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Peers sought to build urban resilience platform

Envirotec Magazine

Nature-based urban resilience infrastructure in Milan, Italy. A new peer-to-peer platform is helping municipalities and water utilities find reliable innovative solutions to their infrastructure resilience challenges, according to the firm behind it, Isle Utilities. Technology pilots. Best practice.

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A Look at the Oil Industry’s Favorite Climate Solutions

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 12 mins This story is a part of Covering Climate Now’s week of coverage focused on Climate Solutions, to mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Covering Climate Now is a global journalism collaboration committed to strengthening coverage of the climate story. billion gas project in Australia.

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SoCalGas, Nation’s Largest Gas Utility, Sues California Over Climate Policy for not 'Maximizing the Benefits' of Gas

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 5 mins As California works to shift away from fossil fuels to meet its climate goals , one of the state's largest suppliers of fossil energy is fighting tooth-and-nail against this energy transition, even to the point of taking California to court over its energy policy.

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Fact-checking the American Petroleum Institute's New Ads Selling Natural Gas as a Climate Solution

DeSmogBlog

s largest oil and gas industry lobbying group, the American Petroleum Institute ( API ) , was involved with a communications plan whose goal was promoting “uncertainties in climate science” among the American public. In September, API began running TV , billboard, and social media ads promoting natural gas as a climate solution.

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Managing risk, achieving impact: Linking sovereign debt with climate and nature targets

Business Green

It is clear that unprecedented levels of investment will be needed to enable countries to both recover and transition to climate and nature-smart economies. In this context, policy makers, the private sector, and investors are asking whether the solutions to these challenges can be linked.

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Oil Lobby’s Carbon Capture Solution Hasn’t Consulted Local Nation, Chief Says

DeSmogBlog

In an emailed statement an Alberta government spokesperson said the province remains committed to carbon capture solutions and will approve projects that meet its standards. Howarth and Jacobson concluded the production of hydrogen is more carbon intensive than simply burning natural gas directly for energy and heat.

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Government Defends Praising Tar Sands Industry Figures as COP26 ‘Climate Champions’

DeSmogBlog

The UK government has defended its decision to celebrate representatives of companies involved in Canada’s controversial tar sands industry as “Climate Champions”, ahead of the COP26 UN climate summit it is set to host later this year. TAG), the largest natural gas transporter in Brazil.