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Ontario could easily phase out polluting fossil gas – if it wanted to

Enviromental Defense

Ontario has a large potential supply of wind and solar energy that could be developed to help phase-out dirty gas plants. It estimated that we would need an additional 843 MW of solar and an additional 4,545 MW of wind capacity (along with a basket of other sources) to ensure the province’s energy needs are met. .

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

24, 2016); Alaska Oil & Gas Association v. The court cited Healey’s participation in the AGs United for Clean Power Press Conference in March 2016 and her attendance at a pre-press conference closed-door meeting with a climate change activist and a lawyer with a “well-known global warming litigation practice.” opinion Oct.

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Analysis: Bolstering Southeast Asia’s clean energy transition

A Greener Life

The US also works with electric vehicle manufacturers VinBus and VinFast, as well as Vietnam’s largest electric utility, to support the country’s goal of achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The US Agency for International Development works with Vietnamese electric vehicle manufacturers, such as VinFast, to reduce emissions.

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Four cheap solutions to climate change

Edouard Stenger

Any energy use entails carbon emissions, some more than others. Renewable energy sources have been booming in the US (+262 % and over 4,600% from 2008 to 2016 for wind and solar, respectively. watt in 2016 (Source: Energy Sage ). Wind power costs could drop another 50%. per watt in 2008 to $3.36/watt

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Analysis: Is hydrogen the new oil?

A Greener Life

The upcoming Olympics will leave a hydrogen society as its legacy,” Yoichi Masuzoe, then governor of Tokyo, declared in 2016. There is talk that a global “hydrogen economy” can emerge to save the climate from carbon emissions. “The 1964 Tokyo Olympics left the Shinkansen high-speed train system as its legacy.

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Analysis: Can Inner Mongolia reach peak carbon this decade?

A Greener Life

between 2016 and 2019, and total energy consumption also rose far more than permitted by the 13th FYP targets. According to a 2016 report from Jiemian.com , Datang Coal-Chemicals lost 11.6 Yang Fuqiang thinks it is unreasonable to make energy-producing provinces such as Inner Mongolia solely responsible for cutting carbon emissions.

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Another RGGI Raid? New York State Senate Proposes Pulling $138 million from the RGGI Fund

Law Columbia

The amount that the Senate has proposed diverting from the RGGI fund for FY 2017 is more than 80% of the total value of RGGI auction proceeds earned by New York in FY 2016 (which totaled approximately $166 million ).