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Local Leaders and mayors call for power shift to meet net zero

Envirotec Magazine

These include: A clear and long-term plan and resources for the decarbonisation of new and existing buildings and homes. Setting up strategic energy bodies or similar mechanisms to address market failure in energy systems, with a duty to co-operate between public bodies and the companies that run our energy infrastructure.

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Smart Energy Finances: Hitachi Energy acquires eks Energy

Smart Energy International

Swiss tech major Hitachi Energy has acquired eks Energy in a strategic move to add power and electronics and energy management software to their ever-growing portfolio. The investment also marks the establishment of a strategic partnership with Powin, which maintains a significant ownership stake in eks Energy.

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From materials innovation to modular construction: The property sector plots its pathway to net zero

Business Green

As the government prepares to kickstart the economy by loosening planning regulations in the hope of spurring a boom in infrastructure and construction projects, the need to curb the carbon emissions associated with buildings remains as pressing as ever. But can this be done without stoking the climate emergency?

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Nestlé and Microsoft on financing circular innovations

GreenBiz

A circular economy looks different within each industry, but its broad vision of healing the harm from the industrial economy’s extractive, polluting original sins is appealing more to a variety of businesses. So then our procurement team needs to be monitoring that and they need to be held accountable for all of our ESG commitments.".

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'Fiendishly complicated': Inside Nationwide Building Society's push for a green home retrofit wave

Business Green

A national retrofit strategy is "urgently needed" if the country is to meet its headline 2050 net zero target, it warns - and indeed if Nationwide is to meet its own in-house commitment to ensure half the properties in its portfolio achieve EPC rating C or above for energy efficiency by 2030. We have about 1.5

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Global Briefing: Bangladesh drops plans for nine new coal plants

Business Green

SEC climate disclosure plans, hydrogen developments, and climate-committed K-Pop are to the fore in this week's Global Briefing. Bangladesh shelves plans for over 7GW of new coal capacity. Reports: Plans for virtual pre-COP26 talks remain deadlocked. Plans unveiled for pioneering Swedish green steel plant.

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What 1,000 CEOs Really Think About Climate Change and Inequality

Andrew Winston

Last year’s study from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) gave us all until 2030 to cut emissions in half to avoid some of the worst outcomes. But current activity and statements without action just won’t get us to 2030.”. The new report revolves around a single idea: we’re not moving fast enough.