Jean covers international climate policy for Climatewire. Her special areas of focus include U.N. policy, U.S. foreign policy and stories about how other nations are grappling with climate change. She also does occasional features on domestic issues. She worked previously for Platts, Politico and CQ. She has a master's in journalism from Boston University and graduated with honors from the Western Washington University with a theater arts degree.
The tiny Pacific island nation of Palau announced last week that it will soon become the home of the world's largest microgrid, a development that could help it ramp up to 70 percent renewable energy over the next three decades.
The World Bank Group is out of the coal business, possibly forever.
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley was against the Paris climate agreement before President Trump was.
The goal posts for the Paris Agreement have moved. The world's top climate scientists this weekend declared that keeping temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius is no longer sufficient. Instead, they said, the globe must prevent warming of 1.5 C above preindustrial levels or abandon billions of people to the social and natural dangers of runaway warming.
It's still possible to avoid catastrophic climate change, but it will require immediate and aggressive action, said a long-awaited United Nations report.