June 29, 2020
Politics and Policy In an opinion essay in The New York Times, Paul Bodnar and Tamara Grbusic of the Rocky Mountain Institute warned that the government’s spending on climate-related disaster recovery is a “rapidly rising fiscal threat”. Also in the Times, John Schwartz examined the question of whether the Supreme Court ruling on gay […]
June 22, 2020
Politics and Policy Researchers at the University of Oxford surveyed 80,000 people in 40 countries to learn what they think about climate change. In cooperation with the International Monetary Fund, the International Energy Agency (IEA) launched its Sustainable Recovery Plan in a “World Energy Outlook Special Report.” The report lays out a series of […]
June 15, 2020
Politics and Policy On Wednesday, two House committees injected environmental justice into the larger national conversation about racism in America. The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change heard that communities of color suffer disproportionate effects from pollution and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The Natural Resources Committee hosted a forum on post-pandemic environmentally […]
June 8, 2020
Politics and Policy Many articles this week addressed the intersection of climate and racism. Here are a few that caught my eye: Black climate expert Ayana Elizabeth Johnson’s perspective in The Washington Post addressed how “Racism derails our efforts to save the planet;” Somini Sengupta’s “Climate Fwd:” newsletter in The New York Times was […]
June 1, 2020
Politics and Policy The UN announced on Thursday that COP26, originally scheduled for November of this year, will be postponed until 1-12 November of next year. The summit will take place in Glasgow as previously planned. The European Commission announced its green recovery plan on Thursday and Damian Carrington of The Guardian wrote that […]
