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Crumbs of consolation? What the budget offered

Envirotec Magazine

” The budget statement “predictably majored on pre-election giveaways political dividing lines”, said Ashden policy lead Will Walter, adding that it “will do nothing for those living in cold, damp, expensive to heat homes or for local authorities struggling to provide basic services.” .” Image credit: I T S / Shutterstock.com.

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Tech innovators should pay attention to NYC’s new air pollution monitoring pilot

EDF + Business

Police cars, fire engines, and public buses drive up and down the city streets performing their public services duties. But what if while completing their routine routes, doing their regular jobs, these vehicles were doubling as mobile air pollution monitoring networks? Manager, Clean Air & Innovation.

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Tech innovators should pay attention to NYC’s new air pollution monitoring pilot

EDF + Business

Police cars, fire engines, and public buses drive up and down the city streets performing their public services duties. But what if while completing their routine routes, doing their regular jobs, these vehicles were doubling as mobile air pollution monitoring networks? Manager, Clean Air & Innovation.

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How the net zero sceptics' medieval arguments are being overwhelmed by a very modern reality

Business Green

The health and welfare of the millions of households who are worried about soaring energy bills, the UK's long term economic prospects, and the stability of the biosphere itself all depend on these climate sceptic talking points being consigned to the parallel universe in which they belong. You guessed it, net zero's the cause.

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Bill Gates wants you to step up on climate

GreenBiz

Fortunately for the climate cause, Bill Gates for the last half-decade has invested considerably toward innovations to push the planet toward net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. It's going to take significant investment and bold innovation," he told the GreenBiz virtual crowd. What does it mean for you?

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2020 was the year that…

GreenBiz

Neither do I. Some are specifically geared toward truck and bus fleets , an indication that the markets for medium- and heavy-duty EVs are about to kick into high gear. 2020 was the year that…. Joel Makower. Mon, 12/28/2020 - 02:11. It was a very long year. But it was much, much longer than that. Remember 2019? She was right.

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'A golden opportunity': Inside the CCC's blueprint for climate-friendly food and farming

Business Green

The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has today unveiled what its chair Lord Deben described as "one of the most important reports that we have ever produced". Given the body has previously detailed how the entire UK economy needs to transform itself so as to fully decarbonise within three decades, it is a bold claim, but it still seems justified.