This Bloomberg video captures the challenge the United States faces in overcoming China’s near monopoly on the solar business despite President Biden’s efforts.
To counter China’s head start, the U.S. needs to stay committed to boosting manufacturing at home, even if it is more expensive at the outset.
China calls phasing out fossil fuels ‘unrealistic’ in this report from Climate Home News.
While not surprising the world’s largest consumer of fossil fuels would say this, the country’s stance underscores that it plans to continue leaning heavily on coal, the dirtiest of the fossil fuels.
The EU's announcement of an investigation into Chinese electric vehicle subsidies has brought back bitter memories about the bloc's lost solar panels battle with Beijing, POLITICO Europe reports.
To compare then and now, the reporters talked to the EU’s former trade chief who oversaw the solar panel showdown in 2012-2013. Smart move with a value-added angle on a highly covered story.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is causing an uproar for watering down his country’s net-zero pledges, Euronews reported.
The move, seen as political strategizing ahead of elections, also caused strong international reactions. It gives the feeling we are moving backward, not forward.
Climeworks and Great Carbon Valley are considering building a direct-air capture facility in Kenya, which has largely renewable electricity, Reuters reports.
I wonder what specific factors will influence what makes them make a final decision to do this, or what could get them to cancel the tentative plans.
The White House directs federal agencies to consider the economic cost of carbon emissions in all its purchases, The New York Times reports.
As the largest buyer of vehicles, fuels, equipment and goods, the federal action is significant because it will redirect dollars towards clean technologies.
The New York Times reports on the conspicuous absence of delegates from the U.S. and China at the UN's climate ambition meeting on the sidelines of the General Assembly meeting.
Enabling poorer countries to voice their frustration about struggles to pay for the energy transition amidst more frequent and intense climate impacts is not enough.
Gabon seals the first debt-for-nature swap in continental Africa, the Financial Times reports.
The world needs ways to move capital to countries with globally important forests and ocean ecosystems to avoid development and despoilment. Whether this deal becomes a model remains a big question.
Major consumers of steel band together to demand cleanly made steel through a new platform in an effort to jump start a fledgling industry in the United States, Canary Media reports.
As Cipher reported yesterday, no commercial clean steel plants exist in the U.S. today. This RMI-led Sustainable Steel Platform will match up consumers with producers and investors.
The Financial Times explores Europe's acute reliance on China for the rare earth it needs to drive the energy transition.
Props to this article for the cool visual story telling!