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Antarctica Warmer than Los Angeles
Last Thursday, we received another stark warning about the status of the climate crisis. But this time, it came not from scientists forecasting the future. Instead, it was a data point from the Earth itself. Scientists at Esperanza Base in the Antarctic Peninsula reported the highest temperature recorded on…
Our Climate as an Infrastructure Asset
Our climate is getting plenty of attention, but we don’t often view it as infrastructure. We should. The global climate comprises an essential and massive part of the natural systems that form the foundation for our world and our society. Our economy is built on assumptions about climate stability. Our…
Making Deep Decarbonization a Reality
As the United Nations’ annual climate conference in Madrid limped to a close, it has become clear that climate summits are stuck in a rut. The job of cutting global emissions is actually getting harder, and not just because the planet keeps warming. Like many of the people in the…
Bulletin from Madrid: Green Banks, Growing Ambition
Exhausted from spending a full week buzzing around COP25 and spending six hours waiting on the tarmac, I learned my flight back to the US from Madrid was canceled. Long after I was supposed to be home, I instead found myself having dinner with two other stranded passengers, also COP…
Hope in the Global Push to Address the Climate Crisis
On December 11 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., RMI Managing Directors Richenda Van Leeuwen, Jon Creyts, and Jennifer Stokes discussed solutions to reduce carbon emissions by 40–50 percent over the next decade, the necessary level to keep warming below 1.5°C. As explained by Creyts, this is made…
