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“If we miss it by a couple of years, which is probably what will happen, the goals are still worthy,” says Gov. Hochul in response to official notice that New York won’t meet its 2030 green-energy goals. She’s whistling in the wind: The state is decades from meeting the goals. It’s simply burning billions, slamming consumers and disastrously undermining its reliable-energy capacity in pursuit of a fantasy. The New York State Energy Research and...

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These five charts and maps that highlight key points from the report released Thursday.

Countries are set to make a new commitment on climate finance at the UN climate conference in November this year.