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Mercy Corps’ CEO, Tjada D’Oyen McKenna, speaks at a New York Times event sharing transformative ideas to meet the climate challenge.

A breakthrough for U.S. wind power After long delays, the nation’s first big offshore project has won approval May 12, 2021Updated 12:39 p.m. ET Also this week: California’s new rule to cut smog, a very powerful set of interactive maps and a climate activist who found strength in adversity. Image Wind turbines near Block Island, R.I., one of only two offshore wind farms operating in the United States.Credit...Chang W. Lee/The New York Times By Lisa Friedman The Biden administration has p...

Can We Get to Net Zero With a ‘Circular’ Economic Strategy? Join the Conversation. The Times’s Andrew Ross Sorkin joins Dame Ellen MacArthur and other experts to explore what it will take to transform the economy in the battle against climate change. By The New York Times Published April 30, 2021Updated May 21, 2021 The ambitious goal of getting to net zero emissions of carbon dioxide is a target that will require significant economic changes around the world. In the United States, the Bi...

How Trump’s Legacy Gets Undone Joe Biden’s climate team will be the largest ever in the White House Jan. 20, 2021 remove planet-warming carbon from the atmosphere. Image By Lisa Friedman This afternoon the new president of the United States, Joe Biden, will start signing a raft of executive orders to undo President Trump’s legacy, including on climate. In addition to rejoining the Paris Agreement, Mr. Biden intends to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline permit in his first hours in o...