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Itâs not easy to see all the changes â you have to be a wonk to follow the details on new battery storage solutions or the growth of solar power in cheapness, proliferation, efficiency and possibility, or new understanding about agriculture and soil management to enhance carbon sequestration. You have to be a policy nerd to keep track of the countless new initiatives around the world. They include, recently, the UK committing to end overseas fossil fuel finance in December, the EU in January deciding to âdiscourage all further investments into fossil-fuel-based energy infrastructure projects in third countriesâ, and the US making a less comprehensive but meaningful effort this spring to curtail funding for overseas extraction. In April, oil-rich California made a commitment to end fossil fuel extraction altogether â if by a too-generous deadline. A lot of these policies have been deemed both good and not good enough. They do not get us to where we need to be,
Views: Visits 10 The U.S. president has moved fast to boost green jobs and reclaim international leadership on climate change – he now needs to put those promises into action As U.S. President Joe Biden marks his first 100 days in office Friday, there’s no question he has put his country firmly back on course to tackle climate change, analysts say. But the test for the rest of his first year is whether he can deliver on his new plans and pledges. After his predecessor, climate change sceptic Donald Trump, halted any move towards a green transition and yanked the United States out of the Paris climate accord, Biden faced a backlog of work and dug into it from his first day in the White House.
BERLIN In a ruling hailed as groundbreaking, Germany s top court said Thursday the government must set clear goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions after 2030, arguing that existing legislation risks placing too much of a burden for curbing climate change on younger generations. The verdict was a victory for climate activists from Germany and elsewhere who with the support of environmental groups had filed four complaints to the constitutional Court arguing that their rights were at risk by the lack of sufficient targets beyond the next decade. Like other European Union countries, Germany aims to cut emissions 55% below 1990 levels by 2030. Legislation passed two years ago set specific targets for sectors such as heating and transport over that period, but not for the long-term goal of cutting emissions to net zero by 2050.