The Signals Brief

A resilience intelligence news magazine, curated by Geoversiv and Citizens’ Climate Education, in support of the climate-smart finance effort ResilienceIntel.org

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How an Oil Company Becomes a Renewables Company
Bloomberg - Nathaniel Bullard
Equinor’s first-quarter results illustrate the possibilities—and challenges—lying ahead for businesses trying to get out of the fossil game. Sign up …
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Renewable Energy
A Clean Energy Milestone: Renewables Pulled Ahead of Coal in 2020 - Inside Climate News
insideclimatenews.org - By Dan Gearino
In a year of pandemic illness and chaotic politics, there also was a major milestone in the transition to clean energy: U.S. renewable energy sources …
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How the Texas Winter Storm Disaster Will Shape Joe Biden's Climate Agenda
TIME - By Justin Worland
President Joe Biden arrived in Texas Friday on a trip designed to highlight the region’s recovery after a deadly winter storm knocked out power in most of the state. But while the winter storm crisis be...
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Renewables Beat Fossil Fuels in EU for First Time Last Year
Bloomberg - Will Mathis
Renewables are for the first time the dominant power source in Europe’s electric grid. In a year that saw pandemic restrictions sap energy demand …
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Build Back by Reinventing Prosperity
citizensclimate.earth - Posted by Joe Robertson on in Blog
The COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly, and radically, altered the everyday assumptions of people around the world. We have seen shocking loss of life and …
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Default warning as US energy sector’s financial woes persist
Financial Times - Myles McCormick
Defaults by US oil and gas producers are set to outstrip all other sectors again in 2021 as an industry battered by this year’s price crash faces yet more pain, according to a forecast from a rating agency....