• Forests

One Cool Thing: Redwoods In California Beginning To Come Back After Fire

• Fire
• recovery
• redwood trees

A professor at San Jose State University sparked a wave of optimism when late last fall he posted photos of redwood trees in the Santa Cruz Mountains and Big Basin Redwoods State Park beginning to show new growth just three months after fires devastated the area.  The scientist, Dustin Mulvaney, snapped photos of the trees’ […]

• Climate Change

EU COVID Recovery Plans Make Investments In Climate Change; China Remains in Neutral

• China
• climate change
• COVID-19
• European Union
• recovery
• stimulus

The European Union announced its $825 billion recovery package for the coronavirus pandemic late last week and it includes big plans to address climate change as intrinsic to its economic recovery.

Why This Matters:  Only when we shut down the economies of the developed world due to the life or death threat of the pandemic did we see global greenhouse gas emissions reductions necessary for the foreseeable future.

• Green Finance

It Looks Like There Will Be Another Stimulus Bill – But Will It Be Clean and Green?

• clean water
• coronavirus
• energy efficiency
• Green Stimulus
• recovery
• stimulus

Congress and the Trump administration are beginning to outline the Phase 4 Stimulus package, but there seems to be little mention of “clean” much less “green” provisions being included, which means there would need to be a Phase 5 package or these items will be left out completely. 

Why This Matters:  These items and many other similar ones that have been labeled as “green”  were left out of previous bills because they were dubbed as unnecessary to battle the immediate health and economic impacts of the COVID-19.