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- “What Does Climate Adaptation Look Like?” • Climate adaptation encompasses a wide array of actions that help people and nature cope with the present-day harms of climate disruption and minimize future harms. Ideally, adaptation allows us to move beyond just surviving the climate crisis to thriving in a fundamentally new world. [CleanTechnica]
Outdoor cafe in Venice (Stephen Percival, CC BY-NC 2.0)
- “Utility Investors Risk Billions In Rush To Natural Gas: Is It A Bridge To Climate Breakdown?” • Natural gas was commonly considered a “bridge fuel.” Now, electric utilities now must face the mathematical reality that fast-falling clean energy costs mean the bridge only leads to climate breakdown and the destruction of shareholder value. [Forbes]
- “The Climate Crisis Made Australia’s Wildfires At Least 30% More Likely, Study Finds” • The wildfires that burned across Australia recently were made far more likely and intense by the climate crisis, a analysis shows. Scientists found that chances of the kind of extreme weather that triggered the blazes increased by more than 30% since 1900. [CNN]
- “Criminal Investigations Target Shale Gas Industry” • More than a dozen criminal cases involving the shale gas industry are being pursued in Pennsylvania, the state’s Attorney General Josh Shapiro said. He cited the protections for clean air and pure water in the state Constitution as justifications for pursuing the criminal cases. [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]
- “Wind Giant GE Renewable Energy Says Coronavirus Mitigation A Key Focus In 2020” • GE Renewable Energy says mitigating the impact of the coronavirus on its wind energy supply chain will be one of its four top focuses in 2020. Plant shutdowns in China are already forecast to dent the bottom line of parent company General Electric. [RenewEconomy]
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