Last year was a good year for the electric vehicle market. Of new cars sold in 2022, electric cars made up 14%, or around 10 million units, globally. Now, the International Energy Agency (IEA) is predicting that growth to continue, with electric car sales expected to increase 35% in 2023 compared to last year. In […]
President Biden pledged $1.5 billion for international climate and deforestation funding on Thursday.
Each year, Earth Day provides an opportunity to reflect on the natural world and the benefits it confers to humanity. Conservation and preservation typically dominate the conversation. Well-meaning, these can unwittingly create a narrative that we can only protect wild spaces by keeping humans out; and we wonder why this doesn’t inspire sufficient action to address our pressing environmental challenges.
America’s waterways need help. Threats such as industrial pollution, poorly planned development, and climate change are widespread. In some cases, help could be imminent—but only with support from the public and lawmakers, according to a report out today from the conservation group American Rivers.
A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Monday struck down a building code ordinance passed by Berkeley, California, which, with some exceptions, banned new residential and commercial buildings from installing methane gas piping.
The Group of Seven (G7) of the richest countries in the world have set ambitious new goals for offshore wind and solar capacity. In an effort to speed up the global phaseout of fossil fuels, the nations have collectively agreed to accelerate renewable energy development. Canada and other member nations had pressed for a 2030 […]
Days into his presidency, President Joe Biden signed Executive Order 14008, mandating that 40 percent of federal climate, environment and energy funding go towards disadvantaged communities that have been exposed to more than their fair share of pollution. But how will these communities actually access this money? The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Thursday […]
Nonprofit American Forests and the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) have announced a statewide collaboration for Washington that will focus on achieving tree equity by improving urban tree cover. The partnership, called the Washington Tree Equity Collaborative, will spend the next few years working with cities, organizations and other stakeholders to form programs […]
On the last of a two-day visit to Somalia, UN Secretary-General António Guterres called out climate injustice. Somalia is in the midst of a drought that claimed 43,000 lives in 2022, but only 15 percent of Somalia’s 2023 Humanitarian Response Plan has been funded so far this year. “It is unconscionable that Somalis, who have […]
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