MacIver News Service – Economic pain, cutting off affordable energy, constraining future generations, and hampering development in the poorest countries. Those are the four takeaways from the Paris Climate Summit, according to the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Read More Chart of the Day: Four Takeaways From The COP-21 Paris Climate Treaty
It claims Janesville is committed to “Reduce CO2 emissions from the community by 75% by 2050 based on 2005 levels.”
“Here in the city, itself, we have not made this commitment,” Maggie Hrdlicka, City Spokesperson, told the MacIver News Service. Read More UN Says Janesville Promised Major CO2 Reduction, City Denies Claim
Delegates to the Paris climate talks disagreed on several key issues during a teleconference last week, mirroring the difficulties world leaders face back home – including Pres. Obama, whose Clean Power Plan has struggled to gain support. Read More Divisions Among Wisconsin Delegates to Paris Mirror Climate Strife Back Home
MacIver News Service – If policies are adopted to reduce global temperatures, Mexico’s GDP would take a 29 percent hit during the second half of this century; for China it would be 31 percent; and for India would be 42.3 percent. The continent of Africa would also lose 42.3 percent. The US would emerge relatively unscathed by comparison. It would only lose 5.9 percent of its economic growth for the second half of the century. Read More World GDP Plummets Under Proposed Climate Policies