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The aviation industry is serious about reducing its carbon footprint — a sector that contributes roughly 2% of all greenhouse gas emissions. To that end, a new plant is breaking ground today in Washington State to transform CO2 into jet fuel — a technology that could clean up air travel.

A new study shows a 10% increase in tropical rainforest loss in 2022 — a troubling sign as the global community struggles to meet its obligations under the Paris Agreement. That’s the equivalent of losing 11 football fields of forest every minute.

The automakers are gearing up to produce new electric and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles — a byproduct of public policies and market demand.

Artificial intelligence is the latest buzz—geeky stuff that can improve energy efficiency, productivity, and outcomes. But it is a fledgling concept, making room for errors. And that’s why the smart move is to test a problem and simulate solutions, sharing the best outcomes industrywide.

“A recent impressively strong jobs report should put all that recession talk to rest,” said Jonathan Levin in Bloomberg. The Labor Department reported that employers added 339,000 jobs in May, “the most since January and a number entirely out of line with widespread predictions of an imminent recession.”

We can now officially deem our bout of high inflation to be over. The just-reported CPI increase for May was only 0.12 percent, which is 1.5 percent annualized, and the PPI increase was negative 0.32 percent, or negative 3.8 percent annualized. Both the monthly CPI (consumer prices) and PPI (producer prices) numbers have been moderate to benign for 11 months now.

With at least 192 nations preparing to gather in Bonn, Germany, in June for a major climate conference, scientists at the Universities of Exeter in the UK and Nanjing in China have quantified the human cost of global warming.

The Edison Electric Institute projects 26.4 million electric vehicles in 2030, giving utilities new revenues but putting pressure on them to make substantial outlays. They have already invested over $3 billion into the charging infrastructure, with nearly $1 billion in underserved communities.

If the global community is to hit its net-zero goals, renewable energy capacity must triple by 2030. That’s the genesis behind the new partnership between the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and Masdar, a clean energy powerhouse doing business globally.

The voluntary carbon market is stagnating and trying to save itself by derailing developing countries from issuing carbon credits — which the corporate community might find more attractive. It’s like telling UberUBER -1.6% it can’t compete against traditional taxis.