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PostOctober 8, 2021

Video: How cheap renewables and rising activism are shifting climate politics

Climate protestors marching on capital hill

The plummeting costs of renewables, the growing strength of the clean energy sector, and the rising influence of activists have begun to shift the politics of climate action in the US, panelists argued during MIT Technology Review’s annual EmTech conference last week.

Those forces allowed President Joe Biden to put climate change at the center of his campaign and helped build momentum behind the portfolio of clean energy policies and funding measures in the infrastructure and reconciliation packages under debate in the US Congress, said Bill McKibben, the climate author and founder of the environmental activist group 350.org, during the September 30 session.

View the full video at: https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/10/08/1036596/video-how-cheap-renewables-and-rising-activism-are-shifting-climate-politics/

Image credits: Chip Somodevilla

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