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ESG Focus: Climate Summit’s Coal Story
While the US grabbed April’s climate summit headlines, India and China had a few less-encouraging words. This article looks at the broader global commitment landscape; Australia’s plans; and the outlook for coal.
-US commitments appear hollow without methane target
-China keeps its options open
-India and other developing countries holding out for aid
Reuters
Two weeks after President Xi Jinping took part in the U.S.-sponsored climate summit of world leaders, it is hard to tell whether China has made a commitment to tougher carbon reduction deadlines or not.
In a carefully worded statement on April 22, Xi left it unclear whether China will go beyond pledges that he made last September to reach a peak in carbon emissions before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060.
Particular attention was paid to China s largest source of carbon emissions the country s consumption of high- polluting coal.
While China is rapidly increasing its renewable energy capacity, it also continues to burn over half of the coal consumed in the world.
April 30, 2021
On Saturday, April 17, 2021, 148 people joined the Calvert County Commission for Women (CCCW) and its six community partner organizations to celebrate the achievements and contributions of 11 outstanding Calvert County women at the 18
th Annual Women of the World Celebration. Because the COVID-19 pandemic delay from Spring of last year, the 2020-2021 event was held virtually this year with the Calvert Library providing technical support.
Each year the Commission for Women awards 4 Outstanding Achievements Awards. Nominations are sought community-wide in four categories: Advocacy, Business, Service and Woman of Tomorrow.
This year the recipients were: for Advocacy – Lori Honey, Executive Director of Project Echo for her work with the homeless for many years; for Business – Stacy Hutchinson, Associate Director of Administration and Facilities at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Lab in Solomons for her work in he
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West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice used a portion of his COVID-19 briefing Friday to express his displeasure with President Joe Bidenâs announcement of a goal for the U.S. to cut its carbon emissions by half by 2030.
CHARLESTON President Joe Biden’s goal of cutting greenhouse emissions in the U.S. in half by the end of the decade might have overtones of President John F. Kennedy’s moon-landing goal, but West Virginia leaders believe the ambitious plan harms the state’s coal and natural gas industries.
“It’s not the news we want or need in West Virginia,” said Gov. Jim Justice during his COVID-19 briefing Friday at the State Capitol Building. “It is not the course that this nation should take.”