Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to two high profile Bangladeshi academics, the majority of climate funds which reach poor countries are being spent on expensive outside consultants who arrive,…
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Aussie Government Slashes $500 Million from the Renewable Budget
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…
Don't say Climate Change: "Its a poisonous term to use"
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…
Wall Street Journal: Why Venture Capitalists Gave Up on Renewables
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…
Petro-economy Nigeria Considers Green Bond Issue to Cover Paris Climate Costs
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…
Biologists: We need more Money to Forecast Climate Catastrophe
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…
Bank of England Governor Mark Carney: Climate is a "$7 trillion opportunity"
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…
$90 Billion Per Year: Africa's Demand for Going Green
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…
Bill McKibben Despairs at the failure of Shareholder Climate Activism
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Prominent climate activist Bill McKibben is unhappy that fund managers seem to be putting profits ahead of action to curb climate change. Let’s give up…
Kaiser Permanente Health Consortium Commits an Unspecified Budget to Combat CO2 Emissions
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Good news for the 9.6 million clients of Kaiser Permanente Health Consortium; They have just committed to spending an unknown amount of your health premiums,…
More US Taxpayer Cash Giveaways for Clean Energy
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The US Government is concerned that huge taxpayer underwritten loan guarantees for renewable energy projects aren’t producing the results they want, so they have decided…
New study outlines how to talk about climate change to increase donations
From the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – SAN DIEGO and the “follow the money” department, comes this study that shows activist groups how to fleece more money from the public. How…
Greens Reframe Spain's Green Bankruptcy Fire Sale as "Renewed Interest"
Guest essay by Eric Worrall How does a green describe the catastrophic aftermath of the $16 billion Abengoa Solar Bankruptcy, the largest renewable corporate collapse in history? Feeding frenzy in…
Claim: We should Print 100s of Billions of Dollars to Finance UN Climate Action
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Michael Metcalfe, a senior merchant banker who gave a TED Talk in 2014 campaigning for money to be printed on a vast scale, to fund…
Danish Government Thinktank Proposes "Red Meat" Eco-Tax
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Local, a Danish Newspaper, reports that the Danish Council on Ethics, a government funded think tank, has recommended that red meat be taxed to…
Green Puerto Rico "Not a Bailout" Rescue Package
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Legislation is before the House of Representatives to rescue Green Energy Enthusiast Puerto Rico from a debt crisis, but the White House and the Speaker…
SEC Forces Exxon Climate Disclosure Vote
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has ruled that Exxon must allow a shareholder vote, on whether Exxon should include information about specific risks posed…
Aussie Government Pledges $1 billion for Renewables
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Aussie Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has just pledged to spend $1 billion of Australian taxpayer’s money, on renewable schemes which are struggling to raise their…
President Obama just gave $500 million of Your Money to the UN Green Fund
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Tyrants and dictators, shady international arms dealers, brutal leaders of broken, basket case nations like President for Life Robert Mugabe, will be celebrating today; President…
Lagarde: The new Green International Monetary Fund
Guest essay by Eric Worrall In 1944, the International Monetary Fund was created by world leaders, reeling from the devastation of war and depression, to try to maintain global financial…
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