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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well. It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. and globally by 2040.

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Sustainable Manufacturing Guide: Getting Started

Green Business Bureau

A study by Nielson (2018) found that 87% of consumers would purchase from a company based on CSR issues and 76% say they would boycott one that didn’t meet standards. The following is a link to a blog written by a GBB Platinum Member (Great Green Content) about how to get started promoting a culture of sustainability within your company.

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Battery installations in Australia up 20%, here’s why

Renewable Energy World

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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Top 10 Utility Regulation Trends of 2020

GreenTechMedia

Noah Garcia is a policy principal at Advanced Energy Economy, an industry association for clean energy companies across technologies. * * *. FERC continued in 2020 to double down on new wholesale market rules challenging states’ ability to implement clean energy and environmental policies.

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How can the world kick its oil habit?

Mr. Sustainability

This blog reveals why we are addicted, and provides a possible methadone that is needed to transform the transportation, buildings and industry sector. 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.

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Are carbon offsets the answer to the climate change crisis?

Business Green

One tangible way to measure the positive contributions of investment portfolios on the climate is via reductions in carbon emissions and this is something more and more providers are reporting today, while a growing number of investment products are aligning themselves with the Paris Agreement goals. per cent of 2018 GDP.

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Meet the startup producing oil to fight climate change

Grist

It had been about a year and a half since he left his job at an aerospace company to found a clean energy startup in San Francisco with three of his friends, but the path to success he’d once envisioned had crumbled. Charm would use the same technology, but instead of turning plants into a useful energy product, it would offer a service.