GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Richmond, a diverse, industrial city where housing prices and incomes have lagged behind its Bay Area neighbors, has poor air quality and some of the highest rates of respiratory and cardiovascular disease in California. Climate change is usually seen as a global problem. I forget that this isn’t normal," he says. As the U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 27, 2021

By Frank Jossi, Energy News Network. A wave of pilot programs by Minnesota electric cooperatives is saving customers money and providing useful data for larger utilities considering new technology and pricing models to encourage grid efficiency. Today, 44 member-owned electric co-ops serve about 1.7

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 17, 2023

As the world grapples with the urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change, sustainable energy engineering has taken center stage.    This dynamic field is focused on developing innovative solutions to generate, store, and use energy in a cleaner and more environmentally friendly way.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

It's not necessarily that the game of musical chairs has intensified in the C-suite, but you'll note major executive moves at big apparel, food, energy, finance and technology corporations, some of which have enlisted a chief sustainability officer (CSO) or equivalent for the first time. Who's news. The former U.K.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 15, 2020

gigawatt Hinkley Point C nuclear power station in 2012, it proudly proclaimed that the arrangement proved new nuclear did not need direct subsidy. A 2014 study found that of a global sample of 180 nuclear power plants, 97 percent ended up over budget. Taking this approach would be a first for the energy sector and a first for RABs.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 22, 2022

As a green realtor® passionate about the planet’s future and our own, you can play an important role in delivering the message of sustainability to homeowners and support a greener, healthier real estate industry. Climate change mitigation. Energy efficiency. Green, non-toxic building materials.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The pair of California leaders were there to discuss the lawsuit the state had recently filed against Big Oil on behalf of the people of California to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for the effects of climate change. It may signal that fossil fuel companies do not have much of a future powering the state’s economy, Caleb said.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2024

The Energy and Natural Resources sector also recorded the lowest Financial Performance Index (FPI) score amongst all sectors, an indicator of under-performance and potential instability. The infrastructure industry and financial services are second and third, with both facing threats from AI governance gaps and growing economic headwinds.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 13, 2021

The rate solar system owners can earn for selling energy back to the grid (Feed in tariff) has fallen significantly in the last 2-3 years in line with decreasing wholesales prices. In fact in many states, the wholesale cost of electricity moves into negative prices in the middle of the day when rooftop solar system generation peaks.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Morial Convention Center, a small but dedicated group of environmental activists affiliated with Sunrise Movement New Orleans protested the start of the 20th edition of the Americas Energy Summit & Exhibition. The conference was originally scheduled for the end of October of 2023. It’s not new.”

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Eleni Diamantopoulou is Practice Development Lawyer (Energy) at Womble Bond Dickinson. Eleni Diamantopoulou writes The Energy Act 2023 (the Act) is finally here. This brief analysis is an introduction to some of the changes brought by the Act, with more targeted insights to follow.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2021

Strategy to set out a number of new targets for the decarbonisation of industry, as government confirms details of nine projects to be awarded funding through Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge - but opposition warns plans lack necessary ambition.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Now is the time to make up for years of little progress in developing and deploying this essential technology, writes LSE's Esin Serin, policy analyst at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. Carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS) will be essential to achieve net zero emissions.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In its official climate policy position , the U.S. Chamber of Commerce claims to support “an approach that rises to the challenge of climate change.” Yet the Chamber is currently working to eliminate one of the most effective climate and public health protections on the books in the United States. Chamber of Congress.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The EPA said it had inspected three ADM wells in mid-June — one used for storing captured carbon dioxide and two used to monitor for leaks and other problems. The lack of transparency from EPA about this leak is alarming but unfortunately in line with a failure of federal oversight for the entire carbon capture industry.”

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 12, 2022

In his letter, which was released by Stellar Solar, Walton wrote that this “problem” and its “ridiculous proposed ‘solution'” were created by the state’s investor-owned utilities and fossil fuel industries. He said those interests tried to move a similar plan through the state legislature last summer.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2021

spending plan designed to accelerate the roll out of green technologies across the UK's energy-intensive industries, predicting the latest phase of its Green Industrial Revolution will help create up to 60,000 jobs. The government has today announced a new £166.5m A further £16.5m A further £16.5m

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2023

Not only do pesticides directly contribute to the climate crisis, but a changing climate is likely to intensify pressure from agricultural pests and decrease plant resiliency, resulting in greater pesticide usage and therefore further greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2021

Strategy to set out a number of new targets for the decarbonisation of industry, as government confirms details of nine projects to be awarded funding through Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge - but opposition warns plans lack necessary ambition.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

When you’ve followed the evolving research of a leading clean energy expert and become a supporter of his vision for a global clean energy transition, it should come as no surprise that I was eager to crack open Mark Jacobson’s 2021 book release, 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything. Jacobson’s Early Story.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

People are looking for pension funds and financial institutions that actively support the transition to a sustainable economy (68%) and consider the climate change impacts of the companies they invest in (64%). The way the financial world responds to the climate crisis will be make or break for the health of our planet.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Climate change is the defining challenge of this generation. We know we have to change the way we live to curb harmful emissions and reach net zero by 2050. This decade alone, the industry must: Increase low carbon electricity generation by approximately 50 per cent from sources such as wind or solar power.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2022

The government has today placed a wide-ranging new Energy Bill at the heart of a legislative agenda that it said would prioritise growing and strengthening the economy while helping to "ease the cost of living for families". He added that the legislation "will build on the success of the COP26 Summit in Glasgow last year".

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Climate Change Conference. But what if solving the global climate crisis wasn’t about political willpower or technical know-how? But today, the solar industry employs 174,000 people , more than Google, Apple, Facebook and Twitter combined , and job growth is 20 times higher than the rest of the U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

The coronavirus crisis gripping the global economy has forced clean energy analyst BloombergNEF (BNEF) to downgrade its expectations for the solar, battery, and electric vehicle (EV) markets, in one of the first signals that the escalating pandemic could undermine urgent efforts to combat climate change.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

The coronavirus crisis gripping the global economy has forced clean energy analyst BloombergNEF (BNEF) to downgrade its expectations for the solar, battery, and electric vehicle (EV) markets, in one of the first signals that the escalating pandemic could undermine urgent efforts to combat climate change.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2021

All new homes built from 2025 will need to be 'zero carbon ready' in the UK under fresh green building standards published by the government yesterday, which should lead to a major uptick in investment in clean technologies and greener building materials while drastically curbing the market for traditional gas boilers.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

I've spent the past several months learning from a group of incredibly smart people who've made it their life's work to fight climate change and its impact on communities around the world," Bezos said yesterday in an Instagram post announcing the grants. I'm inspired by what they're doing, and excited to help them scale.".

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 14, 2023

From revealing the changing wheat fields of Ukraine to generating new AI-enhanced models to monitor natural disaster risk, Planet, our customers, and our partners are pushing into new arenas, embracing both the space renaissance and the data revolution. The conversation focused on how the remote sensing industry and the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 6, 2024

In another electoral meeting in Albacete in May, he said, referring to a low emissions zone that had been announced in the city: “What Albacete needs is a lot of emissions, a lot of industry, a lot of cattle, a lot of farming because that’s what creates stable jobs.” We need to change the concept of climate change.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

The Transition Deal echoed the fossil fuel lobby by emphasising the importance of hydrogen power and carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) to the green transition. The International Energy Agency has stated that new oil and gas exploration is incompatible with net zero.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

s investigative journalism arm, and the British Channel 4 News this summer exposing how the oil giant and lobby groups such as the American Petroleum Institute seed doubt about climate change and undermine legislation to stop global warming. He helped develop the fusion bomb, which is immensely more powerful than even the atomic bomb.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Like many corporations, the global COVID-19 pandemic and lack of usual in-person events meant they had to get creative about how to shape the political debate and find new allies to support their agendas. Read more about the industry’s climate lobbying at DeSmog’s agribusiness database.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Yet regardless of the outcome, there’s one thing that won’t change: companies and investors must help lead the charge to build a more sustainable, equitable and resilient future. At the start of 2020, business and investor attention to climate change and ESG performance was surging at last. The path forward.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 19, 2022

Taking the ‘human factor’ into consideration when designing and implementing energy policy is crucial to achieving energy transition goals, writes Dr Rosa Garcia-Verdugo. Changes in people’s buying habits need to be consistent to speed up the green transition, say experts. Putting people at the centre.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 18, 2024

Labour has been urged to clarify its stance on the UK’s first deep coal mine in more than 30 years – as it fights an election campaign that has put clean energy at the fore. The mine has become a political flashpoint in discussions over the UK’s commitment to reach net zero by 2050. There’s a timing issue for Labour here,” she said.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 9, 2022

“Deny, Deceive, Delay: Documenting and Responding to Climate Disinformation at COP26” was launched on Thursday at the Bonn Climate Change Conference. The report follows criticism last February from the UN’s climate science body – for the first time – that “vested interests” were delaying efforts to tackle climate change.

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