Articles by David Roberts
David Roberts was a staff writer for Grist. You can follow him on Twitter, if you're into that sort of thing.
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Everybody chill out a little, carbon trading will be fine
A recent effort to reform the European Union's carbon-trading system failed, but that doesn't mean carbon trading is dead in Europe, or anywhere else.
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A master class on the state of clean-energy investment [VIDEO]
Learn about trends in clean energy from one of the smartest guys around, Michael Liebreich, head of Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
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Energy CEO: Solar should break up with wind, date natural gas, have distributed babies
David Crane of NRG, a supporter of distributed energy, thinks wind and solar will part ways because wind needs transmission and distributed solar doesn't.
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None of the world’s top industries would be profitable if they paid for the natural capital they use
A sobering new study finds that the world's biggest industries burn through $7.3 trillion worth of free natural capital a year. And it's the only reason they turn a profit.
