Green Lights Dec. 20: Top stories this week
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. . . . Welcome back to Green Lights. Here’s our weekly roundup of the best of Callaway Climate Insights. This week, David Callaway looks ahead to how 2025 will shake out for renewable policies, stocks and investors. Bill Sternberg reads the Washington tea leaves for Joe Biden’s climate legacy. This is our last post for 2024. We’ll be back in January for new year of great climate finance journalism. We hope you have a wonderful holiday season. Don’t forget to subscribe.
. . . . David Callaway writes that the headlines may be foreboding, but he expects that among the carnage of Republican attacks on ESG and President Joe Biden’s climate initiatives next year, we’ll start to see some areas of the renewable movement not only survive but begin to thrive under different strategies.
. . . . What cleantech policies will survive in 2025? Bill Sternberg writes that Biden leaves behind an ambitious, ambiguous and fragile climate legacy. Here are some key areas to watch, along with best guesses about their fate.
. . . . Latin America made substantial progress in 2024, reducing some of the long-term effects of climate change, writes Michael Molinski. In 2025, however, some of that progress is likely to slow in favor of what is already being seen as a bigger priority — the economy.
. . . . Wild weather outside and drama inside courtrooms make for a busy climate calendar here in California in 2025 and portends a shift in battle lines as President-elect Donald Trump does his best to dismantle what he can of the electric vehicle revolution.
. . . . Arctic sea ice is melting at record levels, throwing global weather into chaos and contributing to extreme warming. There are three major climate systems that may be approaching their tipping points, and their future depends, in part, on the existence of Arctic sea ice.
. . . . The turmoil in Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government this week and expected trouncing in next year’s general election doesn’t bode well for Canada’s climate-fighting efforts in coming months, nor its place as a haven for renewable energy investments in the Trump 2.0 era.
More greenery . . . .
Still green: How Climate Change Affects Christmas Tree Production (NOAA/NCEI)
Montana court: Upholds landmark case, says global warming can’t be ignored (The Associated Press)
COâ‚‚ removal innovations: Landmark year for the CDR industry (Forbes)
Lost Winter: Above-freezing days added by climate change (Climate Central)
All shook up: Is climate change making earthquakes more frequent? (Euronews)
No renewal for you: Climate Change-Driven Insurance Crisis is Spreading (U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget)