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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On Tuesday, October 13, the National Hydropower Association (NHA) announced its partnership with American Rivers, the World Wildlife Fund, and other environmental groups in a “ Joint Statement of Collaboration on U.S. Hydropower: Climate Solution and Conservation Challenge.” The Joint Statement, which was facilitated over the last two and a half years through Stanford University’s Uncommon Dialogue process, is a collaborative ef...

January 20, 2021 Successfully tackling our climate challenge will require a mix of policies that includes investment, emission standards, and more. One important question is: how do we account for the harms of carbon pollution in our economy and hold accountable those responsible for them? Doing this will require grappling with the serious legacy of environmental racism that exists in our society, the result of both intentional and unintentional policies enacted by governments and suppor...

A thin green line with global impact. Latest in a series on creating a zero-carbon bioregion. Robert McClure, executive director of InvestigateWest, is a veteran newspaper reporter, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism. SHARES Familiar mood, different Vancouver. Protesters block an oil-carrying train in Vancouver, Wash. in 2016 — part of a two-decade movement spanning Alaska to Californ...

While efforts to reduce GHG emissions should always take priority, meeting climate goals will also require carbon dioxide removal (CDR) — systems that remove carbon directly from the air — likely at the billion-tonne scale by midcentury. The precise amount needed will depend on how fast the world curbs emissions. Carbon removal can take numerous forms, including natural and technological solutions that accelerate current carbon dioxide removal rates. Direct air capture (DAC) is gaining tr...

Bellona.org European Clean Hydrogen Alliance to kickstart its work As part of the European Industrial Strategy aimed at maintaining the EU industrial leadership, on 8th July 2020 the European Commission unveiled the plan for a European Clean Hydrogen Alliance (ECHA). In the first week of January 2021, the functioning of the ECHA alliance has been revealed, dividing participants in 6 CEO roundtables. Upon application, Bellona Europa has been appointment to the CEO Roundtable on Hydrog...

Thats going to be needed. and the issue that i work on is nature. its on bringing the indispensable role of nature and natural capital to the climate solution, which is readily available but requires political will and financing to really be able to be scaled. >> yeah, so i want to talk about pointing the finger at the united states. we have a president that makes fun of greta thunberg, that denies climate change. in an opinion police by paul krugman in "the new york times" this week, it was tit...

>> yeah, and i think -- im from california, and one of the things i realize is that a failure is really only a failure if it doesnt compel learning. and i think in this case, even though weve seen a series of failures in international processes to deliver the scale of ambition and action thats needed, i think that this experience really can and should spur learning, innovation, bringing together a multitude of ecosystem of actors from the finance sector, from innovation and from government to re...

>> hi, brent. >> my farm was destroyed by two hurricanes. warms waters is killing seed coast to coast and reducing yield. those of us that work on the water we need climate solution and need them now. the trouble is, the green new deal only mentions our oceans one time. this is despite the fact that our sea soak up more than 25% of the worlds carbon. so whats your plan for a blue new deal for those of us working on the ocean? >> i like that. >> make sure we can make a living on a living planet. ...

Set a goal to get to net 0 rather than 0 emissions and ten years because we arent sure we will be able to fully get rid of cows passing gas, airplanes that fast. you say thats not the problem. you and your family ical ranchers and you think she doesnt know what shes talking about. tell us about that. >> i wrote the letter to congresswoman ocasio cortez because i want her to know farmers and ranchers are the original environmentalists. cows are part of the solution. cows are superheroes and the o...

Carbon tax, at least in theory, but it is a new position for the gop establishment. in fact, its new for them to favor taking any action on climate change as secretary baker explained in an interview yesterday. >> republicans have not been able at the table because weve been basically skeptics or deniers and when you see whats happening to the environment, even though it may be consistent with whats happened 10,000 years ago or 1,000 years ago, its a risk we should havent to take. >> if group sa...