Banking Vs. Climate Change?
Introduction to Banking and Climate Change (Possible Planet) Can capitalism combat climate change? Bank of England says business can benefit from saving planet
Author: Delton Chen
Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change
https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo33765378.html …previous estimates of overall global warming have been too low. Moreover it was reported recently that in the one place where it was carefully measured, the underwater melting that is driving disintegration of ice sheets and glaciers is occurring far faster than predicted by theory—as much as two orders of magnitude faster—throwing current model projections…
Climate change: 12 years to save the planet? Make that 18 months
Matt McGrath, an environment correspondent at the BBC, explains that 2020 is a deadline for leadership for addressing the climate crisis. See the article at this link: https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/science-environment-48964736?fbclid=IwAR2e89r5pD3Pzv673JGaEF6_C6o0Ge1Q0srNVzmOoxBFDYr6JI97woR-ALo
Solving climate change by sucking CO2 out of the air…
Story by Katie Brigham CNBC In Squamish, British Columbia, there’s a company that wants to stop climate change by sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. It’s called Carbon Engineering, and it uses a combination of giant fans and complex chemical processes to remove carbon dioxide from the air in a procedure known as Direct…
Paul Kingsnorth describes the economy as unworkable in the so-called battle against climate change.
Paul Kingsnorth talks about environmentalism and climate change. Paul explains how humanity still can be hopeful although the battle against climate change in his eyes has been lost. Paul says that limiting CO2 emissions became the new gospel because it was measurable and countable, but this is an illusion. The green movement of today exchanges…
New climate models predict a warming surge
Article by By Paul Voosen at Science: “In earlier models, doubling atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) over preindustrial levels led models to predict somewhere between 2°C and 4.5°C of warming once the planet came into balance. But in at least eight of the next-generation models, produced by leading centers in the United States, the United Kingdom,…
UK Parliament declares climate emergency!
The UK parliament has an intelligent discussion about climate change. Corbyn: “Are we content to hand down a broken planet to our children? That is the question members must ask themselves today. We have the chance to act before it’s too late. It’s a chance that won’t be available to succeeding generations. The Real News…
Financing the Green Transition: The Next System
Carla Skandier at The Next System Project talks about addressing climate change through systemic solutions. For the past few years, she’s been leading the Quantitative Easing for the Planet Project, which is aimed at developing a plan to use the sovereignty monetary power of central banks to avert climate catastrophe. https://thenextsystem.org/learn/stories/financing-green-transition
Central Bank Governors Speak on Climate Change
Governor of the Bank of England (BoE), Mark Carney, has recently reiterated that global banks cannot ignore climate change dangers and the financial risks from extreme weather and vulnerable assets. According to the article, the governors of the Bank of England and France’s central bank have warned that the global financial system faces an existential…
Are Central Banks Are Thinking Greener?
Central Banks Are Thinking Greener as Climate Change Hits Policy Jana Randow and Piotr Skolimowski at Bloomberg write a very concise and informative summary of central bank responses to the climate crisis. In particular, they note that:1) Monetary authorities are studying how to handle changes2) Financial risks and economic trouble could emerge, they worry “Climate…
