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Report details China’s complex energy landscape and its enormous green energy shift

Envirotec Magazine

Wind is China’s largest source of electricity after coal and hydropower, delivering 9.4% of the total electricity supply in 2023. The seeming enormity of the green energy shift taking place in China is given shape by what’s described as the most comprehensive English-language report on China’s energy transition.

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Kansas City’s new airport terminal celebrates sustainability in a big way

Greenability Magazine

The project met sustainability benchmarks for energy efficiency, water conservation, material selection, waste reduction, and more to achieve the Leadership in Energy and Design (LEED) certification. “The Electric Vehicles KCI is now the first U.S. airport to feature wireless electric bus charging.

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If the world wants a green recovery, it must commit to innovation

Business Green

But it's vital we don't lose sight of long-term climate and energy challenges and the vital sustainability targets that must solve them. In the first months of the crisis alone, China reported a 25 per cent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions. Drax engineers at work within the UK's biggest renewable power plant | Credit: Drax.

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Could green hydrogen be key to a carbon-free economy?

GreenBiz

Could green hydrogen be key to a carbon-free economy? And what energy product will be used both to power this city and sell to the world? The Saudis are going big on something called green hydrogen — a carbon-free fuel made from water by using renewably produced electricity to split hydrogen molecules from oxygen molecules.

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? Spinning CO2 into clothes

Climate Tech VC

Now the CEO of Rubi Laboratories , Mashouf wants to clean up the industrial sector and create processes that harness the powerful systems of the natural world to create a sustainable manufacturing ecosystem. fashion industry , which accounts for ~10% of global CO2 emissions —more than aviation and shipping combined.

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Green recovery or bust? Six green things we learnt from the Budget (and a lot of things we didn't)

Business Green

In his speech yesterday, Sunak extolled the virtues of the growing green economy, setting out a vision of a "future economy" dominated by offshore wind power, carbon capture and storage, innovative clean technologies, and "decent well-paid green jobs".

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Climate Tech Entrepreneurs React to the Inflation Reduction Act

Elemental Excelerator

Not to mention President Biden also signed the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 , putting about $67 billion toward zero-carbon industries and climate research. airports can accommodate electrified aviation. Drought response investments that can help advance technologies that can replenish water without generating carbon emissions.