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Congressional Climate Crisis Action Plan

Bob Leonard - Climate Risk Manager 07.02.2020

 

In this report, the majority staff for the select Committee lays out a framework for comprehensive congressional action to satisfy the scientific imperative to reduce carbon pollution as quickly and aggressively as possible, make communities more resilient to the impacts of climate change, and build a durable and equitable clean energy economy.     The […]

 

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BP: Renewables Largest Source of Power by 2040

Bob Leonard - Climate Risk Manager 02.22.2019

 

Renewable energy will continue to be the fastest-growing source of energy in the world, penetrating the energy system “more quickly than any fuel in history” to become the largest source of power by 2040, oil and gas supermajor BP said in its annual BP Energy Outlook.   Read the entire article at Oil Price.    Renewables […]

 

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Clean Energy is Approaching a Tipping Point

Bob Leonard - Climate Risk Manager 09.25.2017

 

  Read the entire article at Bloomberg News.   The cost of renewables is plunging faster than forecasters anticipated just a few years ago as as technologies like gigantic wind turbines arrive on the market. That’s the conclusion of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, whose founder Michael Liebreich estimated that clean energy will reap 86 percent of the […]

 

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Addressing Climate Change Should Be a Pillar of Republican Policy

Bob Leonard - Climate Risk Manager 08.02.2017

 

Read the entire article at NewCo Shift.   The free market is perfectly suited to harnessing a solution, argues Jerry Taylor, a former climate skeptic.     Mr. Taylor is the founder of the Niskanen Institute. He spent years of his career as a professional climate denier  – his senior role at libertarian think tank Cato […]

 

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A German Village Generates 500% More Energy Than It Needs

Bob Leonard - Climate Risk Manager 04.17.2017

 

Wildpoldsried, a Bavarian village of about 2,600 residents, is leading the way in Germany’s extraordinary renewable energy transformation. Over the past 18 years, the village has invested in a holistic range of renewable energy projects that include 4,983 kWp of photovoltaics, five biogas facilities, 11 wind turbines and a hydropower system. As a result, the […]

 

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