Consumers get most of the benefits of unpaid costs, but companies get a slice, too. Arguments about our shift to renewable power often focus on the raw economics of the
Canada’s supreme court has ruled that the federal government can impose a carbon price across the country, reports the Financial Times, despite the protests of some provinces. The six-to-three majority
THEODOROS ZACHARIADIS, NESTOR FYLAKTOS, ELIAS GIANNAKIS, CONSTANTINOS TALIOTIS, MARIOS KARMELLOS, MARK HOWELLS, WILL BLYTH, STÉPHANE HALLEGATTE Everybody agrees that a strong policy response to COVID-19 is and will be needed.
TORONTO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The number of cities working to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy surged in 2020, representing a quarter of the world’s urban population, or one
Ian Granit The price of renewable energy has been reduced significantly in the past years, incentivizing the transition from the world’s current fossil fuel dependency to clean energy. Still, with rapidly increasing world
Carbon taxes are cheaper, more efficient than other policies, study finds by Ohio State University Newswise — COLUMBUS, Ohio – Putting a price on producing carbon is the cheapest, most efficient
The contribution of the Covid-19 pandemic in bringing down carbon emissions is unparalleled. In doing so, the pandemic and the lockdown also helped quantify the environmental harms of burning fossil
Victoria Bassetti and Kelsey Landau As the COVID-19 pandemic upended long-settled fossil fuel supply and demand expectations, natural resource governance experts contemplatedsomething that seemed politically insurmountable just a year ago: a sharp restructuring of
By Daniel Tencer The feds doled out about $1.9 billion to oil and gas companies in 2020. Canada tripled its federal subsidies to the oil and gas industry during the COVID-19
Established prices would be easier to meet than a patchwork of regulations and mandates By Corbin Hiar Carbon capture and storage, green hydrogen, and massive deployments of wind and solar energy.
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