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UN climate conference COP27 began yesterday. Track all of the #COP27 news, events, and resources on https://t.co/4QtBbBieqm: https://t.co/ppHErGF6v4

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UN climate conference COP 27 begins next week, and atop the priority list will be money and promises: the willingness of developed nations to offer financial support for developing nations, and the status of national pledges to reduce emissions. Track: https://t.co/ppHErGEyFw

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Europe's replacement of Russian-supplied natural gas comes with a choice: to invest in new sources of natural gas or to accelerate the adoption of renewables. Read more: https://t.co/6zes4pppVJ

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Private equity firms have invested > $1 trillion in energy since 2010, as public companies shed problematic assets and move toward green technologies. But those assets don’t just disappear, and critics fear private firms will contribute to climate change without transparency.

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Republican state attorneys general in 17 states are seeking to overturn a provision in the Clean Air Act that allows California to set stricter vehicle emission standards than existing federal rules. Track on https://t.co/4QtBbBieqm: https://t.co/cHhEO8qaZG

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In the U.S., electric vehicles make up over 5% of the auto market. China passed the 5% threshold two years ago, on track for 20% by 2025. In Germany, Tesla makes the most popular car model. Global CO2 emissions will grow <1% this year, due in part to increasing adoption of EVs.

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Tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, by the numbers:
-Biden administration plans to withdraw 15 mil. barrels
-468 million barrels in the reserve as of July
-Before this year, there have been three draws on the Reserve since its creation in response to 1974 Arab oil embargo

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Yes! This is the underlying design thinking for @briefing_center : organizing its news and info presentation around the specific needs of the user at that moment

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Latest news includes reports that the Biden administration plans another drawdown from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, a key piece of U.S. energy security. Get the background, data, and timeline of events on https://t.co/4QtBbBieqm.

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New topic on https://t.co/4QtBbB05ce: climate economics. We’ll gather news, studies, and reports on costs associated with catastrophe cleanup, projected costs to mitigate disaster damage, investment in new systems to address climate change, and more.

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Where is climate spending going? It’s not just disaster cleanup and risk mitigation — it’s protecting vulnerable communities, investing in carbon capture and storage, regulating emissions, and more. Add uncertainty — past events will likely differ from future challenges.

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For those new to us, our news and information are organized in topics, with a robust state of play, FAQs, timelines, and resources to provide context and background. This week we added a new topic, climate economics, focused on the reactive and preventive costs of climate change.

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For decades, I've followed scientists' cautious projections of gradual climate change, which typically included an asterisk: the possibility of sudden shifts in climate systems. Now some scientists are saying, let's talk about the asterisk. https://t.co/jxUhWATSwc