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L’Oreal achieves carbon-neutrality across US operations

Renewable Energy World

French-headquartered beauty products company L’Oreal has reached carbon neutrality for scopes 1 and 2 emissions across its facilities in the US. The project is the largest commercial solar array in Kentucky and the largest worldwide by tonnage produced.

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Bristol announces low carbon housing development, and selection of heat pump technology

Envirotec Magazine

A sustainable housing development is to be developed in Bristol, featuring innovative low-carbon heating. Bristol City Council’s 133 homes at Ashton Rise are being built using the high efficiency Sig iHouse solution, and heated by individual ground source heat pumps connected to a shared ground loop array of boreholes.

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Biomass Energy: Pros and Cons Explained

Hydrogen Fuel News

This exploration into the realm of biomass energy untangles the complexities and delves into its multifaceted nature, uncovering the potential of plant-based and waste-derived materials as alternative sources of power. Biomass energy harnesses organic matter, including wood, agricultural crops, and waste by-products, as fuel.

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New California Energy Policy Simulator Modeling Shows Major Benefits Of Early Action

Energy Innovation

This year’s Draft Scoping Plan proposes a pathway to achieve the state’s target of 40 percent emissions below 1990 levels and economy-wide carbon neutrality by 2045. . This scenario relies on already mature technologies to achieve near-term emissions reductions, as opposed to nascent technologies such as carbon removal.

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EU proposes new rules for corporate green claims

Business Green

In addition, when making claims about 'carbon neutrality' companies would need to be transparent about what part of the claim concerns their own operations, and what part relies on buying offsets. The proposals also include requirements covering the integrity of offsets themselves and the accounting rules that govern them.

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ZHA unveils solar-powered student residences for HKUST

AGreenLiving

The student housing buildings also incorporate sustainable design features in line with the university’s pledge to transition the Clear Water Bay campus to carbon-neutral operations. Zaha Hadid Architects + Leigh & Orange Images via Visual Brick.

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How many trees are needed to offset a city’s carbon emissions?

AGreenLiving

The natural process of all plants taking in carbon and releasing oxygen not only gives us clean air to breathe but also stores carbon that otherwise contributes to global warming. The study is based on information available through the Global Carbon Atlas Global City Emissions dataset, which measures emissions levels.

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