Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2024

The UK water sector should give more focus to the themes of delivering resilient infrastructure systems and protecting and enhancing natural systems, according to a survey about the UK 2050 Water Innovation Strategy. Spring, the water innovation centre of excellence, launched the sector-wide survey in July 2023.

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TechXplore

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

To reach the world's goal of carbon neutrality by 2050, there must be a fundamental change in electronic materials to create a more reliable and resilient electricity grid.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 26, 2024

New research appears to find that the number of water scarcity events in Scotland could double by 2050, presenting a need for key industries to do more to adapt. To support these areas, British Geological Survey and the University of Aberdeen developed a new framework to help estimate groundwater resilience.

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GreenBiz

JULY 13, 2020

percent by 2050. While climate risk remains an often overlooked or undervalued factor in risk management programs, there is an urgent need to integrate resiliency into core business strategy if businesses want to continue to thrive — or even remain operational. Risk & Resilience. percent to 7.5 Pull Quote. Climate Change.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 26, 2021

BSR's take on resilient business strategies (36:55). The World Business Council for Sustainable Development — and 40 of its member companies — collaborated on Vision 2050: Time to Transform , a "framework for action" for addressing the climate emergency, nature loss and systemic inequity.

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Green Living Guy

MAY 31, 2022

In a bid to meet its target of zero emissions by 2050, Australia has come up with decarbonizing actions ranging from adopting electric vehicles to developing ethanol facilities to support the chemical industry, encouraging renewable refineries for the growth of biofuels.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

This year, the Manchester Prize is rewarding UK-led breakthroughs in artificial intelligence that will accelerate action towards the UK’s world-leading target to decarbonise the electricity grid to deliver green power by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050. 

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Expanding the UK’s trees, woodlands and forests will play an important role in realising the Government’s ambition to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. This November, the UK Government will host the COP26 climate negotiations in Glasgow where countries will be expected to set out their plans for reaching net zero by 2050.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Waves crashing against a sea wall (image credit: Ray-Bilcliff, available on Pexels) A seemingly pioneering research project that aims to strengthen the resilience of sea walls to increased coastal flooding has been launched by Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. metres and 4.3 metres and 3.6

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 27, 2021

The program brings together the top steel buyers across the globe — including construction companies, real estate groups and property developers — and challenges them to commit to procuring 100 percent net-zero emissions steel by 2050. This is critical to the future business resilience and the way we move forward," Davies said. "If

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JANUARY 22, 2025

By unlocking scalable geothermal heating and cooling as a resilient, always-on category of distributed clean energy, Bedrock aims to save billions of dollars for both property owners and utilities alike. These systems can range from single-structure commercial buildings to connected district systems serving multiple lots.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 31, 2021

To achieve net-zero economy-wide emissions by 2050 and limit global warming, industrial emissions must drop while still meeting societal needs. For example, its analysis found that using electrified drying for the recycled paper industry could avoid 16 million metric tons of carbon dioxide by 2050. Sponsored Article. Shutterstock.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

electricity by 2050. energy storage capacity to grow from 30 GW to 1,700 GW by 2050 to provide flexibility and resilience for renewable energy sources. By prioritizing rooftop and community solar and storage, Biden’s team could boost energy affordability and resilience in extreme weather events like Hurricane Ida.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 1, 2020

Let’s begin with a few headlines: Southern Company commits to net-zero emissions by 2050. Companies understand that sustainability engenders resilience by making supply chains more transparent, operations more efficient and, increasingly, improving the ability of operations to withstand or recover from calamities of all types.

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GreenBiz

JULY 9, 2020

The Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) is banking on banks to get us over the carbon-neutral finish line by 2050. . Goldman Sachs plans to help its clients transition into a climate-resilient model with $750 billion by 2030, and Bank of America is directing $300 billion towards these efforts as well. . "To Jesse Klein.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 20, 2022

John Pettigrew, CEO, National Grid commented in a statement, “This fossil-free vision is an historic announcement for National Grid and the United States. (…) We are committing to decarbonise our gas network by transitioning it completely to renewable natural gas and hydrogen by 2050 or sooner.” Massachusetts and New York.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The world must be carbon neutral by 2050, and multinational corporations have a key role to play in achieving that outcome. In addition, there’s an urgent need to align with evolving business principles, including agility, circularity, connectedness, transparency, operational efficiency, resilience, and social equity.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JANUARY 13, 2025

These technologies are important but underutilized solutions for supporting a more resilient and efficient national energy system, as well as reducing emissions from buildings. Broad market penetration by 2050 can be achieved by an annual ~10% growth, reaching an equivalent of 36 million homes by 2050.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 7, 2020

He found that protected areas around temples, shrines and cemeteries in Japan contained a huge variety of native vegetation that co-existed to produce resilient and diverse ecosystems. It’s estimated that new or restored forests could remove up to 10 gigatons of carbon dioxide equivalent by 2050.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 25, 2021

The new Zero Carbon Building Accelerator will coordinate the development of national roadmaps and action plans toward a zero-carbon building sector by 2050, beginning in partner countries Colombia and Turkey and eventually spreading throughout the expansive network of subnational partners to the Building Efficiency Accelerator.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The actions of NPG go directly against the Government’s wider agenda to move away from fossil fuels and achieve carbon net zero goals by 2050 and it is stifling investment in the area. “The North East is enjoying a renaissance for clean energy as it emerges as a key hub for renewables. The delay represents a major setback.”

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This degree of resilience of green jobs has seen their share of the UK labour market increase to 2.3% (up from 2.2% High interest rates and a challenging economic backdrop have seen the number of total advertised roles fall by 29%, while the number of green jobs fell by 26%. in 2022 and 1.9%

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 13, 2022

The integration of power and process is a catalyst for operational resilience and improved sustainability across the lifecycle of the plant. The process of electrification is forecasted to increase two-fold in 2050 as more companies intensify their decarbonisation efforts. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

An area of seagrass and rock on the seabed, Mediterranean sea, France: “Blue carbon” ecosystems could prevent approximately 1 gigatonne of CO2e from entering the atmosphere by 2050, says the report. This report signals an exciting new pathway to a low-carbon, climate-resilient future. gigatonnes of CO2e annually by 2050.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2022

Environment Agency chair Emma Howard Boyd has called on the Treasury to launch a review into the cost of climate impacts and the value of investing in resilience measures, noting that current levels of funding for flood and coastal defenses are nowhere near where they should be.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2021

Meanwhile, global coffee production is expected to double by 2050 to meet soaring global demand. By optimising the production of coffee, we build a more resilient and secure future for us all.". Coffee is produced in landscapes that, if more sustainably and effectively managed, can actually sequester carbon.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

Climate resilience is the theme of this year’s event (29 th May to 4 th June), which aims to inspire the public to help protect the capital’s waterways. It was depriving water life of oxygen it needed to survive. River restoration initiatives can include projects such as adding wood material to a river or removing concrete from its banks.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

degrees Celsius and ensure we reach net-zero emissions by 2050 or sooner. . We can invest in a resilient and inclusive economy that builds jobs, infrastructure, growth and stability for the long term. Right now is a prime opportunity. We can build back better. Through our actions to tackle one crisis, we can avert another.

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Solar Power World

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Energy Information Administration, renewable energy sources such as solar and wind are projected to generate 44% of all power in the United States by 2050, increasing the need for battery energy storage systems (BESS).

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2020

New research published by UK100, a group of mayors and local government leaders in late September appears to show that a “retrofit army” of nearly half a million builders, electricians and plumbers will be needed to meet the Government’s objective of becoming Net Zero by 2050. homes every minute between now and 2050.[5].

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

The principles of a circular economy offer a helpful framework to envision a more resilient and regenerative alternative — and chefs might be the missing ingredient to successfully realizing a new model. . trillion in annual benefits by 2050. in São Paulo. We want people to enjoy it.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 13, 2021

The National Infrastructure Commission has called for a water supply and demand reduction of 4,000 megalitres per day to avoid severe drought risk by 2050 (published in its 2021 Annual Monitoring Report). Some, like compulsory water metering, or nationwide 110 litres p/p/d water use limits are essential.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 14, 2025

The roadmap identifies clean hydrogen as integral to achieving a carbon-free grid by 2035 and net-zero emissions by 2050. Looking ahead, the DOEs hydrogen roadmap showcases a vision of hydrogen as a vital tool for achieving a carbon-free grid by 2035 and net-zero emissions by 2050. National Clean Hydrogen Strategy and Roadmap.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

billion people by 2050. degrees C food system looks like, and define how their business model will need to shift to guarantee not only that we can stay within planetary boundaries, but also to ensure their business’ long term resilience. The problem is vast. Awareness is vital to ignite change.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 18, 2020

In 2018, the International Maritime Organization set the goal to halve emissions for commercial ships from 2008 levels by 2050. In that sense, there is a really good partnership that is not in name only, but in values and goals. And the goalposts are high. But by 2030, zero-emissions vessels will need to start being introduced.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

No one organization, industry or government can do it alone, especially by 2050.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 29, 2021

At the forefront is Europe’s Green Deal, the policy framework intended to bring the European Union to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 while decoupling economic growth from resource extraction and leaving no person or place behind. It works only if it can transform systems, not reinforce existing ones. .

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