SONGDO, South Korea, July 27 (TNSRep) -- The Green Climate Fund issued the following news release on July 26, 2021: The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the world to a tipping point in the fight against climate change. Decisions taken by leaders today to revive economies will have crucial implications for targets enshrined in the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Developing countries are particularly vulnerable to compound risks from climate change and the COVID-19 pan  more

PASADENA, California, July 27 (TNSJou) -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news on July 26, 2021: A new index shows that the world's rainforests are responding differently to threats like a warming climate and deforestation. Scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California and other international research institutions have created a tropical rainforest vulnerability index. It will detect and evaluate the vulnerability of these diverse ecosystems to t  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, July 27 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news on July 26, 2021: Three years into their formal research partnership, NETL and Wyoming-based technology firm Ramaco Carbon are driving the development of carbon materials that could lead to safer vehicles, less expensive batteries, more durable roads and bridges, and other game-changing innovations while advancing new uses for coal, one of the nation's most abunda  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, July 27 (TNSRep) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news on July 26, 2021: On July 22, the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration (EDA) announced a commitment to coal communities that allocates $300 million in American Rescue Plan funds to support economic revitalization in hard-hit coal and energy communities. The new funding announcement advances the broader goals of the Interagency  more

COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 27 (TNSPol) -- The Nature Conservancy issued the following news release: Ohio voters overwhelmingly believe investments to upgrade Ohio's energy, transportation, and communications infrastructure will help provide a pathway to a brighter future, according to a recent poll. And when told that these investments in public transportation, power grid modernization, broadband access, clean energy, and other solutions are included in a bipartisan infrastructure proposal under con  more

WASHINGTON, July 27 (TNSPol) -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release: EPA Administrator Michael Regan has announced that the Biden EPA will formally reconsider one of the most toxic clean water rollbacks of the Trump era. Specifically, the Trump administration finalized a rollback of water pollution safeguards for power plants on August 31, 2020. This attack on public health allowed coal power plants, already the largest industrial source of toxic wastewater discharges, to contin  more

NEW YORK, July 27 -- The United Nations issued the following statement by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres: * * * The world urgently needs a clear and unambiguous commitment to the 1.5-degree goal of the Paris Agreement from all G20 nations. There is no pathway to this goal without the leadership of the G20. This signal is desperately needed by the billions of people already on the front lines of the climate crisis and by markets, investors and industry who require certainty that a net-zero   more