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Our Season One finale brings you a debate about the pace of the energy transition that was recorded live at NYC Climate Week three weeks ago.  How fast is the transition progressing, really?  And why might there be divergent opinions on the subject? The debate was co-moderated by James Lawler and Dina Cappiello (RMI), and features RMI’s Kingsmill Bond and Bain’s Aaron Denman.  We look forward to your thoughts and questions, as always, and we look forward to being in touch with all of you again in 2025. Follow us on Twitter, [https://twitter.com/weareclimatenow] LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/company/climatenow], Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/weareclimatenow], and Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/weareclimatenow/]. Contact us at contact@climatenow.com Visit our website [https://climatenow.com/] for all of our content and sources for each episode.

Voluntary Carbon Markets [https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insights/blogs/energy-transition/061021-voluntary-carbon-markets-pricing-participants-trading-corsia-credits], or VCM, are the decentralized marketplaces where carbon credits, used to offset greenhouse gas emissions are traded. Each credit offsets a metric ton of carbon dioxide emissions. The VCM has existed since the 1980s with recent updates to the types of activities that count as offsets. On July 30 of this year, the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) [https://sciencebasedtargets.org/] updated their recommendations for corporate carbon accounting standards that affect how corporations should count carbon offsets towards their net-zero goals. Dr. Jennifer Jenkins, chief science officer at Rubicon Carbon [https://rubiconcarbon.com/], joined us to talk about changes to the VCM and how they affect the way corporations can use carbon credits to meet their net-zero goals. Follow us on Twitter, [https://twitter.com/weareclimatenow] LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/company/climatenow], Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/weareclimatenow], and Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/weareclimatenow/]. Contact us at contact@climatenow.com Visit our website [https://climatenow.com/] for all of our content and sources for each episode.

On this week's edition of Climate News Weekly, James Lawler and Julio Friedmann discuss Exxon-Mobil's projections of flat oil demand [https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exxon-forecasts-2050-oil-demand-match-todays-25-above-bp-estimate-2024-08-26/] by 2050, closing the last coal-fired power plant [https://www.semafor.com/article/09/04/2024/uk-to-close-last-coal-plant-as-it-moves-toward-greener-energy] in the UK, disproportionate impacts [https://wmo.int/news/media-centre/africa-faces-disproportionate-burden-from-climate-change-and-adaptation-costs] of climate change in Africa, and more. Follow us on Twitter, [https://twitter.com/weareclimatenow] LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/company/climatenow], Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/weareclimatenow], and Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/weareclimatenow/]. Contact us at contact@climatenow.com Visit our website [https://climatenow.com/] for all of our content and sources for each episode.

Climate News Weekly is back to cover the week’s biggest stories in climate news with host James Lawler, joined by Julio Friedmann and Darren Hau. The team kicks off this week's coverage with an analysis that uses artificial intelligence to determine the impacts of 1500 climate policies [https://www.wsj.com/science/environment/climate-change-policies-emissions-ai-research-a02b3f59] on emissions. Up next, Julio and James discuss a new CarbonMapper satellite [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-16/spacex-will-launch-a-methane-satellite-to-track-super-polluters] that can detect methane and carbon dioxide emissions with high precision. The team also discusses the hydrogen industry's [https://www.ctvc.co/the-hard-truth-about-hydrogen-210/] struggle to go green and the looming reality of irreversible climate tipping points [https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/08/11/climate/earth-warming-climate-tipping-points.html]. Follow us on Twitter, [https://twitter.com/weareclimatenow] LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/company/climatenow], Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/weareclimatenow], and Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/weareclimatenow/]. Contact us at contact@climatenow.com Visit our website [https://climatenow.com/] for all of our content and sources for each episode.

As a Climate Now listener, we know you appreciate frank and thoughtful debate about the climate crisis. So we'd like to share an episode from a podcast that looks at how climate change is changing our energy systems. Energy vs Climate is a podcast featuring energy experts David Keith, Sara Hastings-Simon, and Ed Whittingham. They break down the hard truths and tough choices posed by the energy transition from the heart of Canada’s oil country. Through their topics and their guests, David, Sara, and Ed bring new honesty around the sharp trade-offs between climate action and economic progress . The episode we're sharing with you is called, "Buzzkill: Understanding the Shift in Media Perception Towards EVs," with special guest Dr. Simon Evans, deputy editor and policy editor at Carbon Brief. Together, they tease apart EV fact from fiction. We think you'll really enjoy it. Listen to Energy vs Climate wherever you get your podcasts and check out energyvsclimate.com [http://energyvsclimate.com/] for their next live webinars, where you too can join in on the discussion. Follow us on Twitter, [https://twitter.com/weareclimatenow] LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/company/climatenow], Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/weareclimatenow], and Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/weareclimatenow/]. Contact us at contact@climatenow.com Visit our website [https://climatenow.com/] for all of our content and sources for each episode.