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Friday briefing: Presidential debate takeaways; Supreme Court rulings; Oklahoma Bible mandate; Bronny James; giant pandas; and more

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Thursday briefing: Presidential debate; Supreme Court; alleged coup attempt in Bolivia; Bronny James and the NBA draft; and more

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Wednesday briefing: New York primary results; Lauren Boebert; Biden veteran pardons; Evan Gershkovich; NBA draft; and more

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Tuesday briefing: Julian Assange; Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on gun violence; student loan repayment; Stanley Cup; and more

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Monday briefing: Dagestan attacks; Trump campaign; mail surveillance; Noah Lyles and Sha’Carri Richardson; and more

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Friday briefing: Trump donation surge; heat wave forecast; Donald Sutherland; Shenandoah park murder suspect; and more

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Thursday briefing: Heat wave forecast; Louisiana Ten Commandments law; Hajj deaths; Stonehenge protest; summer solstice; and more

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You can catch up on today's seven most important and interesting stories by checking out The 7 newsletter on this Juneteenth holiday. We'll be back with our regular show on Thursday. In the meantime, we're bringing you an idea for a summer road trip listen. "The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop" from The Washington Post just won a Peabody award and is a compelling investigation seven-part series into how the U.S. fits into a 40-year-old Caribbean mystery.

Grenada’s Black revolutionary leader, Maurice Bishop, was executed in a coup in 1983, along with seven others. The whereabouts of their remains are unknown. “The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop” delves into the revolutionary history of Grenada, why the missing remains still matter and the role the U.S. government played in shaping the fate of the island nation. 

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Tuesday briefing: Biden’s undocumented spouse rule; heat wave forecast; Putin in North Korea; Ian McKellen; NBA Finals; and more

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Monday briefing: Gaza fighting; heat wave forecast; election 2024; Maryland marijuana pardons; Princess Kate; and more

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Everything is so bad, the climate change is causing fires and floods and what the point of doing anything. If I turn down the heating a bit, if I use an electric car - how's that going to change anything?

The honest answer is if I do all these changes it won't change anything but what are the consequences of doing nothing? 

Doing nothing isn't an option. Doing nothing will cost far more than doing something.

Russia's special operation on Ukraine is devastating for the country and having efects on europe with them being denied oil and gas but this can only push the development of renewable technology futher unless the countries want to develop  more coal.

It's not our problem . One world yes it is.

When we talk about climate change on this show, and what causes it, we are usually talking about gases that come from vehicles or from the electricity sector. 

But what about the built environment? This week: we’re talking about the embedded emissions in our buildings.

There’s the natural gas that gets burned in them, and there’s all the electricity that it takes to power them. 

And then there’s another category – all the upfront energy that went into making the buildings in the first place. That’s called “embodied carbon” or “embedded carbon” or sometimes “upfront carbon.” 

In the next few crucial years when we can bend the arc of climate change, most of the emissions that come from buildings are going to come from the embodied carbon. So how we choose to build buildings really matters. 

Our senior editor Ingrid Lobet has a special interest in buildings and wrote recently about embodied carbon for Greentech Media. Read that article here.

Just before everything shut down with the pandemic several months ago, Ingrid was at a conference on this subject organized in part by Ed Mazria. Mazria has been at the forefront of a growing faction of builders, engineers and designers intent on remaking buildings into a climate solution. She spoke with him about the biggest opportunities in decarbonizing buildings.

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Leading climate models point to a sobering reality: Even if the world’s economy reaches net zero emissions by midcentury, we will still have too much CO2 in the atmosphere. And so if we have to not just emit less, but remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, how do we do it?

Today we dive into carbon dioxide removal, or CDR. It’s an increasingly diverse and vibrant technology landscape, with some fundamental business model questions yet to be answered.

To take stock of this space, we spoke to Sarah Sclarsic, a carbon removal researcher at MIT with business acumen to boot: She co-founded the mobility company Getaround. She’s now an investor and on the boards of two SPACs (one of which took XL Fleet public).

We survey the existing technologies, ranging from the old school, like planting trees, to the novel, like direct air capture. And then we take a dive into some theoretical bioengineering approaches. 

Sarah argues that we already use powerful biotech tools for medicine and food. She shares her research on the potential to apply these biotech approaches to CDR, laying out what these technologies might look like, such as bioengineering microbes to assist with enhanced rock weathering or cultivating fields and fields of carbon-locking cassava.

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In recent years, news headlines are frequently filled with announcements of financial institutions, funds, and corporations making hefty pledges to transform their portfolios to ensure that they stay in line with net-zero targets. Is this new wave of support for the energy transition motivated by making a quick buck or has there really been a change of opinion on the opportunities in which going net-zero really has to offer? How is the changing climate affecting investments? How are investors driving the transition? These are some of the key questions we look to answer in this episode. 

The Energy Gang is delighted to be joined by two professionals who have spent the majority of their careers bridging the gap between finance and climate change. Our first guest, Shanu Mathew is the VP of Sustainable Investing and Net-Zero Research at Lazard Asset Management, one of the world's leading investment companies. Returning for another episode is Amy Myers Jaffe, the Managing Director of the Climate Policy Lab at the Fletcher School at Tufts University. 

Ed Crooks and the rest of the gang discuss the importance of investors' positions in helping speed up the energy transition and how their work compares to recent government actions. Are organizations like the Task Force on Climate-Related Disclosures (TCFD) making up for the lack of political progress? Moving our focus, What are consumer-facing companies doing to address climate risk and sustainability? Are companies like Unilever an industry leader in sustainability reporting positive impacts? Lastly, the gang takes a look at the story of Indonesia moving its capital through a financial risk lens. How does climate change affect sovereign risk and municipal bonds? What is the answer in terms of financing climate adaptation and what is the government's role in this situation?

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This week, we’re talking about a trend that’s picking up in electricity markets: aggregation of distributed resources.

Utilities have been remotely switching off air conditioners to manage demand for a long time. But a range of emerging resources — solar paired with batteries, smart thermostats, intelligent water heaters, electric car chargers — are creating new kinds of virtual power plants.

People have been talking about the virtual power plant concept for years. And it’s finally happening in a meaningful way — although rolling out very differently in regional markets around the U.S.

In this episode, Shayle Kann talks with Adam James about the nuances to DER aggregation. They’ll highlight specific projects around the country and talk about how the business models work.

Shayle is our co-host and managing director at Energy Impact Partners. Adam is the chief of staff at Energy Impact Partners.

Adam previously worked at SolarCity/Tesla. He’s also a former analyst at GTM Research.

Stephen Lacey will be back from paternity leave next week. 

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