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Cipher partners with The Associated Press to strengthen global climate coverage. Our latest jointly reported story covers the rise of parametric insurance and how it supports farmers in poorer, remote areas that are especially at risk to growing climate threats. Read it here: https://nt-z.ro/465IEIC

Bill Spindle traveled to the Philippines to look into 'parametric insurance,' and how it is helping farmers weather the increasingly severe impacts of climate change. Check out the story, co-published with The Associated Press: https://nt-z.ro/469R6a0

Check out our daily top reads & #HotTakes at https://nt-z.ro/3W3TLNx! A few highlights from this week: + Bill Spindle on EV startup Rivian. + Amy Harder on decarbonizing cement. + Amena H. Saiyid on flood risk. + Anca Gurzu on hydrogen trade. + Cat Clifford on using AI to find copper.

Cipher partners with The Associated Press to strengthen global climate coverage. Our latest jointly reported story covers the rise of parametric insurance and how it supports farmers in poorer, remote areas that are especially at risk to growing climate threats. Read it here: https://lnkd.in/enUQYayQ

https://lnkd.in/eYsh6jNW Traditional insurance plans, if they can even be acquired, don’t always meet the needs of victims in a world of climate change and a lot of extreme weather. Enter “parametric” insurance. Bill Spindle from Cipher News reports this story from the Philippines, a collaboration with The Associated Press. Thanks to Amy Harder and the Cipher team!

In China, where four out of 10 new cars sold are electric, the price of electric vehicles is lower than the price for traditional, combustion engine cars. In Europe, the picture is more mixed. And in the U.S., EV prices remain higher. Bill Spindle dives into the trends in recent International Energy Agency (IEA) data. Read more: https://nt-z.ro/3zApj69

In this story, co-published with the The Associated Press, Bill Spindle dives into 'parametric insurance,' and how farmers in the Philippines are using it to respond to extreme weather. Advocates hope this approach to disaster coverage will improve insurance coverage in poorer, remote areas vulnerable to growing threats from climate change. Read more: https://nt-z.ro/3LkfAU7

Cipher reader and president of Holzer Strategies Ben Holzer took these photos of the SunStyle “dragonscale” solar panels on the roof of Google’s Mountain View campus while on a recent hike in the Bay Area. When built, it was estimated the panels would provide about 40% of the campus’s annual energy needs. Each week, we feature a photo that is somehow related to energy, the thing we all need but don’t notice until it’s expensive or gone. Email your ideas and photos to news@ciphernews.com.

Electric vehicle prices plunged below those of traditional, petrol-fueled cars in China over the past five years but remain higher than the price of traditional cars in the U.S., according to International Energy Agency (IEA) data. Bill Spindle reports in a new #DataDive: https://nt-z.ro/4bJV7Tr

The new era of great power rivalry between the U.S. and China has profound implications for the urgently needed transition to clean energy by complicating cooperation between the world’s two largest emitters and prompting Western nations to erect significant barriers to cheap Chinese clean energy products, writes Jason Bordoff, founding director of the Center on Global Energy Policy in a new #Voices article. Countering China’s dominant position in clean energy while minimizing deceleration of the energy transition requires policymakers to embrace open markets with the rest of the world, he says. Read more about trade and the transition, and the Center's new initiative related to both: