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The largest and most spectacular wind farms in the world

The Environmental Blog

The Gansu Wind Complex, China The Gansu Wind Complex stands as a testament to China’s commitment to renewable energy and sustainable development. Unveiling the Giant: Gansu Wind Complex The Gansu Wind Complex is one of the world’s largest wind power installations, covering vast expanses of the Gansu Province in northwestern China.

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Rooftop solar skyrockets if an alternative to monopoly utility models is employed

Renewable Energy World

Since rooftop solar became possible, electric utilities have struggled to incorporate it into their outdated business model. In recent years, this lag in utility recognition has become increasingly problematic, risking the health, environmental, and financial impacts of over-investment in large fossil fuel power plants.

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Carbon: That was then, This is now

Fairsnape

The biggest contribution we can make to the climate crisis is to urgently deliver buildings that are carbon sinks. The plethora of climate, carbon and biodiversity targets, visions and reports within, and beyond, the built environment, may seem to cause confusion, but there is a core, science based purpose.

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UN-Approved ‘Green’ Investors Funding UK Airport Expansion Bids

DeSmogBlog

carbon budget if left unchecked. UK airports have increasingly argued that they are already carbon neutral, or close to being so, but these claims exclude emissions from aircraft, which account for the majority of airports’ climate impact, and often rely on disputed offsetting schemes. intensive, through?investment

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Many celebrated with their CSOs on meeting ambitious corporate targets for 2020, while setting audacious new goals for 2025, 2030 and 2050. Elsa Wenzel. and globally by 2040.

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Hydrogen Powered Propulsion for an Offshore Crane Vessel

Mr. Sustainability

A technical, environmental and economical evaluation from a shipowner’s perspective by Gilles Hagen Summary - This thesis performs a technical, economical and environmental feasibility study of dense hydrogen carriers as a fuel to power the largest semi-submersible offshore crane vessel in the world – Heerema’s Sleipnir.

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Part 2: Carbon Farming—What Is It And What Does It Mean For Global Sustainability Efforts?

Planet Pulse

Both public and private entities increasingly view carbon farming as a way to achieve carbon neutrality. On the public side, both the Biden Administration and the European Union are pursuing increasingly aggressive emissions targets and have placed agriculture at the heart of ambitious carbon strategies. .