TechXplore

AUGUST 13, 2024

New research from CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, has revealed new Australian homes are up to 50% more airtight than those tested in 2015.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 26, 2020

Starkey Spring Water, which Whole Foods has been selling since 2015, contained at least triple the amount of arsenic as every other brand tested.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

APRIL 13, 2020

As a result, their design of Akademeia High School, completed in 2015, encourages a welcoming and flexible “lifestyle atmosphere” where students would be encouraged to stay in school even after classes end. Changing millenial needs inspired Medusa Group Architects' design for Akademeia High School, a Polish high school in Warsaw.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

AUGUST 13, 2021

This mind-boggling fish was hauled out by researchers in 2015, but their study has just been published in Conservation Biology. A Great Lakes fish set a new record, and not in a good way. The brown bullhead had 915 particles in its body.

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Microplastics 278

GreenBiz

DECEMBER 4, 2019

2015, 195 countries adopted an international treaty aiming to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsiuc (3.6 This article originally appeared on Ensia.In degrees Fahrenheit) above average preindustrial temperatures in order to avert the worst of Earth’s climate emergency.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

AUGUST 16, 2019

Apparently, the warnings about 2 degrees Celsius of warming — or the global average forewarned against in the 2015 Paris Agreement centered on climate change -- has hit some places in the United States pretty hard. Looks like the heat is on this summer … even in Alaska thanks to what has been referred to as the “tipping point.”

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Climate change 243

GreenBiz

MARCH 4, 2021

To receive a lower rate the company must show a net-positive impact on biodiversity in its forests in Finland and a 65 percent reduction in CO2 emissions from fuels and purchased electricity between 2015 and 2030. Abundant research revealing just the urgency and existential nature of the biodiversity crisis has heightened awareness.

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Biodiversity Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Investment 545

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Generation Z, those born between 1996 and 2015, are current consumers, future business leaders and the future of this world. Why Gen Z voices matter in making business sustainable. Isabel LoDuca. Mon, 10/19/2020 - 01:00. Yet, Gen Z is unlike any other generation to date.

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Sustainability Ethics Climate change Health 484

TechXplore

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

China began construction last year on projects with the greatest combined coal power capacity since 2015, jeopardizing its goal to peak carbon emissions by 2030, according to a report published on Thursday.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 19, 2023

DSM Nutritional Products (UK) Limited, based in Dalry in Ayrshire, received the first penalty to be issued in Scotland under the Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases Regulations 2015 (the F-Gas regulations 2015), which are designed to control fluorinated greenhouse gases (F-gases).

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Crane was instrumental in leading NRG into renewables and other clean energy sectors and was ousted in late 2015 after its stock tanked. Last week, former NRG Energy CEO David Crane joined the frenzy. . Disclosure: Crane is a former GreenBiz editor at large, and you can read his body of work here.)

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2023

This figure was chosen in the 2015 Paris Agreement, the world's first holistic climate-related treaty. In order to avoid the risks brought about by climate change, we must control greenhouse gases (GHGs) from being released into the atmosphere and boost the means of sequestering them.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2025

In 2015 the World Health Organization (WHO) formulated a Global Action Plan to co-ordinate efforts to tackle AMR. It makes serious conditions such as HIV, tuberculosis and malaria more difficult to treat and increases the risk of severe illness, disease spread and death.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In the 2015 UN Paris Agreement, the world’s nations pledged to pursue efforts to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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Ethics Climate change Global warming Carbon-negative 233

GreenBiz

JULY 8, 2020

Amazon began growing its fleet of 20 airplanes in 2015. The vast majority of goods in the U.S. are shipped by trucks, but a small and rapidly growing segment of goods are shipped by planes. . This air cargo is not only one of the fastest-growing shipping methods, it's also one of the most carbon-intensive.

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Aviation Carbon-neutral Carbon Retail 498

Canary Media

JUNE 14, 2024

Since 2015, the ratio of… The amount is nearly double what will be invested in oil, coal, and gas this year, according to the International Energy Agency’s new report “World Energy Investment 2024.”

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Fossil fuels Investment Energy Energy 144

Renew Economy

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Renewables growth from 2015-2025 is on track to cut Australia’s electricity sector emissions by nearly 40% in a decade, equivalent to emissions from all the nation’s cars, commercial vehicles and planes.

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Electricity 145

NRDC onEarth

APRIL 22, 2024

Back in 2015, governments in the UNFCCC agreed to negotiate a new collective quantified goal (NCQG) for climate finance prior to 2025. What are the key elements that countries need to agree on?

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Government 135

The Guardian: Energy

MAY 9, 2024

Even as the former head of the UN climate change convention that achieved the Paris agreement in 2015, I, like many, can succumb to believing in the worst possible outcome. I resonate with her feelings of despair.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The scheme was first unveiled in December 2015 by the Highland Council, before a public inquiry into the development was launched in February 2019. On 21 February Scottish Ministers opted not to grant permission for the controversial plan to build an 18-hole golf course on the dune system at Coul Links, Embo, near Dornoch.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Through 2019, it managed a 1 percent reduction against a 2015 baseline. The company had hoped to reduce consumption by 15 percent by this year, against a 2015 baseline, but it actually increased water use by 1 percent per metric ton of product produced. . Through 2019, it has achieved 70 percent.

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Sustainability Business Energy Monitoring Agriculture Building Energy Monitoring 386

U.S. Green Technology

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

After the United Nations established the Paris Agreement in 2015, professionals began searching for sustainable climate change solutions. Greenhouse gas emissions are the driving cause of rising global temperatures. Researchers are attempting to limit atmospheric air pollution using trees.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 15, 2021

We shifted course dramatically in 2015, realizing that the only way forward to run a viable sustainable company is by choosing the sustainable way, that is, helping decarbonize our economy, digitize our infrastructure and electrify consumption," he offered.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

It committed to delivering up to $1 billion in pro bono consulting work for social impact projects between 2015 and 2025. (So It has reduced its direct emissions by 70 percent since 2011, with a pledge to reach 90 percent by 2040. So far, it has delivered about $335 million.). Corporate Strategy. Carbon Removal.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The study analyzed litigation, transactional and lobbying work conducted from 2015 to 2019. According to the group’s scorecard , Vault 100 firms: litigated 286 cases exacerbating climate change (versus three cases mitigating it). supported $1.316 trillion in transactions for the fossil fuel industry.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 9, 2021

And, according to a leading patent database , from 2015 — the year in which the landmark Paris Agreement was adopted — to 2019, the number of patents published per year in this class increased by approximately 40 percent.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Through global growth, Trina achieved its first major milestone of 1GW of quarterly shipped capacity in 2015. Founded in 1997, the company rapidly expanded beyond its origins in China to become a global leader in the renewable energy industry.

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IoT Innovation Technology Energy 184

GreenBiz

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The same study found that sustainability-marketed products are responsible for more than half of the growth in consumer-packaged goods from 2015 to 2019. However, the period of March to June clearly indicates consumers were more frequently putting their money where their mouth is on sustainability. Businesses are changing, too.

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Sustainability Health Packaging Carbon 415

GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Reaching the 2015 Paris Agreement goals requires bold action from all sectors and levels of our society. To achieve net-zero, let’s agree on one definition of success. Peter Boyd. Mon, 09/28/2020 - 01:30. But any chief sustainability officer will fall short of their responsibility if they simply cite net-zero as a strategic goal.

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Organic Carbon Sustainability Investment 489

Business Green

JANUARY 28, 2025

Aurora Energy Research highlights how Capacity Market continues to be dominated by gas power plants

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Fossil fuels Energy Energy 65

GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

In 2015, the world, acting through the United Nations, set in place a system of 17 very ambitious goals to guide humanity’s development toward sustainability through 2030. Harder but not impossible: COVID-19 and the Sustainable Development Goals. Alan AtKisson. Mon, 02/22/2021 - 01:00. Now it is 2021.

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Sustainability Education Climate change Politics 485

GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Since 2015, companies have been able to use science to ensure their efforts to tackle climate change are sufficiently ambitious. As the World Economic Forum’s recent New Nature Economy report stated, there is no future for business as usual.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The assertion that nature is the blocker to new housing developments is reductive and incorrect; in fact, more than 1 million homes granted planning permission since 2015 have not been built, suggesting that unpicking the planning system and weakening environmental regulation will do little to help house building.

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Canary Media

OCTOBER 2, 2023

When Beauregard Burgess and three friends decided to start a hog and poultry farm in 2015, they chose an odd location: 20 acres of swampy land on the east side of Homer, Alaska, a coastal hamlet south of Anchorage. This story was first published by Grist. The land, logged years ago, was in an industrial part of…

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Logging Carbon 139

The Guardian: Energy

JUNE 26, 2024

About 230 cases filed against corporations and trade associations around world since 2015 The number of climate lawsuits filed against companies around the world is rising swiftly, a report has found, and a majority of cases that have concluded have been successful.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 16, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency’s interim decision on glyphosate, released in 2020, claims that the chemical is not likely a carcinogen, this contradicts the 2015 World Health Organization analysis of published research that determined glyphosate is carcinogenic to animals and is a probable human carcinogen. . Regulatory and legal risks.

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Retail Health Organic Ethics 518

GreenBiz

MARCH 11, 2021

For example, the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business looked at more than 1,000 academic studies published between 2015 and 2020 on the correlation between financial and ESG performance. Meanwhile, evidence is mounting on the correlation between good human capital management and financial performance.

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