Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Four years after the world’s governments signed the Paris Agreement, thousands of people are taking to the streets in school strikes and Extinction Rebellion protests calling for greater action to meet its target of keeping global warming as close to 1.5 However, government support could generate much more action.

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Econaur

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Presidents and prime minsters alike acknowledged that much greater action was needed to achieve the goal of limiting global warming. Many of our daily activities require the use of energy sources which can contribute to climate change. how we use water and energy.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 2, 2021

Investors in the energy sector are increasingly opting for companies with a green profile. Moreover, the non-fossil energy companies such as Ørsted have structurally outperformed traditional companies such as Exxon-Mobil. There is a massive difference in the value of ‘Old and New’ energy companies. emissions is increasing.

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2022

Industry Voice: The buildings in which we live and the energy they consume play a fundamental role in the process of decarbonisation, according to Schroders. From the use of renewables such as solar power to the latest technologies, including heat pumps and smart meters, the homes of the coming decades will need to become net zero.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 22, 2024

The BBC‘s financial deficit is projected to reach nearly £500 million next year, with the licence fee – its primary funding source – having been frozen for several years by the last Conservative government. Last year was the warmest year since global records began in 1850.

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Green Tech Challenge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

The problem of global warming crosses geopolitical lines and boundaries, and thus must be addressed by humanity as a whole. Under this ambitious initiative, a dedicated climate policy council is assessing government policies to determine whether they coincide with the country’s climate goals.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 23, 2022

Now more than ever consumers are using their purchasing power to push companies to be more sustainable. The current standard for machinery and equipment is gas powered, which releases carbon into the atmosphere when in use. These surfaces make a big difference when it comes to the warming of the planet.

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Rinexii

MARCH 10, 2020

Last month we talked about governments failing to act on climate change. While federal governments on a global level aren’t acting, states and cities are standing up in their place. Virginia has passed a sweeping “clean economy act” that will replace their fossil fuel driven utilities with clean energy.

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Grist

AUGUST 18, 2021

Where fires were not visible, the lights of cities and of gas flares were: combustion via the transubstantiation of coal and gas into electricity. Without the counterforce provided by petrol-powered machines, from helicopters to portable pumps, there could have been no serious effort to exclude fire in the first place.

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Front And Centered

MAY 17, 2019

Front and Centered envisions a more just future that is not only cleaner and safer, but where our communities and the earth are healed and thriving, our people have dignified work opportunity and prosperity, and our government values, respects, and represents us. Equitable Governance in Climate and Environmental Decision-making.

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Business Green

APRIL 25, 2022

Two reports out this week have highlighted how developments across 2021 are set to catalyse policy and technological trends that could catalyse the retreat of fossil fuels across the global energy system. Hopes that energy-related emissions could peak in the next few years feel more fragile than ever.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned in August that such extreme weather events will become a more regular occurrence if global warming continues. Despite numerous governments setting targets to reach net zero carbon emissions, the world is not on track to contain rising temperatures.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Joint IEA, IRENA, and UN assessment of COP26 Breakthrough Agenda sets out priorities for collaborative climate action between businesses and governments. With greater collaborative action, the report estimates some technology costs could drop by as much as 18 per cent by 2030, while accelerating the green energy transition in line with a 1.5C

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 11, 2015

solar industry. The state leads the country by housing about half of the nation’s total installed solar capacity, according to the latest data from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). Concern that the Golden State’s solar industry could weaken is heavily rooted in the murky future of solar policy.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

Stratospheric ozone depletion – The stratospheric ozone layer in the atmosphere filters out ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun. They also have a direct effect on climate, changing how much solar radiation is reflected or absorbed in the atmosphere. The WAIS holds enough ice to raise global sea levels by around 3.3

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Business Green

APRIL 24, 2020

While they're not immune to the forthcoming fiscal challenges, entrepreneurs developing solutions for addressing climate change - from agtech to decarbonization to clean energy and more - are among those proving to be the most resilient. Since mid-March, as the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic infected certain sectors of the U.S.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

believing the government was doing too little to reduce the effects of climate change. Thus far we have made investments towards reducing the climate impact of our food, industrial production, and energy systems, and we are eager to make more. Representative companies include: Planet (Series D | $386M raised | $1.8B Applications.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In interviews afterward, Shatner made a plea for the planet as TV hosts tried to steer him toward topics lighter than death and global warming. Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from the outside, is available,” Fred Hoyle, an English astronomer, wrote in 1948, “a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.”

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2022

Campaigners maintain the move could improve health, boost economic activity, and lead to lower energy demand and carbon emissions. Dutch government doubles offshore wind goal. The government said it will add 10.7GW to its current North Sea wind ambition, delivering a new target to install 21.7GW by 2030. or 2C of global warming.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 2, 2024

Nearly every country in the world has committed to the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius, but global greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) continue to rise. As long as the world continues to rely on fossil fuels for energy, temperatures will continue to rise.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2022

And so today's report's conclusion that while the scale of the challenge is monumental - the world must peak emissions by 2025, before halving them by 2030 - it also encouragingly makes clear that the world already has all of the tools it needs to achieve these aims, in order to keep the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Deforestation and forest degradation are the second leading causes of global warming, responsible for about 15 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions. Stopping deforestation does not happen in government offices. Local communities receive 25 per cent of the proceeds, while the government collects taxes of $0.50

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Responsible for nearly a third of global warming and a quarter of global energy, methane matters. Methane tracking takes off  Global methane tracker (Source: IEA ) Climate tech has methane on the brain these days, and for good reason. On the ground. Made to measure. The IRS just called. Super duper emitters.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 29, 2022

The push to sell “blue hydrogen” as a clean energy fuel — which experts have called a misleading rebrand of fossil fuels — hit another setback this month. Climate provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 are bringing new economic headwinds to the gas-derived hydrogen fuel’s prospects.

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Grist

JULY 6, 2024

Solar geoengineering — also called solar radiation management or solar radiation modification — was then and is now a fraught subject. As the climate crisis has escalated, some experts have suggested that drastic measures like solar geoengineering may eventually become necessary and so should be researched now.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The specific criteria set by the ESG framework endeavor to define environmental, social, and governance systems as sustainable. Without this ice cap, global warming will accelerate as less sun is reflected out into space. Each business has the power to create solutions and drive sustainable change.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

As such, in 2022 81% of S&P 500 companies reported their own emissions (scope 1), and the emissions of the electricity they bought (scope 2). Although this level was not defined by the convention, the aim was to allow ecosystems and society to adapt naturally to climate change, which means slowing global warming down.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 1, 2022

The chair of a campaign by backbench Tory MPs against climate action runs a parliamentary group with a lobbyist who has an undeclared interest in the continued use of fossil fuel-powered vehicles, DeSmog can reveal. Mr Cox’s personal business interests are clearly skewing the climate sceptic, anti-electric car stance of the group.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

An historic climate summit in Nairobi last week underscored the need for drastic changes in climate finance and clean energy development. Africa is home to vast thermal, wind, solar, and hydro energy resources (some 60% of the world’s renewable energy potential ) as well as mineral deposits essential for the global energy transition.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Tesla to allow Powerwall customers to sell power to the grid, India's EV plans advance, and all the green business news from around the world this week. New Tesla Electric to sell Powerwall customers' power back to the grid. Iberdrola and UNICEF launch global green skills push.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The world and its oil addiction An overview of global oil consumption The world runs on oil (1). The dark, often viscous liquid is the single biggest contributor to the world’s energy mix, at 34 per cent of consumption, followed by coal at 27 per cent and natural gas at 24 per cent. million b/d in 1986. 6) Oh yes. “The

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Republican representatives unveiled the “Trillion Trees Act” on Wednesday, the first of what they are framing as a three-part climate plan expected to include later installments focused on clean energy and conservation. A newly created task force would monitor progress. or even 2 degrees, this is on the list.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow next month is likely to fall short of putting the world on track to avert dangerous levels of global warming, but diplomats and analysts are cautiously optimistic it could deliver several breakthroughs and broadly deliver on the UK hosts' stated goal of 'keeping 1.5C is closing fast.

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