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So, What Exactly Is Building Electrification?

GreenTechMedia

Buildings were first electrified nearly 150 years ago. So, why is it that “building electrification” is now among the energy industry’s most popular buzzwords? Most buildings run on multiple fuels. They use electricity to power lights, refrigerators and electronic devices.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

Many celebrated with their CSOs on meeting ambitious corporate targets for 2020, while setting audacious new goals for 2025, 2030 and 2050. Each of these individuals is playing the long game and is in a strong position to move their companies and industries into what could be a more hopeful period of reconciliation, recovery and repair.

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What Were Europe’s Oil Majors Doing When GTM Launched in 2007?

GreenTechMedia

It’s been an honor and a privilege to track Europe’s energy transition for the sector’s most discerning audience. Thanks for reading, and keep crushing that carbon. ~ Energy transition " wasn’t a term in common usage and certainly not one that sprang to mind when thinking of the Big Five oil companies.

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More wind and solar capacity could save some of the world’s most important rivers

Renewable Energy World

The proportion of global power generation represented by VRE, such as wind and solar power, has been rising rapidly since 2007. Renewables will become the largest source of electricity generation in 2025. Existing hydropower plants can also help with this large ramp up power.

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Corporate Giants Promote Climate Action, But Work With Oil Lobbyists in State Capitols

DeSmogBlog

companies, including Walmart, Amazon, and Microsoft, employ lobbyists that also do work for the oil and gas industry, according to new research into state lobbying data. The behavior is rampant across the insurance, health care, retail, and tech industries. Many of the largest U.S. Walmart store front. Credit: Mike Mozart. (CC

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'Nothing' is not as straight forward as it seems

Business Green

Basil Demeroutis, managing partner at real estate investor FORE Partnership, offers a whirlwind guide to the complex world of net zero carbon. There is a lot of excitement about creating net zero carbon buildings, and rightly so. Not many property professionals can tell you what net zero carbon actually means.

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Only new fiscal rules will avoid a Budget carbon COP out

Business Green

The Treasury should set in stone a new fiscal rule for an annually-increasing carbon price in the UK, argues SSE chief executive Alistair Phillips-Davies. Ahead of COP26 in Glasgow I think it's imperative the Treasury installs a new fiscal rule: the need for an annually increasing carbon price.

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