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As the world gathered for COP28, the largest-ever UN climate summit, in Dubai this month to assess progress and address challenges, Tencent made our debut as a key player to show how digital...

The livelihoods of over half a billion people in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are under threat from climate change, according to a new World Economic Forum (WEF) report. The report forecasts a four degrees Celsius rise in warming in the Middle East by 2050, an overwhelming difference from the agreed-upon one-and-a-half degrees

Current policies cut emissions in half—can we keep cutting?

Utility industry news and analysis for energy professionals.

Tokyo, Japan-- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) announced today that it has invested in Syzygy Plasmonics, Inc. (Syzygy), a startup company

Trade in 25 Technologies Can Help Climate Action, New World Economic Forum Report Shows

The combined impact of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 marks the first time that the full financial might of the federal government is aligned behind the transition to clean energy.  The wide ranging set of policies in the two acts includes tax credits, grants, rebates, loans, and other financial incentives to make clean energy and other climate solutions cheap, funding for demonstration and improvement of nascent technologies, and ind...

Climate change demands that the world, including our region, transition its energy profile to a low-carbon one. Southwestern Pennsylvania has been and remains a manufacturing and technology hub with vast above- and below-ground energy resources. Together, these comprise a portfolio of sources that can meet all our region’s energy needs,

Opinion by Clark Miller and Jeremi Suri

The Paris Agreement’s decentralized and bottom-up approach to climate action poses an enormous accounting challenge by substantially increasing the number of heterogeneous national, sub-national, and non-state actors. Current legacy climate accounting systems and mechanisms are insufficient to avoid information asymmetry and double-counting due to actor heterogeneity and fragmentation. This paper presents a nested climate accounting architecture that integrates several innovative digital techn...