Having just installed new gas plants and gas pipelines, GRU’s prices will continue to rise. When that happens, perpetuating the use of greenhouse gases will become more and more expensive. If pledges are to mean anything, actions must reflect deep concern for our climate crisis.ĬOP26 recommends phasing out “inefficient” fossil fuel subsidies. A recent survey by Women in Tech states that: 82 of women believe that there are more males than females in tech. This is before ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ and the movement behind it.
He wanted to build this all-green condominium in 2003. Policy makers indicate that every year pledges need to become more and more ambitious. It was a little ahead of its time, Feinstein says, and it was Schuster’s idea. Widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred.” We are responsible and we must act.Ĭountries have revised their pledges to include methane, coal and deforestation. Aspects of the European Commission’s sustainable finance action plan regulation have certainly been frustrating, but the sustainable finance disclosure regulation (SFDR), for example, does look like it could end up having a beneficial effect, even. Good things are happening in the land of ESG. This time around, scientists added one word to their findings: “It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean, and land. ESG: progress but still much road to travel.
At COP26, governments again agreed upon the need for action and what direction that action must take. Green buildings are also increasing with more builders using environmentally responsible materials and practices. A quick search shows 19 solar energy businesses in Gainesville. So while these community businesses dig in their heels and thumb their noses at modern science, smaller businesses have moved into this century. Those homes could be models of 21st century technology and design. Those homes could have solar power on their roofs. As we wait, developers build more and more homes designed to be gas guzzlers.