It is commonly established among the climate scientific community that there is not a ‘silver bullet’ solution to address climate change and its effects. Instead, many have advocated for a ‘silver buckshot’ that takes a multi-pronged approach to address climate change (although some say a buckshot is not enough either). Does geoengineering serve as one […]
Read More »Four takeaways from the first White House climate resilience summit and framework
Photo Credit: Christophe Paul 2023 By FREE Staff In September, the Biden administration hosted the first White House Summit on Building Climate Resilient Communities. The event brought together 25 states, territories, and Tribal Nations to discuss and collaborate on how to create and integrate community-driven, locally focused, climate solutions to reduce carbon emissions and mitigate […]
Read More »Seoul 1 GWp ‘Solar City’ Highlighted at Mayors Forum
The 2019 Mayors Forum (part of IREC held in Seoul in October) featured Seoul’s 1 GWp Solar City Initiative. FREE helped the City to design this ambitious program as part of the FREE-Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). Dr. Byrne delivered the keynote at the Forum, which drew 37 mayors from 25 countries. […]
Read More »Microbeads and Environmental Concerns
By Ariella Lewis The environmental threat posed by microbeads in personal grooming products Americans are progressively kicking the habit of relying on disposable plastic water bottles for their hydration needs. We tote our reusable water receptacles with pride, aware that we are contributing towards the eradication of our planet’s plastic plague. But, alas, the plastic […]
Read More »Paris Agreement: A Landmark Climate Change Policy Architecture Reached
By Joseph Nyangon “History is written by those who commit, not those who calculate,” declared François Hollande, France’s president, after all nations reached a new climate change agreement in Paris. The 21st UN climate conference opened in Paris on November 30, 2015 and ran over its original deadline, closing a day late on December 12. Unlike […]
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