The City Fix

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Cities are not just places where people live—they are interconnected networks of people, services and economic activity. A city is a system of systems, bringing together transportation, energy, buildings, water, waste management and more. Transforming these interconnected systems is vital.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 9, 2020

The European Union this week set ambitious 2024 and 2030 targets for green hydrogen, a big step for the emerging sector. By 2030 the EU wants 40 gigawatts of electrolyzers installed within its borders and another 40 gigawatts in place in nearby countries that can export to the EU — with North Africa one possibility.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 3, 2022

After modelling the emissions reductions waste reduction policies could deliver in eight cities around the world, researchers from GAIA found that some were able to reach net-negative emissions by 2030, including Sao Paolo in Brazil and Detroit in the US.

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Business Green

JUNE 19, 2022

The report warns that not only do 600 million Africans now have access to electricity, but around 25 million more people in Africa are living without electricity compared with before the pandemic. The report emphasises how Africa has huge untapped renewables potential.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Africa has workable alternatives right here at home, for resilient agriculture that works with nature.”. Just seven percent are based in Africa, and not a single group representing Indigenous communities is listed among Aim4C’s “knowledge partners”. Second, it would only reduce methane emissions from the cattle. Greener Cattle”.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

This is not because food is more expensive in Africa than it is in the United States. One juicy hamburger for you equates to (about) 600 gallons of water consumed, 0.126 pounds of methane released, 13.5 degrees Celsius, scientists posit carbon emissions must drop rapidly to 25 gigatons by 2030, or 7.6

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

For large middle-income countries, like India and South Africa, there were signs of progress on investments needed for developing clean energy. More South Africa deals, please. Environment Programme estimating that adaptation funds will need to quadruple by 2030 from today’s $70 billion, there’s a long way to go.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Green hydrogen could replace methane to generate heat or power. 1) EU Target: Perhaps the most direct and tangible driver for demand is the EU’s target to deploy 40-gigawatts of electrolyzers within its own borders by 2030 and another 40 GW in neighboring countries. It could even be used as a fuel in heavy transport.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The gas can be produced either through the electrolysis of water using renewable power to create green hydrogen or through its extraction from methane, a process that produces carbon dioxide as a by product that can then be captured and stored resulting in so-called blue hydrogen.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The landmark $8bn-plus agreement with South Africa to support a just transition away from coal power also provides an exciting template for how emerging economies can be provided with support as they attempt to move onto cleaner development pathways. Countries requested to set tougher 2030 climate plans. or 1.7C, but 1.5C

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Business Green

JANUARY 16, 2023

COP28 Climate Summit President Sultan Ahmed al Jaber has called for a tripling of clean energy generation by 2030 and a doubling of low-carbon hydrogen capacity by 2030, as he used his first address since being appointed to lead this year's global climate talks to promise a "COP of action". target within reach.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 8, 2023

One of COP’s primary objectives is to 3X the world’s renewable energy capacity by 2030 to 11,000 GW. Regardless of the strategy, for nuclear to contribute meaningful capacity by 2030, construction probably should have started yesterday. The tenor set so far could result in an unhappy compromise for all parties.

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Grist

JUNE 5, 2024

Emissions of the tiny particles that cause smogs, collectively known as aerosols, are in decline across most of the world — apart from South Asia and Africa. degrees C by 2030, and to more than 0.5 But Diamond suggests the aerosol dilemma shines a spotlight on the need to give priority to cutting methane emissions.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The findings further fuelled the cautiously optimistic mood that has built up during the first week of talks at COP26, which has seen a raft of new net zero pledges from emerging economies and a series of global deals to increase flows of climate finance, better protect forests, accelerate clean tech deployment, and curb methane emissions.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The statement also calls for governments to step up efforts to tackle methane pollution, enhance climate adaptation and resilience, and scale up climate finance for developing countries. The COP27 Coalition is a space for Africans to take back control of our collective future. "The

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Plus 40 nations prep methane plans for COP27, Germany touts cheap transport tickets, and Saudi Arabia launches electric vehicle brand. COP27: 40 countries planning to unveil methane reduction plans. off global warming by 2050, as methane's warming potential is 84 times greater than carbon dioxide over 20-year timescale.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

BP and Microsoft, for example, have said they aim to reach “net zero” by 2050 and 2030, respectively, the report notes. As a matter of fact, these are death sentences for some other people in the world, especially people in the Global South, including Africans. Today we face a double black diamond, and in a few years it will be a cliff. “To

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2022

At last year's COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow a new accord between the US and China saw the two countries promise to work together to accelerate clean tech deployment and tackle methane emissions and deforestation. WRAP backs South Africa circular economy project. Global Methane Hub and Beyond Oil & Gas Alliance announce $1.5m

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

To support our net zero ambition, we have committed to reduce direct emissions from our operations by 30 percent by 2030 and we will invest more than $1 billion in emission reduction projects over the next decade alone. As a leading global food company, we recognize the importance of reducing our environmental impact to combat climate change.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

As underscored by recent flooding, heatwaves, and wildfires across parts of North America, Europe, Asia and Africa, the report makes clear that climate change is accelerating and intensifying across every region of the planet. The next one in 2013 went further, concluding that human influence on that warming was "clear".

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

GFANZ said it is to launch additional regional networks in Africa and Latin America in the coming months, with secretariat staff distributed across all major continents to reflect the global nature of the group. California unveils new Methane Accountability Program. The bland was broadly welcomed by green groups. "We

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Indeed, for that global emissions must be cut in half by 2030, yet as it stands they are on course to rise 13.7 If the next decade is "critical", then the focus of all companies should now be firmly on action towards robust 2030 goals that align them with 1.5C. per cent by that date, according to the UN. The same goes for businesses.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Decarbonisation pledges for 2030 need to be as much as seven times higher in order to bring the global economy into align with a 1.5C Prolonged and severe droughts in China, the Horn of Africa and the United States. warming trajectory, the report emphasises. Heatwaves in Europe. Colossal floods in Pakistan.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Now there is a broad consensus that bolder action is required well before 2030, even if some of the details are still being thrashed out. From tackling deforestation to curbing methane emissions, the various multilateral commitments are focused on areas where they can have real impact. of warming was completely burned through.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Countries and companies have also kicked off pledges to triple investments in renewables and nuclear, drive down methane emissions, and commit loss and damage funds.   The whopping $30B fund will be split into “Acceleration” and “Transformation” and will target deploying $250B by 2030. 

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

New analysis warns national climate targets for 2030 point to dangerous warming of 2.4C, as rush for LNG capacity risks further undermining chances of meeting goals of Paris Agreement. As such, existing policies and near-term emissions targets for 2030 are widely regarded as a more credible basis for projecting future temperature increases.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

French oil giant TotalEnergies, however, plans to increase its fossil gas sales from 33 percent of its sales in 2019 to 50 percent in 2030. There are several ways to produce hydrogen , but almost all of it currently in production uses methane as the feedstock, with non-renewable energy powering that production.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

West Africa battled the tragic spread of Ebola while the West remained largely ignorant to the horror of public health threats. Chief among them: how to deal with dangerous NOx emissions that are six times higher than from burning methane. Cast your mind back to 2014. It was Scotland, not the whole UK, pondering independence.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

alive', including plans for a UN Secretary General meeting with world leaders next year, requests for a UN report on NDC progress annually and a report on long term decarbonisation strategies, and plans for an annual high-level ministerial round table on pre-2030 ambition.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

OECD countries must phase out existing coal by 2030, with all others following suit by 2040. By 2030, solar and wind capacity should quadruple and renewable energy investments should triple to maintain a net zero trajectory by mid-century. There must be no new coal plants built after 2021. COP26 will be the moment of truth.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

But within hours of it being signed the pollution-loving Australian government signalled it had no intention to strengthen its disgracefully weak 2030 emissions targets. The trail-blazing partnership with South Africa to help fund a transition away from coal power that could provide a template for others to follow.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

The commitments and claims of the first week on finance, forests, end of public finance for fossil fuel, methane and cars must now be translated into real policy and incorporated in the new NDCs that has to be delivered by 2022. and coal is in the text. But there is a lot more to do. And Oil and gas production still has to be addressed.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For example, the UK last week launched new loans that will see debt repayments suspended in the event of recipient countries facing climate impacts, while the sweeping new Just Transition finance packages being offered to South Africa and Indonesia are underpinned by concessional finance. Action on methane is building momentum.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The company said it was now aiming to ensure energy generated from coal represents less than five per cent of its total generation by 2030, before fully exiting coal power by 2035 as part of the largest planned coal fleet retirement in the US energy industry. Irish government announces ambitious Home Energy Upgrade Scheme.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Mohamed Adow, director of think tank Power Shift Africa said the achievement came after three decades of appeals for help from climate impacted nations. "To Keep your eye on 2030. Earlier in the Summit an independent analysis had warned that based on current national emissions targets for 2030 the world was still on track for 2.4C

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

While concern over climate change was building, Shell saw the heavily-polluting fuel as the answer to the world’s energy needs, and its coal business would eventually grow to span the United States, Canada, Australia and South Africa. As we wait for the outcome of the appeal, we are taking active steps to comply with the ruling.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 2, 2021

And on July 21, Apple committed to become 100 percent carbon neutral across its entire business, supply chain and product life cycle by 2030. It has conducted projects in the United States as well as South America, Central America, Africa, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu.

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