🌞 3 Unstoppable Forces Powering Our Clean Energy Evolution: Sunny Climate News
🗞️ EXTRA, extra: you have the power— so I have for you Sunny Climate News
🗣️ “The transition to clean energy is happening worldwide and it’s unstoppable. It’s not a question of ‘if’, it’s just a matter of ‘how soon’ – and the sooner the better for all of us” —IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol
“Governments, companies and investors need to get behind clean energy transitions rather than hindering them. There are immense benefits on offer, including new industrial opportunities and jobs, greater energy security, cleaner air, universal energy access and a safer climate for everyone. Taking into account the ongoing strains and volatility in traditional energy markets today, claims that oil and gas represent safe or secure choices for the world’s energy and climate future look weaker than ever.”
🌅 EXTRA, Extra— Sunny Climate News: on the Horizon
Howdy, folks! Here’s the sunny-side solar of the week. Beaming energy generating on top of these three unstoppable forces towards even more Sunny Climate News:
Clean Powers Onward: ⚡ Harvesting Momentum, Harnessing the Moment
New Era Energy: 💡 Every Day Awakenings to Everyday Action
Culture Shifts Climate: 🌐 Catalyze Community to Catalyze the World
1. Clean Powers Onward⚡Harvesting Momentum, Harnessing the Moment
Peak Oil Horizon: We're Looking at Peak Oil Demand By End of the Decade
The world may see demand for oil and other fossil fuels peak in this decade, the International Energy Agency said this week. The IEA prediction foresees ten times as many electric cars on the road by 2030 as there are now, while renewable energy sources will supply 50% of global electricity, up from 30% today. The prediction cautions that more work needs to be done to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, and that fossil fuel demand probably won’t drop sharply, but could plateau for decades and keep creating enormous amounts of climate warming emissions. Nevertheless, the prediction has stirred controversy among the world’s oil producers, many of whom are banking on rising demand as the industry makes record profits and does megadeals.
“I have a gentle suggestion to oil executives, they only talk among themselves,” Fatih Birol, executive director of the IEA, told the New York Times. “They should talk to car manufacturers, to the heat pump industry, to the renewable industry, to investors — and see what they all think the future of energy looks like.”
Report: World Energy Outlook 2023
Former coal-fired power plant razed to make way for offshore wind electricity connection
2. New Era Energy: 💡 Every Day Awakenings to Everyday Action
More than 130 companies including Ikea, Volvo ask world leaders to ‘phase out’ fossil fuels
As an employee, you have a lot of influence within your company, and companies have a lot of power in policy. So here’s ClimateVoice’s Climate Action at Work Guide:
Why better community engagement is key to the future of clean tech
3. Culture Shifts Climate: 🌐 Catalyze Community to Catalyze the World
Forging Climate Solutions October 2023 Report: How to Accelerate Climate Action Across America
Students learning to go green as more schools teach about climate change
Community Composting Programs Gain Foothold in Bay Region from The Bay Journal
Food-scrap collection is becoming more common in communities across the Chesapeake Bay region and beyond. The Mid-Atlantic has been at the vanguard of the movement. New York leads the region with 1.7 million households with access. That is followed by Virginia with 672,000, Maryland with 221,000, DC with 108,000 and Pennsylvania with 6,500.
Health care industry's greenhouse emissions are huge. Time to lead on sustainability.
The surprising benefits of switching to ‘lamb mowers’
That’s it for this week! Thanks for catching-up & showing-up where you are to help a more beautiful & renewable world. 💚
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