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McKinsey: Cheaper Batteries Pose Imminent Threat to Utilities
Read the entire article at UtilityDive. Continued energy storage cost declines present a growing threat of disruption for utility business models, a new study from McKinsey & Co. finds. Continued cost declines are moving energy storage from niche applications, such as grid balancing, to broader uses such as replacing conventional power generators for reliability, providing power-quality […]
Fires Rise in Arctic as Lightening Follows the Warming
Read the entire article at E&E News. Climate change is driving up the number of forest fires ignited by lightning, and it’s pushing them farther north, to the edges of the Arctic tundra, researchers say. Lightning-caused fires have risen 2 to 5 percent a year for the last four decades, according to a […]
Extreme Heat Waves are Changing How We Live
Read the entire article at Time Science. Heat waves are nothing new, but they have increased in frequency and severity in recent decades as a result of climate change. And each extreme heat event reveals another way our society simply isn’t built for such high temperatures, from our transport systems to the agriculture industry. […]
China Breaks Ground on First “Forest City”
Read the full article at Inhabitat. A pollution-fighting green city unlike any before is springing to life in China. Designed by Stefano Boeri Architetti, the first “Forest City” is now under construction Liuzhou, Guangxi Province. The futuristic city will use renewable energy for self sufficiency and be blanketed in almost 1 million plants and 40,000 […]
Taking Climate into Account: Managing Climate Risk
Read the full article at Financial Director. Paul Simpson of CDP highlights the importance for companies to include climate risk in their risk management processes, as Mark Carney and Michael Bloomberg’s climate task force prepares to report to the G20 in July. Last year was the hottest on record. Even though climate change is generally seen […]
Bank of England Outlines Climate Change Financial Reporting Risks
Read the entire article at CCH Daily. In its new report The Bank of England’s Response to Climate Change, the bank has outlined the physical risks of climate change upon insurers and financial services, and its plans to help the UK financial system and its constituents move to a lower carbon economy. As […]
Trial Date Set for Children’s Climate Suit Against U.S. Government
Read the entire article on Inside Climate News. A federal judge has set a trial date for the landmark lawsuit brought by 21 children and young adults over the U.S. government’s alleged failure to rein in fossil fuel development and address climate change. The trial will start on Feb. 5, 2018, in federal district court in […]
Talking to Children About Climate Change
Read the entire article at NOAA. The scientific evidence is in. No matter what local weather we’re experiencing on a day-to-day basis, our planet is warming up, with far-reaching implications for us all. The conversation in scientific circles now is how Earth will respond, how well the living things on Earth will be able to […]
Greening Your Summer Vacation
Read the entire article at the New York Times. The United Nations has proclaimed 2017 the International Year of Sustainable Tourism with a goal of promoting positive change in travel with regard to social inclusion, environmental protection and economic equality. But what does that mean for the everyday traveler planning a summer vacation? Homework. While the […]
Climate Change as a Design Problem
Read the entire article at The New York Times. Many discussions of climate change begin at the water’s edge, in cities and towns where the rising ocean is an existential threat, or will be soon. But when he chose to embark on a series on the topic, Michael Kimmelman, The New York Times’s architecture critic, […]
