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On Sunday, August 7, 2022 the Senate – (significantly watered down from the original Build Back Better bill in order to capture the votes of two recalcitrant democrats, Joe Manchin and Krysten Lee Sinema) passed the biggest climate bill the US has ever seen. On Friday, August 12, the House followed and sent the bill for signature to President Joe Biden. On Monday, August 16, 2022 the President signed it, handing the pen to Senator Manchin after completion. Not one Republican voted for it.
President Biden on Tuesday signed a long-awaited bill meant to reduce health costs, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and raise taxes on corporations and wealthy investors, capping more than a year…
READ MOREThe Inflation Reduction Act will upend key tenets of utility resource planning, including the need for bottom-up forecasting to account for a pending surge in electric vehicle and building load,…
Global emissions from fossil fuels are likely to reach record highs this year, new data shows, putting nations further off track from stopping global warming.
The United States is possibly discriminating against European companies through its new Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) law, an EU industry chief said on Thursday, as Germany saw talks with Washington…
We have devoted a section to the IRA here. There is no other source as all-encompassing on the web.
CLIMATE NEWS contains Curated News (see below) and News Feeds; Newsletters and Blogs; Social Media and People Are Talking About; lists of significant Mainstream News Outlets and Key Climate Change Media Outlets.
Stay up-to-date, but not over whelmed, with the most important climate change news stories in our Curated News section.
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Before you do anything else, do take a look at this video by Trevor Noah…
Before you do anything else, watch this young poet from California bring the house down on inauguration day …
A year later, take a quiz and see what has been accomplished in a hectic first year…
Before you do anything else, the EPA Climate Tracker is Back!!!
Before you do anything else check out your own carbon footprint here
Before you do anything you might want to check into The New York Times Climate Hub at COP26 (11/3-11/11)
Before you do anything else, watch this stunning program with Neil deGrasse Tyson interviewing Katharine Hayhoe…
Before you do anything else, you might want to look at an amazing chart that shows you 2,000 years of Earth’s climate…
Read more related stories on our People Are Talking About (PATA) page.
See more related posts on our Climate change by numbers page.
Date: December 7–19, 2022
Location: Montreal, Canada
Despite on-going efforts, biodiversity is deteriorating worldwide and this decline is projected to worsen with business-as-usual scenarios. The UN Biodiversity Conference will convene governments from around the world to agree to a new set of goals for nature over the next decade through the Convention on Biological Diversity post-2020 framework process. The framework sets out an ambitious plan to implement broad-based action to bring about a transformation in society’s relationship with biodiversity and to ensure that, by 2050, the shared vision of living in harmony with nature is fulfilled.
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