Renewables booming, but it’s still too hot 🥵
ClimateCast is our curated, biweekly collection of news and commentary on climate issues. In this issue: DC Dispatch; renewables boom; CA leads but still too hot
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The Clean Energy Economy is booming, with global investments in utility-scale wind and solar projects as well as rooftop solar, at a record $329 billion in 2015. Neither a 67% drop in oil prices through 2015, nor low global coal and natural gas prices curtailed global clean energy investment.
Our Clean Energy Economy focuses on the following tracks:
- Clean Energy Investment: The tremendous clean energy investment opportunity (the Clean Trillion) waiting in the wings to replace fossil investment
- Economic Development and Job Creation: The data that tell the story of how clean energy jobs are eclipsing fossil fuel jobs
- Economics of Renewable Energy: The rapidly falling costs of renewable energy and the dramatic adoption of renewable energy technology
- Unburnable Carbon/The Keystone Principle: The incontrovertible fact that the climate cannot withstand burning existing fossil fuel reserves, which means fossil fuel assets are wildly overvalued
Renewables booming, but it’s still too hot 🥵
ClimateCast is our curated, biweekly collection of news and commentary on climate issues. In this issue: DC Dispatch; renewables boom; CA leads but still too hot
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Oregon is falling behind on climate action
A growing list of states and territories have adopted carbon pricing policies, enacted more robust low-carbon fuel standards, and committed to a timeline for transitioning to 100% clean electricity, but Oregon is not among them.
FILED: 100% clean air ballot initiatives
Earlier this week, our coalition of partners officially filed critical climate protection ballot measures with the Oregon Secretary of State's office, having collected twice as many signatures as needed to qualify.
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From one driver to another: making sense of the costs, and the economic, environmental and social benefits, of making the leap to an electric car.
Turning the wheel of revolution
Following Portland and Multnomah County, our region can and will lead the way towards 100% clean energy.
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