Advocacy groups have pushed regulators to block JBS’ bid, noting its history of corruption charges, illegal deforestation and unfulfilled climate promises. Federal approval came after a big donation to Trump’s inauguration.
By Georgina Gustin
The world’s largest meat company, Brazil-based JBS, has sought a listing on the New York Stock Exchange for more than a decade, but the company, which has long been accused of links to illegal deforestation in the Amazon, was stymied by corruption charges.
Tesla’s big hope to get back to sales growth, or to at least stop the immense bleeding, was that the new Tesla Model Y would be a huge hit and make up for the drop in sales in the past year. Perhaps the idea of 50% growth a year is ... [continued]
This isn’t the first time it’s been said, and it won’t be the last, because the idea of a dramatic robotaxi revolution carries on. And, yes, I’ll admit that I was a heavy proponent of that for a long time. However, the point we’re making in this piece is that ... [continued]
Kia to provide IT literacy, employment and entrepreneurship training to local youth in Côte d’Ivoire through the first half of 2027 Kia’s Green Light Project continues to drive community growth and self-reliance through sustainable projects worldwide Since 2012, Kia has established 19 hubs across 15 countries, with 12 successfully transferred ... [continued]
According to my grandfather, “Only fools and newcomers try to predict the weather around here.” in the American Southwest. And, should anybody try to predict the weather, he’ll remind us that we aren’t newcomers, leaving only one other option. But, I’ve learned over time that his advice largely applies to ... [continued]
New ONE Controller device will provide German residential installers with a simple solution to the new and complex §14a EnWG regulatory challenge* Solution also enables integration of SolarEdge’s residential solar systems with leading third-party EV chargers and heat pumps Also on display at Intersolar will be solutions for a variety ... [continued]
Off-grid solar package combines installer activation, increased generation with Reclaimed Energy, and ease of deployment for advanced solar-plus-storage systems. Tigo Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: TYGO), a leading provider of intelligent solar and energy software solutions, today announced the High-Performance Off-Grid Solar package, a response to customer requests for a solution to ... [continued]
Toyota quickly went from hero to villain in the eyes of many people concerned about the climate and wanting efficient cars. It led the market in hybrid vehicles for years, primarily through its popular Prius model line. However, when the full battery-electric era arrived, it was slow to get onboard. ... [continued]
Hyundai continues its semi-leadership in the EV sector this week. It’s not really engaged in groundbreaking developments with electric vehicles (yet), but it’s also far from a laggard in EV world. News this week comes out of India and Japan for a change, showing how willing and eager the company ... [continued]
After Ford CEO Jim Farley announced that Ford EV drivers would gain access to Tesla Superchargers, there was a stampede of auto companies following suit and saying the same. However, it seems none of that was pre-planned — at least, not long in advance — and it has taken time ... [continued]
We continue to be blown away by support for The 89 Percent Project, from journalists and news outlets worldwide, and impressed by the new work we’ve seen — for example, in Deutsche Welle, Italy’s Corriere della Sera, and Japan’s Asahi Shimbun — as well as the widespread republication of work from our partners at The Guardian, Agence France Presse, and Common Dreams, among others. And on social media, we appreciate all the journalists and readers engaging not just with this initiative but with the idea behind it: the little-known fact that an overwhelming majority of people globally want governments to do more to fight climate change.
Conditional cooperators. Peter Andre, a behavioral economist who was among the authors of the Nature Climate Change study showing 89% of the world’s population wants more climate action, has a theory about why so many in this huge majority believe they’re actually in the minority. By nature, he explains in this Q&A, many people are “conditional cooperators,” meaning that they’re more likely to, or will only, take action when they learn others are taking action. “When we discovered this ‘perception gap,’” Andre said, “it became clear that for our research to have the biggest impact, we needed to point out when people were overly pessimistic and convey that there were actually reasons to be optimistic.” By Roku Goda for Japan’s Asahi Shimbun…
Suing in South Asia. With governments so persistently slow to act, for many, lawsuits targeting fossil fuel companies seem to be the only means of public recourse against the ravages of climate change. Amid a rash of such suits worldwide, there are currently 23 working their way through courts in South Asia — 14 in India, six in Pakistan, four in Nepal, and one in Sri Lanka — including one filed by a nine-year-old girl in India in 2017 who, now 17, has “literally ‘grown up’ fighting [the] case,” writes Meena Menon for Sapan News…
Climate and housing affordability. With housing costs everywhere already sky-high, climate disasters worsen matters, when they destroy or degrade homes — a fact affecting owners and renters alike. Policies that concentrate housing developments in lower-risk areas, as well as efforts to adapt the homes we have for the climate change era, could help. “There’s a really urgent need to transform our [housing] stock,” said one policy researcher, “both to reduce its carbon footprint, but to also reduce physical vulnerability to climate risks.” By Dave Braneck for Deutsche Welle…
A chile plant grows in Jakarta. At a time when Indonesia’s food systems are stretched to their limit, a bumper crop of urban farms is sprouting up across the busy capital, Jakarta. These farms, many of which are run by passionate everyday citizens, are not only boosting food security but providing relief from some of the effects of climate change, by expanding the green spaces that punctuate the urban sprawl. By Arpan Rachman and Andi Aisyah Lamboge for The Xylom…
Beefing. Though a wide majority of Americans support climate action, many are confused or misinformed about the ready availability of solutions, including the individual actions that can make a difference. For example, 74% of Americans believe that cutting back on meat in their diets wouldn’t have any impact on climate change, when the opposite is true. Matters have been made worse by culture wars. “When our collective attention is captured by food fights rather than information, we tend to overlook what remains a highly actionable — albeit less viral — climate solution,” writes Jessica Scott-Reid for Sentient Media…
To CCNow partners: A reminder, many stories published as part of this Joint Coverage Week are available for your outlet to republish, including yesterday’s op-ed by CCNow co-founders, Mark Herstgaard and Kyle Pope, about why we launched The 89 Percent Project and the role journalism has to play in informing the public about the enormous consensus on climate action. All the work available from our community can be found in the CCNow Sharing Library!
Irene Rondini, communications manager at the Irish Green Development Council:
Thanks for reading! We’ll be back tomorrow with more, as well with a look at what’s ahead for The 89 Percent Project after this Joint Coverage Week concludes (remember, this is a yearlong initiative!). In the meantime, if you’ve published your own 89 Percent story, don’t forget to share it with us at editors@coveringclimatenow.org.
In examining how different countries have rolled out climate change mitigation strategies, research has found reasons to be optimistic about preserving our environment while promoting prosperity and well-being.
A new study finds that presenting the same continuous climate data, such as incremental changes in temperature, in binary form -- such as whether a lake did or did not freeze in the winter -- significantly increases people's ability to see the impact of climate change.
As Los Angeles rebuilds from the Eaton and Palisades fires, climate activists want to retire the gas utility pipelines and and hope to persuade people to rebuild homes as all-electric.
Donald Trump has denied federal disaster relief funds to the people of Arkansas, which saw dozens of people die from a series of deadly tornadoes last month, as legislators plead for him to reconsider.
More than 40 people have been found dead after a series of tornadoes and severe storms hit Arkansas and neighboring states Mississippi and Missouri in March, according to CNN.
Scientists are worried because they can’t fully explain the big jump, but they think it might mean that carbon absorption by forests, fields and wetlands is slowing down—a major problem for the world.
By Bob Berwyn
The latest anomaly in the climate system that can’t be fully explained by researchers is a record annual jump in the global mean concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere measured in 2024.
Though two-thirds of Americans believe press freedom is very important, only a third say that the media is actually completely free to report the news, according to a Pew Research […]
The moves are aimed at eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and environmental justice programs at the E.P.A., Trump administration officials say.
This report is a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals. Jacob Poushter, Associate Director, Global Attitudes ResearchMaria Smerkovich, Research AssociateMoira Fagan, Research AssociateAndrew Prozorovsky, Research Assistant Dorene Asare-Marfo, Senior Panel ManagerPeter Bell, Associate Director, Design and ProductionJanakee Chavda, Associate Digital ProducerLaura Clancy, Research AnalystRachel Drian, Associate Director, CommunicationsJonathan Evans, […]
California has long been a trailblazer in clean energy, with more than two million homes powered by the sun. But a new proposal making its way through Sacramento, Assembly Bill 942 (AB 942), could throw a wrench in the state’s rooftop solar success story, and solar advocates aren’t taking it ... [continued]
Good Spillover, Bad Spillover? Industrial Policy, Trade, and the Political ...
Empirical research suggests that spillover effects frequently exceed the intended impacts of policy decisions. Knowledge and technology spillovers of early policies to promote renewable energy, for instance, precipitated the rapid cost decline and worldwide diffusion of solar photovoltaic energy, which has been identified by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as the largest near-term contribution to greenhouse gas emission reductions. Just as spillover effects have enabled past successes in climate change mitigation, however, they also threaten to undermine accelerating decarbonization efforts. While contested in its magnitude, emissions leakage—when emissions associated with production, consumption or investment patterns are displaced as a result of climate policies—could stall or reverse progress with decarbonization if emissions merely relocate rather than undergo an aggregate decline.
Because they are difficult to define and quantify, spillover effects have been neglected in the theoretical framing of climate policy instrument choice. Research on them remains fragmented, with no unifying definitions or methodological framework. Some spillover effects have been extensively studied, while others remain opaque, with scarcely understood causal mechanisms and interactions. That may now change, as influential actors and initiatives, such as the Inclusive Forum on Carbon Mitigation Approaches, the G7 Climate Club, and a task force of international organizations led by the World Trade Organization,1 have recently begun to feature spillover effects in their work. While a promising development, the initial outputs of these efforts reflect the lack of an overarching conceptual paradigm and reveal a disciplinary bias in the spillover effects selected for further exploration.
In common usage, the term ‘spillover’ refers to situations in which activities in one context generate effects in another context. Past research shows that spillover effects can be positive or negative, intended or unintended, and manifest themselves across a variety of dimensions: time horizons, geographies, markets, sectors, companies, technologies, functions, and behaviors. They share many features with the economic concept of externalities, but have also been studied in non-market settings. Geographic spillover effects mediated through international trade have received the greatest attention in the policy debate, and also feature in a growing number of policies aimed at mitigating transboundary spillover harm.
Table 1: Types of climate-related spillover effects described in the literature, across contexts and with observed climate implications.
Spillover effects also have implications for the political economy of climate action. Spillover effects beneficial to climate action tend to correlate with policy interventions that socialize the cost of decarbonization, such as subsidies for the development and deployment of emission reduction technologies. Harmful spillover effects, by contrast, tend to accompany policy interventions that impose a private cost on emissions, such as carbon pricing. Research has consistently affirmed that this latter category of policy interventions faces greater political economy constraints, because it incurs immediate and concentrated costs while only yielding diffuse, long term benefits. A strategy emerging from this observation, the idea of ‘policy sequencing’, acquires new relevance in the presence of spillover effects, creating opportunities for staged interventions that initiate a virtuous policy cycle to build supportive constituencies and increase climate policy ambition.
Recent policy trajectories in the United States and the European Union present a case study for the rise of industrial policy and its ramifications for the spillover effects of climate action. Responding to the economic shocks of a global pandemic and escalating military conflicts in different regions of the world, as well as distributional consequences arising from decades of expanding trade liberalization, both sides of the Atlantic are increasingly resorting to market interventions to accelerate decarbonization while advancing economic, social and political priorities. Spillover effects— such as supply chain disruptions, surging energy costs, and erosion of the domestic industrial base—have prompted many of these industrial policies, which will in turn result in new and unanticipated spillover effects.
A shared feature of the current generation of industrial policies is their reliance on provisions that limit or condition access to markets and incentives, such as border carbon adjustments and product carbon requirements, anti-dumping tariffs, countervailing duties, local content requirements, and export controls. Not only are these measures regularly opposed by trade partners, threatening to destabilize international climate cooperation, but they also erect barriers to the international flow of goods, services, capital, and knowledge which enabled past spillover benefits. While the concerns these policies seek to address are valid, their implications—including spillover effects—need to be carefully understood. Unconsidered use of trade-related climate measures risks increasing the cost and time horizon of decarbonization, while also inciting diplomatic tensions. Long-term implications for innovation spillovers and learning rate effects, in particular, need to be better understood.
Strategic cooperation is needed to manage spillover effects for enhanced climate action. Cooperation can help leverage positive and limit negative spillovers while promoting a virtuous sequence of technology and policy diffusion. First, spillover effects need to be better understood in order to inform planning and policy decisions, using common metrics and improved tools to reflect them in economic modeling and regulatory impact assessments. Second, cooperation can help identify principles and best practices for domestic policy design to actively promote spillover benefits and limit spillover harm. Third, countries should expand existing partnerships on technological innovation and climate finance, deploying new collaborative mechanisms that align incentives for the diffusion of climate policies and emission reduction technologies. Strategic cooperation can help trade fulfill its potential as an enabler of—rather than threat to—enhanced climate action.
Footnotes:
World Trade Organization, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, International Monetary Fund, United Nations and World Bank, ‘Working Together for Better Climate Action: Carbon Pricing, Policy Spillovers, and Global Climate Goals’ (Geneva: WTO, 23 October 2024), https://www.wto.org/english/res_e/booksp_e/climate_action_e.pdf.
When bottom trawls are dragged across the seafloor, they stir up sediments. This not only releases previously stored organic carbon, but also intensifies the oxidation of pyrite, a mineral present in marine sediments, leading to additional emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2).
Founded in 2003 by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, and Craig Hatkoff, Tribeca brings artists and audiences together to celebrate storytelling in all its forms. The annual festival promises bold curation from June 4–15 in New York City, including:
Live 30 Year Anniversary of “This American Life” — Excellence in Audio Journalism Gala — Tuesday, June 10 at 8pm at the Indeed Theater at Spring Studios:
The Tribeca Festival recognizes the vital impact of audio journalism and celebrates an exemplum of Excellence in Audio Journalism each year. This year, Tribeca will honor the landmark public radio show and podcast This American Life created and hosted by Ira Glass. This Opening Night event will serve as official kickoff of the festival’s Audio Storytelling program. Podcaster and author Ira Madison III will be the special guest co-host of the evening. Join both Iras on a tour through some highlights of This American Life’s 30 years on the air as Glass will play entertaining clips and take attendees behind the scenes of the show.
Today, the This American Life radio program is distributed by PRX and airs on hundreds of stations nationwide. Tickets are on sale April 29.
“The Memory Palace” Live with Carrie Coon and Lili Taylor — Friday, June 13 at 8:30pm at SVA Theatre:
Nate DiMeo tells singular stories about America’s past, finding wonder, adventure, poetry, and meaning in history’s dustier corners — including his beloved podcast, in residency at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, even at live performances in London theaters and at a rock festival in a forest in Tasmania. Now, he’ll bring to life stories from his podcast and new book, The Memory Palace: True Short Stories of the Past (Random House), joined by acclaimed actors Carrie Coon (The White Lotus) and Lili Taylor (Six Feet Under).
The Memory Palace podcast is a part of the independent podcast network Radiotopia from PRX. Tickets are on sale April 29.
Official Selections Preview of “Radiotopia Presents: We’re Doing The Wiz” — Thursday, June 12 at 2:30pm at Shorts Theater at Spring Studios:
In 2004, a racial controversy erupted at a small, mostly white performing arts high school in rural Massachusetts. There were protests. TV news crews. A tense all-school assembly. And then, a surprise announcement: the school would stage The Wiz — the iconic Black retelling of The Wizard of Oz. Radiotopia Presents: We’re Doing The Wiztells the story of that production — from the teachers lounge, to the audition room, to the tensions that nearly derailed the entire show.
This new series from PRX’s Radiotopia podcast network created by Sakina Ibrahim and Ian Coss will be previewed at the festival as an Official Audio Storytelling Selection. Tickets are on sale April 29.
About PRX
Celebrating more than 20 years as a nonprofit public media company, PRX works in partnership with leading independent creators, organizations, and stations to bring meaningful audio storytelling into millions of listeners’ lives. PRX is one of the world’s top podcast publishers, public radio distributors, and audio producers, serving as an engine of innovation for public media and podcasting to help shape a vibrant future for creative and journalistic audio. Shows across PRX’s portfolio of broadcast productions, podcast partners, and its Radiotopia podcast network have received recognition from the Peabody Awards, the Tribeca Festival, the International Documentary Association, the National Magazine Awards, and more, including in 2022 when Futuro Media and PRX won a Pulitzer Prize. Visit PRX.org for more.
About Radiotopia from PRX
Created in 2014, Radiotopia from PRX is the first network of its kind. As a network of independent podcasts, Radiotopia empowers audio creators with the artistic freedom to thrive on their own terms and to bring audiences inspired, high-quality, and well-crafted soundscapes. Programming from across Radiotopia has received recognition from the Peabody Awards, the duPont-Columbia Awards, the Tribeca Festival, the National Magazine Awards, and the Pulitzer Prizes.
Immerse yourself in stories and conversations of all kinds — intellectual and emotional, real and imagined, entertaining and thought-provoking. Be part of a community that values bold authenticity and boundless creativity. Discover award-winning audio with vision at Radiotopia.fm.
Radiotopia from PRX Announces “Radiotopia Presents: We’re Doing The Wiz,” A New Podcast Series and 2025 Tribeca Festival Official Selection
The series launches in June 2025
Independent podcast network Radiotopia from PRX today announced Radiotopia Presents: We’re Doing The Wiz, a new documentary series going behind the scenes of a high school musical that changed everything for a group of teens. Co-created by Peabody Award-winning podcaster Ian Coss and NAACP Image Award-nominated author Sakina Ibrahim, with Story Editor Aaron Edwards, the series will be released on June 17 and is a 2025 Tribeca Festival Official Audio Storytelling Selection.
We’re Doing the Wizwill be released via Radiotopia’s Radiotopia Presentspodcast feed for indie limited series. New episodes of the four-part series will be released weekly free on-demand across all major podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Spotify, Pocket Casts, and Overcast.
The podcast begins at a predominantly white performing arts school in rural Massachusetts in the early 2000s, where a bussing program has opened the door for a small group of Black students from a nearby city. But what starts as an exciting opportunity turns in a different direction, when a racial controversy shakes the entire school community. There are protests, TV news crews, and a tense all-school assembly. Then the school makes a surprising choice: to stage The Wiz, the iconic African American retelling of The Wizard of Oz. Blending personal storytelling, firsthand accounts, and cultural criticism, We’re Doing The Wizfollows the awkwardness, challenges, and unforgettable moments of that production while engaging questions of race, representation, and who has the authority to tell what story.
Ian Coss and Sakina Ibrahim (photos by Yanka Petri and Bradford Rogne)
“I think we all have a moment from our past that we think back on — not every week or month, but occasionally — and we wonder: how did that happen? How do I feel about it? And how do the other people involved feel about it? For me, it was my high school’s production of The Wiz,” said co-host and co-creator Ian Coss. “Getting the chance to actually revisit that moment and talk with my classmates about it has been a gift, and far more revealing than I ever imagined.”
“The Wiz is more than a musical, it’s a mirror to life. In sharing my personal journey through this podcast, I recognize that my story is not unique, but part of a broader, shared truth,” said co-host and co-creator Sakina Ibrahim. “Our racial identities still shape the lives we’re allowed to live, or not. Who would have thought that a musical would carry a community’s history, its attempts at healing, and the possibility of hope? And yet — here we are.”
The creative team is supported by Executive Producer Audrey Mardavich and Managing Producer Yooree Losordo of Radiotopia.
“At Radiotopia, we look for stories that linger and make you rethink what you thought you knew. ‘We’re Doing The Wiz’ is exactly that kind of series,” said Mardavich. “It’s intimate, searching, and unafraid to wade into complexity. Ian and Sakina have created something truly special — a story about memory, race, and the power of finding your voice that feels both deeply personal and urgently universal.”
Radiotopia Presents: We’re Doing The Wizis made possible in part by a grant from Mass Humanities, which provided funding through the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC).
Previous limited series launched in the Radiotopia Presents podcast feed include Peabody Award nominee S***hole Country, My Mother Made Me from bestselling author Jason Reynolds, and the award-winning audio drama Red for Revolution.
About Ian Coss
Ian Coss is a creator of acclaimed podcasts. His documentary The Big Dig (GBH & PRX) was honored with a Peabody Award and named one of the best podcasts of 2023 by The New Yorker and Vulture. His audio memoir Forever is a Long Time was named one of the best podcasts of 2021 by The New York Times. His work has appeared on Planet Money, Snap Judgment, and 99% Invisible, and has also been recognized with multiple Edward R. Murrow Awards and a ‘Podcast of the Year’ nomination from The Podcast Academy.
About Sakina Ibrahim
Sakina Ibrahim is an Author, Artist, and Educator who uses storytelling, choreography, and social entrepreneurship to build bridges and cultivate community. As an NAACP Image Award-nominated author of Big Words to Little Me, her work has received national recognition and led to collaborations with Google, the Trayvon Martin Foundation, and the Essence Festival. Holding an MFA from UC Irvine and driven by a deep commitment to youth empowerment, Sakina founded the Dance Arts Academy Foundation, which provides high-quality arts education to Title I schools across Southern California. Through art, media, and education, Sakina uses her voice and vision to inspire the next generation of leaders and changemakers, harnessing the transformative power of the arts to create lasting impact.
About Radiotopia from PRX
Created in 2014, Radiotopia from PRX is the first network of its kind. As a network of independent podcasts, Radiotopia empowers audio creators with the artistic freedom to thrive on their own terms and to bring audiences inspired, high-quality, and well-crafted soundscapes. Programming from across Radiotopia has received recognition from the Peabody Awards, the duPont-Columbia Awards, the Tribeca Festival, the National Magazine Awards, and the Pulitzer Prizes.
Immerse yourself in stories and conversations of all kinds — intellectual and emotional, real and imagined, entertaining and thought-provoking. Be part of a community that values bold authenticity and boundless creativity. Discover award-winning audio with vision at Radiotopia.fm.
Does anyone really need a car that accelerates faster than a speeding bullet or can do the Kessel run in under 12 par/secs? Of course not, but the allure of cars with super powers has been part of our love affair with the automobile for more than a century. People ... [continued]
Pure Lithium Corporation, a disruptive Boston-based vertically integrated lithium metal battery technology company, announces that Kenneth Hoffman (CFA, CIM) will join the company as a Special Advisor, leveraging his vast experience across the battery value chain to advance our drive towards full commercialization. Mr. Hoffman, who was previously Global Head ... [continued]
From the moment Jen Psaki stepped down as President Joe Biden’s White House press secretary in May 2022, she was destined to end up as a regular face and voice […]
As Los Angeles rebuilds from the Eaton and Palisades fires, climate activists want to retire the gas utility pipelines and and hope to persuade people to rebuild homes as all-electric.
Elon Musk and Donald Trump may have gotten together out of a hate for trans people, labor unions, and taxes on billionaires, but, as predicted many times, Musk may regret throwing his weight behind a multi-bankrupted con man from Queens who was born with a golden spoon in his mouth ... [continued]
Tariffs or not, Stellantis is sticking with its plan to electrify a fleet of Dodge Charger muscle cars with a powerful new solid state battery from the US startup Factorial.
I started covering a potential drop in Tesla’s sales about a year and a half ago. That’s when Tesla started really pushing serious price cuts and providing significant extra features on a complimentary basis to new car buyers (including repeat Tesla customers). To me, this indicated Tesla may be facing ... [continued]
Combing through Tesla’s latest quarterly report, something jumped out to me that Tesla didn’t highlight but I think is worth highlighting. The company’s Supercharger network continues to grow substantially. This is particularly interesting to me for a couple of reasons. First of all, there was that whole dramatic event a ... [continued]
The Trump administration plans to dramatically reduce environmental reviews before permitting drilling and mining projects on public lands and in federal waters.
