The Community Resilience Partnership, a program of the Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation and the Future, is set to issue $4.75 million over the next two years to help fund community projects that reduce energy use and help make communities more resilient.
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UN climate deal: Calamity cash, but no new emissions cuts
Negotiators have approved an historic deal to create a fund for compensating poor nations that are victims of extreme weather worsened by rich countries’ carbon pollution.
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UN climate talks poised for deal creating disaster fund
According to the draft of the proposal from Egypt developed countries would be “urged” to contribute to the fund, which would also draw on other private and public sources of money such as international financial institutions.
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EU shakes up climate talks with surprise disaster fund offer
The proposed approach would create a fund for poor countries and push for steeper emissions cuts by all countries, as well as the phasing down of all fossil fuels.
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‘Brazil is back’: At COP27, Lula vows to be a global climate leader
‘There is no climate security for the world without a protected Amazon,’ President-elect Lula da Silva tells a packed room at the U.N. climate conference in Egypt.
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Climate activists throw liquid at Klimt painting in Vienna
Climate activists in Austria have attacked a famous painting by artist Gustav Klimt with a black, oily liquid and one then glued himself to glass protecting the painting’s frame.
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Seeing double? Repeat blooms a sign of the changing climate
You don’t have to look beyond your own garden for evidence of rising temperatures and the longer growing season.
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U.N. climate talks reach halftime with key issues unresolved
Here is a look at what’s on the table at the COP27 negotiations.
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Biden says climate efforts ‘more urgent than ever’ at summit
President Biden says new spending on clean energy initiatives has cemented the United States’ commitment to fighting global warming.
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War-triggered gas boom threatens world climate goal, report finds
Planning and build-up of liquified and other natural gas would add the equivalent of 2 billion tons of carbon dioxide a year to the air by 2030, according to Climate Action Tracker.