiversity hindered by lack of data WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – An international group of biologists is calling for data…
Anyone celebrating the recent abolition of the British Department of Energy and Climate Change needs to keep a few bottles of champagne on ice. Mark Carney, the powerful green enthusiast who runs the Bank of England, Britain’s version of the Federal Reserve, has just described climate as a “$7 trillion opportunity”. According to the Financial…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Africa has just produced a report which estimates between $60 – $90 billion per year will be required for Africa’s green energy revolution. Following high-level declarations at the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Conference in late 2015, there is a growing appetite for renewable energy in Africa. This…
