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This carbon challenge is bigger than cars, aviation and shipping combined

GreenBiz

This carbon challenge is bigger than cars, aviation and shipping combined. Yet while those transport sectors are advancing towards low-carbon solutions — with promising technologies cultivated by multilateral accords — industrial heat lacks any consensus plan and has a long to-do list to develop low-carbon alternatives. .

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Counting the microns

Envirotec Magazine

have reduced in Europe and North America in this period, while levels have increased in Southern Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Latin America and the Caribbean. impure carbon resulting from the incomplete combusion of hydrocarbons). levels in the two decades up until 2019. Daily levels of PM2.5 and PM10, respectively.

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Global Power Sector Embracing Renewables but Ditching Fossil Fuels Too Slowly

GreenTechMedia

Much of the new renewable capacity being built around the world is being offset by new coal and gas capacity, leaving the global generation mix more or less how it was in 2000. The research used machine learning to look for trends in the portfolios of companies between 2000-2018. Data was provided by S&P. A growing number of U.S.

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Water scarcity: A growing risk for companies and investors

GreenBiz

Despite how crucial water is to business, and to life itself, the risks that come with not having enough of it have often been overlooked by investors, who’ve tended to focus more on carbon. In fact, the analysts estimate that average EBITDA impact from water is three times higher than that of carbon for the sector.

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The carbon challenge that is bigger than cars, aviation, and shipping combined

Business Green

Yet while those transport sectors are advancing towards low-carbon solutions - with promising technologies cultivated by multilateral accords - industrial heat lacks any consensus plan and has a long to-do list to develop low-carbon alternatives. Certifying renewable thermal solutions. The urgency is growing.

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Puerto Rico microgrid at manufacturing plant to deliver renewables and resilience

Renewable Energy World

In addition to increasing the facility’s resiliency, the solar-plus-storage system will enable Eaton to generate, store and consume renewable energy, and support the local grid by discharging renewable energy back to the grid, reducing emissions by limiting the need for carbon-intensive electricity during peak demand periods, it said.

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Air Travel and Climate Change

Green Market Oracle

times that of carbon dioxide alone. The key greenhouse gases and emitted by aircraft are Carbon dioxide (CO2), Nitrogen oxides (NOx) and water vapour. A plane traveling from North America to London and back generates about 1.4 Planes fly at altitudes where the air is thin and the chemistry is both complex and fragile.