“The minute that you get complacent about [political consensus], you risk losing it,” Chris Stark, head of the UK’s Climate Change Committee says on this week’s Zero.
Plastic is everywhere — from the ocean to the human body — and production of it is set to triple by 2060. On this week’s Zero: A UN treaty could be the answer.
The program resembles a strategy governments around the world have used to roll out wind and solar, but it covers earlier stage technologies at a scale not seen before.
“There is just so much to build, so much support and lots of profit on the table,” Brookfield Renewable Partners CEO Connor Teskey says on this week’s Zero.
“Everybody who is an activist on the climate issue needs to be even more active,” says US special presidential envoy for climate John Kerry on this week’s Zero.
John Kerry is stepping down as US climate envoy this week. His long career as a statesman brought big wins, but also made him a sometimes-awkward defender of the world’s largest historic emitter.
Companies setting voluntary goals helps inspire action, but in the US the real reductions come from financial incentives that governments provide for reducing energy use.
Created to secure rich countries access to fossil fuels, the International Energy Agency has found a way to maintain its influence in the fast-changing business of energy and climate change.
Most countries will give a full accounting of their emissions and climate actions for the first time this year — offering the world new data to measure the fight against global warming.
Elections in big economies such as the US, Mexico and Indonesia, and the global climate summit being held once again in a petrostate has business leaders unsure if the energy transition will accelerate this year.
