THE BRIEF [Jun 27-Jul 3’22]
Biodiversity’s “Copenhagen moment”, tropical cyclones 13% less frequent, why feed crops to cars and 21 toxic compounds in fossil gas in your home.
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‼️News you can’t miss
Here’s one important scary/bad (🙀), good (😻), interesting (😼) and fossil (💩) news item.
🙀 Biodiversity set up for it’s “Copenhagen moment” (which is not good).
😻 Tropical cyclones 13% less frequent due to climate change
💩 21 toxic (and cancerous) compounds enter your home as unburned fossil gas if you have a gas stove.
This week’s highlights
[#nuclear] — In a new report the IEA states that nuclear has a unique chance for a comeback here amidst rising fossil fuel prices and energy security challenges, but it also hits the head on the nail by saying that in order to that the nuclear industry must do everything it can to stop cost and schedule overruns.
[#carbonremovalstartups] — Bloomberg BNEF has released some very detailed white papers on key innovations within carbon removal. Too much info to meaningfully reproduce here but if you’re looking to dive into carbon removal — start here!
[#g7] — The 3 day G7 meeting finished last week with a somewhat strong reaffirmation that climate goals will persist despite the global energy crises. However, some weakening of language was of course introduced. The door is still held slightly open to new gas investments for instance.
[#realzero] — NextEra (US energy company) pushes back against deceptive carbon offsets by launching a plan to go “real zero”. This is really great and really needed. In fact remember that deep dive I did some months back on this exact topic.
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