Tue, May 14, 2024

Lomborg: World leaders sign costliest treaty in history but still fail to tackle climate change

Editor’s Note: The Boilermakers union agrees with much of Mr. Lomborg’s position on the inadequacy and unsustainable expense of the current clean energy agreement developed at the Paris summit in 2015 as presented below. However, we remain convinced that clean coal technologies — especially carbon capture, use and storage — represent the most rational and feasible path to addressing global carbon emissions.

Vietnam’s March coal imports triple on year to 1.2 mln mt

HANOI: Vietnam imported 1.21 million mt of coal in March, more than three times the 394,856 mt imported a year earlier, customs data released Wednesday showed. Traditionally a coal exporter, Vietnam has turned to imports to meet rising domestic demand for power generation.

Thriving B.C. forests outpace pine-beetle CO2 losses by 2020

In a rare bit of good climate change news, scientists have found that trees are growing faster in British Columbia due to global warming, and this is starting to counter the carbon-loss impacts of the province's devastating mountain pine beetle (MPB) outbreak.

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