first climate change-caused emergency PG&E’s controversial history of safety violations and the rapidly rising costs from the past two years of wildfires seem to make bankruptcy difficult to avoid, stakeholders told Utility Dive. But it is unlikely to greatly benefit any of the involved parties. Bankruptcy makes victims’ claims subordinate to other utility obligations and is a […]
NCA 4: Forests
Forests on public and private lands provide benefits to the natural environment, as well as economic benefits and ecosystem services to people in the United States and globally. The ability of U.S. forests to continue to provide goods and services is threatened by climate change and associated increases in extreme events and disturbances. For example, […]
Meeting the Climate Challenge:
Group of 78 2018 Annual Policy Conference Cartier Place Suites Hotel, Ottawa, September 28 & 29, 2018 Key Message 1: It is Essential to Change Mindsets to Embrace the Post-Carbon Economy To reduce greenhouse gas pollution at the rate necessary will require the widespread adoption of a new mindset—one that recognizes that human beings are […]
In hurricane-hit Mexico Beach, a marathon clean-up begins
In devastated Mexico Beach, where Hurricane Michael unleashed its most violent rains and winds, residents are taking stock of the damage, reuniting with their loved ones—and bracing for what will be a long, difficult clean-up operation. Some came Friday with vans or moving trucks, hoping to recover as many personal effects from their splintered homes […]
Canada is losing the fight against climate calamity
Susan Tanner, CACOR member, is also the Chair of the recent G78 Conference on “Meeting the Climate Challenge: Accelerating the Transition to a Zero-Carbon Economy and Roy Culpeper is Chair of the Group of 78. Three things are conspicuously weak in Canada’s strategy to combat climate change: We have insufficient resolve to reduce the supply and consumption […]