Denouncing 'Handouts to Big Oil,' Biden Calls on Congress to End $40 Billion in Taxpayer Subsidies for Fossil Fuels | Common Dreams News
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Biden spustil tažení proti změně klimatu, nelze podle něj čekat

Americký prezident Joe Biden dnes podpisem exekutivních příkazů zahájil realizaci svého plánu postavit se změnám klimatu a učinit z „klimatické krize“ téma pro velkou část federální vlády.

Nařídil například ministerstvu vnitra, aby v co největší míře pozastavilo uzavírání nových smluv o pronájmu federální půdy k těžbě ropy a plynu. Podle nového šéfa Bílého domu Spojené státy nemohou v souvislosti s ekologickými výzvami dál otálet.

Americká média před dnešním vystoupením prezidenta psala o zahájení „frontálního útoku“ proti klimatickým změnám nebo o rychlém startu ambiciózního projektu nové administrativy. Během povolebního přechodného období Biden avizoval například rozsáhlé investice do „zelené infrastruktury“ včetně vyčlenění dvou bilionů dolarů (43 bilionů Kč) na projekty kolem obnovitelných zdrojů.

Prvními konkrétními kroky na cestě za klimatickými cíli je sada dekretů, které podle Bidena pomohou nejen snížit emise skleníkových plynů, ale i vytvořit nová pracovní místa. Média si všímala především ohlášené „přestávky“ od nových pronájmů federální půdy či pobřežních vod k těžbě ropy a zemního plynu. S tímto krokem se pojí také „důkladná revize“ všech existujících nájemních kontraktů souvisejících se zpracováváním fosilních paliv.

Biden zároveň ohlásil, že požádá Kongres, aby ukončil subvencování fosilních paliv. Jak píše agentura Reuters, prezidentovy kroky signalizují ostrý odklon od politiky exprezidenta Donalda Trumpa, který usiloval o maximalizaci produkce ropy, plynu a uhlí, přičemž za tímto účelem rušil regulace a uvolňoval ekologické standardy. (ČTK)

Pogue, a former New York Times tech columnist and current contributor, has got you covered. This is a climate change worst-case scenario survival guide: stronger hurricanes, forest fires, droughts, tick- and mosquito-borne illnesses, heat waves, tornadoes, plus how to prepare your business and also how to invest your money before the capitalist superstructure crumbles, apparently. (“Preparing for Social Breakdown” is one chapter.)

If Pogue is living the life he’s advising, he is eating homegrown beans, calmly explaining the crisis to his children and monitoring their psychological health, asking his contractor to deepen the soffits in his roof on which he is mounting solar panels, buying several air purifiers and organizing with his fellow citizens.

Much of the book, especially the sections on what to look for in an insurance policy, is helpful. It also includes an explanation of climate science and the obligatory feel-good sections on hope: actions some are taking and how you can part icipate.

A particularly eerie chapter covers which American cities will “do well” in a warmer climate. (Boulder, Colorado)

HOW TO PREPARE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
A Practical Guide to Surviving the Chaos

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Z457XW6/

$9 trillion worth of influence: The chief of BlackRock, the world’s largest investment firm, plans to pressure companies to do more to cut carbon emissions.

DealBook Business and Policy
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/26/business/dealbook/larry-fink-letter-blackrock-climate.html

Energy Transition Investment Hits Half A Trillion For The First Time
https://www.forbes.com/...sition-investment-hits-half-a-trillion-for-the-first-time/?sh=55712024748f

Despite the economic disruption caused by COVID-19, global spending on the transition to a low carbon economy hit a record $501.3 billion in 2020, up 9% on the previous year.
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Global investment in carbon capture and storage (CCS) tripled to $3 billion, and that in hydrogen was $1.5 billion, down 20% but the second-highest annual number to date. Cheung added, “Technologies such as electric heat, CCS and hydrogen are only attracting a fraction of the investment they will need in the 2020s to help bring emissions under control. We need to be talking about trillions per year if we are to meet climate goals.”
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Jon Moore, chief executive of BNEF, said: “Overall investment in wind and solar has been robust and electric vehicle sales jumped more than expected. Some 54% of 2016 emissions are now under some form of net-zero commitment, up from 34% at the start of last year. This should drive increasing investment in the coming years.”

Biden May Kill A Quarter Of U.S. Oil And Gas Production
https://www.forbes.com/.../27/biden-may-kill-a-quarter-of-us-oil-and-gas-production/?sh=28c80fe0361c

Almost a quarter of US oil production and 12 percent of natural gas production takes place on federal land and water. According to the Interior Department’s Office of Natural Resource Revenue federal drilling programs generated $11.7 billion in tax revenue. If the moratorium extends to all active leases on federal lands, this will be gone, despite the mushrooming 2020 federal debt of $27 trillion and budget deficit of over $3 trillion – a whopping 16 percent of the GDP.

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Global ice loss increases at record rate

University of Leeds | News > Environment > Global ice loss increases at record rate
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/4756/global_ice_loss_increases_at_record_rate

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Taiwan expelled nearly 4,000 Chinese vessels illegally dredging sand from its waters in 2020, authorities said Monday, a more than six-fold increase on the year before as Beijing seeks to heap pressure on the democratic island.

Up to November last year, it expelled 3,969 vessels, compared to 600 in 2019 and 71 in 2018.

"Illegal dredging can pose non-traditional security threats to Taiwan by causing economic and environmental damages as well as civilian conflicts,"

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Plotting the progress of the Paris Agreement - Financial Times - Paid Post by Iberdrola
https://iberdrola.ft.com/plotting-the-progress-of-the-paris-agreement

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