World:
¶ “US And China Pledge To Resume Climate Working Group, Ramp Up Renewables Ahead Of Biden-Xi Summit” • The US and China announced that they agreed to resume a working group on climate cooperation and pledged a major ramp-up of renewable energy. The announcement came ahead of a leaders’ summit in San Francisco. [CNN]
Wind farm in China (liuzusai刘祖赛, CC-BY-SA 3.0)
¶ “Why Delhi Lags Behind Beijing In The Battle To Breathe” • Since 2013, Beijing has waged a determined war on air pollution using a range of command-and-control measures. Meanwhile, Delhi is among the ten most polluted cities in the world, partly because of firecrackers celebrating a Hindu festival, but mostly due to normal activity. [BBC]
¶ “Health Warnings As Brazil Is Gripped By An ‘Unbearable’ Heatwave” • Red alerts have been issued for almost 3,000 towns and cities across Brazil, which are enduring an unprecedented heatwave. In the city of Rio de Janeiro, temperatures were as high as 42.5°C (108.5°F). Officials attributed the heat to El Niño and climate change. [BBC] (The temperature is corrected from an earlier report.)
Rio de Janeiro (Raphael Nogueira, Unsplash)
¶ “Asian Economies Must Ramp Up Wind And Solar Power To Keep Global Warming Under 1.5°C” • To meet the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C (2.7°F), nine major Asian economies must increase the share of electricity they get from renewable energy from the current 6% to at least 50% by 2030, a report by Agora Energiewende says. [ABC News]
¶ “Heat-Related Deaths For Older Adults Could Increase 370% By Mid-Century If Climate Warms 2°C” • Yearly heat-related deaths worldwide for people over 65 are projected to increase 370% by the middle of the century if global temperatures rise by 2°C, a report says. Heat-related deaths of adults over 65 have increased by 85% since the 1990s. [ABC News]
Heat (Eelco Böhtlingk, Unsplash)
¶ “Mercedes Moving All 5,000 Company Cars In Germany To Electric” • Mercedes-Benz decided to transition all 5,000 of its company cars in Germany to EVs. This comes through “company circles” according to Automobilwoche, and it seems Mercedes-Benz has somewhat confirmed and somewhat corrected the publisher on the news. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “Volkswagen ID.7 Is Volkswagen’s New Star EV” • Volkswagen’s ID.7 is larger, has more range, has more tech, and will cost more money than Volkswagen’s top selling EVs, the ID.4 and ID.3. Will the ID.7 sell more units than those two? Probably not. But it’s got some selling points that are so compelling I wouldn’t bet against it just yet. [CleanTechnica]
Volkswagen ID.7 (Courtesy of Volkswagen)
¶ “Indonesia State Utility Plans 31.6 GW Renewable Power Capacity In 2024-2033” • Indonesia’s state utility Perusahaan Listrik Negara plans to build 31.6 GW of renewable power capacity between 2024 and 2033, chief executive Darmawan Prasodjo told parliament. The new renewable capacity would be 75% of all new capacity during the time. [Nasdaq]
¶ “Renewable Energy Set To Account For 85% In Vietnam In 2050” • Vietnam aims to increase the share of renewable energy in the primary energy supply to around 85% in 2050, Vietnam News reported, citing Tran Hong Thai, the Deputy Minister of Science and Technology. Coal-derived power will be completely phased out by 2050. [menafn]
Ya Ly Dam spillway (Tycho, CC-BY-SA 3.0)
US:
¶ “Biden ‘Just Getting Started’ On Climate Action In Response To Major New Report” • President Joe Biden said he will continue to pursue remedies to the threats caused by climate change with the release of the Fifth National Climate Assessment. He recognized that it’s still not enough and that some Republicans are getting in the way of more progress. [ABC News]
¶ “No Place In The US Is Safe From The Climate Crisis, But A New Report Shows Where It’s Most Severe” • The effects of a rapidly warming climate are being felt in every corner of the US, and they will worsen over the next ten years with continued fossil fuel use, according to the Fifth National Climate Assessment, a stark report from federal agencies. [CNN]
Miami (Ryan Parker, Unsplash)
¶ “Battery Energy Storage Systems Are Here: Is Your Community Ready?” • Many communities are already evaluating building proposals for battery energy storage systems. To help with this, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory experts have assembled BESS resources that communities will need as they look toward their energy goals. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “First Electric VTOL Aircraft To Fly Over New York City” • A four-passenger eVTOL aircraft has flown over New York City. It’s very different from the Volocopter that recently flew over Tampa. The Joby electric aircraft can go 100 miles on a full charge, and Joby estimates that a flight from Manhattan to JFK Airport will take around seven minutes. [CleanTechnica]
Electric VTOL (Courtesy of Joby)
¶ “ExxonMobil Aims To Be Top Lithium Supplier For Electric Vehicles, Drills First Lithium Well” • ExxonMobil announced that it aims to be a top lithium producer and supplier for the EV battery industry by 2030. It is getting to work on its first lithium well at a lithium production site in southwest Arkansas, which is a lithium-rich region. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “California To Use Flexible Appliances For Renewable Energy Integration” • Flexible demand appliance standards are “coming down the road” in California for water heaters, behind-the-meter batteries, and EV chargers, the California Energy Commission’s Andrew McAllister said at a CalFlexHub symposium on flexible load technologies. [PV Magazine]
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