Business Green

MAY 13, 2022

"At the core of the current energy security and price crises sits an overdependence on volatile, imported fossil gas, oil and coal," the letter states. "It It is time for all of us to take necessary steps to strengthen Europe's energy security and resilience by accelerating the green transition.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 18, 2020

“ Modular microgrids ,” built around standard technology platforms like fossil-fueled generators, combined heat-and-power systems, or battery-backed solar systems, and offering customers low-cost, long-term contracts for the energy and resiliency they provide, have been an important step in expanding the potential market.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 23, 2020

Fossil-fueled combined-heat-and-power systems will continue to take a back seat to distributed solar and energy storage for behind-the-meter generation — although resilience against wildfires, hurricanes and other extreme weather events will drive adoption of both. market by 2025, according to Maze-Rothstein.

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Business Green

APRIL 23, 2020

Group led by Transport & Environment urges EU to prioritise green investment in coronavirus response, as new report slams scale of British banks' interest in fossil fuels. should focus on supporting a clean, inclusive and resilient recovery building on the principles of the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 11, 2022

"Against the backdrop of ongoing global energy security challenges, organisations like the IMF and World Bank must do all they can to help developing countries move further and faster in tackling climate change, to support resilient economies powered by clean, renewable energy systems," he said.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The Paris Summit in 2015 was a genuine turning point in the world's response to the climate crisis that will define the century one way or another, and as such it should be remembered by historians as an event of global import.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 11, 2020

In an updated submission to the UN on Wednesday the Brazilian government said it would aim to deliver carbon neutrality by 2060, but it left unchanged current goals to reduce emissions 37 per cent by 2025 and 43 per cent by 2030, compared to 2005 levels. The new goal builds on the recent decision to sell stocks in 22 coal companies. "The

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Business Green

MAY 1, 2020

It is an opportunity to build more sustainable and inclusive economies and societies — a more resilient and prosperous world.". We are about to deploy enormous, gigantic fiscal stimulus and we can do it in a way that we tackle both crises at the same time…" she reportedly said at the event. "If

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

But group of petrostates resist calls to phase down fossil fuels and accelerate decarbonisation efforts. The so-called High Ambition Coalition of nations argued the draft text should include a commitment to phase down all fossil fuels and clearer commitments to accelerate the roll out of renewables.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Speaking to reporters, Xie also reiterated that China was advancing its plans to curb its emissions, explaining that new coal plants were only being used to help cope with peak demand and the government is set to gradually reduce coal use from 2025 onwards.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 25, 2022

All these steps would not only cut carbon emissions, but also significantly reduce the UK's dependence on volatile fossil fuel imports and prices, cut energy bills for businesses and households, and deliver significant investment and job creation across the UK, not just the South-East.

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Business Green

AUGUST 6, 2020

There are also two summaries ( Link 1 , Link 2 ) from last August on ECIU's website, as well as an Imperial College run-through of the events of the day. Another area of focus was inertia and resilience. This blog will run through the main points raised and those in which progress was expected to be monitored. Over-sensitive.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

In addition to an emergency package to offer immediate support to consumers, the best way to do this is to rapidly lower the UK's dependence on volatile fossil fuels. Opposing it in favour of new domestic fossil fuel extraction is a concerning backwards step and we urge a change of position.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

And “they need an alternative to almost all PSPS events,” or public safety power shutoffs, to avoid subjecting millions of residents to multi-day blackouts in the name of fire prevention. Map showing areas at high risk of wildfires (in purple), and areas that underwent two or more PSPS events in 2019 (in orange).

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Business Green

MAY 4, 2020

According to The Times , National Grid ESO has sought to clarify with regulator Ofgem whether it has sufficient emergency powers to potentially take the unprecedented step of switching off solar and wind farms on Friday in the event that the power they generate threatens to overwhelm demand on the grid.

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

above pre-industrial levels after more than a century of burning fossil fuels and current policies are expected to lead to global warming of 2.8C Global emissions rose again last year and are not expected to peak until 2025 at the earliest. Global temperatures have risen to 1.1C by 2100, the report warns.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 31, 2023

DOE announced that it is entering into capacity contract negotiations with three interregional transmission line projects that are intended to strengthen grid resilience and reliability, enable the addition of more clean energy resources to the grid and bring clean energy to more customers.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

But more positively, while the gap between adaptation and resilience efforts currently being undertaken, and what is required to safeguard society and ecosystems, remains considerable, such efforts can in fact be very effective, the report suggests. Inaction is a foolish business risk no company can afford.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Wastewater from overburdened urban septic systems and air pollution from burning fossil fuels contribute to nitrogen pollution, but often runoff of the synthetic fertilizers used in industrialized agriculture is the primary culprit. One conservative estimate put it at $16.7bn in 2020, with growth to $30.2bn projected by 2025.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

But progress was still lacking on Resilience and Energy Transition. China’s declared commitment to net zero by 2060 is significant, even though it sits alongside commitments to stop building new coal by 2025 and to reach peak emissions by 2030 – both “very insufficient” in her view. Nature and finance. Job creation?

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Analysts heralded the growth as an indicator of the sectors’ resilience, in contrast to continued declines in coal power and the first drop in natural gas demand since the Great Recession in 2009. “I’ll be candid in saying about halfway through the year things looked pretty dire. Zindler called it a “remarkable drop.”

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Government plans to cement the UK's position as a global centre for green finance received a significant boost today, with the Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiling proposals to issue the country's first sovereign green bond next year and make climate risk disclosure mandatory for major companies from 2025.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Moreover, many of these banks continue to finance the fossil-fuel industry, funding coal mines, backstopping debt issuance and lending directly to power producers, as the Financial Times reported. Indeed, the initiative didn't even commit these institutions to stop financing fossil fuels. The birds and the trees.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Reports suggested the new package of funding is expected to meet the $100bn target, but potentially by taking an average of the level of annual funding provided throughout the period from 2020 to 2025. The uptick in funding is also expected to increase the focus on financing climate resilience measures.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Announcing plans to approve the new Sizewell C nuclear power plant, increase energy efficiency funding from 2025, and retain clean tech R&D budgets, Hunt said the UK would continue to pursue energy independence as it strives to deliver on its climate goals. "We And they did nothing. Why, when people are facing a bills crisis now?

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Business Green

DECEMBER 12, 2020

The cuts in crabon intensity are expected to be largely delivered through a huge expansion in renewables capacity, with Xi confirming a new target to boost the share of non-fossil fuel energy to 25 per cent of primary energy demand by 2030, in addition to delivering 1.2 billion kilowatts of solar and wind power by the same date.

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Business Green

APRIL 16, 2021

A draft White House order obtained by Politico suggests Biden is preparing to instruct federal agencies as well as businesses to embed climate risk assessment and disclosure into their strategies and investments, with fresh regulations reportedly set to cover every sector of the economy including banking, fossil fuels, housing and agriculture.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 17, 2023

Subscribe Now 📩 Submit deals, announcements, events & opportunities, or general curiosities for the newsletter at hello@ctvc.co. CCS is basically the only path for an O&G company to decarbonize while continuing its fossil fuels business. In deals this week, carbon utilization for concrete gets an $80M injection.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

And action to seize the benefits on offer from the move to green resilient economies. And renewables investments can create more jobs than their fossil fuel equivalents. We also ask that businesses commit to removing deforestation from their supply chains, and that financial institutions commit to zero deforestation by 2025.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The ecosystem services that underpin the global economy should recover, providing greater climate resilience, enhanced natural carbon sinks, and improved food and water security. They are also expected to identify, eliminate, phase out or reform environmentally harmful incentives before the end of 2025. Sustainable consumption.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

While the transition will inevitably be complex and difficult, it is essential to building a more resilient economy that benefits more people.". The join us at the Net Zero Finance pathway event , as part of the Net Zero Festival 2021 , which will take place online on March 16th. You can request an invitation to the event here.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The latest TPI report this month warns that despite net zero pledges from a growing band of the oil and gas majors the industry will need to scale back investment in new fossil fuel infrastructure much faster than currently planned if warming is to be limited to 1.5C. How are investors responding?

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Seattle University Score: 79.41 | Seattle, Washington After the pandemic altered Earth Day plans, Seattle U unveiled a virtual event complete with Earth Talks. In May, the Cornell Board of Trustees announced a moratorium on fossil fuel investments, following more than a decade of student and faculty activism.

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GreenBiz

MAY 28, 2020

We are working hard to create jobs and build resilient infrastructure for our Nation and for the greater western region," explained Brett Isaac, founder and CEO. This model is a stark contrast to the hundreds of years of exploitative fossil-fuel ventures that have taken place on the territories of native peoples. .

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 4, 2020

Last year the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) announced it would transform its flagship annual Windpower conference and exhibition to a "Cleanpower" event designed to incorporate solar and storage. “But we didn’t come to the industry to wall ourselves off and fight with each other. wind, WoodMac forecast 15.2

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2022

The Task Force for Energy Security will be chaired by a representative from the White House and a representative of the President of the European Commission and will work on a range of measures to bolster EU energy security, including initiative to drastically reduce fossil fuel imports this year.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

When factoring in the costs of fossil fuels in terms of air pollution, human health, and climate change externalities, the payback from cleaner energy sources would be higher still, with IRENA estimating every dollar spent on the energy transition promises to deliver added benefits valued at between $2 and $5.50.

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