“It doesn’t indicate that we love everything. It indicates where we think we have the best chances of pushing our agenda,” 350 Action Executive Director May Boeve told POLITICO in an interview. “We’ve already seen movement and we’re going to keep pushing.” Background: The group, which rose to prominence opposing […]
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“We call on all countries to pursue innovative, coordinated, green and open development for all, seize the historic opportunities presented by the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, achieve a green economy of the world economy in the post-Covid era and thus create a powerful force […]
A person with knowledge of the organization’s plans said Business Roundtable will frame its position as the “best way to address climate change while also delivering long-term economic, environmental and social benefits” through policies that begin with “a well-designed market-based mechanism, which includes a price on carbon across most of […]
The nearly three dozen members of the task force convened by CFTC Commissioner Rostin Benham include officials from U.S. banks, asset managers, academia and environmental groups. The report’s findings are non-binding but are intended to shape the regulator’s understanding of how climate change could strain markets. The report says regulators […]
The sparring over the fossil fuel language reflects a deeper mistrust between the DNC and progressive climate activists who contend the Democratic Party has failed to take aggressive positions against oil, gas and coal companies who have lobbied against policies to swiftly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Biden and his running […]
Background: While the group has more than 3,200 signatories around the world, it is sharpening its U.S. focus given how exposed many funds and companies are to the U.S. economy, said Heather Slavkin Corzo, the head of U.S. policy for the group. It plans to double down on Capitol Hill […]
Experts such as floodplain managers, risk management officials and climate scientists have complained for years that FEMA has failed to consider those climate-driven changes and that the agency underestimates even the current flood risks because of long delays in updating its maps. “We’re trying to democratize this data so that […]
The panel’s chair countered that such ambitious proposals would resonate with Democratic voters. “This is good politics for Joe Biden and for the Democratic Party,” said Michelle Deatrick who led the panel and was a surrogate for Sen. Bernie Sanders during the primaries, calling climate change “one of the top […]
Trump’s efforts to push the OPEC-Russia deal to completion — including his pitch late last week to contribute U.S. oil reductions to Mexico’s share of the cuts — won him praise from shale oil producers, even though many companies are still expected to suffer. “It’ll provide him with temporary respite […]