Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2022

Peace lily (Spathiphyllum wallisii) was one of the houseplant species appraised in the study (image credit: Bettinaling , CC BY-NC 2.0 Over a period of one hour, the team calculated that all the plants, regardless of species, were able to remove around half the NO2 in the chamber.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Many commentators also appeared to believe that the “UAE Consensus” – as the deal was dubbed – leaves plenty of scope to continue burning fossil fuels, while also being woefully short on the financial commitments required to realize its aims. But we must be mindful that this is the bare minimum,” he said.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

In line with forecasts from Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) the feasibility study, which is supported by the Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC), could result in up to 40,000 tonnes of marine growth found on platform jackets being recycled over the next decade.

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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

That’s the question behind the theory of biomimicry and the practice of biomimetic design, recognizing that a perfectly designed, calibrated and fully circular system already exists in nature. Much of the water used in industrial cooling towers at manufacturing sites or power plants leaves the facility as high-density water vapor.

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GreenBiz

JULY 30, 2020

Globally, but especially on an island, just being "organic" is no longer enough. . We wanted to work with this island, not take from it, and leave it even better than we found it. Learning the intricacies of Kona coffee farming from the ground up highlighted the need for organic practices early on.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Indeed, minimizing your carbon footprint during a move is one such action, often overlooked but significant. Alt-tag: A person sorting trash for recycling as one of the examples of ways to minimize your carbon footprint during a move. The journey from your old home to your new one can generate a notable amount of emissions.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 27, 2020

This marks one entry in a broader effort by Switch founder and CEO Rob Roy to meet his company’s energy needs with clean-energy investment in its home base of Nevada. “The advantage for the behind-the-meter project is there are no transmission and distribution charges for using the public grid,” Kramer said.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 31, 2024

The company is on track to be one of the biggest expanders of fossil fuel production through to 2030. degrees Celsius goal enshrined in the Paris climate agreement.TotalEnergies is betting on a future that is completely inhospitable for Africans. One study found that with a 2.7C Find out more here.

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Eco-Business

JANUARY 17, 2024

The new president should turn their back on a bad energy transition legacy and adopt a bolder path towards net-zero that leaves no one behind. The Just Energy Transition Partnership is not the triumph Jokowi says it is. It is a debt trap.

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Green Living Guy

JUNE 13, 2020

UNESCO Publication on behalf of UN Water Launch of the United Nations World Water Development Report Paris/Geneva, 19 March–First of all, access to water and sanitation is an internationally recognized human right. Leaving No One Behind is the Continue Reading.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 6, 2021

"Too many Americans live without any affordable means of cleanly disposing of the waste from their toilets, and must live with the resulting filth," writes Catherine Coleman Flowers, an environmental health advocate, in her book "Waste: One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret," published by The New Press in November.

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Andrew Winston

APRIL 22, 2024

So it’s useful to step back periodically and remind myself of the why behind it all, and to offer a simple framing for the growing ranks of those who are relatively new to the topic. But it still gets constantly questioned. And investors are increasingly analyzing how companies manage environmental and social risks.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 11, 2021

Recognizing this, member-countries of the United Nations adopted the Sustainable Development Goals , including a historic goal on SDG 11: Sustainable Cities: "to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable" by 2030, leaving no person, place or ecosystem behind.

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Eco-Business

OCTOBER 4, 2023

If global leaders are committed to a green transition that leaves no one behind, they must address the needs of vulnerable women and girls in developing countries, who bear the brunt of climate change at the upcoming COP28 summit.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 19, 2023

An international research team led by Dutch investigative journalism platform Follow the Money has found that governments and companies are falling behind in their obligations to dismantle and remove obsolete oil and gas installations — threatening to turn the North Sea into a vast graveyard of decaying fossil fuel infrastructure.

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Front And Centered

APRIL 26, 2024

I also want to say that I am in no way an expert, and that I’m writing on this topic as an able-bodied person, so you should view what I’m about to write within that context. But here’s what I’ve learned, and what I’d like to share with you all: Globally, it’s estimated that about one in six people —about 1.3 They can disable people.

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Charged

JANUARY 2, 2023

However, as is the case with any new government program, passing the law was just one step in a process. An alphabet soup of agencies must sort out the specifics of the new regulations, and describe them in excruciating detail, leaving us pundits to parse them as best we can.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

There are two sides to the government's plans, one policy-focused, one political - one is disappointing, but ultimately manageable for the green economy, the other is potentially disastrous. On the policy front, it is worth looking at the detail of what is being proposed. Relax the gas boiler phase-out target in 2035".

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 15, 2023

No one was in a hurry either to forget that the whole thing was also timed to remain within a deadline set by the High Court last July, giving the government until 31 March to provide detailed figures showing how it would meet the future carbon budgets promised in accordance with the Paris climate agreement.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Join our webinar on Wednesday, November 13, and we’ll let you in on our strategy for turning the Climate Majority into a Green New Deal that leaves no one behind. Want to know how we’ll make it happen? Click here to sign up [link] Subscribe in a reader

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Even behind closed doors and spaces, puppies have a canny ability to sniff them out and squeeze their little bodies inside the room. You can also accidentally forget to close the door, which leaves them full-acess to the utility closet. Move all your household leaning materials and other toxic products to higher ground.

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Front And Centered

AUGUST 8, 2023

Heat waves are one of the leading causes of weather-related deaths in the U.S. It’s going to take much more action and accountability to develop policies and programs that truly grapple with the crisis at hand, but here’s one step forward the Legislature took last session and how our coalition was involved.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

At night, I go back into my neighborhood, one thriving with diverse residents. Sitting on both sides of the table, I’d like to share what you need to pay attention to in order to be part of the solution on the interconnected fronts of energy efficiency and social justice. These types of efforts pay off.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

There was no climate denialism on display. One that said he was fully committed to net zero and that the UK could get there through technological investment and innovation, but also stressed that this industrial revolution had to progress more slowly and that the UK should lead the way while allowing other nations to catch up.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

The EA has since mandated water utilities to provide complete coverage of the network, which at this point leaves only 11% of them unmonitored, with the last portion scheduled to come online by 2023. There are still one or two things the map doesn’t incorporate yet, such as emergency overflows, and things like pumping stations.

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Eco-Business

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The global community needs to see an incredibly large scale of change in a very narrow window of time — here's what we need to do to secure a stable climate while leaving no one behind.

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Michael Grossman

JUNE 5, 2022

A climate tech brand will always have a limited appeal beyond a particular niche, to begin with, but why divide the pie even further by making your audience feel inadequate because they aren't part of the 'in-crowd who understands the meaning behind the meaning? Hence, the scientific conference was born. Now don’t get me wrong. Conclusion.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

China's latest economic plan leaves wriggle-room for country to increase its greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 10 per cent over the next five years, despite its recent pledge to put the country's giant economy on track to deliver net zero emissions by 2060, analysts have warned.

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Business Green

AUGUST 20, 2020

The net zero transition risks leaving communities behind if only those with off-street parking can access the benefits of EV ownership, argues SSEN's Andrew Roper. The 'Universal Service Obligation' was a necessary remedy to a digital revolution that had left communities behind.

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Eco-Business

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The elimination of HIV-related stigma is key to achieving the global aspiration of leaving no one behind and meeting the Sustainable Development Goal target of ending AIDS by 2030.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2023

Campaign group One for One warn fossil fuels should be viewed as the highest risk class of assets and urges government to tighten financial regulations to avert risk of a financial crash. The One for One rule will ensure that banks making high-risk fossil fuel investments shoulder that risk themselves," she added. "It

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 16, 2024

Our vision is a safe, reliable and clean energy system that leaves no one behind,” Kennedy said. If Citizens invests the full $1 billion, it expects the programme to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in charitable benefits over the lives of the leases.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 29, 2020

Iberdrola revealed that the final turbine is now in place at the 714-megawatt East Anglia One offshore wind farm in the U.K., Galán also committed to continue the shareholder dividend at a time when many developers and utilities are putting financial guidance for the year on hold. adding a sizable chunk to its portfolio.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 5, 2020

The decline was accelerated by better integration of Europe's markets, allowing assets in one country to provide services in others. Scrutiny on gas and diesel peakers is rising. That leaves energy storage as the obvious clean, scalable option available today. Leave the markets to it. No subsidies please.

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Grist

JULY 19, 2021

The ivy is often identified in its plant form on the ground, but it can grow into a thick and hairy vine that curls around big trees and chokes out other native flora. No one knows why the ubiquitous plant causes an allergic reaction in human beings and some apes. The leaves are looking leafier, the vines more prolific.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2024

One of those disasters occurred last year, when a rainstorm in Bucks County caused deadly flash flooding that swallowed vehicles and killed 7 people, including two children. Bucks County is just one in a growing list of communities taking legal action against fossil fuel companies in the wake of deadly extreme weather events.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 15, 2023

The Canadian Sustainable Jobs Act tabled today, which builds on the federal government’s interim Sustainable Jobs Plan announced earlier this year, sets out a clear and compelling plan to bring along workers while delivering on the enormous economic potential of a clean energy future.

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