• People

ODP Exclusive Interview: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse Gets Real on Climate Progress

• bipartisan
• clean energy
• climate change
• climate emergency
• executive power
• Green New Deal
• Senate
• stimulus
• whole of government

Senator Whitehouse believes the Biden Administration should go big and go bold on climate change policy.  Watch the whole interview here. 

• Politics

Americans In Both Parties Believe Climate Change Should Be High Priority for Biden Team

• clean energy
• climate change
• fossil fuels
• poll
• public opinion
• renewable energy
• Yale

The incoming Biden administration campaigned on promises of taking on climate change, and it turns out this position is popular with Americans from both parties. A new poll conducted in December by the Yale Climate Communications Program found that 53% of registered voters think global warming should be a high or very high priority for both the president and members of Congress. 

Why this Matters: The survey shows strong support for climate action, from requiring fossil fuel companies to pay for their pollution to providing tax rebates for solar panels.

• People

Interview with Jason Bordoff, Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University

• clean energy
• Columbia University
• energy
• Infrastructure
• jobs
• oil and gas

This week, we sat down with Jason Bordoff, who served on the National Security Council staff in the Obama Administration and then founded the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University.

• Sustainability

Climate Again Near Top of 2021 Risks According to Eurasia Group’s Annual Assessment

• China
• clean energy
• climate change
• coronavirus
• net zero emissions
• political risk

Each January, the Eurasia Group, a management consultancy, looks at the biggest global political risks in the year to come.  Climate change is perennially on the list — this year it ranks third behind public doubt in the legitimacy of President-elect Biden’s election and the coronavirus.

Why This Matters: “In 2021, climate will go from a playground of global cooperation to an arena of global competition.”

• Politics

Biden’s Climate Plan to Benefit Southern States Most Profoundly

• Build Back Better
• clean energy
• climate change
• Joe Biden
• President Biden

by Natasha Lasky, ODP Contributing Writer President-elect Joe Biden has promised that in his first 100 days as president, he will work diligently to tackle what he calls “the No. 1 issue facing humanity”: climate change. His climate plan aims to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, and to produce carbon-free electricity production by 2035, while […]

• Energy

DITCHED: Is 2020 the Tipping Point for Fossil Fuel Divestment?

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• #Fossil Gas
• #Ieefa
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• #PoliticalClimate
• BlackRock
• clean energy
• climate change
• coal
• energy
• environment
• European Union
• fossil fuels
• Green Deal
• Green New Deal
• India
• natural gas
• oil
• politics
• renewable energy

Despite economic disruptions caused by the coronavirus pandemic, a growing number of countries, companies and financial institutions are committing to quit coal and are beginning to ditch oil and gas projects, too. 

In this episode of Political Climate’s special DITCHED series, host Julia Pyper speaks to Tim Buckley at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) about what’s driving the increase in fossil fuel exits around the globe, including in historically coal-dependent economies such as China and India.