「火力発電所は環境に悪い」とひとくくりにされがちだが、実際に排出される二酸化炭素の量は発電所ごとに大きく異なる。このほど発表された研究によると、発電効率が低い5％の火力発電所が、世界の発電由来のCO2排出量の約75％を占めているという。特に環境に悪いこれらの発電所の環境負荷をできるだけ減らすために、何ができるのか。
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Fossil fuels doomed in New York as regulator blocks new gas power plants
New fossil fuel power plants are “inconsistent” with state climate law.
Congress fails to pin down oil company execs on their bad-faith arguments
Spin, lobbying, and obfuscation still rule the day.
Plastic industry pollution to overtake coal in US by 2030, report says
Supply chain for plastic production is rife with carbon emissions.
I founded Nest. Here’s how startups can help solve climate change
Matt Rogers Contributor Share on Twitter Matt Rogers built the first machine-learning thermostat as the co-founder of Nest. He was previously an engineer at Apple, where he helped build ten generations of the iPhone and the first iPad. He currently splits his time between Incite.org and a new company that he is developing. The best […]
Want to know what a just transition to a green economy looks like? Ask the workers | Anna Markova
People don’t need catchprases: they need resources and empowerment so they can secure good green jobsAnna Markova is the Trades Union Congress’s co-lead on climate and industrial policyIf you really want to know what a just transition looks like, don’t…
IBM says AI can help track carbon pollution across vast supply chains
Companies are under increasing pressure to quantify and reduce their footprints.
飛行機の“待ち時間”もCO2排出量も削減、全米の空港に導入される新システムの劇的な効果
空港で飛行機が“渋滞”すれば遅延が発生し、無駄な燃料が消費されて二酸化炭素（CO2）の排出量が増える。しかも乗客は待たされる──。こんな悪循環を解消すべく、航空機の円滑な離着陸を可能にするシステムが開発された。全米27カ所の空港に導入が予定されているこの新システムは、遅延や無用なCO2排出を極力なくす効果が期待されている。
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It’s a big moment for climate change. Here are 4 books for autumn to understand what’s changing
We’re just weeks away from COP26, the big environmental policy confab where scores of world leaders will descend on Scotland and determine the future of the planet, answering the question, “Should we all die or live?” That’s meant a whole truckload of new books on the subject, as well as renewed attention to older works […]
The dark side of environmentalism
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson isn’t a book that lauds ecoterrorists. In fact, it mostly manages to avoid the subject across its many pages. Yet, at the center of its speculative account about the eponymous ministry and its leadership over the next few decades, the dark side is the linchpin for […]