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? Good COP, Bad COP

Climate Tech VC

  Maybe it was the offer of warm sun in December, but this year’s COP drew 100K attendees, almost double the size of COP15 in Paris. Climate tech played its biggest role ever at COP this year. The oil & gas COP. This was the COP of the climate and O&G juxtaposition. The greenwashing was unavoidable.

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Duck and cover, COP 30 is already on the way

Energy Central

By Kennedy Maize The corpse of COP 29 (Nov. 11-22 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan) has barely cooled, and COP 30 is already generating deserved obloquy. Warning, the headline you are about to read is not from The Onion but from the BBC: Amazon forest felled to build road for climate summit.

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The secret to decarbonizing buildings might be right under your feet

Grist

I really don’t think there’s any more efficient or better way to heat and cool our homes.” In Massachusetts, commercial buildings tend to be more cooling-heavy, meaning that they cool more than heat over the course of a year, whereas residential homes tend to be more heating-heavy.

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A closer look at why heat pumps are dominating EV HVAC systems

Charged

Heating or cooling the interior cabin of an EV substantially affects the vehicle’s on-road efficiency, and the HVAC system often gets the proverbial “rented mule” treatment. Given that most EVs—even most buses—have relatively small cabin volumes compared to, say, a house, it wouldn’t seem like much heating/cooling capacity would be required.

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Dandelion Energy launches groundbreaking high-efficiency geothermal heat pump

ThinkGeoEnergy

COP, made possible by a proprietary heat exchanger technology and refrigeration circuit design. Our mission is to make home geothermal heating and cooling simple and affordable, and this heat pump represents tremendous progress towards that goal.” said Kathy Hannun , CTO and Co-founder of Dandelion Energy.

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The COP28 pledge to triple up by 2030 and implications for geothermal

ThinkGeoEnergy

Tripling the world’s renewable energy production to 11,000 GW by 2030, coupled with doubling energy efficiency, is the most impactful action to rapidly decarbonize this decade, as highlighted in the pre-COP report by the GRA, the COP28 Presidency and IRENA.

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The scientist who warned the US about climate change says it’s worse than we thought. Again.

Grist

degrees C target was initially established as a target in Paris in 2015 after a push by developing nations at a previous COP, to bring attention to the fact that global warming does not impact all nations equally. For context, it has taken the world more than a century to warm a little more than 1 degree C, according to NASA.